. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 36 THE AGKIUULTUUAL NEWS. February 4, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. SHIELD BUDDING FOR THE MANGO. On pages 100 and 101 of the last volume of the Agricultural Neim, extracts were given from Bulletin No. 20 of the Hawaiian Agricultural Experiment Station which describes the propagation of the mango by shield budding. Through the courtesy of Mr. P. J. Wester, of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, the following extracts, supplying further infor- mation in connexion with the subject, are enabled to be given
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 36 THE AGKIUULTUUAL NEWS. February 4, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. SHIELD BUDDING FOR THE MANGO. On pages 100 and 101 of the last volume of the Agricultural Neim, extracts were given from Bulletin No. 20 of the Hawaiian Agricultural Experiment Station which describes the propagation of the mango by shield budding. Through the courtesy of Mr. P. J. Wester, of the United States Department of Agricul- ture, the following extracts, supplying further infor- mation in connexion with the subject, are enabled to be given here, from an illustrated article written by him in a recent number of the Rural New Yorker:— Shield-budding of the mango has been with partial success practised in Florida for at least six years by experi- menters in the propagation of this fruit; the writer first experimented with this method with some success in 1904 The percentage of successful Imds was, however, so low that he did not then feel justified in calling this method to the attention nf the public, and the experimental work was temporarily suspended. However, experimentation has been continued by a few men interested in the problem; in some instances meeting with remarkable success. The success achieved by Mr. Orange Pound, Cocoa-nut Grove, Fla., deserves special mention, not only for the difficulties that he has successfull}' surmounted, l)ut for the public-spirited way in which he has placed his data at the disposal of the writer for publication for the information of other mango growers. It is not too much to say that .Mr. I'nund's discovery marks an epoch in the mango industry, not only in Florida, but in other parts of the world. Mr. Pound recently obtained, with this method, over 85 per cent, of healthy trees among a lot of 300 plants budded—a most gratifying result. Success depends on the prime condition of the stock plant and that the sap is flowing freely; the buds should be .selected from well matu
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