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greeks knew a common variety, upon which they grafted scions of a better variety, which they obtained from cydon in crete, from which place the fruit derived its name of cydonia, of which the english name quince is a corruption. botanically, the plant used to be called pyrus cydonia, but modern botanists
being adapted from the french coin, whence middle english coin, quin, the plural quins, becoming corrupted to the singular quince. the quinces differ from the pyrus genus in the twisted manner in which the petals are arranged in the bud and in the many-celled ovary, in which the numerous ovules are...
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