An early eating apple with a fine aromatic flavour. Green base with a red flush, and a firm, fine-grained, green tinged flesh. Ready to harvest in early autumn, will store to mid-autumn. It is a tip bearing tree, that is well suited to the Monmouthshire area but can be a bit susceptible to scab in some areas. According to Basham (1899) it was originally raised by Mr Tampling of Malpas, Monmouthshire in the 1790’s. It went on to become a real favourite in the Monmouthshire markets. After his death his sister Cissy continued to distribute the grafts, hence its current name. When it was sent for exhibition in Abergavenny at the National Apple Congress of 1883 the decision was made to rename it as Monmouthshire Beauty, this was not to last as the reaction locally was emphatically unfavourable.
