THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Our seedling Oenesee has sustained itself well ; the crop this season was the best on 

 our grounds. We know of no other variety that shows better in the bed ; the fruit is 

 so uniform, of a fine, clear, red color, and stands well up. It must become a valuable 

 market sort, deficient in fine flavor. 



Moirroe Scarlet and Orange Prolific are both valuable seedlings of ours, great bearers 

 and hardy. Our neighbors, Messrs. Bissell & Hooker, have also some seedlings that 

 promise well. ° 



We imported, last season, some six or eight famous new English sorts, but none of them 

 have yet produced a crop to judge from or pass an opinion upon, except the Bicton Pine 

 This IS a large, beautiful, high flavored berry, exceedingly fragrant ; white, slightly tinged 

 witli rose. It bears well, and is really a novel and interesting acquisition. 



If we live till next year, we hope to be able to record successful results from Walker's 

 Seedlun,, Moyamensing, McAvoy's No. 1 and No. 12, Schneike's Hermaphrodite, and 

 many other native and foreign sorts that we shall have in a full bearino- state. 



THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF QUINCE. 



BY B. DESPORTEZ, OF ANGERS, FRANCE. 



The Angers quince. (Coignassier d' Angers,) Fig. 1. — The nurseries of Angers have 



for nearly a century, 

 been the most extensive 

 in France, and perhaps 

 even on the whole con- 

 tinent. This branch of 

 industry (which covers 

 in the establishment of 

 M. Le Roy, alone near- 

 ly 200 acres of land, 

 and occupies 100 to 

 125 workmen, accord- 

 ing to the season,) has 

 by its intelligent labors 

 produced some races of 

 plants peculiar to the 

 nurseries of this region. 

 The most important of 

 these without doubt, 

 and that which has 

 contributed largely to 

 the prosperity of this 

 horticultural town, is 

 the Angers Quince. It 

 has been said that this 

 species was created ex- 

 pressly to receive the 

 grafts of the pear. It 

 is so extensively propa- 

 -^. gated, that all the coun- 



ANGER8 QUINCE. Flff. 1. f j j- ■ i 



. *= try around tor a consid- 



erable distance is covered by nurseries occupied in greater part with tbis quince. It is 

 not difl^icuit to manage in regard to soil, and grows so rapidly that if planted in the 



