No. 36 of 248 · The Natural History Series
Raspberries, ‘Golden Queen’
Pictures by Ellen Isham Schutt
A sprig of Golden Queen raspberries, ripe and unripe among deep green leaves, painted in watercolour by Ellen Isham Schutt in 1916. She made it for the US Department of Agriculture to record a fruit grown in American gardens, where this golden raspberry was a favourite from the 1880s. For a gardener, a cook or anyone who loves summer fruit.
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From the US Department of Agriculture's fruit paintings / Raspberries, 'Golden Queen' / Rubus idaeus / A golden-yellow raspberry, popular in American gardens from the 1880s. Idaeus, in the raspberry's Latin name, is for Mount Ida, where the Greeks said the berries first grew. / Painted by Ellen Isham Schutt in 1916 for the US Department of Agriculture, to record a fruit grown in America.
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