146 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
over the flesh, or by dipping the meat in a solution of the 
juice for a few minutes. 
The specimen of the papaya in the economic house has 
borne over two dozen fruits in the last two years. 
MANGO (MANGIFERA INDICA) 
While the cultivation of the mango dates from earliest an- 
tiquity in India, the last two centuries have seen it exten- 
sively grown in other tropical regions. It enters into the 
diet of millions of people and is termed the king of tropical 
fruits or the apple of the tropics. The great Mogul Akbar, 
in the sixteenth century, planted the famous Lakh Bagh, an 
orchard containing 100,000 plants, some of which are still 
growing. Careful breeding and selection have resulted in 
many different forms perpetuated through the medium of 
inarching or grafting by approach. Some trees attain a 
height of seventy feet, producing an abundance of fruit 
valued at 150 dollars a ton. 
The resemblance of the mild and even climate of Saharan- 
pur, where mangos thrive, to that of California and Florida 
suggested to government explorers the possibility of mango 
cultivation in this country, The introduction into the United 
States is of recent origin, probably about 1880, when Jacob 
Miller, of Hollywood, California, received seeds from Guate- 
mala City. The plant raised has had the advantage of a 
particularly mild location and has developed into a large tree 
without having been cut back by the frost. An abundance of 
fruit has been borne, which, however, is of little value due to 
being produced from a seedling tree. More recently the 
mango has been cultivated in southern Florida where climatic 
conditions are more favorable than California. The most 
extensive groves are at Miami, where, during 1901, experi- 
ments were carried out successfully in budding selected varie- 
ties for perpetuation. Mangos are now shipped to New York, 
Chicago and St. Louis, from Florida. The individual fruits 
are wrapped in tissue paper and packed with excelsior six in 
a basket. These are subsequently crated, six baskets to a 
erate. They are usually shipped during late July and August. 
The large plants growing in the economic house are of the 
Seedling type, rarely producing fruit, The budded stock 
lately introduced in the tropical fruit house, however, will 
undoubtedly bear fruit after becoming established. 
