Applevariety
Lane's Prince Albert
Also known as Albert Lanskii +16
Albert Lanskii · Lane · Lane Prince Albert · Lane's · Lane's Albert · Lane's Albertsapple · Lanes Albertsapple · Lanes Prince Albert · Perkin's A. 1 · Perkins A. 1 · Perkins' A. 1 · Prince Albert · Prince Albert (Lane) · Prince Albert de Lane · Prinz Albert · Profit · Victoria and Albert
A cooking apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in about 1840; tart, juicy and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Released 1850
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- very soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 59.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Lane's Prince Albert began
- Released
- 1850
Lane's Prince Albert’s family
13 varieties · 12 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lane's Prince Albert
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 76.00 mm
- height
- 59.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- very soft
- synonyms
- Albert Lanskii, Lane, Lane Prince Albert, Lane's, Lane's Albert, Lane's Albertsapple, Lanes Albertsapple, Lanes Prince Albert, Perkin's A. 1, Perkins A. 1, Perkins' A. 1, Prince Albert, Prince Albert (Lane), Prince Albert de Lane, Prinz Albert, Profit, Victoria and Albert
- father to
- Oxford Yeoman Byfleet Seedling Corry's Wonder Morley's Seedling Oxford Sunrise
- mother to
- Caudal Market Shoesmith Mary Barnett Prince George Colonel Yate
- parentage
- Russet Nonpareil x Dumelow's Seedling
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.