Applevariety
Smart's Prince Arthur
Also known as Ladies' Finger +3
Ladies' Finger · Lady's Finger · Lady's Finger of Kent · Smart's Prince Albert
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, tart, firm and dry. Picked in early October.
Origin · near Sittingbourne, Kent
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 82.50 mmHeight 95.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Smart's Prince Arthur began
Recorded origin
near Sittingbourne, Kent
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 82.50 mm
- height
- 95.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Ladies' Finger, Lady's Finger, Lady's Finger of Kent, Smart's Prince Albert
- coarseness
- coarse
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- 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.