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Rhubarb Prince Albert - Anglaise

Synonyms : Royal Albert, Early Albert

Also known as 'Prince Albert', it is very hardy, early to harvest and produces bright red stems.

Stalk color : Red
Number of ribs : 5
Origin : Angleterre
Year : 1840
Developed by : Joseph Myatt

Quotes about Prince Albert - Anglaise

Early maturing, introduced in about 1840. Very popular in the UK. Produces long, pale red stalks. Good for forcing.
Source : Horticultural Reviews, Volume 40 - Wiley-Blackwell - 2012, Thomas M. Gradziel, Kim E. Hummer, Paolo Inglese, 2012

Also known as 'Prince Albert', this is very hardy, early to crop, and produces bright red stems.
Source : A Guide to Growing Rhubarb, RV Roger Nursery, 2024

After the success of Rhubarb Victoria, Myatt then went on to introduce two other popular rhubarb cultivars, Prince Albert in 1840 and Linnaeus in 1842, the latter named after Carl Linnaeus, the father of plant taxonomy and the man who first introduced rhubarb to Sweden.
Source : Rhubarb, rhubarb: why Victoria still reigns supreme, Irish Time Website, 2010

Mitchel's Prince Albert - Has now been some years before the public; in England it is extensively grown, but in this country not so much, size being against it. Market-gardeners, on trial, will here find it quite as profitable as the larger kinds, being one of the very earliest, very productive ; cannot only be gathered earlier, but wih continue longer than the larger sorts, and the yield per acre will be heavier ; stalks deep scarlet, free from filament, round, firm, giving an exceedingly rich syrup. Type of Bucks.
Source : The Gardener's monthly and horticultural advertiser, Vol3 No1, 1861, John Saul, Washington City, D. C., 1861

Early, good for forcing
Source : Rhubarb - American Heritage Vegetable, David S. Shields, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters, at the University of South Carolina, and Stephen Spratt, graduate student in English at the University of South Carolina., 2024

The favourite old sorts of rhubarb were the Tobolsk and the Elford or Buck’s; the latter comes from R. undulatum, and is one of the best in flavour, as well as of a flue red colour. Other good sorts of more modern date are Mitchell’s Royal Albert, Dancer’s Early Scarlet, Myatt’s Linnaeus, and Myatt’s Victoria, the last a large-growing thick-stalked kind, the others being all earlier sorts. Johnson’s St Martin’s and Salt’s Crimson Perfection are also favourite kinds; and Stott’s Monarch grows to a very large size.
Source : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Vol XII, 1881

Earty Albert, or Scotch Mammoth, fine dark red, forces well, early and fine.
Source : Catalogue of fruit trees cultivated by George Bunyard & Co., Royal Nurseries, Maidstone, 1898-1899, 1898

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