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Lane, n.2 The name of John Lane, 19th-c. English horticulturalist, used in the possessive in Lane's Prince Albert to designate a large, green cooking apple of a variety introduced by him in 1857.
1875Florist & Pomologist 233 Lane's Prince Albert..is remarkable both for its excellent quality as a culinary apple and for its prodigious bearing qualities. 1902[see Bramley]. 1933Hall & Crane Apple xii. 200 Lane's Prince Albert..is a mid-Victorian introduction. 1962Listener 27 Sept. 495/1, I am thinking of cooking apples like Bramleys and Lane's Prince Albert. |