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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 

 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 

 species C. Maulei, there was greater promise 

 than in the case of the other flowering quinces. 

 This subspecies is a more abundant bearer than 

 the others, and its fruit is of less objectionable 

 quality. 



The uncrossed specimens of this 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 

 multiplied readily by division; that is, from 

 rooted suckers, which spring up from the parent 

 plant. The flowers, which are usually borne 

 in abundance, are of a bright orange-scarlet. 

 There are races of the subspecies that have 



