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XXVIII. Suggestions respecting the Culture of the Mango 

 and Cherimoyer. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 

 F.R.S. $c. President. 



Read June 19, 1827. 



Some years ago I attempted to cultivate the Mango; and 

 I took all possible care that a proper temperature should be 

 preserved in the stove, that air should be freely given, and 

 the plants properly supplied with food and water. My efforts 

 however proved wholly abortive. Blossoms were produced 

 in considerable abundance; but at the period when these 

 appeared, many strong luxuriant shoots began to spring from 

 the stems and the bases of the larger branches of my plants, 

 the extremities of which then languished, and the blossoms 

 fell off ; and I found it not very easy to preserve my trees 

 alive. 



In the Gardens of the Earl of Powis, in the last autumn, I 

 saw small trees of this species loaded with as heavy crops of 

 most excellent fruit, as Apple trees of the same age and size 

 could well have borne, and exhibiting as luxuriant a state of 

 health as trees of that species usually shew, when growing in 

 a favourable soil and climate. The management of the trees 

 in the Gardens of the Earl of Powis was unquestionably very 

 good ; but there did not appear to me much peculiarity in it, 

 either in the application of heat or moisture, and I do not 

 consider the state of his Lordship's stoves to have been in 

 some respects nearly so favourable as those in which my 



