An attractive variety of eating apple, quite small with a yellow skin heavily flushed with crimson and scarlet stripes and characteristic shallow grey mottled russet over the red. It has cream, finely-textured crisp flesh full of sweet aromatic, even flowery flavour. It was raised in New Zealand by James Hatton Kidd of Greytown in Wairarapa in 1924 as a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Delicious. It was introduced commercially into the UK in 1932 and received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1973 and the Award of Garden Merit in 1993. Perfect for toffee apples. It is a heavy-cropping apple. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England and is at its best from November to January.
