The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection contains reproductions of 7,497 watercolor paintings, including the seven samples of American cranberry. USDA commissioned artists to create technically accurate illustrations of newly introduced cultivars for the division's publications. In 1886, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) established the Division of Pomology to oversee the collection and distribution of new varieties of fruits, and to disseminate information to fruit growers and breeders. These images are part of The National Agricultural Library's USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection.
Seven varieties of American cranberry ( Vaccinium macrocarpon) were documented and are available for public view. Department of Agriculture was sending artists out to the field to visually document different varieties of fruits.
In the early years of the twentieth century the U.S. The Indians and English use them much, boyling them with sugar for Sauce to eat with their Meat and it is a delicate Sauce, especially for roasted Mutton Some make tarts with them as with Goose Berries. They are also good to allay the fervour of hot Diseases. Afterwards red and as big as a Cherry some are perfectly round, others Oval, all of them hollow, of a sower astringent taste they are ripe in August and September. Lebanon, NH: University of New Hampshire Press (2009):Ĭran Berry, or Bear Berry, because Bears use much to feed upon them, is a small trayling plant that grows in the Salt Marshes that are over-grown with Moss the tender Branches (which are reddish) run out in great length, lying flat on the ground, where at distances, they take Root, over-spreading sometimes half a score Acres, sometimes in small patches of about a Rood or the like the Leaves are like Box but greener, thick and glistering the Blossoms are very like the Flowers of our English Night Shade, after which succeed the Berries, hanging by long small foot stalks, no bigger than a hair at first they are of a plane yellow Colour. Baker provides a good transcription of Josselyn's description of the cranberry's value in his history, Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. The National Agricultural Library has digitized its copy of this work and made it available here. The most prominent early mention of the nature and value of the cranberry in American cuisine was made by John Josselyn in his 1672 work New England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of That Country. Natural Resources, Conservation, and Environment.Farms and Agricultural Production Systems.
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