The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . d finestquality. When it is brought to mind thata house of the dimensions given has andwill produce some thirty or forty bushelsof peaches, it seems strange that our mar-ket gardeners do not do likewise.— Gar-deners1 Chronicle. 326 The Horticulturist. THE QUINCE. Compared with the money returns de-rived from the sale of its fruit, the quincehas received less attention and less extend-ed cultivation than it deserves.* No fruit-tree can be more easily grown,none come into bearing as soon, none areless subject to blight or decaying inf
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . d finestquality. When it is brought to mind thata house of the dimensions given has andwill produce some thirty or forty bushelsof peaches, it seems strange that our mar-ket gardeners do not do likewise.— Gar-deners1 Chronicle. 326 The Horticulturist. THE QUINCE. Compared with the money returns de-rived from the sale of its fruit, the quincehas received less attention and less extend-ed cultivation than it deserves.* No fruit-tree can be more easily grown,none come into bearing as soon, none areless subject to blight or decaying influences,and, so far as we have observed, no fruitcrop pays as well, acre for acre, one year with another, as the quince. We haverepeated records of over eight hundreddollars worth of fruit being sold from anacre ; and as we write have before us onerecording two hundred baskets of fruit ashaving been gathered from an acre of treesonly four years planted. This last is cer-tainly a large yield, but the owner gave tothe land good, careful cultivation, and has. Fig. 98.—A2)ple-shaped Quince. realized full compensation therefor. Inour own grounds we have trees three yearsout, from which we this year have gatheredhalf a bushel of fruit that sold readily atfour dollars a bushel. The quince can begrown in almost any soil, and while it suc-ceeds admirably in deep, rich, moist, strongor rather heavy land, it also grows and fruits * Is it not a little remarkable that one of our bestpomologists and writers fails to name or describe thequince iu a late edition of his work? finely in light sandy soil, provided a plen-tiful supply of manure be applied trees can be purchased at almostany nursery, and it can be readily grownfrom cuttings in the ordinary way of all out-door hardy plants. The planter will , that the cheapest and best way isto buy good, strong, bushy plants aboutfour feet high, as such plants will return inthree years a crop sufficient to pay all past
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