quince

1) Used here of the tree, one of several experimental plantings by the Cholmeleys in the seventeenth century.

1621 William Oliver brought me ... Also a white great quenshe tree, Brandsby. An earlier reference to quincetree is given under ‘set’.

places Brandsby
dates 1621

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