Prince Albert
- Description
- Further testing is required to determine whether it is a desirable variety for this region.It was introduced by H. Lane & Son, Berkhampstead, England, and exhibited by them at a meeting of the British Pomological Society, October 26, 1857. The original tree was still in existence in a Berkhampstead garden in 1903.
- Flesh quality
- firm, moderately fine, crisp, tender, very juicy, briskly subacid or sour
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- smooth, moderately thick, tough
- Skin color
- yellow, carmine striped, green, red
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- obtuse, round, irregular, conical
- General quality
- The general appearance is rather attractive for a green apple.
- Uses
- culinary
- Also known as
- Lane Albert
- Lane’s Prince Albert
- Lane Prince Albert
- Prince Albert (Lane)
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 268.