USDA Pomology is to Pictures of Fruit What Audubon is to Bird Pictures
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2009
Pomological watercolors. That’s what the handout says. I picked it up at the National Agricultural Library table at the FLICC Job Fair this summer. In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, the newly formed Pomology Division of the USDA hired artists to help document fruits bearing species from the American Flora. Now a collection [...]