THE MANGO 133 



P. H. Rolfs in Bulletin 127, Florida Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station; and by the author in the Proceedings of the 

 American Pomological Society for 1915 and 1917. 



The abundance of grafted mangos has led Indian investiga- 

 tors to neglect the seedling races. Doubtless some of the 

 horticultural groups of grafted varieties represent seedling 

 races. C. Maries, in the Dictionary of the Economic Products of 

 India, grouped the named varieties with which he was familiar 

 in five "cultivated races.'' Probably some of these represent 

 seedling races. The antiquity of its culture in India and the 

 extensive employment of vegetative means of propagation have 

 placed the mango on a different footing from that which it 

 occupies in regions where it has been grown relatively a short 

 time and propagated principally by seed. In India, the horti- 

 cultural varieties are most prominent; elsewhere, seedling 

 races (see definition of a race in the discussion of avocado races) 

 are more in evidence. 



The mangos of the Malayan Archipelago have been less 

 thoroughly studied, from a pomological standpoint, than those 

 of any other region. The botanist Blume (Museum Botanicum 

 Lugduno-Batavum) viewed them botanically, and described as 

 botanical varieties a number of forms which are in all probability 

 analogous to the seedling races of other regions. In addition to 

 races, there are a number of distinct species of Mangifera in the 

 Malayan region which bear fruits closely resembling true mangos. 

 These must be studied in connection with any attempt to 

 straighten out the classification of horticultural or pomological 

 forms. 



Cochin-China appears to be the home of a race of mangos 

 which is unusual in character, and which is certainly one of the 

 most valuable of all. This is the Cambodiana. By some botan- 

 ists it is considered a distinct species of Mangifera. It seems 

 to be identical with the race grown in the Philippine Islands. 

 The latter has been carried to tropical America, where it is 



