A History of Agriculture in India v2.c69.s1.2

v2.c69.s1.2

‘Mangoes when good are very good; but many as are eaten, few are first-rate. They are usually plucked unripe and ripened in the house. Unripe they make excellent condiments, are good also preserved in syrup. Taking it altogether, the mango is the best fruit of Hindustan. Some so praise it as to give it preference over all fruits except the musk-melon, but such praise outmatches it. It resembles the kārdi peach. It ripens in the rains. It is eaten in two ways: one is to squeeze it to a pulp, make a hole in it, and suck out the juice, —the other, to peel and eat it like the kārdi peach. Its tree grows very large and has a leaf somewhat resembling the peach-tree’s. The trunk is ill-looking and ill-shaped, but in Bengal and Gujrāt is heard of as growing handsome.