Quinces were far more known and cultivated than apples for centuries, but they seem to be lost in obscurity nowadays. Let's learn about this once-popular fruit.

Do you want to go out to your backyard and grab fresh produce right off the branch? These beginner-friendly fruit trees are ...

As a child in West Virginia, James Kesler of Tree-Licious Orchards in Port Murray ate toast with his grandmother's quince jelly. Andre de Waal of Andre's Restaurant and Wine Boutique in Newton ...

It was not uncommon for a quince tree or two to be planted in the orchards and vegetable gardens of New England colonies. Today, quince paste is still popular in the Iberian peninsula and Spanish ...

Spanish padres planted a few quince trees at California missions, but cultivation took off only with the arrival of American nurserymen and farmers in the mid-19th century. The great plant breeder ...

Quince has long been grown in sunny Central California, but requires irrigation there, giving temperate Oregon the advantage. His trees have been easy to maintain, requiring a fungicide just once ...

Quince was once a familiar backyard harvest. Farmhouses across the nation practically required at least one of the long-lived trees because of quinces’ natural pectin, an important gelling ...

Quince season is short, from October into December, and crops are as small as demand. The tree thrives in hot, dry conditions and is not terribly cold tolerant. Sometimes the fruit is available ...

Still, it's not routinely available in every supermarket. I have a quince tree, accidentally planted too close to a voraciously growing shrub rose that practically chokes it to death every year ...

The ornamental pear tree on your street has browning shoots. The quince tree in your aunt’s backyard has a light tan ooze on its trunk. The common denominator is apples, pears and quince are ...