A mid-season dessert apple with a russet-textured yellow and red skin with soft but firm and chewy flesh and a rich, sweet, nutty pear-like flavour. The pale, white-green early foliage, white spring blossom and neat habit make this ideal as a garden specimen and for smaller gardens. It is self sterile, pollination group 3, crops in September and stores to December and sometimes even January
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Prefers a deep, fertile, moist but well-drained, neutral soil in a sheltered, sunny position. Will not thrive on very acid soils, shallow chalk soils or with shade for more than half the day. See apple cultivation
Propagate by grafting in midwinter or chip budding in late summer on clonal rootstock for fruit. The rootstock will largely determine the vigour of the tree. Fruit grown from pips will not resemble the parent
Prune according to chosen training method. See apple pruning. Thin fruit in late spring or early summer to improve size and quality. See fruit thinning
May be susceptible to aphids including woolly aphid and rosy apple aphid, fruit tree red spider mite, codling moth and other caterpillars
May be susceptible to apple canker, apple scab (although this variety is generally resistant), blossom wilt, brown rot, fireblight, honey fungus and powdery mildews