Red Hook
AppleRed Hook
Origin and History
This variety originated in the vicinity of Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York. It was originally known under the names Red Ox or Striped Ox. W. S. Teator of Upper Red Hook proposed the name Red Hook for this apple to distinguish it from other varieties that had been called Striped Ox. The variety is grown commercially to a limited extent in its native locality.
Tree
The tree is large with low branching habit. It is an annual cropper yielding heavy crops.
Fruit
Size and Form: Large to very large. Form roundish to roundish conic, somewhat elliptical, symmetrical, sometimes faintly ribbed.
Stem: Short, thick to rather slender.
Cavity: Acuminate, deep, broad, gently furrowed, smooth or partly russeted.
Calyx: Medium to rather small, partly closed; lobes broad, obtuse to acute.
Basin: Rather small, moderately deep, narrow to medium in width, abrupt.
Skin: Tough, attractive pale yellow, rather thinly mottled and blushed with lively red, and sparingly striped and splashed with bright carmine. Dots rather small, numerous, whitish or with russet center.
Internal Structure: Calyx tube elongated funnel-shape approaching conical. Stamens median. Core medium or below, axile or nearly so; cells pretty symmetrical, closed; core lines clasping the cylinder. Carpels broadly roundish. Seeds rather dark brown, medium size, irregular, obtuse.
Flesh and Flavor: Flesh firm, coarse, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid, good.
Season
Late summer or early autumn.
Uses and Storage
Good for culinary use, though when overripe it becomes dry and worthless. The fruit is firm, smooth, bright, and attractive. It is quite free from attacks of fungi, stands shipment well, and is one of the earliest fruits of that locality that can be shipped to Europe.
Book Sources
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— S.A. Beach, The Apples of New York, Vol. 2 (1905)RED HOOK.
This is a large, late summer or early autumn apple which is being grown commercially to a limited extent in the vicinity of Red Hook, Dutchess county, N. Y. W. S. Teator, of Upper Red Hook, who furnished us with the fruit from which the following description was made, states that the variety originated in his locality and has been known under the name of Red Ox or Striped Ox. As the name Striped Ox has been applied to other varieties he proposes the name Red Hook for this apple. The tree is large, low branching and an annual cropper yielding heavy crops. The fruit is firm, smooth, bright, attractive, quite free from the attacks of fungi and good for culinary use but when overripe it becomes dry and worthless. It stands shipment well and is one of the earliest fruits of that locality that can be shipped to Europe.
FRUIT. Fruit large to very large. Form roundish to roundish conic, somewhat elliptical, symmetrical, sometimes faintly ribbed. Stem short, thick to rather slender. Cavity acuminate, deep, broad, gently furrowed, smooth or partly russeted. Calyx medium to rather small, partly closed; lobes broad, obtuse to acute. Basin rather small, moderately deep, narrow to medium in width, abrupt. Skin tough, attractive pale yellow, rather thinly mottled and blushed with lively red, and sparingly striped and splashed with bright carmine. Dots rather small, numerous, whitish or with russet center. Calyx tube elongated funnel-shape approaching conical. Stamens median. Core medium or below, axile or nearly so; cells pretty symmetrical, closed; core lines clasping the cylinder. Carpels broadly roundish. Seeds rather dark brown, medium size, irregular, obtuse. Flesh firm, coarse, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid, good. Season late summer or early autumn.