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this time of year but Dec , Jan. and Feb., I have seen it at 56 in morn 

 icg early, and 75 during the day. Heavy fogs cover the land at day- 

 break usually and the dew is heavy. 



Rainfall averages about 52 inches per annum, minimum about 40 

 inches, maximum about 65 inches ; May and October are our two 

 seasonable months, but the May rainfall sometimes rune into June and 

 the October rains continue through November and to a lesser extent 

 into Dec. and Jan. 



The prevailing idea is, that if a heavy rainfall meets the mango 

 trees when in blossom, no fruit sets and consequently no crop for that 

 year, also that the heavy iogs we have injure the setting fruit buds, I 

 cannot vouch for this, but it is only every 4:th or 5th year that mangoes 

 bear plentifully in the Queen of Spain's Valley, and it is usually in a 

 very dry year that they do. Number Eleven Mangoes come in first, 

 then Black or Sugar, lastly "Round Point" which by the way is often 

 called Stringy mango. 



From Mr. J. 0. Mason, Orange Bay. 



1st, Number Eleven. This mango is highly esteemed. 



2nd, Black Mango otherwise calltd Greengage, good. 



3rd, Mammy otherwise called Yam Mango. 



4tn, Round or common, also called "Salt fish" 



5th, Parrot 



6th, Turpentine, acid in flavour. 

 7th, Long point mango, 

 fcth, Kidney. 



9th, Miss Gruskett, a large thick skin, coarse in eating : this is what 

 the people in the district call it. Several of these mangoes grow in 

 different parts of the Island, especially on the north-side They grow 

 from " sea level" to one thousand feet. The temperature varies from 

 75 to 90 degrees. 



Mangoes start to blossom in February and to ripen in May, and 

 generally last till August and September. 



From Mr. R. H. Elicorthy, Fair Prospect, Priestman's River. 

 We have only two varieties of Mango o i this property, the No. 11 

 and the Common or Stringy The property borders on the sea and 

 runs back into the hills, and they grow from the level to about 200 

 or 300 feet elevation (here) but from my own experience mangoe 

 grow at almost the highest elevations. 



Rainfall 'h( re for the last 3 years, averaged 116 inches. 

 Two other varieties, viz., Kidney and Black mangoes. 



From Air. J. Thompson falache, Cloier, Mandeville. 

 The varieties are very numerous and nave a number of local names. 

 1st. The No. 1 1 , confine i almost entirely to the Porus district of this 

 Parish, and very rarely found in any other part of the Parish, consi- 

 dered the best Mango we have, and in my journey ings all over the 

 island have never found any Number 11 equal to them; the next in 

 approach to the Porus number 11 being those found in the vicinity of 

 Montego Bay. 



No. 2. The Robin, principally found in the Prospect district of St. 

 Elizabeth, on the borders of Manchester ; greenskin, very luscious, 

 and by some preferred to the No. 11, I have never seen it in any other 

 part of the Island. 



