From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] flowering quince with fruit
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:00:54 -0500
My grandmother, back in AL, had a number of old 'flowering quince' shrubs, as
foundation plantings, that fruited regularly.
I had a couple of old flowering quince bushes here until a few years
ago, when I dug them out (and what a job THAT was!). They'd clearly been
here a long, long time. They bloomed very nicely, but I only rarely saw
any fruit. Well, I didn't pay much attention back then, but I only saw
two or three fruit over a matter of years.
Of course, I don't know what variety they were. And I didn't manage them
for fruit, either.
This house was built in 1906, and all of the vegetation planted here
when I bought it seemed pretty old-fashioned to me: spirea, lilacs,
forsythia, flowering quince, rhubarb, yews, irises, day lilies. (I don't
know if these necessarily ARE old-fashioned. It just seemed that way to
me. Certainly, they required almost no care at all.) At this point, I've
gotten rid of everything but the yews, the rhubarb, and the irises, in
order to plant fruit trees.
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