QUINCE.-CYDONIA. 



In Botany, a Genus of the Icosandria Pen- 

 tagynia Class. 



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 versd ; 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 Claudian apple/' 



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