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10636 to 10639 — Contiiuied. 



10657. .Vadras. 



A small fruit. Strinpry but of fine flavor. 



10658. Romani. 



A medium-sized fruit. Subacid, of very fine iiavof. 



10659. Xucka. 



A long, hooked, pointed fruit. Slightly stringy, but flavor good. 



10660. Vhlckna. 



A medium-sized fruit. Light yellow, of good flavor. 



10661. Daiu/'s FovofiU: 



\ long, thin fruit. Yellow, shaded red. 



10662. Gola. 



A large, round, yellow fruit, of very good flavor. 



10663. I'ljasee. 



A medium-sized fruit, of subaiid flavor. Ciood. 



10664. I,an<jra Iju-iji'. 



Similar to Lnngra HardiA, but larger. Kipens late in August. 



10665. Sunderi^hdli. 



A long fruit. Stringy. Flavor peeuliar ami (jnly liked l)y sume people. 



10666. Kala. 



A longish-shaped fruit. Pale green. Free of stringiness. Good. 



10667. Sandurialt. 



A small, long-shaped fruit. Stringy, but of fine flavor. 



10668. Xaji Ilahadi Amiu. 



A medium-sized, dark-green fruit. Ripens late. 



10669. Sharliati Black. 



A large, round fruit. Dark green. ( )f very good flavor. 



10670 to 10673. Nephelium litchi and Nepheijum lonoana. 



Litchi and longan. 



From Hing-hua, Fuhkien, China. Received thru Rev. W. N. Brewster, Methodist 

 Episcopal missionary, in the autumn of 1903. 



^Ir. Brewster says: "They were grafted probably some time in the year 1902. 

 Tlie trees were nofmore than two years old, I think. With regard to the culture, 

 they are not propagated from the seed, but a ball of earth is tied around a joint of a 

 branch, and when it throws roots out into this ball the branch is cut off on the side 

 next to the trunk, and the little tree is planted. The trees are fertilized by night soil 

 about the time that they are blossoming and also later when the fruits begin to form. 

 When the leaves are too thick, as they generally are in the spring, there is severe 

 pruning done. After the buds are out^ these are also thinned ; after the blossoms 

 begin to form into fruit they are thinned again. This is very important in order to 

 make a perfect fruit. They must be kept entirely free from frost, and should be 

 planted in a deep soil, i. e.," the soil should be soft down many feet below the sur- 

 face. The litdd blossoms early and matures the latter part of July. It is shaped 

 like a strawberry and has the strawberry color and appearance, only the skin is 

 rough and thick and brittle. The seed of the grafted variety is sharp pointed and 

 small, and shriveled up so that the rxieat is much more abundant than in the 

 ungrafted variety. The meat is white andjuicy and a little tart. The longan (another 

 species of the same genus) ripens in September. It is round and smooth. It is 

 sweeter than the Vdchi, l)ut the meat has very much the same ai^pearance. 



"The other fruit which I brought, the longan, is not a variety of the idchi, but. a 



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