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QUINCE. CYDONIA. 



Natural order, Pomacea. A genus of the Icosandria 

 Pentagynia class. 



THE Greeks called this fruit MjXea KuSawa, and the 

 Latins Cydonia Mains , from Cydon in Crete, now called 

 Candia. Cato called it Cotonea, from the down which 

 covers the fruit, and which Fuchsius tells us was called 

 Cotton. The Spaniards call it Marmello, from whence we 

 derive the name of Marmalade. The English name of 

 Quince seems to be a compound of the French Going, and 

 the German Quittenbaum. 



Linnaeus has joined this genus, as well as the apple, to 

 the pear, while Miller separates it on this account: he 

 says, " the pear will take upon the quince by grafting or 

 budding, and so vice versa; but neither of these will take 

 upon the apple, nor that upon either of these." But we 

 have a particular account transmitted to us by Pliny, that 

 quinces were grafted upon apple-stocks in his time (book 

 xv. chap. 14): he says, "as for the quince-apples that 

 come of a quince grafted upon an apple-stock, they are 

 called Appiana, after Appius, who was of the Claudian 

 house, and who first devised and practised this mode of 

 grafting : these apples," continues he, " have the smell of 

 the quince, are of a red colour, and the size of the Clau- 

 dian apple." 



The Quince is a fruit that the ancients held in high 

 estimation : they considered it as the emblem of happi- 



