USPP119P - Mango - Google Patents

Description

Jan. 15, 1935.

E. G. WILKINSON MANGO Filed Aug. 21. 1933 Patented Jan. 15, 1935 UNITED STATES Plant Fed. 119

MANGO Edwards G. Wilkinson, Naples, Fla.

Application August 21,

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a new variety of mango.

The principal object of my invention is to produce a mango that is of better eating qualities than any mango which has as yet been found on the market.

The annexed painting and the following description set forth the leading characteristics of the new variety of mango which I have asexually produced.

The variety of the subject of this application was originated on applicants home grounds, Naples, Florida, and the first fruit ripened in 1932. The variety originated from a seedling, the seed however was selected from trees where the branches were intertwined and is the result of many years of experimentation to produce a better mango that would be of Value commercially, the purpose being to secure a seed that had been cross fertilized and in this way getting a hybrid.

The parentage is not positively known as to both parents, one is certainly Cecil the other is either Mulgoba or Haden, applicant is of the belief that it is Mulgoba.

This variety was first asexually propagated by budding in the spring of 1933. The buds (12 in number) have reproduced the leaf, form, color of young growth, and odor of the leaf; these buds reproduced the fruit in the summer of 1934.

Tree

The tree is low growing and wide spreading, of an extraordinary vigorous growth and while it is not symmetrical it has a tendency to horizontal growing, this being very noticeable before the trees begin to bear. The tree sets fruit on every bloom flush and will hold and ripen more fruit than the limbs will carry, which makes it necessary to support at least half of the limbs. The new growth is of a greenish hue rather than the usual reddish bronze.

Leaves The leaves are of large size and are noticeably very sharp pointed with twenty-five to thirty transverse veins. When crushed the leaves give off a fresh herby odor and are a fern to a wintergreen in color.

Panm'cles The pannicles are of all sizes, from as large as a mans thumb to heads 24" high to 34 across with as many as seven heavy stems, in other words, from a bunch of a few flowers on a perfectly foliaged piece of new growth to 25-45 to 8" pannicles along an 18 stem with a leaf at 1933, Serial No. 686,129

The blushed portions of my mango have a greater area of bright color of scarlet Vermilion than those of the Mulgoba or of any other known variety (see Maerz & Paul Dictionary of Color). The green portions are brighter and more yellowish green than those of the Mulgoba and are smaller in area. The apex of the fruit is of a fern green shade and the skin shows an orange reddish coloring and portions being a golden-rod yellow while the Haden variety of mango is of the apricot yellow.

Fruit The fruit is large to very large and from 14 to 28 ounces in weight. The general shape appears to resemble the Mulgoba variety but many specimens appear to lack its level depressed stem portion, thus in this respect somewhat resembling the Haden variety. Endwise it appears round; it is full shouldered, plump, long and the lower half tapering. Its skin is thinner than any known variety, strong and of a spicy odor, many persons preferring to eat them unpeeled. The 5 flesh of the fruit is yellow, not orange as in the known varieties of mango; is free from fibre and of a delicious mild spicy fiavor, hence does not require an acquired taste to enjoy it. The flesh holds firm and does not deteriorate for a long time, even after the skin has turned entirely black and even this blackened peel will be no thicker than the stringy lined peel of the Haden variety when first ripe. The fruit is approximately 11 inches in length and is 7 inches in diameter.

Seed

The seed is oblong, narrow and flat and a few show fibres along the ventral edge only. The large size of the fruit combined with the lack of fibre on the sides and back of seed makes it a superior slicing mango. The seeds are monoembryonic.

The extreme limits of fruiting, so far, have been May 15 to August 15. The first crop is the Third;--has greater keeping qualities, hence stands shipment better.

Fourth;-a more pleasing flavor and a delicious fragrance.

Fifth;-its greater size.

What I claim is:-

A new and distinct variety of mango tree, as described, characterized particularly by its low and vigorous growing habits; multiplicity of its crops; superior size, color, flavor and freedom 10 from fibre of its fruit. I

EDWARDS G. WILKINSON.

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