QUINCE TREE. 



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lar to that already detailed, when treatin* of peach 

 trees, that it is thought unnecessary to say any thing 

 more. 



QUINCE TREE. 



The quince may he propagated by layers and cutting?. 

 (See layers and cuttings.) It may also be propagated 

 by budding or grafting. Quince trees flourish best, and 

 are more productive in a moist soil, though the fruit 

 from those set in dry situations, is said to possess a finer 

 flavor. It requires but very little pruning; the most 

 important part of their management consists in clearing 

 their stenis from suckers, and in cutting off such branch- 

 es as interfere with each other. All luxurient shoots 

 that strike up from the middle of the tree, must be lop- 

 ped off, 10 prevent the head from being too much crowd- 

 ed with wood, which might impede the growth of the 

 fruit. If the tree becomes diseased or rotten, the dead 

 parts should be cut away, and the composition applied, 

 as in appie trees. We aie advised to plant them at a 

 good distance from apple and pear trees, lest the fari- 

 na become mixed, and the fruits degenerate. 



Method of forcing Fruit Trees to blossom andhear Fruit. 



With a sharp knife, cut a ring round the limb or small 

 branch which you wish shouid bear, near the stem or 

 large bough where it is joined ; let this ring or cut pen- 

 etrate to the wood. A quarter of an incli from this cut, 

 make a second like the first, encircling the branch like 

 a ring a quarter of an inch broad between the two cuts. 

 The bark, between these two cuts, must be removed, 

 clean down to the wood ; even the fine inner bark, 

 which iies immediately upon the wood, must be scraped 

 away, until the bare nuked wood appears, white and 

 smooth, so that no connexion whatever remains betweea 

 the two parts of the bark. This barking, or girdling, 

 must be made at the precise time when, in all naiure, 

 the buds are strongly swelling, or about breaking out 

 into blossoms. In the same year a callus is iormcd at 

 the edges of the ring, on both sides, and the connexion 

 of the bark is again restored, without any detriment to 

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