. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). THE QUI MCE IN WESTERN NEW UINCES are more largely grown in western New York than elsewhere in the Union. The industry- has grown up slowly and quietly, and has not attracted general attention, yet, in its way, it is one of the important agricul- tural interests of the state. Quince growing can never assume the proportions of other orchard industries, because of the limited demand for the fruit ; and for this reason, also, the most careful attenti
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). THE QUI MCE IN WESTERN NEW UINCES are more largely grown in western New York than elsewhere in the Union. The industry- has grown up slowly and quietly, and has not attracted general attention, yet, in its way, it is one of the important agricul- tural interests of the state. Quince growing can never assume the proportions of other orchard industries, because of the limited demand for the fruit ; and for this reason, also, the most careful attention must be given to marketing the crop and to reducing the injuries from a number of insect and fungous enemies. The crop has much in its favor; the trees are almost sure to bear nearly every year if they receive good care, and they are so small that spraying and thinning can be practiced with ease ; there are no climatic difficulties to be overcome, and the fruit is not perishable. Added to this is the sentimental interest which attaches to the crop, for the quince tree, both in flower and fruit, is the hand- somest fruit tree of temperate climates. The large flowers are borne upon the extremities of leafy shoots of the season, and they therefore appear after the leaves are grown and they clothe the whole exterior of the tree with a mantle of snowy whiteness at a time when the bloom of springtime already begins to wane. The golden fruits are all in sight, hanging upon the ends of the twigs, and they are more showy than oranges. It is easy to accept the supposition that the quince was the golden apple of the Hesperides of the early Greek writers. The quince plantations of western New York range in size from a few square rods to several acres in extent; and the famous or- chard of T. C- Maxwell and Bros, at Geneva, comprises about thirty acres. In general, the larger or more important plantations are well cared for ; and yet there are certain directions in which the treatment of
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