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in moist weather but it can be controlled by spraying with 

 Bordeaux mixture unless repeated and frequent rain storms 

 occur during the flowering season. The fruit also fails to set 

 if high winds and heavy rains occur during the flowering sea- 

 son even without the attacks of anthracnose. If the setting 

 of fruit should thus be prevented by these causes a new crop 

 of flowers may be produced a month or two later, thus bring- 

 ing a crop of fruit to maturity out of the regular season. In 

 these respects the mango is like the avocado, which is also 

 affected by anthracnose in the same manner and which may be 

 prevented from setting fruit by persistent rain during the 

 flowering season. 



The mango has often been called the apple of the Tropics 

 and sometimes the king of fruits. The term apple of the 

 Tropics is more or less appropriate since it occurs in such great 

 abundance throughout the Tropics, is in everybody's dooryard, 

 and is eaten in the fresh condition, stewed, or made into jellies 

 and marmalade. The comparison appears even more close 

 when one remembers that the green mango, like the green 

 apple, is an important part of the ration of young boys. Wher- 

 ever the Mediterranean fruit fly prevails most varieties of 

 mangos are seriously attacked by this pest. 



The mango is not only a delicious fruit for consumption 

 in the fresh condition but makes an excellent green sauce re- 

 sembling green apple sauce in appearance and flavor. The 

 fruit when cooked in a green condition jellies readily and 

 may therefore be used for jam, jelly, or marmalade. More- 

 over, the mango is widely used in the preparation of Chutney 

 sauce which contains mango, raisins, tamarind, chili, mace, 

 cloves, pimento, salt, and mustard seed. The mango endures 

 shipment well and may be held in cold storage without injury 

 for a period of 6 to 8 weeks at a temperature of 32 to 40 F. 



The seedling mango tree comes into bearing at about 6 

 or 7 years of age. Inarched and budded mangos, however, may 

 be brought to bearing within 2 or 3 years. In some cases in- 



