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although it is injurious to the tree to let it bear so early, and 

 I therefore recommend that the blossoms should be removed. 

 Young grafts will sometime, indeed very often, blossom the first 

 season they are removed, and if allowed to bear fruit, it checks 

 them for a length of time after. A mango graft may be applied 

 at any time of the year : the stock must be kept continually moist 

 by watering. When the graft and stock have become united, the 

 former must be partially divided by a notch with a sharp knife : 

 this may be done after six weeks have elapsed from the time of 

 its first being united : a second cutting may be effected a fort- 

 night later, and the complete removal from the parent tree at 

 the expiration of nine or ten weeks. After this, remove the 

 graft into the shade for a fortnight longer, when it may be put 

 into the spot where it is to remain. A graft tree never attains 

 the size of a seedling, neither will it continue to live or bear so 

 long, and I doubt much if the seed of a graft mango would 

 produce the same fruit, whereas a seedling often does so. The 

 time that a seedling takes to produce fruit is the great objection 

 to this mode of rearing trees : nevertheless a young tree of three 

 years old might have one of its branches brought into blossom 

 by ringing ; this would enable the cultivator to judge if the tree 

 was worth preserving or not. The finest flavoured sorts of 

 mango grown in Western India, are the Alphonso, Raspberry, 

 Mazagon, Doriah, and Malgrobah : this latter variety is of a 

 greenish tinge inside when ripe, and by far the largest of the 

 whole, being three times the size of an Alphonso ; and it ripens 

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When the graft is planted out, it requires only a moderate 

 proportion of care, clearing the ground of all weeds, and remov- 

 ing any buds that shew themselves. Within the space from the 

 ground to where the first branches are to rise from, all super- 

 fluous and weak shoots should be removed more particularly 

 those from the centre of the tree, as also all branches that trail 

 on the ground, unless required for grafting from. The tree is 

 better for being pruned, and whenever the interior of the tree 

 may contain superfluous branches, or when there is not sufficient 

 room for the growth of the young and fruit-bearing shoots, a 



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