The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09
Home Of the Mango and Avocado.
Maket-The
Money of

1ngtOn propagatOrS, spent two sum-
mers experimenting with all possible
methods of grating and while I met
with more or less success with each,
l finally have been obliged to fall
back on the old Indian method of in
arching as the only one which is
practical commercial success. Rev. E.
Gale, of Mangonia, received an in
arched tree of the Mulago variety IS
Or 20 years ago, imported from India
by the Department, and this one is
now a very large, fine specimen and
bears most delicious fruit every year,
for which the standard price is rs
cents each, which New York fruit
dealers pay f. o. b and can't begin to
get enough to supply their demand.
Mr.. Gale has been following a plan
of modified marching, marching a cut
ting into the base or root Of an es-
tablished tree, with more Or less
success. This process I tried in 1904,
on about 200 stock; and while found
a little difficulty in obtaining a union,
have been obliged to abandon it as
impracticable for nursery purposes.
1t is all very we'll for a man who has
some common Seeding trees that he
wants to improve, but the percentage
Of success is rather low, and he may
have to try a second or third time
before he succeeds In such a case
my plan is to use an marched tree,
with its own root to support it, in
stead of a cutting, and in that way,
there is no possible chance Of fail
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5-lnches stump that now, at years
old, is II feet tall with a spread of
ID feet
The choice mangoes are a combi-
nation of peach and pineapple in fla
vOr, with spiciness added that can
not be described. All who have
tasted them agree that they are with
out exception the finest fruit in the
world. The fact that they are being
shipped safely from Bombay to Lon
don proves that we shall have no
trouble in getting Our fruit into mar
ket, where the prices now being real
lied on the few which we now pro-
duce are fabulous.
The best that we have as yet fruited
land it is but barely superior to the
Mulgoba) the Alphonse or Bennett,
sells for so cents each. But cut these
prices down to where the general
public can afford them, say S cents
each their enormous productivity and
easy culture will keep them always an
enormously remunerative crop. When
a man has a pineapple field shielded,
he ought to plant it out in marched
mangoes and when his pineapples
need replanting, he will have a bear
ing mango grove that will bring him
an enormous profit The shed will
serve to protect the trees from
the time he is done with his pine
apples, the mangoes will be big and
strong enough to withstand any cold
that may come along.
The Avocado Cor as some call it
alligator Dear) is another fruit which,
while quite at home here has never
been given much attention, owing to
tie uncertainty Of the seedlings time
of producing fruit We are now pro-
n"gating a variety by budding called
Trap, which bears heavily at 5 years.
Oust here a line or two was acci-
dentally lost so that the two lines do
not connect. Ed) from October till
January. This is destined to become
the favorite salad fruit of the fall and
ear ly winter. 1t is green in color and
rich and nuttv in flavor and requires
no olive oil to season it, only salt
and pepper and vinegar to make
most delightful mavonnaise The
few who have eaten it will pay fabu
l0'-e nri"es for it. in fact it has been
sold in New Work nc hioh y G G. oDiece