Cydonia vulgaris.

Varieties: - Common; Apple-shaped; Pear-shaped; and Portugal. The last is the best, and very distinct from the others. C. sinensis, the Chinese Quince, has been fruited in this country, but it requires a wall. The fruit is very different from that of either the common or Portugal quinces; it is cylindrical, about six inches in length, and exceedingly gritty.

Method Of Propagation And General Culture

The trees may be raised from seed sown in autumn, but there is no certainty of having the same or any good fruit from seedlings. But the several varieties may be propagated by cuttings and layers; also by suckers from such trees as grow upon their own roots, and by grafting and budding upon their own or pear-stocks.

The propagation by cuttings, layers, and suckers, may be performed in autumn, winter, or early spring.

Choose young wood for the cuttings and layers. They will be rooted by next autumn; then transplant into nursery rows two feet asunder; plant the suckers also at the same distance, and train the whole for the purposes intended; if for standards with a stem, to any desired height, from three to six feet; then encourage them to branch out at top, to form a head; and those designed as dwarfs must be headed near the ground, and trained accordingly, for espaliers or dwarf standards.

When they have formed tolerable heads, plant them out finally. Standard quinces, designed as fruit trees, may be stationed in the garden or orchard and some by the sides of any water in by places, suffering the whole to take their own natural growth. And as espaliers they may be arranged with other moderate growing trees, about fifteen feet apart. - Abercrombie.