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vomiting, &c. ; and a syrup made of the juice may be taken to strengthen the 
stomach. Quince wine is made with sugar and water, in a similar manner as 
other fruit wines. The fruit should first he deprived of their cores, (as the seeds 
impart an unpleasant flavour to the wine,) then mashed or ground to a pulp, 
and mixed in equal proportions, by measure, with water. After standing from 
twenty-foui to thirty-six hours, separate the juice from the pulp by straining; 
add to each gallon of the liquid three pounds and a quarter of muscovado 
sugar, and put it up in air-tight casks, and let it remain until the March or April 
following. Then, rack it off; cleanse the cask of sediment; put back the liquor 
again ; and a year after bottle it up. It will be greatly improved by age, and is 
much esteemed by asthmatic persons. The rind of the quince imparts to wool a 
yellowish-brown ; and, when mixed with the salts of iron, it gives a blackish- 
green. A mucilage prepared from the seeds of this fruit was formerly much in 
use, but is now supplanted by the simple gums. 
Independently altogether of its value as a fruit-tree, or of the young plants foi 
stocks, the quince richly deserves a place in ornamental plantations, on account 
of the velvety surface of its leaves, its fine, large, pale-pink flowers, and, above 
all, its splendid golden fruit, which, when ripe on the tree, reminds us of the 
orange groves of Italy and of the torrid zone, and may very well justify the con- 
jecture that it was the true " golden apple" of the Hesperides. 
