Description

• Dr Jules Guyot Harvest: Early Description: Moderately vigorous, upright, spurring freely, not compatible with quince
• Medium long oval leaf with small neat serrations
• Fruit is Obtuse pyriform, slightly lop sided
• Skin is yellow with pinkish red blush, conspicuous russet dots, rough
• Disease Status: Fairly resistant to scab, susceptible to fire blight, moderately susceptible to blossom blast
• Very tolerant to two spotted mites
• Chilling Requirement: High Pollination: Late season, Packham’s and others
• Taste: Tender, melting flesh, very juicy, slight musk flavour
• Storage: Short, premature ripening
• Uses: Eating Background: M
• Ernest Baltet of Troyes, Belgium, 1870, introduced to USA 1885