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future it may not be necessary for us to go to the Asiatics 

 for flavoring for our pistache ice cream. Yet another find 

 in China is a chestnut tree, which is to a considerable extent 

 resistant to the chestnut bark disease which has been playing 

 such havoc in our chestnut groves in recent years, and which 

 may some day replace our vanishing native species. 



AN INDIAN MANGO GROWING IN FLORIDA 

 Courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Into southern Florida, California, Porto Rico, Hawaii, 

 and the West Indies has come the East Indian mango, a fruit 

 long held sacred by the people of this teeming land. In 

 India it is very prolific, some trees bearing between $100 

 and $200 worth of fruit, even at the low rate for which the 

 fruit sells in that country. 9 The mango is described in Bai- 



'$6.60 a hundred for the best varieties in 1910. At the same time 

 mangos were selling in Florida for $3.00 a dozen. 



