An unusually large, green skinned apple which ripens to yellow, sometimes with red stripes, in late September. The apple keeps well and is good for cooking or eating. A McIntosh-Worcester cross raised at East Malling Research Station in 1929, and introduced in 1945. An aromatic, early dessert apple. One-half to almost entirely covered with bright crimson flush on pale green to dull yellow ground.
White flesh is crisp, fine-textured and juicy, with good vinous flavor.
A late summer apple with excellent red color and good flavor. Fruit is round and firm. Can be held a month or so in storage. Tree bears annually and requires at least three pickings. A garden variety dessert apple raised from open-pollinated Cherry Crab at Excelsior, Minnesota around 1860.