Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . hairs, 454 CVDONIA becoming nearly smooth by autumn ; margin regularly and minutely saw-toothed, teeth gland-tipped. Flowers solitary from the buds of the year-oldshoots, or on short spurs, stalklcss, soft carmine, i to li ins. across, petalsoblong. Fruit egg-shaped, pale citron-yellow when ripe, 5 to 7 inso long. Native of China ; introduced to England in the last decade of theeighteenth century, but afterwards quite lost to cultivation. Reintroducedfrom Italy in 1898. It succeeds very well on a south wall, and bears fruitswhich, however, do not
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . hairs, 454 CVDONIA becoming nearly smooth by autumn ; margin regularly and minutely saw-toothed, teeth gland-tipped. Flowers solitary from the buds of the year-oldshoots, or on short spurs, stalklcss, soft carmine, i to li ins. across, petalsoblong. Fruit egg-shaped, pale citron-yellow when ripe, 5 to 7 inso long. Native of China ; introduced to England in the last decade of theeighteenth century, but afterwards quite lost to cultivation. Reintroducedfrom Italy in 1898. It succeeds very well on a south wall, and bears fruitswhich, however, do not ripen or become so large as one sees them on theItalian Riviera, where the tree is much cultivated. In the open it is not quitesatisfactory, and suffers in severe winters. This is due no doubt to lack ofsummer sun, for I saw it a few years ago in the \^ienna Botanic Garden 15 more high in perfect vigour, and the winter cold there is greater than flowers in April and May. It should be raised from seeds, obtainable fromS. Cydonia vulgaris. C. VULGARIS, Persoon. COMMON QuiNCE. A deciduous, thornless tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, with crowded branches and alow quaint habit ; young branchlets covered with greyish wool. Leaves ovateor elliptical, 2i to 4 ins. long, i^ to 2J ins. wide, not toothed, dark greenabove, pale with a dense felt of grey wool beneath, especially when young ;stipules hairy, glandular. Flowers 2 ins. across, pink or white, each onesolitary at the end of a short twig, produced during May. Fruit light goldenyellow, pear-shaped, very fragrant. Syn. Pyrus Cydonia, Lin7iceus, Van Portuguese Quince.—Naturally a more vigorous varietythan the type, this is not quite so hardy in Britain. The fruit is 4 ins. long,3i ins. wide at the thickest part, tapering thence to the stalk ; skin deepyellow covered with grey down. Flowers large, pale rose, and produced insufficient abundance to make this variety the best worth growing for ornament. V^ar
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