QUINCES 

 IT. L. BROWN, WATEEPORT, ORLEANS COUNTY, N. Y. 



The first considerations in growing and 

 cultivating the quince should be soil and 

 location. Both are very important. Select 

 a high, well-drained clay loam with especi- 

 ally good air drainage, for the quince is very 

 tender in bud and Vossom, hence very sus- 

 ceptible to late spring frosts. 



VARIETIES 



There are a number of varieties of the 

 quince, but as a commercial proposition we 

 consider but one worth mentioning the Orange. 



DISTANCE IN PLANTING 



Almost all quince trees have been planted too close. From 

 twelve to fifteen feet is recommended by nearly all nurserymen, 

 but we consider eighteen by twenty, or twenty by twenty, to be 

 most suitable. 



CULTIVATION 



We prefer clean cultivation, but are frequently forced to the 

 sod mulch owing to the great susceptibility of the quince to fire 

 blight. This blight takes two forms that of the twig and that 

 affecting the body. Sometimes it will confine itself to the twigs 

 exclusively; then again it will strike to the big wood and de- 

 stroy the entire tree in a short time. 



FERTILIZATION 



There is nothing better for the quince than annual dressings 

 of stable manure, but in the absence, of this we use potash, 

 phosphoric acid and nitrate of soda as follows: Phosphoric acid, 

 from 500 to 700 pounds per acre every year on mature trees ; 

 nitrate of soda, from 200 to 300 pounds per acre if the trees appear 

 to need it; muriate of potash in the same amounts and under the 



same conditions as nitrate. 



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