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or Baisseiise (" Noire des Vosges ") are extremely plentiful in 
the Vosges district. The last-named variety is so called on 
account of the way its branches droop. A combination of the 
two fruits produces a first-class Kirsch. At Bains (Vosges) an 
orchard of 27 ares, containing 24 trees, all forty years old, pro- 
duced, in 1891, 800 francs' worth of Kirsch. 
It is estimated that a wild Cherry tree, twenty to thirty years 
old, will produce 30 to 60 kilos, of fruit, valued at 25 to 40 francs 
per 100 kilos., but the price drops to 25 francs during years of 
great abundance. 
Gathering the fruit costs 2 francs 25 cents, to 3 francs 25 
cents, per 100 kilos., according to the fertility of the trees. The 
picking, though done at intervals, does not last for more than 
about ten to twelve days. 
The Franche-Comte alone produces annually 12,000 hecto- 
litres of Kirsch or Cherry. 
It takes 17^ lbs. of Cherries to make one litre of Kirsch 
according to the usual receipt. 
The Quince (Cydonia). 
Packed in an ordinary basket, with grass or a sheet of rough 
paper. Quinces can be sent direct from the orchard to the shop, 
to undergo the economical, medicinal, or culinary treatment for 
which they are destined. 
Although the Quince is not a fruit for direct consumption, 
they are sent to market for supplying small establishments and 
households for occasional use in the kitchen, or for preserv- 
ing, &c. 
The Quince tree, being of a straggling growth, is often 
planted by the waterside. However, when well trimmed and 
grown with a tall stem, it may be cultivated in lines in a garden, 
or dotted about at intervals among the trees of an orchard, or 
even in the hedge-rows. 
Its thick downy foliage, large flowers, and fruits which hang 
so long on the branches, have a very decorative effect, like that of 
the Lemon tree at Mentone. 
In the Horault district I have seen numerous plantations of 
the dc Portufjal variety of Quince. The proprietors cultivate 
them for their own personal use, and sell what is over to the 
