. Collected papers on tropical fruits in California. 168 Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany is probably the best of the local seedlings. This mango would seem to be one of the "Manila" type grown in MexicO;, and it is probable that the seed was brought from some point in that republic^ and was of that type. The tree has been sub- jected to the hardest possible usage^ and under these conditions its behavior is truly remarkable. It is grown in a partially decomposed granite soil at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains^ and for a number of years has received practically no care
. Collected papers on tropical fruits in California. 168 Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany is probably the best of the local seedlings. This mango would seem to be one of the "Manila" type grown in MexicO;, and it is probable that the seed was brought from some point in that republic^ and was of that type. The tree has been sub- jected to the hardest possible usage^ and under these conditions its behavior is truly remarkable. It is grown in a partially decomposed granite soil at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains^ and for a number of years has received practically no care whatever. And yet it bears regularly good crops of fruit,—fruit which will compare well in size with those of the Manila type produced in Mexico. If picked in December and laid away for a few days it ripens into a mango of very fair flavor and quality. Desci'iption: General form long and slender, somewhat compressed, and terminating in a prominent curved beak; size large; weight ten ounces; dimensions, length five and one-half inches, width two and three-quarters inches, thickness two. Figure 72. The Fales mango. inches; base somewhat tapering, slightly extended where stem joins the fruit; apex very prominently curved and beaked, stigmatic point rather prominent and one- quarter inch above tip of beak; stem rather stout; fruits borne in clusters of two to six; surface somewhat undulating; bloom none; color greenish j'-ellow, brightest at base and gradually shading downward to yellowish green at apex; dots numerous, small, rounded, some of them subcutaneous, dark brown, the subcu- taneous ones light yellowish; skin medium thick, tough; flesh firm, orange yellow, juicy; fibre not very abundant, fine; seed very long, narrow, medium thick; flavor sweet, aromatic^ very pleasant; quality fair to good; matures in December at Sierra Madre, but does not ripen perfectly on the tree. Tree is upright, close headed, and a fairh^ prolific bearer. Here described for the first Please
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