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Lane's Prince Albert

  • Lane's Prince Albert
  • Lane's Prince Albert
  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4

One of the definitive Victorian cooking apples, with soft, juicy, acidic flesh, that cooks to a puree. The apples keep well.

Lane's Prince Albert apple trees for sale

  • 1.1-year maiden bare-root tree 24.45€
    MM106 rootstock
    Large size (3m-4m after 10 years)
  • 2.1-year maiden bare-root tree 24.45€
    M25 rootstock
    Full size size (4.5m-6m after 10 years)


How to grow

Victoria author Robert Hogg sums this variety up very well: " ... a marvellous bearer, and rarely fails to produce a crop".



History

Discovered in the 1840s in Berkhamsted, possibly a seedling of Dumelow's Seedling.



Lane's Prince Albert characteristics

  • Using

    • Picking period (southern UK):mid-October
    • Picking season:Late
    • Cropping:Good
    • Keeping (of fruit):3 months or more
    • Food uses:Culinary, Juice, Traditional cooker

  • Growing

    • Gardening skill:Suitable for beginners
    • Self-fertility:Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group:4
    • Pollinating others:Good
    • Ploidy:Diploid
    • Vigour:Average vigour
    • Bearing regularity:Regular
    • Fruit bearing:Spur-bearer

  • Problems

    • Disease resistance:Good
    • Scab:Very resistant

  • Climate

    • Climate suitability:Temperate climates, Mild damp climates
    • Summer average maximum temperatures:Cool ( 20C - 24C / 68F - 75F)
    • Frost resistance of blossom:Susceptible

  • Identification

    • Country of origin:United Kingdom
    • Period of origin:1850 - 1899
    • Awards:RHS Award of Garden Merit