A variety of yellowish-green eating apple flushed with red raised by Peter Gideon, a farmer of Excelsior in Minnesota from a seed of Cherry Crab in the 1860s. It had reached England by 1868 and received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1893. A good Wealthy is strawberry-flavoured, soft and juicy, but these qualities can easily be lost. This mid-season variety is harvested from mid to late September in South-East England and is at its best from then until December.
