ROOTED LITCHI CUTTINGS 



Figure 5. A 3-inch pot containing a rooted iitchi plant ready to remove from the propagating 

 case. At the right is another plant without the pot to show the soil and roots. Great care must 

 be taken in removing the plants from the case. There must be a gradual let-down in temperature, 

 and for this purpose one or two unheated cases are needed. Photograph by E. L. Crandall. 



For the past five or six years the 

 Office of Foreign Seed and Plant 

 Introduction has been giving attention 

 to some of the problems involved in 

 the introduction and spread of this 

 valuable fruit crop. Experiments have 

 been made in long-distance seed ship- 

 ments, and numerous efforts have been 

 put forward to discover ways of trans- 

 porting budwood and scion wood and 

 utilizing the same in more rapidly 



propagating new stock. The attempts 

 to bring in budw^ood and scion wood 

 from distant countries and to utilize 

 this material for budding or grafting 

 on strong seedling stocks have not 

 been successful. Numerous methods 

 of grafting the imported wood were 

 tried, but failure marked most of these 

 efforts. Attention was then turned to 

 propagation by means of cuttings, in 

 the hope that small plants might be 



