Grown by M. Guenoit of Troyes, France, from mixed seed of Doyenne d'Hiver and Beurre d'Arenberg, 1855. Fruit medium or above in size and comparable to Bartlett in form. Skin very smooth, waxy, deep yellow in color, but extremely susceptible to bruising in the ripe stage. Flesh white, fine, free of grit, melting juicy. Resembles Bartlett in flavor but somewhat inferior to Bartlett in dessert quality. A little later than Bartlett in season. Tree more vigorous than Bartlett, productive, good foliage, semi-dwarf on quince, fairly susceptible to blight. - H. Hartman, 1957.M. Gueniot, nurseryman at Troyes, France, sowed seeds the plants from which fruited in 1862. One of these he named Le Brun. Fruit above medium to large, oblong-conic, slightly obtuse and generally bossed and rather contorted about the summit, bright yellow, sprinkled with bright brown spots, and largely stained with fawn about calyx and stem and often also on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish-white, simi-fine, and dense, melting, seldom gritty and rarely has seeds; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous, savory but often with an excessive taste of musk, spoiling its delicacy; first; end of Sept. - U.P. Hedrick, 1921