LUTHER BURBANK 
as an apple, having completely dropped the objec- 
tionable habit of producing wool on the skin. The 
tree is vigorous; it grows in fine form; and it is an 
early and astonishingly prolific bearer. 
The fruit has the cooking qualities of the Pine- 
apple quince, and is superior for drying and can- 
ning, and quite unrivaled except by the Pineapple 
for the making of jelly. 
TESTING REMOTER COUSINSHIPS 
It goes almost without saying that I did not 
carry the work with the quince far before I under- 
took to introduce new blood from more remote 
sources. 
All the varieties hitherto named are descend- 
ants of European stock, and are of the same spe- 
cies. But the quince, like the other orchard fruits, 
has Oriental representatives,—races that migrated 
eastward from their Central Asiatic home while 
the parents of the European quince were migrat- 
ing westward. In China and Japan there are 
quinces that are listed as belonging to three dif- 
ferent species, named Cydonia sinensis C. japon- 
ica, and C. maulei. All of these are quite different 
from the European quince as to growth, foliage, 
and fruit. 
As early as 1884 I began making hybridizing 
tests with these Oriental quinces. 
Particular interest attaches to the experiments 
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