‘| practice is a very erroneous one. 
16) QUINCUNX. 
The quince is, in all its varieties, unfit for eat- 
ing raw. It is, however, much esteemed when 
cooked. For preserving, it is everywhere valued, 
_ and an excellent marmalade is also made from it. 
Stewed, it is very frequently used, to communi- 
cate additional flavour and piguancy to apple- 
tarts, pies, or other pastry. In England, wine is 
frequently made from the fruit, by adding sugar 
and water, as in other fruit wines; and it is a 
popular notion there, that it has a most beneficial 
effect upon asthmatic patients. Dried quinces 
are excellent. 
The quince is easily propagated from seed, 
layers, or cuttings. From seeds the quince is 
somewhat lable to vary in its seedlings, some- 
_ times proving the apple-shaped and sometimes 
the pear-shaped variety. Cuttings, planted in a 
shaded situation, early in the spring, root very 
easily, and this is perhaps the simplest and best 
way of continuing a good variety. The better 
sorts are also frequently budded on common seed- 
ling quince stocks, or on the common thorn. 
Quince stocks are extensively used in engrafting 
or budding the pear, when it is wished to render 
that tree dwarf in its habit. 
The quince grows naturally in rather moist 
soil, by the side of rivulets and streams of water. 
Hence it is a common idea that it should always 
be planted in some damp neglected part of the 
garden, where it usually receives little care, and 
the fruit is often knotty and inferior. This 
: No tree is 
| more benefited by manuring than the quince. 
In a rich, mellow, deep soil, even if quite dry, it 
grows with thrice its usual vigour, and bears 
abundant crops of large and fair fruit. It should, 
therefore, be planted in deep and good soil, kept 
in constant cultivation, and it should have a top- 
dressing of manure, every season, when fair and 
abundant crops are desired. As to pruning, or 
_ other care, it requires very little indeed —an 
occasional thinning out of crowding or decayed 
branches, being quite sufficient. Thinning the 
fruit, when there is. an over-crop, improves the 
size of the remainder. Ten feet apart is a suit- 
able distance at which to plant this tree. 
QUINCUNX. A disposition of four trees at 
| the corners of a square, and one in the middle 
of it. This disposition, often repeated, forms a 
regular grove, which, when viewed from any 
angle of the aggregate square or parallelogram, 
is seen to have equal parallel alleys. See the 
articles ORCHARD and PLANTATION. 
QUININE. See Peruvian Bark. 
QUINOA. See Goosrroor. 
QUINSY. A disease in hogs similar to strangles 
in horses. It comprises sore throat, enlargement 
of the glands of the throat, and inflammation of 
the cellular substance between the skin and 
muscles beneath the lower jaw. It progresses ra- 
pidly, and causes so great a swelling as to impede 
breathing and threaten suffocation ; yet when 
timeously and promptly treated, it is seldom 
QUITTOR. 
dangerous. The proper remedies are bleeding 
and a good dose of Epsom salt, followed by a 
small dose every six hours, and the occasional 
offer of some weak warm washy food, till the 
bowels become freely opened. 
QUISQUALIS. A genus of ornamental, tro- 
pical, climbing plants, of the combretum family. 
The Indian species, Y. trdica, was introduced to 
the stoves of Britain in 1815; and is eminently 
beautiful. It attains a height of about 20 feet, 
and blooms m constant beauty and profusion 
from the beginning of April till the middle of 
October, and enlivens the whole stove with the 
delicious fragrance and the varying hues of its 
bunches of changeable orange and ruby-coloured 
flowers. It is easily propagated and cultivated. 
Two other species, the smooth and the pubescent, 
were introduced in the same year, and attain 
the same height; and all the three love a soil of 
loamy peat, and are propagated from cuttings. 
QUITCH. See Agrostis. 
QUIT-RENT, in law. A small rent that is pay- 
able by the tenants of most manors, whereby the 
tenant goes quit and free from all other services. 
Anciently this payment was called white-rent, be- 
cause it was paid in silver coin, and to distinguish 
it from rent-corn. 
QUITTOR. A fistulous sore in the coronet of 
the horse’s foot, generally on the inside, or ap- 
pearing from within at or near the junction of 
the skin and hoof. It is caused sometimes by 
direct injuries to the coronet, as by treads, abra- 
sions, and over-reaches, — but more commonly 
by punctures, bruises, lacerations, pricks in shoe- 
ing, or neglected corns in the lower part of the 
foot,—giving rise to suppurative inflammation. 
The pus, finding no outlet through the insensible 
and unabsorbable horn, works its way upward, 
and discharges itself at the coronet. The ulcer- 
ation has only a small opening; but, except in 
slight cases, it may be ascertained by the probe 
to extend and ramify through a considerable 
amount of sinuses; and if allowed to proceed 
without proper treatment, it effects an extensive 
separation of the wall of the foot from the sen- 
sible parts, and sets up inflammation in the side 
cartilages, and even communicates disease to the 
bones. In all bad cases, the services of an ex- 
perienced and scientific practitioner are indis- 
pensable; and, in any cases, however slight, the 
blind and butcherly behaviour of those pretenders 
who wantonly wield the knife or the red-hot 
iron against masses of healthy parts as well as of 
destroyed ones, ought to be avoided and ab- 
horred. “The ordinary mode of cure,” says Mr. 
Percivall, “ consists in the introduction of caustic 
into the sinus; and so long as the cartilage 
preserves its integrity, or is free from caries, this 
is perhaps the most prompt and effectual mode 
of proceeding. The farrier’s practice is to mix 
about half a drachm of corrosive sublimate in 
powder with twice or thrice the quantity of 
flour, and make them into a paste with water 
