Juicy, cream colored, moderately sub-acid flesh makes this a very high quality dessert apple. Ripens early October. Of uncertain origin, but thought to be Canadian. Extensively cultivated in early French settlements around Lake Champlain and southern Quebec by 1730. Highly colored, small fruit has a bright blood red flush on very pale greenish white ground.
Flesh is extremely white, rather soft, fine-textured, juicy, and very sweet.
Harvest late September to early October. From a chance seedling, possible open-pollinated Grimes Golden, in Clay County, West Virginia about 1890. Introduced in 1914. Greenish-yellow ground color, ripens to golden yellow, sometimes with pale orange flush, in late October. Cream colored, slightly green tinged flesh is fine textured, crisp, juicy, sweet, and a little acid, with good aromatic flavor making this an outstanding dessert and cooking apple.