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that resemble small leaves finely denticulated on the edges & accented by a straight 

 midrib & several small lateral veins. They're oval and terminate in a point. 2°. Five large 

 petals fourteen lignes long, ten lignes wide, rounded at the tip, very concave, arranged 

 rose-like with a beautiful light pink tint on the outside edges and a light pale shade of the 

 same color on the inside. 3°. Fifteen to twenty pink stamens, six lignes long, that 

 terminate in yellow tips. 4°. A pistil consisting of an ovary that forms part of the calyx & 

 five yellow-green styles that are much shorter than the stamens & surmounted by 

 stigmata. The flowers of all of the quince trees are the same & differ only by size and the 

 shade of their color that's more or less intense. Those of the small-leaved quince tree are 

 twenty -two lignes in diameter. Their petals are a very light pale pink & the sections of the 

 calyx are proportionately much larger. The flowers of other quince trees are in between 

 these & those of the Portugal quince tree. 



Flowers of quince trees have no pedicel as such. In spring the fruit bud lengthens 

 & forms a branch that grows five or six leaves & a single flower at its tip. 



The leaves are large, alternate, smooth on the edges, light green on the inside, and 

 whitish & covered with thick fine down on the outside. The veins are thin & not very 

 prominent; the main one is tinged with red. The large leaves on the shoots are four-&-a- 

 half inches long and three-&-a-half inches wide; they have a shortened, almost oval 

 shape. The ones on the fruiting branches are more elongated, wide at the stalk, and 

 pointed at the tip. The large ones are four-&-a-half inches long by three inches wide. The 

 leaves of 



