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lord lambourne

Description

Yellow skin flushed red, excellent flavour, juicy and firm. Crops heavily, a first rate apple. Fairly easily grown, it fills the gap between James Grieve and Cox's Orange Pippin, and its flowers are fairly resistant to frost. Raised in Bedford by The Laxton Brother's in 1907.
Latin name: Malus domestica 'Lord Lambourne'
Type: dessert
Uses: eat fresh, Juice
Flavour: 
good, aromatic
Pollination Group: 3
Flowering time: 2 May (start) 8 May (full) 15 May (over)
Picking time: 
October 
Eating/storing time:  
2-3 weeks
Size:  
medium
Rootstock:   
Year planted:

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