LUTHER BURBANK 
established varieties, the flowers ranging in color 
from pure white to bright scarlet and deep crim- 
son. Some of them are double. The tree is raised 
for ornament only. The bushes are aflame with 
leaf buds early in the spring. A little later they 
light the landscape with their gorgeous array of 
deep crimson, scarlet, pink, and yellowish or white 
blossoms. Again, late in the autumn, they are 
brilliant with bronzed leaves, and present fruits 
of curious and interesting forms. 
This, obviously, is a very different tree from 
the common quince. It seems so distinct that I 
have never attempted to hybridize the two. But 
I have crossed the various Japanese quinces among 
themselves. 
The crossbred seedlings vary widely in foliage, 
blossom and fruit. Some of the fruit produced 
was as large as ordinary apples, and of varying 
shape. Where experiments were made with the 
sub-species C. maulei, there was greater promise 
than in the case of the other flowering quinces. 
This sub-species is a more abundant bearer than 
the others, and its fruit is of less objectionable 
quality. 
The uncrossed specimens of this sub-species are 
low, spiny shrubs, not more than two or three feet 
high, with short, stiff, spiny branches, which are 
often woolly when young. The bushes are multi- 
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