A dessert apple cultivar producing medium to large fruits ripening from green to yellow, flushed brownish-orange and usually covered entirely with a pale brown russet. The fine-grained flesh is cream coloured, very sweet and aromatic. A heavy-cropping tree that benefits from fruit thinning to achieve good sized apples
4-8 metres
4-8 metres
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Prefers deep, fertile, moist but well-drained, neutral soil in a sunny sheltered position. Will not thrive on very acid soils, shallow chalk soils or with shade for more than half the day. May require fruit thinning to improve fruit size and quality. See apple cultivation
Propagate by chip budding in late summer, or grafting in mid-winter. Plants grown from pips are unlikely to resemble the parent
Prune according to chosen training method. See apple pruning
May be susceptible to aphids, including rosy apple aphid and woolly aphid, apple sawfly, fruit tree red spider mite, codling moth, apple leaf-mining moth and other caterpillars
May be susceptible to apple canker, apple scab, blossom wilt, brown rot, fireblight, honey fungus and powdery mildews