Rather curious that this fine pear, raised 60 years ago, is yet so little appreciated in this country. As a December fruit to follow Comice there is nothing better and it has advantage over Glou Morceau, ripening at the same season, in doing excellently in the open. On cordons here on a sandy loam fruits are annually produced of the very finest quality. Shape distinct, quite pyriform but tapering very sharply to the stem and eye making the shape resemble an ace of diamonds. Colour quite green even when ripe, the usual yellow change being hardly perceptible. The flesh is most deliciously melting, quite as much as Doyenne du Comice and the flavour very good indeed. Raised in 1845 by M. Six, a gardener at Courtrai and first described by Bivort in Annales de Pomologie Vol. III, fig. 53, and also by Decaisne, in Jardin Fruitier, Vol VI, plate 23 under name Six.Growth rather slow in first few years but it makes a good pyramid when established and can be very confidently recommended to all lovers of good pears. -- Edward A. Bunyard, Fruit Notes. Journal Pomol. I:2:140-143, 1919.Beurre Six was raised from seed about 1845 by a gardener named Six at Courtrai in Belgium. Fruit large, pyriform, smooth, pea-green changing to yellow; flesh greenish-white, fine, melting, firm, buttery, very juicy; first; Oct. to Dec. -- U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York, 1921
Scionwood of Beurre Six was received at USDA Bureau of Plant Industry from Lepage et Cie., Angers, France on 13 March, 1939 and assigned PI 131842. This may be the same clone. -- USDA Plant Inventory Number 138.