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coarse fiber, and is of a most delicious, sweet, spicy flavor. These sterile fruits 

 are the only mangos known to me which mature in California during the warm 

 season, and consequently have an opportunity to ripen perfectly under favorable 

 conditions. They are really a choice little fruit, and far superior in flavor to an}' 

 of the normal varieties which mature during the winter and do not ripen perfectly. 

 This is the first description of this variety. 



Figure 74. The Sierra Madre mango. Small sterile form. 



Santa Ana 



(Figure 75) 



Originated near the city of Santa Ana, on the property now owned by Mr. 

 Chas. Eells. It is a common type of mango and a fruit of fair quality, its chief 

 drawback being that it is (so far, at least,) a shy bearer. 



Description : General form reniform, rather broad, thick, terminating in a 

 curved beak at apex ; size medium ; weight seven ounces ; dimensions, length four 

 and one-half inches, width two and one-half inches, thickness two inches ; base 

 very slightly tapering, more or less plaited ; cavity none ; apex extended into a 

 prominent curved beak, stigmatic point depressed, one-quarter inch above tip 

 of beak; stem medium stout, swollen where it joins the fruit; surface slightly 

 undulating; bloom none; color yellowish green, blushed with maroon on exposed 

 side ; dots numerous, medium large, rounded, sometimes subcutaneous, russet, the 

 subcutaneous ones yellowish green, lighter than skin; skin rather thick, tough; 

 flesh light yellow, sometimes tinged with greenish; fibre fairly abundant, but fine; 

 seed rather long, narrow, thick, reniform, small in proportion to size of fruit ; 

 flavor rather acid, quality fair; matures in December at Santa Ana, but does not 

 ripen perfectly on the tree. 



