This is a highly regarded heritage cooking apple. Keeps well for about four months in cold storage. This apple has been around for several hundred years and we find mention of it by pharmacist and naturalist John Parkingson in 1629 as well as by naturalist John Worlildge in 1676. However, it virtually disappeared for some time until an old tree was discovered growing in a garden near Norwich (UK) by botanist John Lindley who mentions it in his writings in 1831 Check for origins in France. Medium tending to large, conical and quite narrow at the crown. The skin is smooth and thick, pale greenish yellow with reddish streaks on the sun exposed face and patches of russet. The stemk is short, slender and set against a fleshy lip.