. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. THE MANGO. 45 Elphinstone, the famous historian of India, says, "The mango is the best fruit of India, at once rich and delicate, and all other fruits are dull and insipid beside its intensity of taste. There is something in it that is nothing less than ;. MANGO PARTLY PEELED COLLINS, BUL. 28, BUREAU PLANT INDUSTRY. Mr. Kirk Monroe, the author, on a trip around the world in 1903, wrote home: "Everywhere from Tuticom to the high foothills of the Himalaya, and from Bombay to Calcutta, t
. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. THE MANGO. 45 Elphinstone, the famous historian of India, says, "The mango is the best fruit of India, at once rich and delicate, and all other fruits are dull and insipid beside its intensity of taste. There is something in it that is nothing less than ;. MANGO PARTLY PEELED COLLINS, BUL. 28, BUREAU PLANT INDUSTRY. Mr. Kirk Monroe, the author, on a trip around the world in 1903, wrote home: "Everywhere from Tuticom to the high foothills of the Himalaya, and from Bombay to Calcutta, the mango tree, stately, wide-branched and luxuriant, lining the dusty roads or shading the mud-walled, palm- thatched, native hovels, is an ever-present feature of the landscape, and In Its season, which is the same as in South Florida, viz., from May until August, all native India finds In the mango a welcome addition to its scanty menu. At the same time, save in a few widely scattered locali- ties, and notably in the vicinity of Doitibay, the mango must grow as It can without the least assistance in the way of cultivation or fertilizer from the proprietors of the soil. As a result, the ordinary mango of India is as much a thing of 'tow and turpintine' as is the same fruit without intelligent supervision in the "West Indies or South Florida. Only in the vicinity of Bombay did I find mangoes receiving a certain amount of intelligent treatment, and even there so little is done that one regards with amazement the results achieved. Selection, propagation by the clumsy and antiquated method of inarching, irrigation during the dry season, and in a few cases a scanty supply of stable manure, ap- plied once a year. That is all; but the result is the production of more. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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