A medium to large scrumptious brown russeted pear. Very buttery juicy, flavorful, musky, sugary. The tree seems to bear alternately very large crops. Ripens around September at 2500'. These elegant pears are good for eating fresh, baking, poaching and broiling. They possibly originate in France or Belgium just around 1800 or so.

Found in North San Juan, Ca on an old homestead with quite a few varieties of old heirloom fruit. North San Juan still has remnants of old hydraulic mining diggings that are still clear reminders today that we are capable of great destruction for greed. The natural land has still not healed after over 100 years.