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Lamb’s Seedling
type: Culinary, Dessert
synonyms: Sometimes Langley Pippin, but this is name is actually used for a cultivar of that name. The name also serves as a synonym for Northern Greening .
identification: Large, conic. The base colour is yellowish green, over which is an red wash and a loose pattern of darker stripes covering the sun-exposed faces. The calyx is partly open and large, set in a shallow and narrow basin. The stem is medium long and slender set in a deep and open cavity which has some green russet extending out onto the shoulder. Becomes somewhat greasy at maturity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse-grained and soft. Moderately sharp but mellows to a sweet, tender apple after about six weeks in storage.
uses: Culinary/dessert
origins: Raised from a pippin of Northern Greening in 1866 by Joseph Lamb, head gardener at Meynell Langley in Derbyshire (U.K.). There is no record of the pollen parent.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps four months in cold storage
harvest: Ready for harvest early in the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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