The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1907-05-04
Facts About Mango Culture.

we shall have to adopt methods for
the propagation and setting out OF
these trees that are radically different
from those practiced IN setting out
citrus trees" After twenty years ex-
perience, and hundreds of trials along
all conceivable lines, l fully accept
this far reaching utterance-
AS early as 1914 Mr.. Lunan, writing
of mango culture in Jamaica SAID,
The tree does not transplant we'll ="
Time has proved that if this simple
fact had been early needed it would
have been worth millions Of dollars
to this western world
1t is now worthy of special note
that the authorities controlling the
government gardens have come back
to practical recognition of this very
important fact. This they do by SIM
ply proposing to plant seeding mango
trees in orchard form and then when
well established budding them as well
as old trees also. Thus they practl-
cally set aside the time worn method
of marching. (See government re-
port 1908, page 255) When we come
to place this proposed method by the
side OF our own experience In plant
ing seeding, marched, budded or
grated mango trees the reason for
this action is obvious The only
thought is why could we not have
seen this fact before.
We find by reference to these ia
maica Reports that it took our Insu-
lar neighborS almost hundred years
to learn the utter uselessness of
seeking after choice mangoes from
planting seeds Fortunately our
Florida people learned this fact in
much less time
We find in Report for 1901, page
1914, that the process of marching the
mango was commenced in 1874 This
method has been continued up to the
present time and distribution of these
marched trees made to planters over
the island. Up to the present this
covers a period of thirty-three lists
of varieties of mangoes grown in va
rious parts of the island but there IS
not an allusion in all these reports to
even a single grove of choice marched
Is e,xo1 4,
thing in the island it would not have
been passed by in silence But we do
find reference to solitary trees pro-
ducing choice fruit. One of these has
grown old and yet not an allusion to
an effort at reproduction One gentle
man has sent three times to India for
choice varieties but no intimation of
an effort for reproduction Where
are the trees that have gone out from
Hope Gardens for more than thirty
years. l might be in doubt for an an
I Swer If | did not see the same condi-
tons fast working toward the same
ends within a few miles of my own
! home here in Florida 1t is 4 sad
| failure and several causes may be at
the bottom of it. but the essential one
/ that needs to be noted IS that the
work IS expert work, and demands
special arrangements If the novice
. don't believe it let him try his hand
with such fixtures as he can rake out
OF his trash pile.
! Again the Report of 1901 says,
Experiments in budding have been
! successful, so far, only to limited ex-
tent, at the Hope Gardens Expert
ments in this direction will be contin-
ued 10 determine several points that
are not quite clear Then again in
the Report OF 1908, page 253, we have
thi 5 statement, Experiments have
, been for some time conducted at the
Hope Experiment station, in budding
resulting at last in success" Then
/ follows carefully detailed statement
OF the method of budding. This meth
cd OF budding does not concern US in
Florida. If we are 70 have buddinq
| believe We have a better method
which is already giving US good re
suits 1t has surely given US the first
samples OF the Alphonse Mango pro-
duced on the western continent, from
four year old bud marched Al
phonse Mango trees imported from
India have stood for fifteen years on