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10636 to 10639 — Continued. 



10657. ^^adras. 



A small fruit. Stringry but of fine flavor. 



10658. Romani. 



A medium-sized fruit. Subacid, of very fine flavor. 



10659. Nucka. 



A long, hooked, pointed fruit. Slightly stringy, but flavor good. 



10660. Chlchia. 



A medium-sized fruit. Light yellow, of good flavor. 



10661. Davifs Favorite. 



A long, thin fruit. Yellow, shaded red. 



10662. Gola. 



A large, round, yellow fruit, of very good flavor. 



10663. Pyasee. 



A. medium-sized fruit, of subacid flavor. Good. 



10664. Langra Large. 



Similar to Langra LLardoi, but larger. Kipens late in August. 



10665. Sunder sha h . 



A long fruit. Stringy. Flavor peculiar and only liked by some people. 



10666. Kala. 



A longish-shaped fruit. Pale green. Free of stringiness. Good. 



10667. Sanduriah. 



A small, long-shaped fruit. Stringy, but of fine flavor. 



10668. Xaji LLahadi Amin. 



A medium-sized, dark-green fruit. Ripens late. 



10669. Sharhati Black. 



A large, round fruit. Dark green. Of very good flavor. 



10670 to 10673. Nephelium litchi and Nephelium longana. 



Litchi and longan. 



From Hing-hua, Fuhkien, China. Received thru Rev. W. N. Brewster, Methodist 

 Episcopal missionary, in the autumn of 1903. 



Mr. Brewster says: "They were grafted probably some time in the year 1902. 

 The trees were not more than two years old, I think. With regard to the culture, 

 they are not propagated from the seed, but a ball of earth is tied around a joint of a 

 branch, and when it throws roots out into this ball the branch is cut off on the side 

 next to the trunk, and the little tree is planted. The trees are fertilized by night soil 

 about the time that they are blossoming and also later when the fruits begin to form. 

 When the leaves are too thick, as they generally are in the spring, there is severe 

 pruning done. After the buds are out, these are also thinned; after the blossoms 

 begin to form into fruit they are thinned again. This is very important in order to 

 make a perfect fruit. They must be kept entirely free from frost, and should be 

 planted in a deep soil, i. e., the soil should be soft down many feet below the sur- 

 face. The Utcid blossoms early and matures the latter part of July. It is shaped 

 like a strawberry and has the strawberry color and appearance, only the skin is 

 rough and thick and brittle. The seed of the grafted variety is sharp^ pointed and 

 small, and shriveled up so that the meat is much more abundant than in the 

 ungrafted variety. The meat is white and juicy and a little tart. The longan (another 

 species of the same genus) ripens in September. It is round and smooth. It is 

 sweeter than the lifclii, but the meat has very much the same ai3pearance. 



"The other fruit which I brought, the longan, is not a variety of the litchi, but a 



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