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recommend that you get a tree or two of this variety, 

 if you can find them. Quinces that are in no way 

 cracked or bruised can be stored in a cold cellar and 

 kept until February. Among the sorts highly rec- 

 ommended are Meech and Champion. Mr. Bur- 

 bank has recently originated a sort that can be 

 eaten out of the hand. He has named it the Pine- 

 apple. There is no doubt but that the quince will, 

 after a while, be so improved as to class with pear 

 and apple as a dessert fruit. 



Whether you are creating a quiet home or a mar- 

 ket garden, you will want to possess a couple of 

 mulberries, a couple of persimmons, and two or 

 three pawpaw trees. The best mulberry is the 

 Abundance; the best persimmon you will have to 

 get by grafting ; and the best pawpaws you can only 

 secure either by digging them from the river bot- 

 toms, or by buying very small trees of one or two 

 nurserymen, who have admitted them to their 

 catalogues. Unfortunately, no American nursery- 

 man has yet taken up very seriously the improve- 

 ment of the American persimmon, while the Japan- 

 ese varieties are not hardy north of the Ohio River. 

 We ought to be able to create as grand fruits as the 

 Japanese, and will, in due time. Mr. Munson, of 



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