Green Yair. 3. Hogg Fruit. Man. 589. 1884.
An old Scotch pear raised at Yair on the Tweed, Peeblesshire. Fruit below medium, obovate, smooth, dark green changing to yellow, patched and dotted with russet; flesh tender, juicy, sugary; good; Sept.
Grégoire Bordillon. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:237, fig. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 178. 1920.
Raised by Leroy in 1855 from seed of Graslin, and fruited for the first time in 1866. Fruit large, ovate, rather larger on one side than the other, pale yellow on shaded side and dark yellow on the exposed cheek, mottled, striped, and dotted with brown; flesh yellowish, fine, very melting, very juicy and sugary; first; Aug.
Grey Good-Wife. 1. Mawe-Abercrombie Univ. Gard. Bot. 1778.
Fruit medium, globular, brown-red, moderately tender and of good flavor; Oct. to Dec.
Grise-Bonne. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:245. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:238, fig. 1869.
Französische Gute Graue Sommerbirne. 3. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:16. 1856.
The Dutch pomologist Pierre Van den Hoven writing in the middle of the eighteenth century affirmed that the Grise-Bonne was the Sucrée Grise de Hollandaise and the Pirum Falernum of the Romans. It may be noted that in 1586 Jacques Daléchamp thought he had found the Falernum in the French Autumn Bergamote; and, again, in 1783 Henri Manger declared it to be still cultivated under the name Bourdon, the Orange Musquée; similarly Sickler wrote in 1802 that the Bergamote d’Été appeared to him to be the Falernum. Fruit medium; form variable, sometimes irregular-turbinate, long and ventriculous, at other times regular-turbinate, clear green, russeted with gray, clouded with pale yellow on the shaded side and covered with large dots of golden or orange-yellow; flesh white, fine, dense, semi-breaking, watery, free from grit; juice very abundant, sugary, acidulous, musky; second; Aug.