Distributed by M. Niemetz, Winnitsa, Russia, and on trial with Simon-Louis Bros. at Metz in 1895. Fruit medium or large, green changing to yellow at maturity; flesh rather tart in flavor, juicy, good for drying as it diminishes little in volume; it makes good cider; Sept. and Oct.
Gliva. 1. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880.
A Russian pear imported by J. L. Budd, from the northern steppes where the summers are “fully as dry and hot as ours and the winter far more severe.” It shows marked traces of the Chinese forms of the pear in shape, serration, thickness and size of leaf and in the peculiar enlarged character of the scaly, terminal buds.
Gloire de Cambron. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:226, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 772. 1869.
Probably derives its name from the famous Abbey of Cambron near Mons in Hainaut, Bel. It was in France early in the nineteenth century. Fruit below medium, acute-pyriform, generally rather contorted in the lower part, yellow-ochre in color, dotted with very fine gray-russet points; flesh white, semi-fine, breaking, dry and gritty, sweet and rather delicate in flavor; third; Nov.
Gloward. 1. Field Pear Cult. 280. 1858. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:228, fig. 1869.
Possibly of English origin. It was cultivated in the garden of the Horticultural Society of Angers, Fr., in 1838. Fruit medium and above; form rather variable but always ovate, more or less long, irregular, bossed, clear green sprinkled with grayish dots and a little stained with russet; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, watery, some grit around the core; juice sugary, very refreshing, rather savory; second; Oct.
Gnoico. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:229, fig. 1869.
Italian, with the place of its origin in the old principality of Parma. Fruit below medium, long, obtuse-pyriform, whitish-gray on the shaded side, very clear dull green on the other face, dotted with russet, washed occasionally with fawn around the stalk and partially covered with a light bluish efflorescence; flesh greenish-white, fine, dense, breaking or semi-breaking, watery, almost exempt from grit; juice abundant and sugary, with a flavor of anis; Aug.
Goat-herd. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126:131. 1908.