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 QUINCE. This is an old 



