1911 
167 
Ruralisms 
CULTURE OF THE MANGO. 
At Miami, Fla., The R. N.-Y. has a 
goodly number of friends and subscrib¬ 
ers, some of whom have given special 
attention to growing the named sorts of 
the avocado, Persea gratissima, com¬ 
monly known as alligator pear, and the 
mango, Mangifera Indica. The avo¬ 
cado and mango, in the semi-tropical 
parts of Florida, form distinctive and 
attractive features of the landscape, 
growing luxuriantly, thickly clad with 
rich foliage, surmounted with great bou¬ 
quets of blossoms followed by abun¬ 
dant fruit. The fruit of the seedling 
mangos are all readily eaten where 
grown, notwithstanding their slight 
flavor of turpentine and their stringiness. 
Every seedling mango that is noticeably 
better than its neighbors is promptly 
called No. 11 in the fond belief that it 
is a direct descendant of the original 
No. 11 , which was claimed to have been 
raised from mangos cast ashore by the 
sea in a box marked 11 . It is candidly 
admitted that you have to learn to like 
the avocado, though occasionally you 
may meet an individual like young Paul 
Rader of Miami, who ate them greedily 
from babyhood and can make an entire 
appetizing meal from a big one now 
that he has attained manhood, but for 
the average mortal the taste must be 
acquired, and so also, usually, must the 
taste for the pomelo and the tomato. 
We are told the way to acquire a liking 
for the avocado quickly is to tackle 
them when positively hungry and unable 
to get anything else to eat. It is as a 
food—a constituent of salads—that its 
extended and popular use is advocated 
by those who have found out how good 
and very valuable the avocado is, con¬ 
taining, as it does, so large a proportion 
of palatable oil. George B. Cellon, the 
acknowledged foremost expert in the 
propagation of both avocados and man¬ 
gos by budding, places the avocado 
ahead of the mango on account of its 
superior food value, and thinks that in 
urging its increased production he is 
helping to supplement the food supply of 
the world. 
On the island opposite Miami Mr. J. 
S. Collins, a retired New Jersey nursery¬ 
man, owns a plantation comprising 1,000 
acres, containing 6,000 avocado trees of 
the Frapp variety. The surpassing 
value of this sort consists in its “late¬ 
ness/ lasting till January, and hanging 
on well, long after all other sorts are 
gone—bringing big prices in the fancy 
fruit markets supplying the exclusive 
trade in the great cities. The writer 
hopes to see Mr. Collins’ immense grove 
of Trapp avocados when it becomes es¬ 
tablished. At present it seems to be 
suffering from the fierce salt breezes 
that sweep over it, being so near the sea. 
It is hoped to overcome this by plant¬ 
ing wind-breaks of the imported Aus¬ 
tralian beefwood, a Casuarina, but ex¬ 
perience at Palm Beach and elsewhere 
in Florida would seem to indicate that 
it might not be as desirable for the pur¬ 
pose as a native tree most abundant 
right on the shores of Biscayne Bay, 
the Citharexylum villosum or fiddle- 
wood, which is exceedingly tough, and 
in its general appearance bearing some 
resemblance to a small-leafed rubber 
tree. 
Flic propagation of the named avoca¬ 
dos is still limited to but few soils, al¬ 
most exclusively the Trapp, Pollock and 
Rico—the Trapp leading. The Pollock, 
a fine early variety, originated at Miami 
and as exhibited by E. V. Blackman at 
the Jamestown Exposition obtained the 
gold medal prize. The fruit exhibited 
was grown by the Rev. Dr. Luther S. 
Rader of Miami, who is a recognized 
expert in the growing of tropical fruits, 
living produced a fine seedling avo- 
eado, the Rader, which in quality 
equals the Pollock, and it is claimed 
the rurai. new-yorker 
excels it in size and appearance. Dr. 
Rader on his place has also fruited some 
of the rarest newly imported mangos. 
Wm. E. March owns the oldest and 
largest fruiting grove of the finest 
named mangos in the United States. I 
was treated to an inspection of the beau¬ 
tiful large trees then in full bloom. It 
was a vision of surpassing loveliness not 
soon to be forgotten. The large fruiting 
trees are mostly of the Mulgoba variety 
of mango, although Mr. March has 
other sorts. The flavor is a blending of 
peach, pineapple, apricot and some other 
indescribably good things, and each fruit 
weighs about a pound. It has no more 
fiber than a peach and in quality is as 
much superior to the ordinary seedling 
mango as the sweet orange is to the 
bitter. John B. Beach has for nearly 
20 years made a specialty of the mango, 
and prefers to propagate them by inarch¬ 
ing. He also, in addition to the Mul¬ 
goba, grows several other tested sorts, 
including the Sundersha, good five to 
eight weeks after the others are gone. 
It is a mistake to think that the finest 
mango cannot be safely shipped to dis¬ 
tant cities. Mr. March has had them 
reach Oregon in good condition and Dr. 
Rader has seen them arrive from India 
at the leading fruit markets of Cincin¬ 
nati, when they sold at $2 each. The 
Mulgoba usually retails at 25 cents each 
in Miami. It is an interesting sight to 
look through Mr. Beach’s shaded 
propagating houses containing thousands 
of inarched mangos, perched on shelves 
overhead among the branches, where 
they are watered copiously three times 
each day by iron pipes running up 
through the trees, carrying the city 
water. It is only necessary to turn a 
faucet below and they arfe instantly 
drenched. j. yates peek. 
R. N.-Y.—The mango is being suc¬ 
cessfully grown in Porto Rico, and large 
plantations have been started there. 
Bessie : “Up to our house we got a 
baby that jest come the other night.” 
Elsie (disdainfully): “Huh! that’s 
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