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is growing on the place of the late Rev. 
A. Gale at Mangonia. I have just seen 
the tree (April 25th) and it has enough 
fruit set to make five bushels if 
they all mature. Mr. Geo. Gale has or¬ 
ders for all he can produce at 25 cents 
each f. o. b. The tree is two feet in 
diameter and has a spread of twenty-five 
feet. It is on the very poorest kind of 
spruce pine land, coarse and white, with¬ 
out fertilizer or irrigation. It is wonder¬ 
ful that anything could live and grow 
under such conditions, and speaks well 
for the vigor of the East Indian Mango. 
I have a tree budded from this ten 
years ago, that stands twenty-five fset 
high, and has yielded from. 500 to 1,000 
inarches per year, since I began to pro¬ 
pagate from it. Before I began this it 
had produced two crops of fruit, but since 
then I have been working it so hard on 
propagation that it only sets a few fruit 
each year. It is on spruce pine land, but 
I give it fertilizer and water, which 
everything here needs to produce max¬ 
imum results. If Mr. Gale’s tree had had 
the same treatment that mine has had, 
it would undoubtedly be yielding 25 to 
30 bushels .of fruit per year. All the 
imported trees that we have bearing pro¬ 
duce fruit that is free from fibre. There 
is a little down on one side of the seed, 
but no fibre at all in the body of the 
fruit. You can cut around the seed and 
lift off a fruit cup just as you would 
with a free-stone peach or an avocado 
pear. The pulp is far richer than the 
finest peach, melting and juicy with a 
spicy flavor not to be found in any tem¬ 
perate fruit. 
The Mulgoba weighs fourteen to six¬ 
teen oz., has a fine red cheek, and is a 
fine market fruit. Shape is often nearly 
cylindrical, and never very lopsided. The 
AlphonsO', one of the recent importations 
via Washington, is considered in India 
the best of all. It is superior in flavor 
to the Mulgoba but inferior in size and 
appearance. Sundersha weighs from two 
to three pounds, but is not equal to Mul¬ 
goba in quality. Fernandez, one of my 
own importations, has a distinct subacid 
flavor, unusual in mangoes, and which 
will make it popular when known, though 
the size is only 6 oz. It is a most pro¬ 
lific bearer, and I have to pick off half 
the fruit to give the rest a chance. Young 
trees just inarched will often start to 
bloom the first year. There are quite a 
number of other varieties imported by the 
Department, by Mr. E. N. Reasoner and 
by myself that have not as yet fruited, 
selected from the finest in India that may 
develop other qualities that may appeal 
to the taste of the public, but it will be 
hard to beat the Alphonso. The develop¬ 
ment of these we await with interest, and 
next year expect to hear from some of 
them, as many have blossomed and set 
fruit. 
