A large, juicy, tart cooking apple with pale green to yello skin flushed and striped with dark pink. It bakes well, holding its shape or cooking to light purée. It was raised by Mr J Allgrove for Messrs Veitch in Chelsea and thought to be a cross between Peasgood's Nonsuch and Ribston Pippin and received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1904 and the Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1910, having been introduced commercially in 1908. It is popular in France and has recently been introduced into Japan.
