Volume 25 Number 4 Article 3 Pages: 77-80
Year 1971 Month 10
Title: Quince Cultivars from Western Turkey
Author: J.T. Sykes
Citation
Abstract:
Although still grown to a limited
extent in some western and southern
European countries, quince growing
has suffered a steady decline in North
America since the early years of this
century.
In his book 'Quince Culture'
Meech (2) records 15 cultivars known
in 1888 when quinces were grown in
plantations, especially in the New
England states.
Attractive quince
fruits do not have the flavour and texture
qualities of modern pear and
apple cultivars.
Coupled with susceptibility
to many diseases, this has contributed
towards the demise in popularity
of this fruit in North America.
Nowadays, the quince is important
mainly because of its wide-spread use
as a dwarfing rootstock for pears.
Quince A, a clone selected at East
MaIling from the French Angers
quince, is commonly used for this purpose.
Improved clones have also recently
been selected by Broissier (1)
at the Angers Plant Research Station
in France from a collection of over
300 quince clones obtained from different
areas in southern Europe.
Such
a large collection emphasises the current
interest of French horticulturists
in the quince.
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