Description
The yellow skinned fruit are flushed red, juicy and firm, and with excellent slightly aromatic flavour. It crops heavily, is easily grown, and its flowers are fairly resistant to frost, and makes a first-rate apple filling the gap between James Grieve (one of its parents) and Cox's Orange Pippin, it was raised in Bedford by The Laxton Brothers in 1907, but has a reputation for succeeding in colder wetter areas well to the north.
"The happy marriage of two flavoursome parents with the best attributes of both, Lord Lambourne has the juicy briskness of James Grieve and the sweetly aromatic savour of a pearmain, which hints of strawberries. A Bedfordshire apple from the stable of the Laxton Brothers in 1907, it was introduced in 1923. The best seedling apple of 1921-22, it received the RHS Bunyard Cup in 1923, its compact habit, regular, heavy, precocious crops and frost-resistant blossom assisting greatly its subsequent career in commerce. It was widely planted in orchards and estate gardens in northern England and Scotland, and often found during restoration projects there; it does well in the wetter west and at altitude." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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