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per loads and cartloads, all mangoes, all got ready for the morrow's 

 market on Saturday. The coachman stopped my vehicle for luncheon 

 under the cool shade of a nohle mango tree. Mangoes strewed the 

 roadside at the place all about ( we were then some 13 miles distant 

 from Spanish Town, near to the Point Hill Road) and my man helped 

 himself to some really fine and handsome hairy skin, rather than allow 

 them to rot on the ground. In many places, in fact, decayed man- 

 goes were to be seen, a sign of their superabundance. 



From Mr. C. W. Treleaven, The Bogue, Balaclava. 

 I was at Golden Grove Estate in Hanover from Monday and re- 

 turned yesterday. There are lots of trees (mango) on that estate, but 

 none of them are bearing at present, and very seldom do. The eleva- 

 tion is from about 750 to 1,000 feet. On my way home yesterday I 

 passed Ramble, Knockalva, Barneyside, Woodstock, New Savannah 

 and Newmarket There were plenty of mango trees with magnifi- 

 cent foliage but not any fruit When I got below Newmarket, (black 

 River side) the trees began to show a little fruit, and bore heavier as 

 one got farther on, until reaching the lowland where the trees were, 

 ^bearing very heavily indeed. So far as I have seen, places of over or 

 near 1,000 feet, with a large rainfall do not seem so suitable for man- 

 goes as places of the same elevation, but with less rain : the higher 

 parts of St. Elizabeth and Manchester, for instance. Here, at Bogue, 

 we always have a good crop of mangoes, provided we do not get any 

 or very little rain when the blossom is setting, but rain at that time 

 seems fatal. This year, in this district, the mangoes are bearing very 

 heavily. As regards names, except in the case of No. 11 and one or 

 two others, they differ, I fancy, in different localities ; the undermen- 

 tioned are all that I know of, and placed so far as I know, in order of 

 quality. 



Ordinary No. 11, Robin Mango, Guinea Mango, sometimes called 

 Jenny, Milk Mango, Sweet Mango, and Hog Mango. There is also 

 an immense mango, which is scarce, and in this district goes by the 

 name of "John Bellyful." 



From Hon. Oscar Marescaux, Cherry Garden. 



My Mango came from Castleton, and was one of the first inarched 

 from the trees imported from India by Sir John Peter Grant. I was 

 given four varieties, but one of the plants died when quite young, 

 another was cut down during one of my absences from the Island, and 

 the third which has developed into a fine large tree has never borne 

 any fruit, though this year it had one spike of blossoms none of which 

 fructified. The fourth and last is the tree in question, a very hand- 

 some one, with branches down to the ground and which bore two dis- 

 tinct crops this year. 



It may interest you to know that there is at Cherry Garden besides, 

 numerous No. 11 and other common mangoes, the " Sophy," which 

 bears late in the season (not ripe yet) and is very aromatic, quite dis- 

 tinct from the ordinary sorts, and the " Simon" mango, an early 

 iruiter, without turpentine or filaments, which is much prized ; I am 

 sorry to say that the only tree I have is very old and has little vigour. 

 From Martinique I have imported end planted out a dozen "Grafted 

 Mangoes," which are only now coming into bearing. 



