Chaenomeles laganaria aka Cydonia lagenaria Common Flowering Quince     Broad-spreading shrub with many thorny branches and dark, glossy green leaves. 8 feet White to pink to deep red, apple-like flowers Early spring just before or with the leaves. The new leaves are reddish-bronze when they first appear in the spring.       The fruit is a hard, sour, yellowish-green quince about 2½ inches in diameter. It contains pectin and can be used in making jellies.     'Candicans' - Flowers are creamy-yellow with a pinkish tinge about 1½ inches in diameter. 'Knap Hill Scarlet' - Flowers are scarlet, about 1½ inches in diameter. It is a low, horizontal-growing type. 'Marmorata' - Coral flowers are about 1¾ inches in diameter. 'Nivalis' - White flowers are approximately 1¼ inches in diameter lower growing than the type.   Branches brought indoors after Christmas will force into flower.

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