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This prevents the rapid spread of the disease and aids in cutting it out 

 when it gets a foothold. The pyramidal form may also be modified to 

 carry out this plan. Prevention is better than fighting. — W. B. Wait, 

 in Denver Field and Farm Fruit Growers' Journal. 



GEOWmG QUmCES. 



Quinces do not, as a rule, do w^ell everywhere; but there are very 

 few places where they will not fruit. They occupy but little room and 

 their fruit is always in demand. It is especially fine when canned. 



The peculiar flavor of the fruit is strong enough to flavor many times 

 its own weight of other fruit preserves when used for that purpose. 



The quince and the asparagus plant enjoy the peculiarity of being 

 able to assimilate more salt than any other two members of the vegetable 

 family thus far brought under cultivation. If manure from the pig sty 

 is used about quince tree-s they seem to do very well, but one of the best 

 fertilizers that I have seen is common salt, about one quart for each tree, 

 worked well into the soil. They need fertilizing every year. They 

 should also be pruned. — Ira Graber, in Farm, Field and Fireside. 



PEUOTITG QUmCE TREES. 



I have a one-year-old Meech quince orchard, I did not trim it when 

 I set it out last spring. The trees have sent out long, spindling branches. 

 How shall I trim it and when? Shall I cut it back pretty well so as to 

 insure shapely trees, or must I only thin out and remove dead branches ? 

 I want to do the best thing for the future welfare of my orchard. — A. 

 A. T., Glendola, K J. 



The long straggling branches of the quince trees should be headed 

 back to such distance as will insure moderately compact heads to the 

 trees. About March or April will be a suitable time to do the work. 

 The quince does not make a tall, stately tree, but is more bush-like than 

 most fruit trees, and is, in many cases, diflicult to train into satisfactory 

 form. Quince curculios are so abundant in many sections, that it is 

 necessary to jar the trees as plum trees are jarred, in order to catch them. 



