Description

• Harvest: Early to mid
• Description: Tip bearer, small to medium sized, flat and irregularly shaped fruit
• Skin: Pale green-yellow blushed orange-red with crimson streaking
• Flesh: Creamy white
• Vigour: V3
• Flowering Group: 2
• Taste: Crisp and juicy flesh with a good balance of sweetness and acidity. The flavour is outstanding for an early apple, aromatic with a hint of peach
• Storage: Best eaten straight from the tree as it does not keep
• Uses: Eating (Dessert)
• Background: Also known as Early Crofton, as it’s believed to have come from the orchards of the Croftons of Sligo, Ireland. This Irish heritage variety is a very early, high quality dessert apple, once widely grown in Ireland and Britain. A fairly vigorous tree with a slightly weeping habit and a reliable cropper, with good disease resistance