QUINCE – Various shrubs grown for fruit or ornament or both. The common quince (Cydonia oblonga, but formerly in-cluded with apples and pears as Pyrus cyclonic’) is a wide-spreading shrub or small crooked tree of slow growth. It thrives best in deep, heavy, moist, not over-rich soil, where, however, the fruit produced is dull greenish-yellow […]
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Agave (century plant). These plants are natives of the Western Hemisphere and belong in a separate family, the Agavaceae. The common name, century plant, refers to the tardy bloom of Agave americana, but that they bloom only when a hundred years old is fallacious. It is said that they flower when six years old in […]
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