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New varieties of the mango are constantly being produced in every 

 mango growing region, and the names of many of them sooner or later find 

 their way into print. If in publishing these names the authors are careful 

 to make them simple, distinctive, easily spelled and easily pronounced, mango 

 nomenclature will in the future look after itself; as for those five or six 

 hundred varietal names already published, their revision should be under- 

 taken by every one having occasion to mention any of them in print. It 

 is not too late to begin this work: pomologically the mango is just beginning 



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Essential Features of Mango. 



Diagram showing the points to which particular attention should 

 be paid in making taxonomic descriptions. 



to receive attention, and this is the time to take up those basic questions 

 which mean so much to the future of the mango culture. 



Description. 



. In describing a variety, the General Form of the fruit should be 

 stated first. It may be reniform, subreniform, oval, oblong, elliptical, 

 spherical, etc. Often it is asymmetrical. Frequently a combination of two 

 or more terms is needed; indeed, some mangos are of such peculiar form 



