Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
: When I was an anklebiter we had an old dinosaur shelter - well, air raid
: shelter, anyway - and this was racked out for keeping apples. The apples
: which kept best were the Bramleys, and then the Codlings. Charles Ross
: and James Grieve kept well, as did Cox's Orange Pippins, and most of the
: other varieties we kept weren't known to us by name. Some just didn't
: keep well - beauty of Bath was one of these.

James Grieve? I presume kept as cookers. I find JG goes soft after a week
and is inedible as a desert apple.