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lordship, have been named the Red and Yellow Powis Mangoes, of which 

 the following notice has been published in the Hort, Trans, vol. vi. p. 551 : 

 The red Powis mango was ripened in the garden at Walcot, in the be- 

 ginning of September ; and the tree which bore it produced at the same 

 time thirty-five other fruit, of unequal size, but of equal excellence in 

 flavour. In form it resembled a compressed oval, with one end a little 

 curved inwards ; the skin was of a rich ohve colour, becoming green to- 

 wards the apex, and being deeply stained on the exposed side with bright 

 crimson, breaking into spots of a darker colour. The flesh was deep 

 yellow, filled with an abundant juice, very tender, but fibrous next the 

 stone, from which it was inseparable. The flavour was sweet, rather 

 luscious, highly perfumed, with a decided taste of tiu^entine, but diffused 

 in a most admirable proportion, so as to produce a very agreeable and novel 

 effect upon the palate. This resinous taste was more concentrated in the 

 skin, in which it was combined with a shght proportion of acid. 



" Of the yellow Powis mango, one fruit only was produced, which 

 ripened in the beginning of October. The skin was of a pale, dull, 

 yellow-ochre colour, a Uttle brighter and more orange-coloured towards 

 the stalk, and covered over, when minutely examined, with numerous 

 paler specks, ^^^len fresh gathered it was covered with a delicate bloom, 

 which it did not wholly lose after having been kept nearly a fortnight. 

 It did not appear to differ much in taste from the first ; perhaps was a 

 Uttle more luscious, and also in a shght degree more fibrous. 



" It does not appear that the management under which these mangoes 

 were ripened possesses much pecuharity. The plants are in pots, plunged 

 in the tan pit of a good stove, which is maintained at a temperature of 

 from seventy to ninety-six degrees, by means of a particular apphcation 

 of hot water. Lord Powis conceives that it is this mode of heating 

 which has mainly contributed to force the plants to produce their fruit." 

 We are rather surprised at the weakness of the concluding conjecture, 

 knowing that heat is the same powerful agent, whether generated and 

 diffused by smoke-flues, steam, or hot water. 



The mango is easily propagated by cuttings, and there can be no doubt 

 but that it might be produced in. great abundance in a Tropical Fruit 

 house, or even in an ordinary^ stove. The principal point is to procure 

 good varieties, as many of them are, like some of our apples and pears, 

 hardly worth cultivating. Good varieties can be obtained from Jamaica. 

 We once had a mango tree presented to us by a gentleman who had 

 it dug up out of his garden in Jamaica, and transported to England, 

 because he was certain of the excellent quality of the sort ; but it was 



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