30 QUINCE CULTURE. 
Society, and from that Society received its name. The 
description of the tree is, that it is a healthy and vigor- 
ous grower, very productive, and a regular bearer; that 
‘‘when planted at one year old, and well handled, it 
will bear in five years,” and ‘‘after it comes well into 
Fig. 10.—MIssOURI MAMMOTH. 
bearing the yield is from one to two bushels per tree.” 
‘The fruit, which ‘‘ripens about the time of the Orange, 
is very large, pyriform in shape, and very rich and 
aromatic.” The stem is set in a broad basin, and the 
cup of the blossom end is deeply corrugated. 
11. Musk or PINEAPPLE QuiINcE.—This is an old 
