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"Pat Gardiner" writes:
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| I have now identified, the ones we had years ago, pretty certainly as
| Chaenomeles japonica. It was as bushes under a south facing window. It was
| pruned very sharply and only one year produced fruit. We shall have to see
| how it does under a high north facing wall.
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| That fruit made a very good jelly of a very similar flavour to Meeches or
| Serbian Quinces.
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| That is what baffled me. It is unusual for the fruits of totally different
| species taste so similar.
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| Does anyone know why?

They're not actually that different?

Seriously. They are closer to each other than quinces are to pears,
and a LOT close than either are to apples.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.