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and a great bearer in alternate years, and by many preferred 

 to any other apple, — while by others it is called worthless. 

 Were you not mistaken in saying you had a supply of fruit 

 from Northern New York ? That is not a region that ex- 

 ports much fruit. Were they not from Vermont ? More 

 than six thousand barrels were sent from this, the smallest 

 county on the lake shore, to Boston and Worcester, and 

 probably from other counties quite as many. The valley of 

 Lake Champlain is, perhaps, more certain of a crop of apples, 

 than any other place in the United States. If you wish, I 

 will give you a short article on the subject, for your maga- 

 zine." Yours truly, C. Goodrich. 



We certainly hope our correspondent will send us the arti- 

 cle he alludes to. It would be valuable to all northern cul- 

 tivators. — Ed. 



Art. III. How to Prune the Quince Tree. By Mr. R. 

 Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard and Kitchen 

 Garden Department of the London Horticultural Society. 

 From the Gardener's Chronicle. 



Few fruit trees are more sadly mismanaged and neglected in 

 their cultivation, than the quince. Naturally tenacious of 

 life, and easily kept in tolerable vigor in almost any situa- 

 tion, except one perfectly dry, it is generally considered as a 

 tree which either does not need any great care, — that its 

 fruit, at the best, is of no great value, — or, that it will 

 grow and thrive, without the ordinary labor attendant upon 

 other fruits. Flourishing, to a certain degree, in very wet 

 localities, where other trees would scarcely keep alive, the 

 quince has so long been cultivated in such places, that it has 

 almost become a " fixed fact," to use a modern expression, 

 that it will not succeed elsewhere ; and the first question 

 generally asked, by those who are purchasing quince trees, 



