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Galbraith

Apple

Galbraith

Origin and History

Galbraith appears in the USDA ARS survey as a variety received from multiple sources during the mid-twentieth century. The variety was obtained from Bountiful Ridge Nurseries in Princess Anne, Maryland; the Agricultural Experiment Station in Amherst, Massachusetts (received 1940 and 1953); and the New York Fruit Testing Association in Geneva, New York (received 1957). The variety was evaluated at several institutional collections, including the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster, Ohio; the Cornell Pomological Collections at Cornell University; and the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

Fruit

Galbraith is described as a Baldwin type, with highly colored fruit. One source records it as a red sport of Baldwin (station number 43, New York Fruit Testing Association, Geneva, New York, 1957).

One source notes no difference from Baldwin.

Other

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

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Galbraith. Received from Bountiful Ridge Nurs., Princess Anne, Md.: no different from Baldwin; reported by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio (OhW). Received from AES, Amherst Mass. 1953; reported by CrC. Received from AES, Amherst Mass. 1940: Baldwin type, fruit highly colored; reported by NyC. Received from N. Y. F. T. A., Geneva, N. Y. 1957: red sport of Baldwin; station number 43; reported by the Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri (MoC).

— H.H. Fisher (USDA ARS), A Survey of Apple Clones in the United States (1963)