1871 



THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



301 



"I send you by mail today a specimen of 'Dommesta 

 of Bessarabia.' The cions were received from the 

 Department of Agriculture two years ago and top- 

 grafted. They made a slow growth but I never saw 

 such bearers. Some of the cions not more than 

 six inches long would have a half dozen apples, and 



those of twelve 'to twenty inches had frequently a 

 dozen or more specimens, all very nearly of uni- 

 form size, varying a trifle largei or smaller than 

 the one I send you" 



D. W. Adams. 



THE 

 The Angers and Orange Qalnces. 



Br F. R. Elliott, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Ed. PoMOLOGiST AND GARDENER : — In your Oc- 

 tober number of Pmnologist I note an article from 

 the Rural New Torker, on the Angers and Orange 

 Quinces. 



It was of old time a received impression that the 

 Angers was only valuable for stocks on which to 

 ■work the pear, but the proof of a good thing is in 

 its net worth, as an orchard on my own grounds 

 of the Orange and Angers alternate, show accord- 

 ing to samples I send you this day by express. By 

 them I think you will find the Angers is of an 

 equal size to the orange, and of as good color, but 

 it — the tree — has a more vigorous early growth, and 

 it does not as early come into bearing. The talk 

 that the orange has many varieties is simple absur- 

 dity. Seedlings have of course been grown of it, 

 resulting in anything but the true thing, and al- 



ANGERS QUINCE. 



though I do not wish to touch the honor or knowl- 

 edge of any man, yet I must say that for years 

 growers and dealers sold orange quince seedlings as 

 the true Orange quince. Hence comes the remark 

 in your item from the Rural New Torker — " that 

 some are nearly globular, others are pyriform, 

 etc.," — all of which is bosh, and expression want- 

 ing in knowledge. Another point relative is the 

 item — "that the Angers is less liable to attacks of 

 quince curculio, owing to its hard surface and 

 woolly covering," — all of which is nonsense, and 

 untruthful— as you perhaps can see by the samples 

 sent herewith. 



Apple Snow. — Pare and core twelve apples, 

 steam until tender, set the apples aside to cool, 

 then pour over them a whip made of the whites of 

 three eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Serve with 

 sugar and cream flaypred with extract vanilla. 



