Lane's Prince Albert

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

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

• 11-year maiden bare-root tree 24.45€
  MM106 rootstock
  Large size (3m-4m after 10 years)
  

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• 21-year maiden bare-root tree 24.45€
  M25 rootstock
  Full size size (4.5m-6m after 10 years)
  

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Next deliveries

Deliveries resume December 2020

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

• Picking seasonLate
• CroppingGood
• Keeping3 months or more
• Fruit persistenceNormal ripening
• Useful forCulinaryJuiceTraditional cooker
• Cooking resultPuree
• Gardening skillBeginner
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Flowering group4
• Pollinating othersGood
• PloidyDiploid
• VigourAverage vigour
• Bearing regularityRegular
• Fruit bearingSpur-bearer
• Disease resistanceGood
• ScabVery resistant
• Climate typeTemperate climatesMild damp climates
• Summer average maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)
• Frost resistance of blossomSusceptible
• Country of originUnited Kingdom
• Period of origin1850 - 1899
• Flower colourPink - light
• AwardsRHS Award of Garden Merit