ME. SCOTT ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE MANGO. 55 



staniens and pistil, each panicle only produces a few fruit. 

 On the plant that fruited here, two, three, or four mangoes 

 were on each panicle, of an oval or kidney-shape, about four 

 inches long, their colour olive-green, and when ripe tinged with 

 red on the side next the sun ; the skin was thin and tasted of 

 turpentine, but the flesh or pulp which adhered to the stone 

 was delicate, sweet, and not at all stringy, with a rich warm 

 flavour, and without any terebinthine taste. 



The Powis mangoes, raised at AValcot, in 1826, are figured 

 and described in the Horticultural Transactions, and in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle Mr. Bond has given an interesting ac- 

 count of the treatment of the plants at AV^alcot, in 1839. 



I therefore hope that the very great interest attached to the 

 successful cultivation of this celebrated fruit may be sufficient 

 apology for my bringing the subject again before the Horticul- 

 tural Society, as my only object is to encourage others to per- 

 severe, believing that we shall experience no real difficulties, 

 although tlie plant has only ripened its fruit in two English 

 gardens since its introduction into the country about 150 years 

 ago. 



I therefore purpose to give a brief account of the treatment 

 of the oldest plant here, and then to point out what we con- 

 sider most important in that treatment. It was purchased from 

 Messrs. Loddiges and Sons, about four years ago, and was then 

 about three feet high, with two branches. The first and second 

 summer it was kept in the stove until it had made two growths 

 each season ; and when the young growths were matured, it was 

 removed to a cooler house to rest for the winter. In the winter 

 of 1843 the terminal or leading buds of the upright shoots were 

 picked out, in order to dwarf the plant and fit it for training 

 near the glass (the plants are impatient of being pruned, and the 

 knife should not be used) ; next spring numerous side branches 

 were produced, almost in a horizontal position, and during that 

 season only one growth was made, and during the winter the 

 plant was treated as in previous seasons, and last March several 

 panicles of flowers were produced, which were succeeded by the 

 fruit, which set very thinly, but when once fairly set, they ar- 

 rived at maturity in due time. A few weeks previous to ripen- 

 ing they stop growing, and only very slightly change colour. 

 The plant is now in a cool climate, and promises well for 

 another season. 



In April, after the fruit was set, it was shifted from a pot of 

 twelve inches diameter into one about eighteen inches diameter, 

 and is now about eight feet high, with a spreading head of about 

 eight yards in circumference. 



The stove in which the plants are grown varies in tempera- 



