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The quince tree at The Farm is the first time I have come across this ancient fruit. This is not the flowering quince, Chaenomeles japonica, widely grown as a wall shrub for its decorative spring flowers.  We are talking about Cydonia oblonga grown for its fragrant fruit, which like medlars must be bletted, or left to almost rot,Continue reading “Velour”