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I like the fruit, like the queer acid of lt,- 
but found it physically hard to eat: it wouldn't 
loosen from the stone by spoon action. (Hugh S.Blrd.) 
While it does not appeal to me, I imagine it 
will be appreciated by many who care for sweet fruit. 
(J. C. Heald. ) 
The most delicious fruit of the tropics. Can't 
get too many In the northern markets. (C. L. Mar- 
latt.) 
Delicious! I have traveled through the tropics 
and eaten many mangos, but none so delicate or 
readily edible as these. (Robert Anderson.) 
The mango Is an excellent fruit, and the mango 
habit is soon acquired by the initiated. The sample 
tried by me is very good indeed. I never ate a bet- 
ter one in Hawaii. (Henry W. Henshaw. ) 
The large size of the fruit, the large proportion of 
edible pulp, the fine flavor in which the "turpen- 
tine" quality is low, the almost entire absence of 
stringlness make this variety very attractive. 
(Albert Mann. ) ■ 
At the same time that the mangos were sent to the 
Cosmos Club, some of the best of them (the Ameerl, 
Davy's Favorite, and the Kala Alphonse) were selected 
and sent by special arrangement to the wives of certain 
Cabinet officers, with whom I was personally ac- 
quainted and who were interested in plants. The 
variation in their replies is so typical that I have 
taken the liberty in quoting them. The enthusiasm of 
those who have been In mango-growing countries makes 
the comparison somewhat less sharp than it otherwise 
might have been as between those who did and those who 
did not like the. flavor of the mango. 
I am deeply appreciative of your remembering us, 
and I was tremendously Interested in the mangos, 
but I am constrained to be perfectly frank and 
tell you that we did not care for them. It Is just 
possible that they are one of the foods for which 
one could cultivate a taste, but it apparently is 
not a natural one with. any member of my family. 
(Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife of Secretary of War.) 
