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to lie fome time to become foft for eating; 

 and to forward them to that flate, it is proper 

 to lay fome in moiil bran every week or fort- 

 night, wherein they will fooner acquire a 

 proper raellownefs for eating. 



CL U I N C E. 



QUINCES are large yellow fruit, re- 

 ^wfembling pears and apples, and of a 

 remarkably high fragrance; elleemed princi- 

 pally for making marmalade, and to llice into 

 apple-pies, &c. to heighten the relifh and 

 flavour, being too hard, four and aultere, to 

 eat raw : and for which occafions a few trees 

 merit culture, are of moderate growth, and 

 are commonly raifed in fmall Itandards, and 

 occafionally in efpaliers. Produce the fruit 

 chiefly on fmall natural fpurs, emitted from 

 the fides and ends of the branches : grows to 

 a large fize, pear and apple ihaped, ripening 

 in September and Oilober, of a golden yellow 

 colour, confifling of the following varieties : 



Pear-fhaped Quince I Portugal Quince 

 /^pple-ftiaped ditto | Eatable Quince, 



Any, or fome of each of thefe varieties may 

 be cultivated. The trees of all the forts are 

 hardy, to grow freely in any common foil of 

 a garden or orchard, Sec, They delight in 

 moiil places, near the fides of waier, and are 

 therefore often planted by the fides of ponds 



and 



