Fruit medium in size for the type, apple-like in form. Skin light yellow in color with conspicuous russet dots. Flesh hard, gritty, not juicy. Poor in desert quality. Tree fairly vigorous, Oriental in growth characteristics, somewhat susceptible to fire blight. -- H. Hartman 1957. A Japanese pear; date of introduction unknown. Fruit medium, apple-shaped, light lemon-yellow, with rough, russet dots; flesh hard, gritty, wanting in flavor, subacid; October. -- U.P. Hedrick 1921.