Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1920 — The Mango Industry. [ARTICLE]

The Mango Industry.

; The office of foreign seed and plant introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture has’assembled, through the work of its explorers and through exchange with the British East Indian departments of agriculture, one of the largest collections of selected mango varieties in -tbe world. There are how fruiting at the plant introduction field station. Miami, Fla., about twenty varieties this year, and these represent the selections from more than seventy sorts of this great fruit Some of these have scarcely more fiber than a freestone peach and can be cut open lengthwise and toten as easily with a spoon as a Rocky Ford cantaloupe. They have an indescribably agreeable aroma reminiscent of pineapples. The mango tree, when it is In bearing, Is a gorgeous sight, for It is a large long-lived tree and tha golden-yellow fruits as they hang in great clusters from the dark green foliage make one of the great tropical plant sights of the world.—lndianapolis News. ■>