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Photo by Crandall 
MANGO PLANTS AS THEY ARRIVED FROM BOMBAY 
In India the mango is propagated by an expensive method of inarching, and the only 
way we have been able to get the plants for trial in Florida has been by importing the plants 
in pots. 
A Florida nurseryman, Mr. Cellon, of Miami, first learned how to bud the mango, 
and finds it almost as easy to bud as the peach. This is a great step in advance, and will 
make the distribution of the fine varieties an easy matter. 
This method of propagation is 
now being successfully practiced by Mr. Edward Simmonds at our Plant Introduction Garden 
at Miami, Florida. 
the past 15 years, and already the stock- 
raisers of the South are wondering if 
they should plant spiny or spineless 
forms of the prickly pear cactus, and 
the fruit-growers of Florida are inquir- 
ing as to which of the several varieties 
of alligator pear tree is going to be the 
most productive and profitable. 
To help find the plant which will pro- 
duce the best results of any that can be 
grown, on every acre of land in the 
United States, is, in general, the broad 
policy of the Office of Seed and Plant 
Introduction of the Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry. 
Although begun in a systematic way 
and as a distinct activity of the Depart- 
ment in 1897, it has barely touched the 
fringe of its possibilities. The 31,000 
different plant immigrants which have 
come in, and have either died or are 
now growing somewhere in this country, 
represent a small beginning only, and 
have merely helped to show the great- 
