A small to medium-sized, sweet, tart, pale yellow eating apple flushed and speckled with bright red. It is an old-fashioned apple introduced commercially in 1864 which does not keep well. It received the Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1887. You have to catch it at just the right time for good flavour. It is an early-season apple, havested in mid-August in South-East England and with poor storage properties.
