[Sca-cooks] quinces

[Stefan li Rous]

Baron Akim commented:
>>There may be a taste difference, but I wasn't being
>>scientific enough to discover it.  I would be interested in purchasing
>>quinces from Ms. Malone, so please contact me with price info.  Thanks!
>
> No matter which variety you plant, it takes 8-10 years for a quince to
> reliably produce a marketable quantity of fruit, so (unless Ms Malone planted them some years ago) you are going to have a long wait and pricing now will not be very useful.  The Japanese shrub also will not produce fruit for many years and then very unreliably.  Unless you want a lot of decorative hedging, don't bother planting them for fruit.

So, are you planting quince trees at your Cumberland Centre? That is
a long time affair.

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