Red Hook
- From
- Red Hook
- Description
- Grown to a limited extent in Red Hook by W. S. Teator. It has also been known under the name of Red Ox and the Striped Ox. Season is late summer to early autumn.
- Flesh quality
- Firm, coarse, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid, good.
- Skin quality
- Firm, smooth, bright, attractive. It is tough, attractive, pale yellow, rather thinly mottled.
- Skin color
- red, yellow, carmine, carmine striped, mottled, ribbed, carmine splashed, russetted
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- conical, round, elliptical, symmetrical
- Keeping quality
- When it is overripe it becomes dry and worthless. It can stand shipment well and is one of the earliest fruit of the locality that can be shipped to Europe.
- General quality
- It is free from the attacks of fungi.
- Uses
- commercial, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- October
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 180.