No. 146 of 248 · The Natural History Series
Grapefruit, ‘Inman’
Pictures by Amanda Almira Newton
A single sunny grapefruit of the ‘Inman’ variety, painted in fine watercolour by Amanda Almira Newton in 1913 for the US Department of Agriculture. The grapefruit is the only citrus born in the Americas, a chance cross of an orange and a pomelo that turned up in Barbados in the 1700s. For someone who loves good food and old botanical art.
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From the US Department of Agriculture’s fruit paintings / GRAPEFRUIT, ‘INMAN’ / Citrus × paradisi / The grapefruit is the only citrus born in the Americas: it appeared in Barbados in the 1700s, a chance cross of an orange and a pomelo. It grows in clusters, like grapes. / 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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