. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 46 CROPS THAT PAY. than twenty varieties of tlie finest fruit in the world, absolutely free of turpentine and tow, full-meated, luscious, exquisitely flavored, of great size, having small seeds, and of exterior coloring as richly varied and attractive as that of the American apples. The Bombay mango has thus become the mango of India, and it is shipped to all parts so far as trans- portation facilities will allow. Of the better Bombay varieties the 'Alphonse,' in native vernacular the 'Abooz,' is easily the be
. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 46 CROPS THAT PAY. than twenty varieties of tlie finest fruit in the world, absolutely free of turpentine and tow, full-meated, luscious, exquisitely flavored, of great size, having small seeds, and of exterior coloring as richly varied and attractive as that of the American apples. The Bombay mango has thus become the mango of India, and it is shipped to all parts so far as trans- portation facilities will allow. Of the better Bombay varieties the 'Alphonse,' in native vernacular the 'Abooz,' is easily the best; but we already have it, as well as the Mulgoba, in South Florida. If we can obtain and domesticate the Cowassje, the Pirie, and the Bottle varieties, as well, we shall be thoroughly equipped for supplying our own market with as good mangoes as can be ;. Vy==^;-' â PERMISSION MANGO SEED COLLINS, BUL. 2B, BUREAU PLANT INDUSTRY. Mr. Monroe's Florida home is near Cocoanut Grove, south of Miami, where his grove of citrus and tropical trees has been for years the show place of that section. A government expert on tropical and subtropical fruits writing in Bulletin No. I, issued by the Division of Pomology, U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, says, "Next to the finest varieties of pineapples, and perhaps also the mangosteen, there is no more delicious fruit in the world than the ; Mr. O. F. Cook, Botanist in charge of Investigations in Tropical Agriculture, writes in the U. S. Yearbook for igoi: "The better varieties of mangoes stand in the highest rank of tropical ; Woodrow, writing of the "Alphonse," the most noted of man- goes, says: "It is universally admitted to be the best of all mangoes. In flavor its fruit is indescribable; it seems to be a subtile blending of all agreeable ; Such distinguished testimony as the foregoing in favor of the mango should convince anyone that this new fruit from the tropics
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