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known as Manila (Mexico) and Filipino (Cuba). David Fair- 

 child, who studied this race in Saigon, Cochin-China, and intro- 

 duced it into the United States, describes it as a mango of 

 medium size, yellow when ripe, furnished with a short beak, 

 and having a faint but agreeable odor. The flesh varies from 

 light to deep orange in color, and is never fibrous. The flavor is 

 not so rich as that of the Alphonse, but is nevertheless delicious. 

 One of the plants grown from the seed sent to the United States 

 by Fairchild has given rise to the horticultural variety Cam- 

 bodiana, now propagated vegetatively in Florida. 



There appear to be several different forms of this race. 

 Three forms are grown in the Philippines, where they are dis- 

 tinguished by separate names. P. J. Wester states : 



" There are three very distinct types of mangos in the Philip- 

 pines : the Carabao, the Pico (also known as Padero), and the 

 Pahutan, in some districts called Supsupen and Chupadero. 

 The Carabao is the mango most esteemed and most generally 

 planted." He further says, "Although uniform as types, there 

 is considerable variation in the form and size of the fruit and 

 presence of fiber and size of seed in both the Carabao and Pico 

 mangos, and careful selection will not only bring to light 

 varieties much larger than the average fruit of these types, but 

 also those having a much smaller percentage of fiber and seed 

 than the average fruit." 



The seedling mangos of the Hawaiian Islands have been given 

 some attention by Higgins. In Bulletin 12 of the Hawaii Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station he describes a number of them. 

 Judging from his illustration, the Hawaiian Sweet mango is the 

 common seedling race of the West Indies. 



The French island of Reunion is said to be the source of 



several seedling races which have been introduced into tropical 



America. Paul Hubert l says the mango has become thoroughly 



naturalized in this island. He mentions thirteen varieties 



1 Fruits des Pays Chauds. 



