Inventory 40, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate I. 



The First Chinese Litchi Tree (Litchi chinensis Sonnerat) to Fruit in the 

 United States. (See S. P. I. No.'38779.) 



Although the famous Afong litchi tree has borne more or less regularly in Honolulu for the past 

 twenty years, most of the attempts which have been made to grow this species in California 

 and Florida have failed. This illustration, according to Mr. Hadley, shows a seedling intro- 

 duced by Keasoner Bros., of Oneco, Fla., now growing on the I fadley place in Santa Barbara, 

 Cal. It was 9 feet high and had a spread of 134 feet at the time the photograph here repro- 

 duced was taken, October 2s, 1914. In 1914 it bore and ripened several fruits. In 1915 it 

 bloomed but failed to fruit, it was not injured by the fie eze ol 1913, although to jusl lu.w low- 

 temperatures it was subjected is not known. A report from India indicates thai 21° !•". will 

 injure the foliage, whereas a similar report from South China is I i the effect thai 24° K. injured 

 large trees severely. The freeze of February 3, 1917 1 I, at Miami, Fla., 1 



10-year-old trees nearly to the ground. (Photographed by \\ ilson Popenoe, I ictober 28, 1914; 

 P16216FS.) 



