The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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orchard should be cultivated and manured until the tree produces quinces so 

 large that about sixty of them would fill a bushel basket. Such quinces would 

 always command a ready sale in our markets, while the little scrubs we often see 

 will go begging anywhere. 



Again, the pruning of the quince is shamefully neglected by most people and 

 a more unsightly mass of suckers and matted branches can scarcely be imagined 

 than the quince tree will produce when neglected. The whole work, if done 

 annually, can be performed with a good pruning knife. The tree form is un- 

 doubtedly the best, having branches quite near the ground. Every spring the 



Fi(i. 25.— Quince Tree After Pruning. 



new wood should be cut back, leaving only some four or five buds, and the old 

 wood should be thinned out as seems necessary. We give our readers two 

 illustrations from Orchard and Garden ; Fig. 24 being a sample of a quince 

 tree before pruning, and Fig. 25, the same after pruning. It will be evident to 

 any one that a tree left without this treatment would bear more fruit than 

 could be brought to perfection, and much strength would also be lost in sup- 

 porting useless wood. 



