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are pulpy, sweet and edible, seeds narcotic, bitter; and that the fruit 

 of " Litchi ' ' is sweet, rather acid, refrigerant and pectoral and used 

 to make refreshing adjuvenant drinks in treating slow fevers. 



I . \V. Popenoe } , in the 1917 Edition of L. H. Bailey's 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, outlines the culture of the 

 lychee, under " Litchi." He deals with the rambutan, pulassan and 

 lonyan under Nep helium. At the time this work goes to press the 

 Macmillan Company has in preparation a work by Wilson Popenoe 

 on Tropical and Sub-Tropical Fruits, and among the hundred or 

 more fruits discussed is the " Chinese litchi. 



In the years 1915 and 1916 considerable interest in the lychee 

 seems to have been manifested in Florida. A paper was read before 

 the State Horticultural Society by W. S. Taylor 2 who also wrote;articfes 

 for the Florida Times Union in an endeavor to arouse the people of 

 his state to an interest in this fruit. 



The Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station issued a bulletin 

 July 27, 1917, "The Litchi in Hawaii" by J. E. Higgins 3 , 

 Horticulturist. This work contains valuable information regarding 

 some interesting experiments in propagation which were performed 

 at that station and also with regard to insect enemies. This work 

 has b?en a valuable contribution to the increasing interest which is 

 now manifested in the lychee and lungan and it is frequently referred 

 to in the body of this work. 



1 Poprnoe, F. W., in The standard cyclopedia of horticulture, editrd 

 by L. H. Bailey, in six volumes, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1917, 

 Vol. 4, pages 1891, 1892, 1893 and 2131. 



2 Taylor, W. S., Florida grower, July 17, 1915, and April 18. 1916 ; 

 Florida times union, February 8 and 22 and March 2, 16 and 23, 1916. 



3 Higgins, J. E. The Litchi in Hawaii, Hawaii Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Bulletin No. 44, Washington, Government printing office, 1917. 



