Fruit is outstanding for both eating and cooking. Ripens in mid-October to a deep red. Also known as Stayman. A large, attractive, cooking apple raised near Wolf River, Wisconsin about 1875. Very smooth skin is flushed purplish red, becoming bright red with numerous very short, broad, broken, red stripes on a pale green to pale yellowish white ground.
Flesh is white, tinged green, fine-textured, dry and moderately acid.
Trees are very hardy. Of Russian origin and ver old. An early yellow cooking apple, often ripe in late July. Excellent for fresh sauce or pies.