THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
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high—the leave? (-middling) oblong-ovate, fatved-an- 
gulat.-d, and umbels of (weet-fcented flowers, pedun¬ 
culated or foot-(talked; fuccecded by ("mail roundilh 
Apples, ripe in September, &c.—Native of Virginia. 
(tiny common foil.) 
Varieties. —Common Deciduous S weet-fcented Crab. 
Ever-green Sweet-fcented Crab. 
4. Pyrus (Malus) £«r t Yz/«—Berried-Fruited Apple, 
commonly called Siberian Crab. 
A fmall deciduous tree, five or fix, to eight or ten 
feet high—the leaves (fmallijb, light-green) oblong 
andfawed; and crouded peduncles of whitifh flowers, 
uccccded by very fmall berry-like Apples, reddifh 
and yellow; Auguft and September.—Native of Sibe¬ 
ria and America. (Any common foil.) 
Variety. — Red American Crab—a very fmall, rcund- 
ifh, berry-like, deep-red Apple, thick¬ 
ly crouded on the branches. 
Thefe two laft fpecies and varieties of Apples, are 
cultivated principally for variety and curiofity, as be- 
foreobfervedrthe Sweet-fcented Virginia Crab is intro¬ 
duced in fhrubberies, &c. as a flowering-lhrub, and 
fometimes for its fruit, by way of variety, aforefaid; and 
occafionally ufed for flocks, on which to graft the other 
principal forts of Apples, in order to have them of 
moderate growth for efpaliers and fmall flandards; and 
the Siberian Crab is eligible to cultivate for its fruit, 
which both appear curious in its growth on the trees, 
and makes a pretty variety in a defert; comes early in 
autumn, and is agreeably flavoured; and the trees be¬ 
ing of fmall growth, are cultivated in dwarf-ftand- 
ards in borders and in pots; likewife occafionally in 
efpaliers and wall-trees, and is alfo fometimes planted 
in Ihrubberies. 
Thefe forts may be raifed from feed; but in order 
to have them continued more permanent in their re- 
fpeftive kinds, and to flower and bear fooner, it is 
advifeable to propagate them principally by grafting 
or inoculating them upon feedling-flocks of their own, 
or on the Paradife Apple, or Codlin; or may alfo be 
raifed by layers and cuttings. 
Quince Kinds, (Cydonia.) 
5. Pyrus Cydonia —(Cydonia) or Quince Tree. 
A moderate or fmall deciduous tree, growing twelve 
to fifteen or eighteen feet high, with very flender 
branches—the leaves (middling) ovate intire, fome- 
v/hat.downy, or hoary underneath; and rofaceous 
lowers produced fingiy at the fnks of the fmalier 
branches; fuccccded by large, rcundifh and oblong, 
yellow fruit; ripe in September and October _Native 
of Auflria, near the Danube, &c. (Moifl or anyjoii.) 
Varieties. —Apple-lhape Quince ; September and Oc¬ 
tober. 
Pear-lhape Quince ; September and Oc¬ 
tober. 
Portugal Quince— large, roundifh, and of 
fuperior quality ; September and October. 
Eatable Quince— the pidp foft and eatable ; 
September and Oiiober. 
Thefe fruit, when ripe, impart a ftrong, fragrant 
odour, but moflly hard and auftere; ufeful principally 
for kitchen purpofes, in baking, ftewing. Si c. and for 
making Marmalade and Quince Vine. 
The Quince Trees are raifed both by grafting and 
budding the defil ed varieties upon their own or p, ar 
flocks, and alfo by fuckers, layers, and cuttings of 
the young Ihoots; but thofe raifed by grafting°and 
budding will bear fooner than the others ; each method 
as hereafter explained. 
Thefe trees are alfo in much eflimation for flocks 
on which to graft ana bud Pears, to form trees of mode¬ 
rate grow th, efpecially for walls and efpaliers, and will 
generally bear fooner than rhofe on free or Pear flocks. 
Culture of the Fears and Apples. 
The Pear and Apple Trees, in their numerous re- 
fpeCtive varieties, being not only fpecies of the fame 
Genus or family, but alfo fimilar in their nature of 
growth, temperature, and mode of bearing, that one 
method of general culture is nearly applicable to the 
whole in their different flages of growth, fhall, there¬ 
fore, give the cflential directions for their cultivation 
under one principal head, relative to the methods 
of propagation, raiflng, planting, pruning, train¬ 
ing, Sec. both for flandard-trees, efpaliers, and wall- 
trees, with neceflary diftinftive intimations regard¬ 
ing the refpeCtive meats and other particulars relat¬ 
ing to the trees and fruit, See. of each of thefe two 
fpecies; and as they are cultivated in flandard-trees, 
generally for principal planting, to furnilh the mam 
l'upplies of fruit, and in efpalier and wall-trees, afore¬ 
faid, to obtain their refpe&ive fruits in a fuperior 
degree of maturity, fhall explain each method under 
its proper head. 
The trees rre raifed or propagated by grafting and 
budding the defired or intended forts upen flocks of 
their own kind; that is. Pears are grafted or inocu¬ 
lated upon any fort of feedling Pear flocks raifed from 
kernels of the fruit, and fometimes fuckers from 
the roots of Fear Trees; and both of which flock* 
being 
