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is probably the best of the local seedlings. This mango would seem to be one of 

 the "Manila" type grown in MexicO;, and it is probable that the seed was brought 

 from some point in that republic^ and was of that type. The tree has been sub- 

 jected to the hardest possible usage^ and under these conditions its behavior is 

 truly remarkable. It is grown in a partially decomposed granite soil at the foot 

 of the Sierra Madre mountains^ and for a number of years has received practically 

 no care whatever. And yet it bears regularly good crops of fruit, — fruit which 

 will compare well in size with those of the Manila type produced in Mexico. If 

 picked in December and laid away for a few days it ripens into a mango of very 

 fair flavor and quality. 



Desci'iption : General form long and slender, somewhat compressed, and 

 terminating in a prominent curved beak; size large; weight ten ounces; dimensions, 

 length five and one-half inches, width two and three-quarters inches, thickness two 



Figure 72. The Fales mango. 



inches; base somewhat tapering, slightly extended where stem joins the fruit; apex 

 very prominently curved and beaked, stigmatic point rather prominent and one- 

 quarter inch above tip of beak; stem rather stout; fruits borne in clusters of two 

 to six; surface somewhat undulating; bloom none; color greenish j'-ellow, brightest 

 at base and gradually shading downward to yellowish green at apex; dots 

 numerous, small, rounded, some of them subcutaneous, dark brown, the subcu- 

 taneous ones light yellowish; skin medium thick, tough; flesh firm, orange yellow, 

 juicy; fibre not very abundant, fine; seed very long, narrow, medium thick; flavor 

 sweet, aromatic^ very pleasant; quality fair to good; matures in December at 

 Sierra Madre, but does not ripen perfectly on the tree. 



Tree is upright, close headed, and a fairh^ prolific bearer. Here described 

 for the first time. 



