Planted in the orchard in 2004 this apple was named after the manager of Dickson’s nurseries in Edinburgh and created in 1893 from a Cox Orange Pippin or Pott’s Seeding.
It is a regular round apple, light green with crimson striations with a dual purpose so it can be for culinary use early in the season, while the more mellow flavour later in the season makes it a good eating apple. Being a hardy tree it is particularly popular in Scotland as a culinary apple while in the south of England it is grown more as a dessert apple. It ripens around mid-September and can keep till November.