Origin, Penn Yan, Yates county, New York. Tree thrifty, upright, hardy,
and early bearer. Requires thinning to produce good-flavored fruit. When
grown in the shade is wanting in flavor. Young wood light, reddish
brown, slightly downy. Buds prominent. Fruit medium or above, roundish
oblate, yellow, mostly shaded with crimson, obscurely striped, and
splashed with light dots. Stalk nearly an inch long, rather slender,
inserted in a large, broad, irregular cavity. Calyx small and closed,
set in a rather abrupt, somewhat corrugated basin. Flesh yellowish, very
tender, juicy, excellent, brisk, somewhat vinous. Very good to best. A
very delicate apple. Ripe November to February.