Orchard Notes @orchardnotes.com · Mar 2 Downing (1872) seems to concur with the illustration rather than the photo... Maybe the modern version you sampled was a bit more sun-blushed, or just growing in different soil conditions, which is why it was more highly-coloured?
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I could go either way. Watercolor and description are both pretty different from my sample. Strongest argument contra: mine was really good. Hard to believe it's not a named variety, or that growers would not know what it was. Like, "is this a Cox? I can't tell."