A variety of large cooking apple raised at Welford Park in Newbury by the head gardener, Charles Ross, in the early 1900s. It is yellow lightly flushed blushed with red. It was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1911. This apple retains its shape on cooking. It is a mid-season apple picked from mid-September in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between September and November.
