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QUINCE CULTURE. 



manure. The following spring and summer lie waters 

 well with rich liquid manure, especially if the weather be 

 dry; and besides, gives an annual dressing of lime. As a 

 result of this treatment his trees make short, stiff wood, 

 well supplied with fruit buds. He thins out the small 

 and poor fruit, and then allows the trees to bear full 



Fig. 46. FIVE TEAR OLD TREE BEFORE PRUNING (From Photograph). 



crops. The pruning is done every second year, widening 

 the circle of roots at each successive priming. 



The unproductive tree is sometimes brought into bear- 

 ing by being transplanted. The check to growth stops 

 the leaves from consuming the nutriment accumulated 

 in the branches, and which they would have expended in 

 making more wood, and so nutritious matter accumulates 

 and fruit-buds are formed. The same principle is seen 

 to operate in the abundant crops that follow the years 



