32 QUINCE CULTURE. 



The quality is excellent. When cooked the flesh turns 

 purple or crimson. The color of this variety is a very 

 bright yellow. The reason it is so little cultivated is 

 that it is so shy a bearer. 



14. REA'S SEEDLING, or REA'S MAMMOTH, was raised 



by Joseph Rea, of Coxsac- 

 kie, Greene County, N. Y. 

 It is believed to be a seed- 

 ling of the Orange, though 

 in shape it is obscure pyri- 

 form. It ripens later than 

 the Orange, and keeps 

 very well after ripening. 

 The flavor is excellent. 

 It has attained a weight 

 of twenty-two ounces in 



To attain full size the tree 

 needs high culture with good thinning. But for the 

 tenderness of the trees in some localities, this variety 

 must have reached a much wider dissemination. 



15. THE SWEET QUINCE. This variety is so named 

 because the fruit is mildly acid and not very astringent. 

 The tree is a good grower and bears abundantly. T. B. 

 Jenkins, of Oh amber sbnrg, Penn., says this variety was 

 raised from seed about 1830, and has been a regular 

 bearer. The fruit is described as being medium to 

 large, roundish oblate, and somewhat ribbed ; color yel- 

 low, but not so bright as the Orange. The stem is set 

 in a broad, dull brown, and rough, knob-like projection, 

 while the calyx has large, long segments, set in a deep 

 basin much corrugated. The flesh is firm and of a deep 

 yellow, coarse grained, a little tough, and not very juicy. 



