Cornell University, Ithaca, Dec. 12, 1894. 



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The Honorable Commissioner of Agriculture, Albany. 



Sir : Quince growing is an important industry in the counties 

 of Ontario, Monroe, Orleans and Niagara, and, to a less extent, 

 in other parts of western New York. It is an interest which 

 merits even greater attention than it receives, but there is very 

 little literature upon the subject. I have therefore prepared a re- 

 port upon its present condition in the Fifth Judicial Department, 

 and upon certain investigations and experiments which we have 

 made upon the quince. This report I submit as a bulletin in ac- 

 cordance with Section 87, Chapter 675, of the laws of 1894. 



L. H. Bailey. 



