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THE ROSE MANGO. 
IIE mango is a tree belonging to the 
Cashew nut family common through 
India and Malaysia, and now widely in¬ 
troduced through the West Indies and 
tropical America. It is very variable in 
shape, size, color and quality; sometimes 
the fruit is rich and melting, sometimes 
so stringy and ill-flavored that it is 
likened to tow soaked in turpentine. The 
lish walnut, or the best hickory, or the 
best northern pecan, or the best hazel 
nut, or the best persimmon. The trouble 
is that we do not yet know where these 
trees are, but they are probably grow¬ 
ing on the farms of some of the readers 
of this paper. We now know how to 
propagate these trees, so all that is need¬ 
ed is to find parent trees. Can’t you 
help? If you know of a promising tree, 
send a description of it and its bearing 
history, along with some of the nuts to 
Dr. W. C. Deming, Secretary of the 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association, 
Georgetown. Conn. You may get one of 
TIIE ROSE MANGO, OR MANGA DA ROSA. Fig. 593. 
specimen shown in Fig. 593, known as 
manga da rosa, or rose mango, is a su¬ 
perior form grown on a commercial scale 
at Pernambuco, and to a less extent 
along the Brazilian Coast. It is repro¬ 
duced from a photograph secured during 
the recent Brazilian expedition sent out 
by the Department of Agriculture, which 
was published in Bulletin No. 99 from 
the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant In¬ 
troduction. This rose mango, supposed 
originally to have come from Mauritius, 
is a very handsome fruit, deep apricot, 
overlaid with salmon and flame color, the 
flesh deep yellow. The quality is agree¬ 
able, and the fruit has excellent keeping 
and shipping qualities. The bulletin 
states that large quantities of this mango 
are shipped from Pernambuco to Rio 
Janeiro, and there sold at 05 to SO cents 
each. 
Mangoes vary in form, some being kid¬ 
ney shaped and some rounded; they 
weigh from one-fourth to three-fourths 
of a pound. They are occasionally 
grown under glass in Europe, both in 
botanic gardens and private conserva¬ 
tories. 
Fruits for Home Use. 
ILL you give me a selection of the 
following trees for private use on 
plot 67x200? Six apple trees; four 
pears; four peaches; two plums; 10 
grapevines. A. T. 
Wortendyke, N. J. 
The following selections are excellent 
varieties for family use, and will be 
found very satisfactory: Apple: One 
Early Harvest, one Sweet Bough, one 
Gravenstein, one Twenty Ounce, one 
Baldwin, one Winesap. Pears: One 
Bartlett, one Clapp’s Favorite, one Wor¬ 
den Seckel, one Lawrence. Peach: One 
Carman, one Elberta, one Mountain 
Rose, one Iron Mountain. Plums: Lom¬ 
bard, October Purple. Grapes: Two 
Moore’s Early, two Moore's Diamond, 
two Concord, two Coco, one Worden, one 
Campbell’s Early. K. 
Starting a Nut Industry. 
IIE English walnut is a great indus¬ 
try in some localities for the simple 
reason that some observing farmer of 
by-gone ages picked out the best trees 
from among thousands of wild trees and 
propagated them. That is the way we 
got the Baldwin apple, and all our other 
fruits. You would be rich if you had an 
orchard of trees like the best Black wal¬ 
nut growing in America, or the best Eng¬ 
the $5 prizes that the association is of¬ 
fering for the best hickory, walnut, or 
hazel tree that is an improvement on 
those already known. The Northern Nut 
Growers’ Association is doing pioneer 
work in this line, and the results of the 
competition will be reported in this pa¬ 
per. J. BUSSELL SMITH. 
Immune Chestnuts; Filbert Cuttings. 
AYE the European and Japanese 
chestnuts been tested thoroughly in 
respect to the chestnut bark disease, 
and are they immune? Is the chestnut 
bark disease the thing that has weakened 
the chestnut in the South? 2. Will fil¬ 
berts grow readily from cuttings, as 
stated by some? e. r. 
Brownsville, Ore. 
1. The European and Japanese species 
of the chestnut have been tested and 
found to be less subject to the blight than 
our native species, but they are not im¬ 
mune to it. The disease has existed in 
China for ages, perhaps, and it was 
brought here by importing chestnut trees. 
This disease has spread southwestward 
from New England and has done untold 
damage to the cultivated and wild trees 
as far as Maryland, and is progressing 
steadily onward. There are .several re¬ 
gions in Virginia that are infected but ef¬ 
forts are being made to stop the disease. 
Burning every part of the affected trees 
is the only way to destroy the germs. No 
trees or scions should be got from any in¬ 
fested region. 
2. Filbert cutting may be rooted but 
with difficulty. The best way to propa¬ 
gate the plants is by banking up the 
bushes and inducing them to strike roots, 
when they may be cut off and transplant¬ 
ed. It is also practicable to grow seed¬ 
lings and bud or graft them with the ap¬ 
proved varieties. 
n. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Care of Apple Trees. 
HAVE an apple orchard about three 
years old; trees healthy, but were 
trimmed to excess two years ago. and 
do not bear very well. The ground has 
not been plowed in four or five years and 
is in sod now. Would it be well to plow 
this Fall and crop in Spring? g. ii. n. 
Jackson, Mich. 
An apple orchard that is 30 years old 
ought to be in good bearing condition and 
excessive pruning and lack of culture are 
probably accountable for the scarce fruit¬ 
age. It would be well to plow the ground 
this Fall, and next Spring begin early to 
cultivate it with disk and spring-tooth 
harrows, which should be kept up until 
August first, going over it after every 
rain to keep the moisture in the soil. Ii 
would be well to spread some stable ma- 
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11 lire on top of the ground after the plow¬ 
ing and let its substance soak in to add 
fertility. No crop should be put in until 
next Fall, when some cover crop like Can¬ 
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Protecting Your Seeds. 
W HEN you put away your seeds this 
year, try putting a few “moth 
balls” in with them to prevent the devel¬ 
opment of weavils, worms and bugs. 
There are other remedies and good ones, 
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gerous. and also the best of them kill the 
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.pea seed need not come out in the Spring 
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order, with vitality much reduced. Put 
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each quart of seed of any kind distribute 
say three moth balls, in smaller pack¬ 
ages put one moth ball, of course, or even 
half of one. .The seed does not seem to 
be injured by the moth balls, but their 
odor is the most effective “keep out” sign 
for destructive vermin that I have found. 
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The It. N.-Y., will prove sure death. 
The Black Walnut. 
I NOTICED an article in a recent is¬ 
sue from M. II. M.. Virginia, inquir¬ 
ing about the price and market for 
Black walnuts, The market and demand 
should be better for this delicious and 
valuable nut; the English walnut does 
not compare with it in flavor, when used 
in bread and cake, conserves or candy, 
or when eaten out of hand it is delicious. 
The difficulty in cracking the Black 
walnut is it only drawback, but its fine 
flavor is well worth the extra work. 
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