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Fine. (No signature.) 
I liked the mango ice very much on account of 
the delicacy of the flavor. (No signature . ) 
I like the taste of the mango eaten alone, but 
it does, not seem well suited to preparation m the 
form of an >ce. Perhaps the flavor is not strong 
enough to permit the dilution. (Herbert C.Marshall.) 
The taste of the mango ice is excellent. (John 
W. Davis.) 
Good. (Frank Sutton.) 
Sweetly insipid or insipidly sweet. (J.H. Ralston. ) 
Very good. Real mango flavor. (Fred E. Weston.) 
Suggests a little turpentine in an orange 
sherbet,- not bad at that. (No signature.) 
Excellent. (H. 0. Wood. ) 
Very f on 3 of it as a fruit, but do not like it 
so well as a flavoring. The flavor is a little too 
strong. Try it weaker the next time. a mere sug- 
gestion of mango flavor. That is the way it is pre- 
pared in the Tropics, and it is more delicious. (Cyrus 
F. Wicker, former Secretary of Legation, Panama . ) 
I am convinced that this experiment, with what th^se 
of us who like 1 1 declare i s a perfectly delicious f uit, 
is a typical demonstration of the caprice o" taste in 
general. I can not attach to the fancies of whole peoples, 
such as the Irish distaste for com bread , or the French 
dislike for sweet potato, or the Belgian dislike "or 
rice, any deeper signl ficance than lies It; th simple 
fact that these peoples have not yet learned 'o 1'ke 
these delicate and wholesome foods. One of the second- 
ary missions o" this work of plant introduction is to 
break down the superstitions regarding olant foods 
and point out the unwisdom, if not the actual danger, 
of ridiculing foods which we have not tried to l'ke or 
have not learned to care for. Food ridicule is tied 
up with ignorance and is a handicap in the struggle for 
existence of a race. 
David Fairchlld. 
