CHAP. II. DESSERT FRUITS. ' 233 



Opposed however to this, Dr. Jameson states respecting the 

 Bombay kind that 



" The seedling of the grafted tree gives fruit in five years, and is 

 nearly equal to the grafted plant. It, too, will grow in many soils 

 where the grafted plant will not succeed." * 



Mr, P. Homfray likewise, in a communication to the Agri- 

 Horticultural Society, mentions, respecting a fine variety of 

 Mango introduced from Java, that of several seeds sown in his 

 garden at Howrah, the trees raised, all without exception, bore 

 precisely the same kind of fruit in flavour, appearance, and 

 quality as that produced by the parent tree. He further adds : 



"Mr. J. Homfray has likewise in his garden a grafted tree, 

 received from the Botanic Garden, of the Mazagon Mango, stones 

 from the fruit of which he planted, and one or two of the trees 

 raised therefrom produce fruit exactly alike, and fully equal in 

 every respect to the fnut of the parent tree." 



Major W. Stokes also states the same of a peculiar sort he 

 found at Kyak Phyoo. 



In a conversation I had with Mr. P. Homfray, many years 

 after he made the above communication, he told me that he 

 had since sown the seeds of other kinds, but had not met with 

 the same result from them. The seedlings did not yield fruit 

 equal to that of the parent tree. The Java kind, however, 

 always came true as a seedling. 



I have it from General Jenkins that " the natives say, that for 

 seed you should skin the fruit, leaving all the pulp about the 

 stone* and so throw it into milk, and there let it remain for 

 three days, and then take it out and plant it." 



The mode of propagation almost always resorted to is by in^ 

 arching. Stones are sown at the time the fruit is in season, and 

 the plants raised from them are potted off into single pots to be 

 inarched upon on the setting in of the Kains in the second year 

 after. At the close of the Eains the union between the graft 

 and the stock will be complete ; and the plants should then be 

 separated and removed to some shady spot, where it is well to 

 keep them till the following Kains, that they may become 

 thoroughly established before planting out. Grafted Mangos 

 come into regular bearing when about five years old. 



* ' Keport of Botanic Gardens in N.-W. Provinces for 1864.' 



