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as being fruits of high character, and to state the localities where 

 they are to be met with. 



The following are the kinds grown in the Calcutta Botanical 

 Gardens : 



1. Alphonso : from the vicinity of Bombay ; a Mango of high 

 repute. 



2. China : a small fruit, of little merit ; remarkable principally 

 for the tree bearing a second crop in October. 



3. Gopdl Bhog : from Malda ; in high estimation ; of moderate 

 size, of a deep amber and orange colour when ripe, the flesh of 

 livery consistency, of peculiar flavour. 



4. Kysapatee : from Malda ; a small fruit of rich, exquisite 

 flavour. 



5. Langera : an excessively large fruit, of inferior quality. It 

 remains upon the tree and ripens a month or more after the 

 season of other kinds is past. Probably this is the one described by 

 Dr. Lindley, under the name of Dodol or Calappa, as " the largest 

 variety, sometimes being as big as an infant's head, or middling 

 Shaddock, weighing more than two pounds; called in Goa 

 Barera" * 



6. Large Malda: a middling-sized fruit, of an olive-green 

 colour when ripe, the interior of a deep orange colour ; about 

 the finest, if not the very finest of all. To those who have not 

 partaken of it, no words can convey an idea of the merit of this 

 exquisitely luscious fruit. It comes into season about the 20th 

 of May. The Botanical Gardens are rather rich in the number 

 of trees of this kind they contain. 



7. Peter: a moderate-sized Mango, of roundish form, with a 

 projecting heel on one side. It ripens of a dull russet colour 

 with a reddish tinge, and may fairly be considered of first-rate 

 merit, having a distinct taste of a ripe Gooseberry. 



8. Singapore: a fruit of the largest size, ripening all over 

 of an uniform greenish golden yellow ; accounted by some 

 a first-rate sort, but in my estimation of but secondary 

 merit. 



9. Soondershaw: a large fruit, when ripe very gorgeous in 

 colour, of bright orange and vermilion ; in flavour only a second- 

 rate fruit at best ; those produced in the Botanical Gardens are 

 not even that. 



* ' Transactions of the London Horticultural Society/ vol. v. p. 113. 



