LUTHER BURBANK 
site characters. Seedlings having small, knotted, 
twisted wood; slender, small, sharp buds; long 
joints; woolly, wild-looking leaves, and irregular 
rambling tendency of growth should be rejected, 
as they will rarely produce fruit of any value. 
There are notable exceptions to these rules of 
correlation between twig and foliage and fruit- 
quality, but, as a rule, the qualities just noted may 
be depended upon to serve as useful guides. 
My second important new quince was grown 
as a seedling from Rae’s Mammoth. It was, I am 
confident, a third generation seedling of a cross 
between Rae’s Mammoth and the Portugal 
quinces. Its immediate pollenate parentage is not 
a matter of record, as a great number of cross- 
bred guinces were under observation at the same 
time, and specific record was kept only of the 
first pollenations. 
This offspring of Rae’s Mammoth was at first 
called the Santa Rosa, but was subsequently re- 
christened by the introducer as the Child’s quince. 
It is remarkable for its great size and productive- 
ness, for beauty of form, and for its pale lemon 
yellow or almost white skin; also for the tender 
flesh and delicious flavor of its fruit, and the di- 
minutive size of the core. 
So fine-grained and tender is the fruit, and so 
free from the harsh acidity of the old quince, that 
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