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ancc, its nobler qualities make it a favorite whenever grown. Its 

 reputation has sometimes suffered by being confounded wnh the 

 Beurre d'Aremberg, a very inferior and dissimilar variety. I 

 have often received it from France under the latter name. The 

 d'Aremberg is feeble and tender in growth; shoots starting at 

 acute angles from the stem, growing upright, of a light reddish 

 tinge, and on the Quince, the growth is still poorer, and the union 

 imperfect and feeble. Its fruit is of pyramidal shape, stem short, 

 stout, fleshy, a little curved, size seldom half that of the Glout 

 Morceau. Color quite yellow, even while hard and on the tree. 

 But the Glout Morceau is in every particular dissimilar, but in 

 no respect more so than in the growth and vigor of the tree, which 

 is a very vigorous grower, making a handsome pyramid : and though 

 said to be somew^hat subject to the blight, has not proved so on the 

 quince stock. The wood is of a light brown, clouded with a gray- 

 ish tinge. It is not very prolific, while young, but quite so, when 

 more advanced, the fruit being uniformly of good size. It is pecu- 

 liarly adapted to the Quince, the growth being equal to that on 

 the Pear, and the fruit much improved. The fruit is of a deep 

 pea-green, until it matures, when it becomes of a greenish yellow, 

 with patches of brown russet. The fruit has a rich, sugary per- 

 fumed flavor, is melting and buttery, and keeps late, flesh colorless 

 and fine-grained. 



In the fall of 1857, I saw in the garden of Mr. Van Dine, at 

 Cambridge, Mass., a tree of this variety, on which, it was estimated, 

 were growing from eighty to one hundred dozen of fine pears, such 

 as Mr. Van Dine had for several years sold in Boston for two and 

 three dollars per dozen. The tree is very tardy in bearing; and 

 is, therefore, one of those varieties for which the quince-stock is 

 peculiarly valuable. 



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