52 THE LYOHliE AND LUNGAN 



in this section and many magnificent trees of both can be seen. 

 Many varieties of both fruits are reported from this section and there 

 are some other special varieties selling at fabulous prices. 



FANG YUNG (MSflp : A LYCHEE NURSERY VILLAGE 



The lychee industry is so extensive in Kwangtung as not only 

 to warrant the acquisition of special tracts of land for its culture and 

 sale, but likewise for its propagation. Tseng Ch'ing (Tsang Shing 

 ift*$) and Tung Kuan (Tung Kun tf*^) are perhaps the two most 

 famous Ling Nan lychee districts. In the heart of the latter is the, 

 village of Fang Yung (Fung Chung IB $8.', quite widely noted 

 throughout the Canton region for two great achievements: the 

 production of lychee nursery stock and the proud possessor of a 

 citizen who, under the old order, secured the T'an Hua ($!?) or 

 third scholarship degree from Peking. When I first met Fang 

 Yung's (Fung Chung's JjfflU ) energetic lychee promoter and 

 nurseryman he eagerly told me of their wonderful trees and of the 

 fact that he is a relative of Kwangtung "s famous scholar and 

 official. 



Sin T'ang (San T'ong $r$r) a city of 20,000 inhabitants and 

 a large center for lychee and lungan trade, is on the Canton-Kowloon 

 Railway only about twenty-one miles east of Canton city. Sin 

 T'ang (San T'ong 3^|) exports large quantities of these fruits to 

 Singapore and abroad. The railway station is quite a distance from 

 the city which is located on the north bank of the East river. 

 As one walks from the railway to the city, over the intervening hill 

 land, he cannot help but notice lychee and lungan trees, interspersed 

 with bamboo and the canarium trees for which the region is also 

 especially adapted The lychee is well adapted to undrained regions, 

 but that it also thrives on the hills is quickly evident when one views 

 some of the beautiful orchards of this region (figure 25) which in 

 general appearance are not unlike apple orchards of western 

 countries. 



Tseng Ch'ing (Tsang Shing *tJ$) lies to the north of the 

 East river while Tung Kuan (Tung Kun jfC^j) district is to the 

 south. This district is low and has scores of canals leading inland, 

 watering vast fields of rice and sugar cane. The land in this 

 region is worth two to three hundred dollars gold an acre and 

 lychee groves are seen everywhere proving how profitable the crop 

 must be. 



