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growth for the season were ended. One of my plants has 

 done so nine times within the last thirteen months, without 

 having acquired a greater height than two feet seven inches. 

 I am much inclined to believe that the Mango might be raised 

 in great abundance and considerable perfection in the stove 

 in this country, for it is a fruit which acquires maturity 

 within a short period. It blossoms, in Bengal, in January, 

 and ripens in the end of May ; and Mr. Turner, in his 

 journey to Tibet, states that he found the Mango growing 

 in latitude 27° 50' in Boutan, in the same orchard with the 

 Apple tree; the Apples ripening in July, and the Mangos 

 in September. And another Eastern traveller of credit 

 (I think it is Mr. Barrow,) mentions an instance in which 

 a frost, sufficiently severe to have injured the crops of 

 barley, had proved fatal to the blossoms ( only) of the Mango 

 trees. 



The Alligator, or Avocado Pear. ( Laurus Persea.) The 

 plants of this speces have grown with rather troublesome 

 luxuriance in my house, though they have been generally 

 confined to small pots ; one plant, to which a larger pot was 

 given, is more than six feet high, with branches extending 

 five feet wide, and a stem, the growth of a single year, ex- 

 ceeding, at its base, an inch in diameter. To obtain fruit 

 of this species within the narrow limits of a forcing-house, 

 it would be necessary to propagate from buds, or grafts, 

 taken from the extreme branches of trees of considerable 

 age. 



The Mammee Tree. ( Mammea Americana.) Very con- 

 trary to my expectations, this plant, a native of Jamaica, 

 proved extremely impatient of heat and light, and its 



