38 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Ives is a grape that produces well, but the quality is 

 poor. 



I do not know but I might differ with Professor Maynard 

 in regard to manuring the grape. We have come to the 

 belief that it is not best to manure the grape very heavily 

 with nitrogenous manures, on account of the danger of 

 giving a too succulent growth and of being troubled with 

 anthrax, mildew, and the various trouliles that come in con- 

 sequence of a too rapid growth ; so that we have resorted 

 to the use of ashes, bones, and potash salts, with perhaps 

 sulphate of ammonia or something of that sort, to give a 

 moderate amount of nitrogen. But in manuring the grape 

 I think that green, unfermented manures should be avoided. 

 I agree most heartily with Professor Maynard in what he 

 has said in regard to applying manure in the autumn. I 

 think that is certainly the l)est time to make the application 

 of manure to any kind of fruit. 



With regard to the quince, Prof. Maynard spoke of the 

 probability that there would not be a very extensive demand 

 for this fruit. I think that is so, but I think the demand 

 should be greater, for of all fruits for canning the quince, 

 properly canned, is one of the very best, and I think it is 

 exceedingly healthful. If families would use ten quinces 

 where they do one, I think they W'Ould enjoy it and be the 

 better for it. A few years since I was in Newark, N. J., 

 and had an opportunity of calling on a gentleman there, 

 Mr. C F. Jones, who is an expert cultivator of the quince 

 and very successful. He has raised quinces very much 

 larger than any apples I see here, — so large that he has sold 

 them by count at six dollars a hundred. I asked him what 

 the variety was. He said, " The Orange Quince ; " but they 

 are different from any orange quinces that I ever saw. 

 There comes the point. Mr. Jones has been heroic, if I 

 may use that word, in the management of his quince trees. 

 In the first place, he prunes them very carefully, taking out 

 all dead and superfluous wood, and then in the fall of the 

 year he takes well-rotted manure and spreads it around his 

 trees, covering the "round a little farther than the l)ranches 

 extend. He puts on two inches deep of clear manure to lie 

 during the winter and then to be forked in in the spring. I 



