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AMERICAN POMOEOGICAE SOCIETY 
Fruit-growing in the pomological sense of the word is scarcely even in 
its infancy. Fruits, including fresh, preserved and dried, except apples, were 
imported to the value of $241,686 in 1911, while the entire horticultural ex- 
ports for the same year totalled only $24,053. 
The banana of which there are four, if not more species, and over one 
hundred varieties, that in the Philippines produce edible fruits, is the most 
Important of our fruits as this word is generally understood. The family is 
indeed poor that does not possess a few banana plants. 
Papaya, Carica papaya, is the next most important fruit for local con- 
sumption. The third place is taken by the mandarin. Though fruit plants 
are but very rarely propagated asexually, and then by marcottage, the 
mandarins are nevertheless of excellent quality. Pomelos, oranges, limes, 
lemons and calamondins are of less importance, and in general the fruit 
is poor. Yet, here and there seedlings are found that produce excellent 
fruit and the variation in the citrus fruits is exceedingly great. 
The mango is justly the most famous of the Philippine fruits and cer- 
tainly few fruits can compare in lusciousness with a well developed and well 
matured Carabao or Pico mango. These are the two leading mango vari- 
eties in the Philippines. The Pahutan is of excellent flavor but it is too small 
ever to become of importance commercially. 
The pineapple is grown principally for its fiber in the Philippines. The 
fruit is of secondary importance, though the variety commonly grown is of 
very good flavor. During the last year a company has been organized for 
the purpose of growing pineapples for canning and several hundred thou- 
sands of plants have been imported from Singapore and Hawaii and planted. 
There seems to be no reason why this should not grow to a successful and 
profitable industry. In its season, the chico, Achras sapota, is plentiful in 
the market, and also the guava which has become naturalized everywhere. 
The lanzon, Lansium domestieum, is also well esteemed and one of the lead- 
ing fruits in the market in its season. The soursop and the sugar-apple are 
the most generally grown species of this genus, less esteemed is the custard- 
apple. Duhat, Eugenia jambolana, is the most popular species of this genus. 
When a facile means of propagating the seedless bread-fruit plant shall 
have been found this will undoubtedly become a very important fruit. 
Some of the Philippine fruits are little known and have never even been 
successfully introduced outside of their native habitat, such as the man- 
gosteen, Garcinia mangostana; Durian, Durio sibethinus; Bauno, Mangifera 
verticillata; Juany, M. odorata; Marang, Artocarpus odoratissima; and Kam- 
bog, Dillenia speciosa, and a number of others that are imperfectly known. 
There is a market in Hongkong, China, and Japan for such fresh fruits 
as can be exported there but nothing has so far been done to develop it, and 
we could undoubtedly market a considerable quantity of citrus fruits in 
Australia. It is, however, not in the production of fresh fruit that the 
future of Philippine fruit-growing lies, but in the canned, preserved and 
dried products. In this form the Philippine fruit will be able to compete 
with other countries in the world markets. 
For various reasons that need not be dwelt upon here horticulture until 
about two years ago, has been the Cinderella in the various activities of the 
