] QUINCES.The environs of Corinth originally produced the most beautiful quinces, but the plant was subsequently introduced into Gaul with the most perfect success.

Quinces may be profitably cultivated in this country as a variety with other fruit-trees, and may be planted in espaliers or as standards.

A very fine-flavoured marmalade may be prepared from quinces, and a small portion of quince in apple pie much improves its flavour.

The French use quinces for flavouring many sauces.

So it went on for a year or two, till, one fall, I was stayin' here to your ma's,Cornele, I guess you remember the time,helpin' of her make up her quinces and apples.

The wild quinces, with their white blossoms mingling with those of the cherry and the light green of the maples, larches, elms, birches, and limes; the bright fields above, and the ever-lovely river below; with the massive crags and a babbling waterfall, rendered this part especiallyas well as several others in a lesser degreeenchanting.

"The first act is laid in a quince plantation, and the quinces of the chorus are discovered at curtain rise picking the luscious fruit.

"As I say, we lemons are picking quinces or we quinces are picking lemons, any way you want to take it, and after finishing the opening chorus we rush up stage, open center, and in comes the prima donna in a pony carta stone boat would suit her better, but that is neither here nor theresee pony cart, chance for number by pony ballet, with six trained doughnutsyou see that's where the title of the play is introduced.

"As I say, we lemons are picking quinces or we quinces are picking lemons, any way you want to take it, and after finishing the opening chorus we rush up stage, open center, and in comes the prima donna in a pony carta stone boat would suit her better, but that is neither here nor theresee pony cart, chance for number by pony ballet, with six trained doughnutsyou see that's where the title of the play is introduced.

I was glad enough to get out of the sun when Grace led the way into a walk of medlar-trees and quinces, where the boughs interlaced and formed an alley to a brick summer-house.

The like may be said of preserved cherries, plums, marmalade of plums, quinces, &c., but not to drink after them.

It is made of sugar, as that of quinces.

The latter stands in a large garden, celebrated for its quinces and apricots.

Then I remembered how I'd been to his place in Berkshire,a rich old farm, with an orchard that smelled like the Spice Islands in the geography, with apples and pears and quinces and peaches and cherries and plums,and how Stephen's mother, Aunt Emeline, had been as kind to me as one's own mother could be.

There he is, our brave companion, between two rascally looking policemen, yellow as quinces.

Here are oranges, lemons, citrons, nectarines, apricots, peaches, plums, cherries, figs, loquats, grenadillos, quinces, pears, apples, mulberries, pomegranates, grapes, olives, raspberries, strawberries, bananas, guavas, pineapples, and English and Cape gooseberries and currants.

The stock of the crab-apple can be made to bear quinces, and a mango tree that is scarcely worth the ground it occupies, can be made to yield fruit which will fetch four annas a piece!

He sat cross-legged on the ice chest and ate slowly for a time, then remarked, "You didn't put up these quinces, Mamma.

Had lots of peaches, and plums, and quincesdo you know what quinces are?and danvils (these danvil plums you know).

" A little later he grafted quinces on pear and apple stocks; also he grafted "Spanish pairs," "Butter pears," "Bergamy Pears," "Newtown Pippins," "43 of the Maryland Red Strick," etc., and transplanted thirty-five young crab scions.

To make Quince Cream:Take quinces, scald them till they are soft; pare them, and mash the clear part of them, and pulp it through a sieve; take an equal weight of quince, and double-refin'd sugar beaten and sifted, and the whites of eggs, and beat it till it is as white as snow, then put it in dishes.

He invariably returned her presents by giving her a share of his plums and quinces.

"Some of Abram's quinces?" "Best you ever tasted, since you were born.

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