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Page 107 · DO #480 · 204_Popenoe_Bx34FF50r
- Collection
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Wilson Popenoe (1892–1975) family papers
- Item/Folder
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Various manuscripts, memoranda, notes; English, Spanish & French ; typed and handwritten, n.d.
- Digital Object
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DO #480,
page 107
- Collection-level dates
- 1882–1975
Page transcription
21
Propogation
The time has passed when trop-
ical American horticulturists who
propose to develop commercial mango
orchards will plant seedling trees;
They show too much variation in
productiveness, size and quality of
fruit; unless they are polyembryonic
seedlings and even these are much
slower to come into bearing than grafted
trees.
Presumably because of the variation
which characterises the monoembryonic
mangos when grown from seed, Indian
horticulturists have for centuries re-
sorted to vegetative propagation methods
to perpetuate superior trees which
originate as chance seedlings. Just when
the art of grafting was developed in
tropical Asia is not known. It is generally
believed that the Portuguese, who estab-
lished a colony at Goa on the west coast
of India, were the first to graft
oranges, but the sacred books of the Hindu
written in the 7th and 8th centuries of our
era, speak of grafting as one of the essential
in Sanskrit in the
