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Flesh yellowish, firm, rather coarse, crisp, juicy, agreeable mild subacid, 

 somewhat aromatic, medium to good in quality. 

 Season December to April. 



PRINCE ALBERT. 



REFERENCES, i. Hogg, 1884:128. 2. Bunyard, Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc., 1898: 

 356, 359- 3- Can. Hort., 12:10. 1889. 4- Garden, 64:322. 1903. fig. 5. Ragan, 

 U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 56:172. 1905. 



SYNONYMS. LANE ALBERT (5). LANE'S PRINCE ALBERT (r, 2, 3). Lane 

 Prince Albert (5). PRINCE ALBERT (LANE) (2). 



Fruit large, grass-green eventually becoming yellowish with part of the ex- 

 posed cheek covered with a thin blush and splashed with bright carmine. 

 The general appearance is rather attractive for a green apple. It is too 

 briskly subacid in flavor for a dessert apple but is valued for culinary uses. 

 So far as tested at this Station the tree sustains the reputation which it has 

 gained in England of coming into bearing young and being a reliable cropper 

 and very productive (i, 4). Its season has not been proved here but it 

 evidently extends from midautumn to midwinter. Hogg gives its season as 

 December to March. Further testing is required to determine whether it is 

 a desirable variety for this region. 



This variety is found in common cultivation in some parts of England and 

 it is there usually called the Lane Prince Albert (4). Bunyard lists it first 

 as Prince Albert (Lane) and afterwards as Lane Prince Albert (2). Ragan 

 has abbreviated the name to Lane Albert (5). We prefer to follow Bunyard 

 in calling it Prince Albert as that appears to approach more closely to the 

 name by which it is commonly known in England. 



Sharpe lists a Prince Albert of Prussia which is distinct from Prince 

 Albert.l 



Historical. Introduced by H. Lane & Son, Berkhampstead, England, and 

 exhibited by them at a meeting of the British Pomological Society, October 

 26, 1857 (i, 4). The original tree was still in existence in a Berkhampstead 

 garden in 1903 (4). In 1881 Prince Albert received a first-class certificate 

 from the Royal Horticultural Society (2). In an article on "Progress in 

 Fruit Culture in Queen Victoria's Reign 1837-1897," Bunyard presents a list 

 of fruits introduced into cultivation in England in the last sixty years likely 

 to prove permanent additions which includes but ten varieties of apples and 

 one of them is Prince Albert (2). This variety is but little known as yet in 

 America. 



TREE. 



Tree very vigorous. Form spreading, rather dense. Twigs stocky, moder- 

 ately long. Bark dark greenish-brown. Lenlicels numerous, roundish, medium 

 in size, conspicuous. Buds large, plump, obtuse, pubescent. Leaves large, 

 broad; foliage dense. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit pretty uniformly large, sometimes very large. Form roundish some- 

 what flattened at the base and inclined to conic with broad obtuse ribs toward 

 the basin, somewhat irregular. Stem medium to short, moderately thick. 



1 Can. Dept. Agr. Rpt., 1900:457 and letter, 1905. 



