. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 20'i8 New York Qumce plantation carefully. It usually pays to grade the fruit, which may be shipped according to quality in peck or 15-pound grape baskets, in bushel kegs, half barrels or barrels. The finer grades are ordinarily marketed with greatest profit in the smaller packages. Quinces are propagated in fo
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 20'i8 New York Qumce plantation carefully. It usually pays to grade the fruit, which may be shipped according to quality in peck or 15-pound grape baskets, in bushel kegs, half barrels or barrels. The finer grades are ordinarily marketed with greatest profit in the smaller packages. Quinces are propagated in four ways: (1) cuttings QUISQUALIS of the ripened wood and also from pieces of roots treated like cuttings; (2) mound layers; (3) root-grafting; (4) budding. Hardwood cuttings are employed by nurserymen who have light, warm soils. Tliey are handled like grape euttings, and made like eiirrant cuttings. In niMund - layering the old plant is ,-ut back to ei ir:(^r a L' of sprouts from the' .'rown. A mound ol -nl is aliout them. Wlieu ,1 they are diiicli .1. I .a> .riirown plants are not tiie desirable l> nuieli given to sprouting when si_t in tlie orchard. WIumi root-grafting is employed, pieces of apple roots are spliced to the cions. These roots assist the cuttings in becoming established, and often one or two years, or perhaps not till prepared for orchard setting. Quince stock is used when trees are propagated bv budding. Angeis is commonly grown from seed for tliis purpose. jqhj, ckaig. QUINCE, BENGAL. See ^o'e- QUININE. See Cinfha,âi. QUINOA. See Chi-nopodium Quinm. Catching the curculio in a New York Quince orchard. QUISQUALIS (name discussed below). Cnmhr,l-i,;;r. whu/ what! and was -i^ ment at the plant's behav and shrub-like to a heigh -cornered, tndica, L -J iius of 4 species native to tropical ! :^ i:,i and Guinea. Lvs. mostly or ovate, acuminate, en- I, white to red; stamens 10; ">iil'- . I: fr. dry, oblong, leather
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