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is probably the best of the local seedlings. This mango would seem to be one of 

 the "Manila" type grown in Mexico, and it is probable that the seed was brought 

 from some point in that republic, and was of that type. The tree has been sub- 

 jected to the hardest possible usage, and under these conditions its behavior is 

 truly remarkable. It is grown in a partially decomposed granite soil at the foot 

 of the Sierra Madre mountains, and for a number of years has received practically 

 no care whatever. And yet it bears regularly good crops of fruit, — fruit which 

 will compare well in size with those of the Manila type produced in Mexico. If 

 picked in December and laid away for a few days it ripens into a mango of very 

 fair flavor and quality. 



Description: General form long and slender, somewhat compressed, and 

 terminating in a prominent curved beak; size large; weight ten ounces; dimensions, 

 length five and one-half inches, width two and three-quarters inches, thickness two 



Figure 72. The Fales mango, 

 inches; base somewhat tapering, slightly extended where stem joins the fruit; apex 

 very prominently curved and beaked, stigmatic point rather prominent and one- 

 quarter inch above tip of beak; stem rather stout; fruits borne in clusters of two 

 to six; surface somewhat undulating; bloom none; color greenish yellow, brightest 

 at base and gradually shading downward to yellowish green at apex ; dots 

 numerous, small, rounded, some of them subcutaneous, dark brown, the subcu- 

 taneous ones light yellowish ; skin medium thick, tough ; flesh firm, orange yellow, 

 juicy; fibre not very abundant, fine; seed very long, narrow, medium thick; flavor 

 sweet, aromatic, very pleasant; quality fair to good; matures in December at 

 Sierra Madre, but does not ripen perfectly on the tree. 



Tree is upright, close headed, and a fairly prolific bearer. Here described 

 for the first time. 



