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earliest blossoms. The great difficulty experienced in many humid tropical coun- 

 tries, namely, the failure of the mango to set fruits, certainly will not be experi- 

 enced here. But the cool winters check the growth of the tree, and it flowers 

 much later than it normally would, and this results, of course, in making the fruits 

 very late to mature. So that with the seedlings, as with Red Number Eleven, the 

 fruits must be picked and laid away for a few days before softening up sufficiently 

 to become eatable. Those fruits which have been grown farthest inland, and 

 subjected to the greatest heat during the summer, always mature before those 

 grown near the seacoast, and usually are in fact the only ones which mature at all. 



Figure 69. The Fales mango. This tree should have been headed lower. 



Fales 



(Figures 69, 70, 71, 72) 



This variety originated at Sierra Madre, on the property formerly owned by 

 W. L. Fales, by whom the tree was planted and for whom it has been named. It 



