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trees are on the quince ; and my best fruit also. Those who would 

 successfully cultivate these must pay attention to the following rules: 



1. Have a good, substantial, rather deep soil, with porous or 

 drained subsoil. 



2. Select the good Angers, or Orleans quince, for stock, 



3. Plant no other varieties than those which succeed on the 

 quince. 



4. Plant the trees deep enough, so that the place where they have 

 been budded shall be at least three inches below the surface of the 

 soil. 



5. Keep the weeds down. 



6. Keep the branches low, and make a pyramidal tree, by judi- 

 cious pruning once or twice a year. If well pruned, the tree requires 

 no pinching. 



Much has been said about the short-living of the quince stock. 

 If properly planted in genial soil, which is not exhausted or impov- 

 erished by intervening field crops without a reasonable supply of 

 manure, as most of our apple orchards are ; the quince-grafted tree 

 will thrive for fifty years or more. Some actual facts will prove 

 what I state. Hon. M. P. Wilder has in his garden, in Dorchester, 

 trees which he bought from the widow of Mr. Parmentier, Long 

 Island, some twenty years ago. They have yielded fine crops almost 

 every year; and there is no reason to anticipate a diminution of 

 growth or crops. These trees are on the quince, but they have been 

 planted by a man who knows how to manage trees. 



In the same garden are some fine Urbaniste trees, — a part on the 

 pear, and a part on the quince, — planted in the same spot, in the 

 same year. Those on pear roots, are now beginning to bear some 

 spare fruits, while the others, on quince, have yielded bushels of 

 fruit for the last seven years, and are actually loaded with a splen- 

 did crop. All are equally healthy. 



He who wants large crops of pears, indifferent in size or quality, 

 may plant all his trees on the pear stock; but he has to wait from 

 ten to fifteen years. If you want large, fine fruit, which, in fact, 

 pays better, with less trouble and expense, select your varieties on 

 the quince. These will often bear the first year, and always the 

 third or fourth from their planting. If I had thirty trees to plant, 

 twenty should be on the quince, the balance on pear stock. 



Some varieties will not grow upon the quince, but even these do 



