Ashmead's Kernel Ashmead's Kernel Ashmead's Kernel is a triploid cultivar of apple. Traditionally Ashmead's Kernel was thought to be diploid but a poor pollinator. Ashmead's Kernel is often reported as having been raised by Dr Ashmead in Gloucester, England in the 18th century. However Christine Leighton of the Gloucestershire Orchard Group suggests that the originator may have been William Ashmead, a lawyer who died in 1782. This dessert apple is of medium size, on average 83mm in diameter on vigorous rootstock and has a flat round shape. The base colour of the apple is greenish yellow, yet has a dull russet colour
James Grieve (Australian translator) at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is also a member of the Emeritus Faculty (ANU), where he serves as the Obituaries Wallah. James Grieve (Australian translator) James Grieve (born 1934) is an Australian translator of French literature and an author. His translations have included scientific works, books for children and two volumes of Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" (ANU, 1982 and Penguin, London, 2002). Grieve's translated second part of Proust's 7-part "Remembrance of Things Past" is the first completely new English translation since the 1920s. There were six other translators working on the other parts,