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mouth, yielding a copious aromatick juice. The 

 tree grows to a moderate height." 



29. Winter baking pear. This fruit abounds in 

 Massachusetts, and is much valued as a baking 

 pear. It is not eatable in a raw state, not being 

 juicy or well flavoured. It keeps well through the 

 winter, and the flesh, on being baked, turns to a 

 fine red colour. The tree is not large, but seldom 

 fails of affording an annual crop of fruit. 



30. Winter good Christian. The fruit is very 

 large ; the flesh is tender and breaking, and is very 

 full of a rich sugared juice. The fruit is in eating 

 from March to June. 



31. Winter thorn (Epine d'hiver) " In size 

 and shape is similar to many kinds of egg-pears. 

 Its peel is at first whitish grav, and turns yellow 

 when ripening on the floor. The pulp is mellow, 

 sweet, and of a delicious aromatick taste. This 

 pear is fit to be eaten in November, and remains 

 sound till the end of January. The tree vegetates 

 with great luxuriance." 



QUINCE TREE. 







THE quince may be propagated by layers, or 

 young sprouts, which must be covered in the earth, 

 or by cuttings taken from the tree in April, and set 

 into the ground at proper distances, where they will 

 take root the first season, and they may be trans- 

 planted at pleasure to the place of their ultimate 

 destination. This tree may also be propagated by 

 budding or grafting; and, according to Mr. For- 

 syth, trees thus obtained will bear sooner and be 

 more fruitful than those reared by any other me- 

 thod. Quince trees flourish best, and are more 

 productive in a moist soil, though the fruit from 

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