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species was first introduced into the former state by Henry 

 Perrine, who sent plants from Mexico to his grant of land below 

 Miami in 1833. These trees, however, perished from neglect 

 after Perrine's death, and many years passed before another 

 introduction was made. According to P. J. Wester, the second 

 and successful introduction was in 1861 or 1862, by Fletcher of 

 Miami. The trees introduced in these early years were seed- 

 lings. In 1885 Rev. D. G. Watt of Pinellas made an attempt to 

 introduce the choice grafted varieties of India. According to 

 P. N. Reasoner, 1 Watt obtained from Calcutta eight plants 

 of the two best sorts, Bombay and Malda. "They were nearly 

 three months on the passage, and when the case was opened 

 five were dead ; another died soon after, and the two remaining 

 plants were starting nicely, when the freeze destroyed them 

 entirely." In 1888 Herbert Beck of St. Petersburg obtained a 

 shipment of thirty-five inarched trees from Calcutta. This ship- 

 ment included the following varieties : "Bombay No. 23, Bom- 

 bay No. 24, Chuckchokia, Arbuthnot, Gopalbhog, Singapore, 

 and Alphonse." In the latter part of 1889 Beck reported to the 

 Department of Agriculture that all but seven of the trees had 

 died. Further details regarding this importation are lacking, 

 but it is not believed that any of the trees lived to produce fruit. 

 On November 1, 1889, the Division of Pomology at Wash- 

 ington received through Consul B. F. Farnham of Bombay, 

 India, a shipment of six varieties, as follows : " Alphonse, 

 Banchore, Banchore of Dhiren, Devarubria, Mulgoba, and 

 Pirie." The trees were obtained from G. Marshall Woodrow, at 

 Poona. After their arrival in this country they were for- 

 warded to horticulturists on Lake Worth, Florida. Most of 

 the trees succumbed to successive freezes, but in 1898 Elbridge 

 Gale reported that one Alphonse sent to Brelsford Brothers 

 was still alive, but was not doing well ; and that of the five 

 trees sent to himself only one, a Mulgoba, had survived. This 

 1 Division of Pomology, Bull. 1. 



