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enemies of the plant and they often wrap the trunks and branches of 

 young trees with rice straw. Ts'ai Hsiang f^H) 1 reports: 'The 

 lychee tree, when first planted, dreads the cold, and until it is five or 

 six years old it should be protected during the depths of winter from 

 frost, snow and sleet." 



The fruiting trees at the Royal Palm Nurseries at Oneco, 

 Florida, are under cover. Mr. E. N. Reasoner, in a letter to the 

 writer dated September 6, 1917, said : '* When the severe cold wave 

 came in February last we protected the small lychees so they had no 

 exposure; the fruiting trees in the large shed were under cloth roof 

 and had fire protection, but we did not start fires until the temper- 

 ature in the shed was down to about 28 or 2V, and in consequence 

 the mango trees standing next row to the lychees were severely cut 



back The lychees were just starting a flush and the leaves were 



tender, but not killed at all, and no damage resulted to them in any 

 way. " 



1 TS'AI HSIANG (), Li Chih P'u (&tg) in Ku Chin Tu Shu Chi 

 Cheng: (#^H|^J&), Pu Wu Hid Pien (If4^^i^), TSao Muh Tien 

 (*), section 273 (-W-fc-fH*), U Chih Pu 1 (&$-), page 4 

 (**). 



