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discovered and destroyed. The bush form is the most 

 natural to this fruit, and if when trained to the tree 

 form suckers are not cut away as they come out, it will 

 soon take the bush form, and it may be grown in this 

 form with less labor, while if borers get in between 

 the trunks it is more difficult to get at them. If, how- 

 ever, one trunk should be killed there will be others to 



Fig. 56— Low=Branching Quince Tree 



take the growth of the root and the tree is continued. 

 A low-branching five-year-old quince tree is seen in 

 Figure 56. 



Distance for Planting — Ten by ten or 12x12 feet 

 are good distances, according to the soil. The roots of 

 the quince are very fine and numerous and consequently 

 it is easily planted. No fruit responds more quickly to 



