Bridgham Red

Origin and History

Bridgham Red was received by the USDA Agricultural Research Service from the Summerland Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia. The variety was reported as a limb sport or tree at Lakeside, Washington Station. It was also received from the Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York, and subsequently distributed to and maintained at the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon), Pennsylvania State University (University Park, Pennsylvania), and the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois). Station number: AP-H-327 (USDA ARS Irrigation Experiment Station, Prosser, Washington).

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

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Season

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Uses

Not described in source.

Subtypes and Variants

Not described in source.

Other

The variety appears in the USDA ARS's 1963 survey of apple clones maintained in the United States. Its presence in multiple state agricultural experiment stations indicates recognition as a variety of interest to the American horticultural research community in the mid-twentieth century.