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USDA Pomological Watercolors

USDA Pomological Watercolors

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·June 16, 2025
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jwilber

I made these available as a dataset on GitHub some time ago: https://github.com/jwilber/USDA_Pomological_Watercolors

Very beautiful paintings.

zeroping

These are also hosted on Wikimedia commons: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomological_Waterc...

downboots

The world is too much with us

zephyrfalcon

OK, I completely misread that title.

throwaway2506i7

Same here. I am not a native speaker, but it seems like a relatively uncommon word. Maybe that's why we both read something else

jfengel

It's technical jargon. Scientists used speak a mishmash of Greek and Latin, since those were common among educated people. That hung on for longer than was realistic, but it became a kind of slang for group recognition.

This department was named in the 1880s. They probably would just call it the Apple Department today, though I admit I still like the tone that sort-of-Greek-or-Latin rings.

imranq

The powers of kerning are great indeed

jszymborski

Would make for an interesting new placeholder image generator a la placecats.com