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Next in size after these are the fruit called by us "cotonea," [Note] by the Greeks "Cydonia," [Note] and first introduced
from the island of Crete. These fruit bend the branches with their weight, and so tend to impede the growth of the parent tree. The varieties are numerous. The chrysomelum [Note] is marked with indentations down it, and has a colour inclining to gold; the one that is known as the "Italian" quince, is of a paler complexion, and has a most exquisite smell: the quinces of Neapolis, too, are held in high esteem. The smaller varieties of the quince which are known as the "struthea," [Note] have a more pungent smell, but ripen later than the others; that called the "musteum," [Note] ripens the soonest of all. The cotoneum engrafted [Note] on the strutheum, has produced a peculiar variety, known as the "Mulvianum," the only one of them all that is eaten raw. [Note] At the present day all these varieties are kept shut up in the antechambers of great men, [Note] where they receive the visits of their courtiers; they are hung, too, upon the statues [Note] that pass the night with us in our chambers.
There is a small wild [Note] quince also, the smell of which, next to that of the strutheum, is the most powerful; it grows in the hedges.
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