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Quince Culture. 



IIG. Will yuu tell nic all about the Koil. 

 clirriate, culturwand i>rf.fitH <if quinceH ? Which 

 variety pays best ?- ThhoI'HILLs Tyehuhht. 



^^UINCES are easily grown, and when 



planted upon suitable soil and properly 



cultivated are fairly proBtable. Like 



gang of pickers at the job with 

 sharp spades. It can be done quickly, 

 and if properly done, is quite effectual. 



low enough a price. 80 many line 



young trees are destroyed by tieldj^ 



mice every winter, when the wflow is 



deep, that we welcome any device which 



will protect and save this loss. Our 



own custom is to bank up all young 



trees throughout our orchards with fj||(^-^,ost other fruits, howeve.-, the market 



earth, first, of course, clearing away p,ice of late has considerably declined. 



all rubbish, grass, and suckers from the So,„e years ago the writer received an 



trees. This we do immediately after average price of 75c. to $1.(0 per 



the apple harvest is over, setting thetw|lve qt. basket, but now-a-days the 



jOflPl^lS^al price is from 40 to 60c. per basket. 

 Yet even these prices pay the grower. 



The soil best suited for the quince 

 is a rich, mellow, deep soil, well en- 

 riched. A good deal of difference of 

 opinion e.xists legarding the best mode 

 of cultivation, some advising ploughing 

 and working up the soil, and others not 

 Ceitainly deep ploughing would be 

 injurious, as the roots grow very near 

 tlie surface ; but having tried the effect 

 of growing quince trees in grass, with 

 heavy mulching of coal ashes, straw 

 and manure, and also of cultivation 

 with manure and wood ashes, we must 

 give the result as favorable to the 

 latter, both as regards size and quality 

 of the fruit. 



Our soil at Maplehuist is a sandy 

 loam, inclining to moist, but well 

 drained ; perhaps in other soil the 

 mulching might have the best results. 

 Mr. Chas. Jones, of Newark, N. J., 

 writes in the Rural Nev Yorker that 

 he leaves the ground undisturbed, ex- 

 cept to keep down weeds, and mulches 

 heavily with salt hay in early summer, 

 and gives a dressing of barnyard n)an- 

 ure in the autumn. He states that he 

 gathers an average of over 400 quinces, 

 but he does not say anytliing to indi- 

 cate their size. 



Keane's Seedling Apple. 



115. you will find come to you two apples 

 mailed with this. They are seedlings. The 

 tree is now, i)erhaps, near twenty, or about 

 twenty years old. It has borne a crop of such 

 ap|)les for about nine years — cveri) year. Last 

 year was the off year, and it bore about two 

 bushels, one-third, or I mi^ht say tiricr as large 

 as these I send you. This year it bore twice 

 as many as it should have been permitted to 

 carry - the branch s bending to the ground all 

 round, which has greatly lessened the size of 

 the apple. I send it to you so you may judge 

 of the quality, which I think is first-class. A 

 few words in the Deceinber No. of the HoK- 

 TicuLTURiST will be enough. The tree grows 

 about four miles north of Orillia town, on 

 the farm of Mi. .Tames Keine, Iwinp lot No. 3 

 in the 8th concession of the townshiixif North 

 Orillia, coimty of Simcoe. It is a chance seed- 

 ling.— T. WlLLl.-VMS, Orilfi'i, Out., Oct. nth. 



At first sight this apple has much 

 the general appearance of Gravenstein, 

 but is below average size, and strikes ii.s 

 favorably as a commendable autumn 

 desert apple. It is below medium 

 size, of even form, roundish oblate, 

 with closed caly.x in a corrugated 

 basin. The skin is shaded, splashed and 

 striped with bright crimson, which is 

 deepest on the sunny side. The Hesh 

 is white, crisp, tine grained, juicy, and 

 of a rich, aromatic flavor. Since writ- 

 ing the above we have had a sketch of 

 this apple prepared especially for this 

 journal by Miss Evy Smitii, of St. 

 Catharines, and which we now present 

 in this number. It gives a very truth- 

 ful representation of the apple. 



