Description
Introduced in 1857, pale green with pinkish flush. A fine, smooth and slightly greasy skinned apple. Does not keep quite so long as Bramley’s Seedling or Monarch but its compact growth and reliable cropping make it suitable for small gardens. Succeeds in most soils.
Type – Cooker
Pick – October
Store – March
Group – C(3)
Perfect Pollinating Partners:
Crab apples, Arthur Turner, Bloody Ploughman, Bountiful, Braeburn, Charles Ross, Cornish Aromatic, Cornish Gilliflower, Dumelow’s Seedling, Egremont Russet, Fiesta, Greensleeves, Grenadier, Herefordhsire Russet, Howgate Wonder, Idared, James Grieve, Keswick Codlin, Laxton Fortune, Laxton Superb, Lord Derby, Millers Seedling, Newton wonder, Norfolk Royal Russet, Peasgood Nonsuch, Pitmaston Pineapple, Reverend Wilkes, Rosemary Russet, Sops in wine, Spartan, Tydeman’s Late Orange, Yellow Ingestre
