The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Lamb's Seedling

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Raised 1866-1867 at Meynell Langley, Derby, by Joseph Lamb. Fruits have soft, coarse, slightly acid flesh.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Lamb's Seedling United Kingdom, 1866-1867

Sources

  1. Lamb's Seedling (accession 1933 - 003), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october); the other names.