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CHAPTER X. 



OF QUINCES. 



The best Sort for the Kitchen Garden. — Of their Propagatiuiif 

 Plantings and Pruning* — Of Bark-bound Treesy and of 

 those luhich have rough Bark, 



IHE Quince is called Cydonia, from Cydon, a 

 town of Crete famous for this fruit. 



It belongs to the fourth Order of the twelfth 

 Class of the Sexual System, Icosandria Pentagynia. 

 Linnaeus has joined it to the Apple and Pear, and 

 named it Pyrus Cydonia, 



This is a very beautiful tree when in flower, and 

 when the fruit is ripe in Autumn. It was culti- 

 vated in this country in Gerarde's time, 1597> but 

 probably much earlier. It is mentioned by Taper 

 in 1573. Husband, fol, 32. 



The best sort for planting in the Kitchen Garden 

 is the Portugal. Langley Pom, t 7-'^. f* 2. PoiU 

 et Turp, Fr, tab. 16. being the fittest for baking 

 or stewing. It is of a fine purple colour when 

 dressed, and is much better for Marmalade than 

 any of the other sorts. The oblong kind, and the 

 Apple Quince, are also planted in fruit-gardens ; 

 and there are several other sorts cultivated in the 

 nurseries about town, and planted in shrubberies 

 for variety and ornament. The Portugal sort is 



