Quince cultureAn illustrated hand-book for the propagation and cultivation of the quince with descriptions of its varieties, insect enemies, diseases, and their remedies . e pear. Theapple bears comparatively worthless fruit, and thequinces are the most valuable of all in this instance.There are several courses to pursue, the best of whichcannot be foretold. If spraying is to be employed, itshould be upon all three kinds of trees—apple, pear andquince. If the axe is to be used, it should be laid atthe root of the apple tree. But if the apple tree is tobe saved, the fruit fallen from it should
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Quince cultureAn illustrated hand-book for the propagation and cultivation of the quince with descriptions of its varieties, insect enemies, diseases, and their remedies . e pear. Theapple bears comparatively worthless fruit, and thequinces are the most valuable of all in this instance.There are several courses to pursue, the best of whichcannot be foretold. If spraying is to be employed, itshould be upon all three kinds of trees—apple, pear andquince. If the axe is to be used, it should be laid atthe root of the apple tree. But if the apple tree is tobe saved, the fruit fallen from it should be removed anddestroyed. This, with faithful spraying, to be treatedof later, should save both the pears and the quinces. 154 QUIKCE CULTUEB. The Quii^CE Pale Rot {Phoma Cydonia, Sacc.).(?)—Next to the black rot the most prevalent decay of thequince is the one that may be well called the pale rot.This is a more rapidly growing fungus than the splice-ropsis, and may run through a large quince in a fewdays. It begins at any place upon the fruit, producingat first a pale sjDot, from which the skin may easily beremoved. The threads of the fungus soften the flesh of. Fig. 142. PALE ROT OF QUmCES. the quince more than those of the black rot, and theskin soon wrinkles, and at the same time is ruptured inmany i^laces, from which short tufts of threads develop.These small sx)ots, usually circular in outline, are atfirst colorless, but soon turn to a handsome shade ofpale blue. A fruit with these numerous spots, or broad-faced pimples, is shown in Fig. 142. As the days pass, there is a spore cavity formed below the surface of eachspot, and from this the spores finally issue in a thread FUNGI INJURIOUS TO THE QUINCE. 155 of slime throngli tlie ruptured center of the spot. Tliere luis been a fungus found in Europe upon thequince, which, from its description, may be the onehere under consideration. It was not met with uponthe stems associated with the rot in question, and asaccess is not