FLORIDA /STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
fruits, economic and ornamental 
plants, trees, etc., in the open air, with 
but slight risk of damage. The avo¬ 
cado and mango, especially, promise 
much for an extensive orchard busi¬ 
ness and are now being quite rapidly 
put out in the best budded stock, while 
pineapple plants have been grown in 
the open air over thousands of acres 
for many years. The Harts Choice and 
Orinoco bananas may be successfully 
grown all over South Florida without 
any protection at all, as the loss of 
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leaves and some fruit does not amount 
to a serious check to the production of 
a fine lot of fruit in summer and au¬ 
tumn. The common guava as well as 
the rare Dovyalis Gardneri, should be 
grown all over South Florida outdoors, 
even without protection, as they bear 
on sprouts of but fifteen or eighteen 
months, thus, if even one winter in 
several is without severe frost, these 
will bear well the following summer 
and autumn. 
MANGOES. 
John B. Beach. 
Mr. President , Ladies and Gentlemen: 
Progress in mango growing has 
gone forward steadily since our last 
report. Last year the crop of Mul- 
gobas was small, owing probably to 
the fog and rainy weather which oc¬ 
curred about the time of blooming, 
and the demand at 25c each f. o. b. far 
exceeded the supply. This year pros¬ 
pects for a crop seem much more prom¬ 
ising, and we have no fear that the de¬ 
mand will fail to keep pace with the 
supply. Many new varieties of great¬ 
er or less merit fruited for the first 
time last summer, and more are going 
to bear their first crop this year. It 
is too early to tell much about the value 
of these new sorts till they have pro¬ 
duced several consecutive crops, but 
none has yet appeared which surpassed 
the Mulgoba in market qualities, and 
shipping value. This fruit is more deli¬ 
cate than the common seedlings, and 
more subject to loss from fungus and 
other causes while green, and to secure 
a good crop pains must be taken to 
destroy fungus with Bordeaux, and 
also a little worm which girdles the 
stem of the fruit and causes it to drop 
before mature. We think arsenate of 
lead applied with the Bordeaux will 
nip this fellow’s career in the bud, and 
the slight expense attendant on one or 
two such sprayings is repaid many fold 
by the increased value of the crop. 
Bennett Alphonso continues to hold 
its own as a heavier yielder than 
Mulgoba, and nearly as good a market 
fruit. Rajpurri is putting on its third 
crop, and continues to yield well and 
produce fibreless fruit of most excel¬ 
lent flavor and rich quality. The little 
