Apple Day

LANE’S PRINCE ALBERT

‘It is a lovely fruit which takes the highest polish of any variety’; named by nurseryman Henry Lane, who planted it out immediately after cheering the Queen and Prince Albert through Berkhamsted in 1841; the original tree was still in a high street garden in 1936; Russet Nonpareil x Dumelow’s Seedling; bright green, slightly flushed with red stripes; juicy, brisk, acid; good for pies.

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