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in the size and fleshiness of their fruit. The common infe- 

 rior-fruiting kinds are often used as stocks for dwarfing pear- 

 trees, but a free-growing variety, known as the Angers Quince, 

 and some others of similar habit, are greatly superior for this 

 purpose. The Japan Quince is an ornamental shrub bearing 

 a small green fragrant, but otherwise useless fruit. 



Most of them may be raised from seed, and all are readily 

 increased from offshoots, or by hill or common layering, or by 

 cuttings planted in the fall or early spring and mulched. 



The Apple Quince, Fig. 292 a, is a fine golden-colored fruit 

 of rich appearance and superior quality. 



Fig. 292, a. 



Apple Quince. 



The Pear Quince, Fig. 292 b, though by no means equal to 

 the former, is extensively raised for market, and is a fruit of 

 fair quality, less tender in cooking than the former, and by no 

 means equal to it, but both are valuable and profitable. 



