The Child's Quince.

Manawatu Herald, 18 July 1896, Page 3

The Child's Quince.

This remarkable new fruit is a great improvement over all varieties of Quince thus far introduced (says the Mayjioviet .) The fruit grows to an enormous stea, larger than the largest apples, in shape nearly round, resembling an apple very much, with smooth skin. It is of very mild, pleasant flavour* so much so that when ripe it is delicious to eat raw from the hand. For cooking it is superb \ its flesh is so tender that it will bake or stew as readily as an apple, and in le3s time. The tree is a large, rank, luxuriant grower with heavy foliage and bears enormously, beginning while standing in the nursery rows and only a few feet in height. It originated with Mr Luther Burbank, who writes of it : " Two-year-old trees of the Child's Quince are now bending almost to the ground with their fruit which hang almost from the soil up the stems to the very top. Some of these trees are only three and onehalf feet high. I doubt if you realise what a grand fruit it is. It is the earliest Quince to ripen, earliest to bear, productive to my astonishment every season, smooth, handsome, lemon -yellow fruit, very largo, and cooks in five minutes."