Description

A very popular apple raised by James Grieve in Edinburgh and recorded in 1893. Makes a sweet, delicate stewed apple when picked early or if grown in the north, and is a good juicing variety. As an eater is tender, sweetly scented, very juicy, excellent flavour, pale yellow with red flush. Regular cropper. Medium vigour making a spreading, round headed tree. This variety is not suitable for the more humid west of the country. The blossom attracts bees, and later any fallen fruit is eagerly consumed by thrushes and other similar birds. Bullfinches are, unfortunately, partial to the buds.