James Grieve (apple) were delivered to the city markets via train or horse-and-cart, but because they bruised easily they had to be carefully packed in laundry-type wicker baskets filled with straw. The fruit cannot sustain modern supermarket handling, and so they are now only grown in gardens and for direct sale to consumers. Nonetheless, James Grieve is considered a good apple because it is exceptionally tasty, it produces fruit every year, it is disease-resistant, and it is a good polleniser for other apples. It may drop early in warm weather. It is also a good apple for making apple juice. James Grieve (apple)
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,