Watercolour of a cherry branch with red and yellow sweet cherries, green serrated leaves and a halved cherry showing its stone, on white.

Small watercolour of the same branch of red and yellow cherries with green leaves, centred on a white panel. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

No. 119 of 248 · The Natural History Series

Cherries, ‘Rockport’

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A branch of ripe Rockport sweet cherries, blushed red and gold among deep green leaves, painted in watercolour by Amanda Almira Newton in 1913. The variety was raised in Ohio in the 1840s by Dr Jared Kirtland, the doctor and naturalist who also gave his name to Kirtland's warbler. For someone who loves a garden, an orchard or a good piece of fruit.

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From the US Department of Agriculture's fruit paintings / Cherries, 'Rockport' / Prunus avium / Rockport is one of the sweet cherries raised in Ohio in the 1840s by Dr Jared Kirtland, a doctor and naturalist who also gave his name to Kirtland's warbler. / USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, 1913 / Painted by Amanda Almira Newton in 1913 for the US Department of Agriculture, to record a fruit grown in America.

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