Paragon/Black Twig

Paragon (aka Black Twig) is one of our larger apples, green with rust red shoulders.  Paragon, introduced in 1833, is a tart apple with a complex flavor.  It is an all around great apple - fresh eating, cooking, drying, cider. 
I've come to rely on it as it is one of our few reliably annual late apples, coming in the second week of October and lasting through the end of the month.  
Unfortunately there are never very many as our tree is on the dwarfing Mark rootstock (briefly popular back in the 1980's - early 90's) planted in 1993.  
This is one of our apples I am hoping to graft onto the standard sized (and long lived) Antonovka rootstock, so we can enjoy more of them and pass on this great apple to the next generation.  
Paragon does sustain some coddling moth damage, but less than many of the trees around it.