SU THK LVCHKt; AND LUMiAN 



enjoys a thrilling ride to Lo Kang Hsu (Lo Kong Hu ^|^4|', a 

 market town and center of the whole region. Several miles beyond 

 this in the hills is a temple known as Lo Feng Ssu ( Lo Fung Ts/, 

 ]H3Hr) in which a traveller can readily find accomodation for the 

 night or for days if he so desires and has made provision for his own 

 food and bedding. 



Lo Kang Tung (Lo Kong Tung HfiTO) is noted for its fruit 

 production, especially the lychee and lungan, mei fmui #) 

 Primus miun< S & Z, Wulan (U lam fe$H) Canarium pimcla 

 Koen, Pai Ian (Pak lam &$;) Canarium album (Lour.) 

 Raench, Feng li (Fung lut JS$I) Castanopsis molUssima Bl. and 

 Shih (Tsz 31]]) Diospyros kaki L. These fruits are sometimes 

 planted in orchards at the foot of the hills, but most of the hills 

 and mountains have been terraced by this industrious people and thus 

 are made useful for fruit growing. The level beds, fifteen to twenty 

 feet wide, follow the line of the hills and each step, perpendicular to 

 the bed, is four to six feet high (figure 22). On these beds the 

 fruit trees are planted with exceedingly good results but with little 

 uniformity of kind of fruit or of distance between the trees. In the 

 lychee season the sight is magnificent and as described by the Chinese 

 is "like a red cloud. " Lo Kang (Lo Kong H(S5) is especially famous 

 for its production of No mi chih (No mai t'sz fgf^Mg) and Kuei wei 

 (Kwai mi $u) varieties, although the village of Shui Si Ts'un (Shui 

 SaiTs'un^MI^) is especially noted for Ya niang hsieh-(A neung hai 

 35.Wi) and Chiang chun 15 (Tseungkwan lai JIW&). In this whole 

 section the success of the lychee industry is doubtless due to a 

 method of propagation which, the people have discovered, brings 

 excellent results and which is not practiced so extensively at other 

 places. The Shan chih (Shan chi flift) or mountain variety is used 

 for stock and after the trees have attained a trunk diameter of four to 

 eight inches and are firmly established they are cleft grafted to the 

 better varieties. The people of this whole country are well acquaint- 

 ed with lychee and lungan culture and many of the dried lychee and 

 lungan for export are produced here. ^ 



TSENG CH'ING (*t$): THE HOME OF A LYCHEE OF 

 NATIONAL FAME 



Over the ridge of hills on the north of Lo Kang ( Lo Kong HfifiJ ) 

 is the district of Tseng Ch' ing (Tsang Shingifi^), famous, too, for its 

 lychee production ; especially so because it is the home of the renown- 

 ed Kua lu (Kwa luk ^,W<) or "Hanging green " lychee. This 



