Description

Discovered in Woodstock, Oxfordshire growing against the wall of Blenheim Park, about 1740 and then exhibited in 1822. Large golden, flushed red, crisp fruits of fine flavour with creamy-white flesh. Cooks to a sweet purée, or keeps its shape. Suits heavy soil. Considered by many to be the best dual purpose apple. Very valuable garden variety. Makes a strong limbed tree with very hard wood which was used to make cog wheels for railways! The blossom of apple trees attracts bees, and later any fallen fruit is eagerly consumed by thrushes and other similar birds. Bullfinches are, unfortunately, partial to the buds.