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[Syn : Caldwell; Green Cossings; Newbolds Duke of York .] 
This variety was first brought into notice by Sir Thomas Frankland. It derives its name 
from the gentleman at Thirsk, who raised the tree, “ several years since says Sir Thomas, in the 
“ Trans, of the London Horticultural Society ” for 1818 ; so that its origin probably dates from 
the end of last century. It is figured by Ronalds, PI. xli., fig. 2. 
Description. —Fruit: large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three-quarters 
high ; roundish and flattened, with five obscure ribs on the sides extending to the basin of the eye. 
Skin : smooth, thinly strewed with reddish brown dots, and a few faint streaks of pale red on the 
shaded side, and of a beautiful deep red, covered with yellowish grey dots on the side next the sun. 
Eye : open, with broad reflexed segments, set in a round and moderately deep basin. Stalk : short, 
inserted in a round and deep cavity, lined with rough russet, which extends in ramifications over the 
base. Flesh : yellowish, tender and pleasantly subacid. 
A good culinary apple, in season from October to Christmas. 
The tree grows freely, and succeeds best as a standard ; in which form it is an old and 
lavourite variety in many localities. 
