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A. C. Hartless has found that it commonly requires four to nine 

 years for inarched trees to come into bearing. 



The yield of many budded varieties is uncertain, while of 

 many seedling races it is uniformly heavy. Seedling trees in 

 Cuba and other parts of tropical America often carry as much 

 fruit as the branches will support. Budded mangos sometimes 

 bear heavily one season and nothing the next. The following ta- 

 ble prepared by A. C. Hartless shows the behavior of the orchard 

 of grafted trees in the Botanical Garden at Saharanpur, India, 

 during a period of twenty-seven years. Numerous varieties are 

 included ; and it is probable that some bore more regularly than 

 others ; but the table takes account of the crop as a whole : 



TABLE III. SHOWING THE BEARING OF MANGO TREES 



Records from Lucknow, India, show that during a period of 

 thirty years there were nineteen in which the crop was poor, 

 six in which it was fair, and five in which it was heavy. At 

 Nagpur during a period of nine years there were six in which 

 the crop was poor and three in which it was good. 



In Florida Mulgoba has, up to the present, produced a good 

 crop about once in four years. 



These figures would be discouraging, were it not for the 



