“Queens” were bred by Archibald Findlay in 1893 and quickly became the UK’s most popular second early. They are rare now in the UK but still dominate summer production in Ireland. Their great flavour and dry, floury texture are legendary. The variety received a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit fairly recently – almost exactly 100 years after it and some of its synonyms did the same thing! Yields are surprisingly high.