Origin: in East Malling, Kent, England, by Henry M. Tydeman, East Malling Res. Sta. Introd. in England in 1945 and in Canada and the U.S. in 1946. Laxton’s Superb × Cox’s Orange Pippin; selected about 1940. Tree: fairly vigorous; upright; slightly spreading. Fruit: a very late maturing, eating apple of high quality; keeping, in England, until March or April; resembles Laxton’s Superb; originally named Tydeman’s Late Cox and was so carried in the East Malling Research Sta. Annual Rpt. for 1945 (vol. 33).