Crops in: August - October

Outstanding early cooker, a reliable heavy cropper of large succulent fruit that cooks to a froth. Compact grower, often crops in its year of planting, suitable throughout the U.K. Excellent disease resistance.

Planting distance: 3m (10ft)

Pollination: Group 3. Each variety has ideal pollinators. These groups are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 according to flowering time. Best results will be obtained if this variety is planted near another apple of the same group or one group either side (so an ideal pollinator for a group 3 variety is one in group 2, 3 or 4). In normal suburban planting, however, apples are usually planted in sufficient numbers to give adequate pollination.

Rootstocks: MM106 Semi vigorous, Approximate height 4-5 metres when mature