No. 84 of 248 · The Natural History Series
Bananas, ‘Yenjerto’
Pictures by Ellen Isham Schutt
A ripe hand of yellow bananas, painted in fine watercolor by Ellen Isham Schutt in 1904. She made it for the US Department of Agriculture to record a fruit grown in America, and the back notes that banana plants are not trees but giant herbs. For anyone who loves fruit, gardens or old botanical art.
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On the back
From the US Department of Agriculture's fruit paintings / Bananas, 'Yenjerto' / Musa / Banana plants are not trees but giant herbs, and their fruit grows in 'hands' of up to twenty. Bananas have no seeds: every plant is grown from a piece of another. / USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, 1904 / Painted by Ellen Isham Schutt in 1904 for the US Department of Agriculture, to record a fruit grown in America.
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