Traditional cooking apple of the British Isles. Large flat greenish yellow fruit with broad, broken brown and red stripes, firm skin. Firm, juicy, sharply acid flesh. Cooks to perfection with rich juice and no hard pieces. Good cider apple, extremely high Vitamin C content. Large, vigorous, spreading tree. Heavy, regular bearer. Blooms late; will survive in a frost pocket when some would be killed. Triploid, requires a pollinizer, scab and mildew resistant, ripens early October to early November, depending on location. Zone 5, originated between 1809 and 1813.