Description
Green, characteristic flat shape, can be cooked as early as July. Magnificent flavour and cooks to a froth. Crops freely, compact growth and succeeds on most soils, growing well in wet climates. Received RHS First Class Certificate in 1883.
"One of the earliest cookers, this crisp, green acid cooker is high on the list of apples that succeed in difficult conditions, including those in high rainfall regions, and it is found often; in the top ten most frequently planted culinary apples in old orchards in the north. It is the best known of all early cookers throughout the UK, having a long record in commercial production, with excellent cooking qualities, making a tangy, pale cream purée, a perfect baker, cored and stuffed with spices and dried fruit and good in a wide variety of pies. First recorded in 1862, and one of the premier apples at the 1883 National Apple congress, it was superseded but not bettered by the Bramley." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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