Medium-sized, flat-found fruit. Flushed and striped, tends to be soft, but juicy and sweet, excellent flavour for an early season apple. A pretty and fragrant apple. The red skin bleeds into the flesh giving it a pink tinge.
Common Uses
Dessert apple for eating fresh. Best eaten soon after they've been picked, don't store well. Good for juicing and make a pretty pink juice.
Origin
Bath, Somerset in the 1860s.
Pollination
Diploid, quite self-fertile, however will do better with a pollination partner e.g. Tropical Beauty, Yarlington Mill, Abas, Irish Peach, Lord Lambourne, McIntosh, Red Braeburn, Tydeman's Early Winesap, Vista Bella, Geeveston Fanny, Lord Nelson, Lord Suffield.
Chill Hours
Blossom Time
Early to mid-season. Beautiful flowers.
Harvest Time
Early season, early Feb.
Production Notes
Spur bearer. Tree is round-spreading, moderately vigorous, and very prolific. Fruit tends to drop early.
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