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malus sp. (Malaceae), 59324. Feriki apple. From Chaseki, Athens, 
Greece. Scions presented by P. 0. Anagnostopoulos, director, Horticul- 
tural Section. After several unsuccessful shipments, we have finally 
secured from Mr. Anagnostopoulos scions of three pears and one apple, 
all of them recommended as standard varieties in Greece. 
These are described in this number of Plant Immigrants, the notes having 
been sent in a recent letter from Mr. Anagnostopoulos, who informs us that 
the scions were obtained by him from a fruit grower, Hercules Papatheodoron, 
whose orchards are situated a few miles from Athens. 
This number, the Feriki apple, is characterized as follows: "Trees 
of good size and thrifty, bearing regularly and heavily. Fruit conical in 
shape, mostly one-sided, color yellow, with cheek streaked red. Quality 
good, time of ripening September. This, variety is a good keeper; it may 
be held until spring without cold storage." 
mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae ) , 59645 and 59646. Mango.. From 
Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. Cuttings collected by Dr. David Fairchild, 
United States Department of Agriculture. During the past quarter of a 
century the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction has introduced 
many fine grafted mangos from the Asiatic tropics. In Florida, in Cuba, 
in Porto Rico and elsewhere in 'tropical America, most of these varieties 
have failed to bear satisfactory crops. Except in regions where the 
flowering season is accompanied by dry weather, the Indian mangos do not 
seem likely to prove highly satisfactory. 
This condition of affairs has stimulated the production of hybrid 
seedlings in tropical America, the particular object of most experimenters 
being to combine the fine quality and freedom from fiber of the best 
Indian sorts with the productiveness and resistance to disease which char- 
acterizes tropical American seedling mangos in general. The Haden mango, 
which is rapidly becoming the leading commercial sort in southern Florida, 
originated^ as a chance seedling of an excellent fiberless sort introduced 
from India by the Department of Agriculture in 1889. 
Dr. Fairchild has now sent from Cuba budwood of two promising new 
sorts, originated by H. A. Van Hermann, of Santiago de las Vegas. One of 
these is the result of a cross between Mulgoba and the well-known "Philip- 
pine mango" or "Mango Filipino" of Cuba, a race which came originally 
from the Philippines via Mexico, and is valuable for its freedom from 
disease and the fine quality of its fruit. 
The second variety is described as an improved form of "Mango Chino," 
a large-fruited Cuban variety of limited distribution (see "The Mangos of 
Cuba," in Proc. Am. Pom. Soc, 1915, for complete description). Both of 
these introductions will be tested at Miami, Fla., where their behavior 
will be watched with interest. 
