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THE QUINCE 



By E. P. Powell 



THERE is no greater wonder in horticul- 

 ture than the neglect, so far, to lift the 

 quince out of the rank of cooking fruits. 

 It is good enough, to be sure, as a cooked 

 fruit, both for jellies' and marmalades, and for 

 mixing with sweet apples. It is still better as 

 a baked fruit, to be eaten, while hot, with 

 butter and sugar. This is a creation never 

 to be forgotten when once tasted. However, 

 we ought to be able to have varieties of 

 quinces fit to eat from hand. Mr. Burbank 

 has recently sent out a variety that he calls 

 the Pineapple, and which he claims is a good, 

 digestible and highly flavored dessert fruit. 

 It is said to be not quite hardy in the north- 

 ern States. It thrives well with me in Florida. 



The list of quinces which are thoroughly 

 hardy, that is, for ordinary winters, in the 

 northern States includes the Meech, the 

 Champion, the Rea, the Fuller, and the Van 

 Deman. The old Orange or Apple quince is, 

 however, the one generally planted, and it is 

 a grand quince yet. The Rea is a seedling of 

 Orange, averaging a good deal larger. The 

 Meech is a vigorous grower, and very popular 

 in the southern States — it is possibly a little 

 richer in quality than the preceding. Of the 

 foreign sorts the Bourgeat is the only one 

 worth planting. It is a noble fruit in size 

 and color and quality — bearing well at three 

 or four years of age. 



The quince is propagated from young 

 shoots, cut into six or eight inch lengths. 

 These are planted like grape cuttings or cur- 

 rant cuttings, and root very readily inside a 

 year. The cutting bed must be thoroughly 

 cleaned of weeds, and the soil must be pressed 

 down tightly. Root grafting is practised in 

 the nurseries, but is hardly worth the while. 

 Every abraided root will send out rootlets, 

 and soon make a young tree. The quince likes 

 clay soil, but will do fairly well in light soil ; 

 but it must be well drained in all cases. 

 Trimming a quince bush is necessary con- 

 stantly, or the strength will go very promptly 

 to suckers. Young bushes are much more 

 tender than older ones, and it will pay to pro- 

 tect them for two or three winters. I have 

 seen whole orchards destroyed by an extra 

 severe zero spell of weather. I lost every tree 

 in my orchard in 1895. Yet the quince is a 

 very profitable crop — provided always that 

 there is extra care of the trees. The most 

 serious danger is from a borer, almost or 

 quite identical with the apple tree borer. It 

 must be worked out with a flexible wire, and 

 coal ashes piled up about the tree. The fruit 

 is sometimes attacked by fungus enemies, 

 which can be controlled by Bordeaux mixture, 

 provided it is promptly applied. Scabby 

 quinces often appear in market, and they sig- 

 nify neglect in spraying. 



It must never be forgotten that the quince 

 is a bush, and not naturally a tree — although 

 it can be grown in the tree form. The diffi- 

 culty then is that the death of one trunk ruins 

 the whole thing ; but if you allow four to five 

 stems from the ground the quince bush is still 

 in good bearing condition after one of the 

 trunks is killed. The bearing propensity is 

 such that the bush form is also better. A 

 quince, well fed and well trained, will bear 

 enormous weights, liable to break down a 

 single stem. Keeping the quince is another 

 matter that should be noted. If laid away 

 carefully, without rubbing, in a dark cool 

 cellar, you may keep the Apple quince until 

 late in January. There are other varieties 

 which are said to keep considerably later; but 

 I have not tested that point. If marketed, 

 quinces should be very carefully handled, with- 

 out the least abrasion, and shipped in firm 

 baskets. If shipped in barrels, the fruit is 

 rubbed so badly that it does not look well to 

 the purchaser, and it will not keep. 



