Vanhoy
- From
- North Carolina
- Description
- As grown at the Geneva Station, Vanhoy lacks character, being unattractive in general appearance and only fair in quality. It is not desirable for any purpose and is remarkable only because the core is small and usually has no well-developed seeds. In 1905 it was practically unknown in New York.
- Flesh quality
- firm, a little coarse, quite crisp, breaking, moderately juicy, mild subacid
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged, green tinged
- Skin quality
- thick, leathery, smooth
- Skin color
- carmine blushed, carmine striped, red, yellow-green
- Sizes
- large, medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, oblate, oblique, conical
- General quality
- fair
- Uses
- market, dessert
- Eating season starts in
- January
- Eating season ends in
- May
- Also known as
- Van Hoy
- Van Hoy No-Core
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 351.