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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Making our own pectin

Those are quinces, too.  The genus is Chaenomeles.  Most of the ones sold for landscape set very few fruits, but in other parts of the world they are prized for fruit for jelly and juice.  Hector Black's Hidden Springs Nursery has selections of Japanese quince that are good fruit producers.  I have some seedlings of some Lithuanian material that makes a very low bush with lots of small fruits.  They cook down very well, but keep the hatchet sharp to cut them when raw - they are hard little buggers.
    The other quinces are genus Cydonia.  I have a collection of varieties and of those, Smyrna is the best of the commercially available types I've tried.  Hidden Springs has a good collection of quinces, too.
-Lon Rombough
    
> From: Art Petrzelka <art@complum.com>
> Reply-To: art@complum.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 08:13:41 -0500
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>, "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Making our own pectin

> Another good reason to buy a fruit I've never seen. 
>
> We have a bush which we've always called a firebush that is, as far as I can 
> tell, a Japanese quince. But I see few fruits on it, mostly when they are dry 
> and about an inch in diameter. The quinces that I see in the catalogs appear 
> larger and grow on small trees?
>
> On Saturday 31 May 2003 09:05, Lon J. Rombough wrote:
> > For really high pectin production, try quinces.  I've soaked about a dozen
>
> -- 
> Art Petrzelka
> Amana, Iowa 
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