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CARE OP QUINCE 
As the tree grows older, the branches from the central part of the 
tree should be cut out each spring. The quince will come into bearing 
the second year, and the top should be pruned to make it open and spread- 
ing, so that the fruit can be picked from the ground. If the new growth 
is very heavy shorten a part of it; do not cut it all back, because the fruit 
is borne on the j'oung shoots which grow on the one-year-old switches, 
and if all of this one-year growth were cut back, there would be no fruit. 
The crop can be thinned and controlled largely by pruning, and in this 
respect the pruning of the quince resembles that of the peach. Spray the 
same as for pear. Blight sometimes affects the quince, but seldom in- 
jures more than the twigs, and by removing the diseased twigs and treat- 
ing the wounds as described under pear blight it can readily be con- 
trolled. 
Commercial Peach Orchards 
Commercial Peach Growing. 
Note the low spreading head in the above peach tree, as trained in the 
orchard of the late Mr. J. H.'Hale. South Glastonbury, Conn. AH thejfrult'can 
be picked uithout the use of a step-ladder. Peaches must be picked as soon as 
they are ready to ship. Larfie commercial uroivers are planting a succession 
of varieties. Including early, medium and late, so as to make the harvest 
cover^a longer season and enable them to handle a big acreage with a com- 
paratively small force. 
Young J. H. Hale peach orchard, with an intercrop of cantaloupes, grown 
by Roland Morrill, ol Benton Harbor. Michigan. 
