THE JAPAN QUINCE. 



Pyms Japonim. 



PPLES and pears and quinces are 

 fully as interesting as things of 

 beauty as they are as things to 

 eat. But as ornamental trees it 

 may be said their time has not 

 yet come. Only the advanced 

 horticulturist is aware of the 

 exceeding beauty of 2Ialas pori- 

 btinda and Pi/rus spectabilis, and 

 we may venture to say there are 

 dozens of trees of the same 

 natural order equally hardy, 

 equally beautiful, and equally 

 unknown, though destined, we 

 hope, to find a home ere long 

 in many an English garden. 

 The commonest of our orchard 

 fruits are so beautiful when 

 in flower, and also up to the 

 time when the fruit is ripe, that we may very well 

 excuse those who declare themselves content with the 

 beauty of trees that are of undoubted usefulness, and 

 which by their usefulness afford much gratification to 

 the eyes of their possessors. Of the many ornamental 

 species of pyrus that are known, the one before us is 



