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the Apple does in cooler regions, and is widely cultivated. It is a 

 handsome evergreen tree of spreading habit, and attains a height of 

 fifty or sixty feet under favourable conditions. Botanically the 

 Mango is known as Mangifera indica, and it belongs to the order 

 Anacardiacege, or the Cashew Xut family. It is indigenous to the 

 warmer regions of Asia, but has been widely distributed, and is now 

 generally cultivated in most countries situated within or near to the 

 tropics. The flowers are a greenish-yellow, and the foliage is some- 

 what similar to the Walnut. 

 There are numerous varieties 

 whose fruits differ consider- 

 ably in shape, size, colour, 

 and quality. In form the 

 fruits vary from round to 

 kidney shape, and some are 

 compressed or flattened. The 

 fruit varies greatly in size, 

 according to the variety, 

 and range from four ounces 

 to a pound and a-half in 

 weight. There is also a wide 

 range as regards quality, some 

 varieties producing luscious 

 fleshy fruit ; with others it 

 is coarse and stringy, and 

 sometimes it has an unplea- 

 sant turpentine flavour. In 

 colour the ripe fruit varies, 

 according to the kind, from 

 pale to dark green, and 



lemon yellow to deep orange, and the best sorts yield a grateful 

 odour. The fruit contains a comparatively large seed, to which the 

 pulp adheres somewhat firmly. The Mango is generally admitted to 

 be one of the most palatable fruits when eaten fresh, and it is 

 extensively used in this way in countries where it is grown. It can 

 be turned to good account as jam and jelly, and makes an excellent 

 sweetmeat when preserved in sugar or spirits, and also when dried. 

 The unripe fruit is also used to a great extent as a pickle, and the 

 Mango Chutnee of India has a world-wide reputation. Medicinally 

 the resinous juice of the tree is in India considered to be serviceable 

 for dysentry. The wood of the Mango is rather soft, and soon decays 

 when exposed to wet, but in India it is utilised for a variety of 

 common purposes. It is said to improve with the age of the trees. 



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CULTIVATION. 



The Mango can only be cultivated successfully in those parts of 

 Australasia classed as tropical and sub-tropical regions, or in 

 specially suitable localities alon<r the Pacific Coast a few miles 



