This 1864 American variety is widely regarded as one of the best flavored with a good sweet/sharp balance. The fine textured creamy yellow flesh has a crisp bite, lots of juice, mildly sweet with a tart tang and subtle hints of spice. Used cooked or raw in sweet and savory preparations. Medium round fruit is covered in a thin red skin, blushed with yellow to green undertones. The heavy cropping tree is a precocious and productive tree in all apple-growing regions. Ripens in October on the mother tree at 900'. Thought to be a seedling of Esopsus Spitzenburg. It is partially self fertile, but will set larger crops when pollinated by Lady, Macoun, Newtown Pippin, or Pearmain.

The mother tree is growing in an early 20^th century dry farmed orchard in Yorkville, Mendocino County, our first offering from that part of California. Yorkville is in the hills southwest of Hopland, at an elevation of 922’. The Yorkville post office opened in 1868. We will be introducing other apples from this orchard in future years.