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Boil water, sugar, vinegar, and spices until the sugar melts. Add 
to this sirup all the fruit pulp it will cover and cook slowly 20 min- 
utes. Place in sterilized glass jars and seal. The fruit, when 
opened, is very tender, with a raisin flavor and a whitish flesh color. 
DRIED LITCHI. 
Fruit pulp, freed from seeds and shells, was put on a china plate 
and dried in the sunlight for nine successive days. It was very 
sticky at first, then it developed the texture and flavor peculiar to the 
dried litchi of commerce and a reddish-brown color about like that 
of raisins. The reduced bulk, due to the removal of the shells and 
seeds, hardly offset the labor and the greater danger from dust and 
ants and other insects, while the flavor was practically the same as 
that of the litchi nut. 
CANNED LITCHI. 
A pint can of litchi was bought in a Chinese store in Honolulu, 
which had presumably been canned in China. The seeds and shells 
had been removed without marring the shape of the fruits, which 
looked somewhat like big white California cherries and had the flavor 
of the plain litchi sauce canned at this station. 
INSECTS AND MITES. 
Several species of insects and at least one species of mite cause 
damage to the litchi tree or fruit. Most of these are of minor im- 
portance, but they are mentioned here as a matter of record and in 
order that anyone cultivating litchis may be on the lookout for 
them. 
It is worthy of special notice that the Mediterranean fruit fly 
apparently does not breed in sound litchis. In the multitude of 
observations made by entomologists no record has been found of the 
litchis having been attacked by this fly except where the fruit has 
been broken open by other means and the pulp exposed. In this 
respect, therefore, the litchi may be classed with the banana and 
pineapple as practically immune to attacks of this insect in its 
normal state. 
The litchi fruit worm, the larva of a tortrieid moth (Cryptoplilebia 
''■'If!), lias caused considerable damage to the fruit crop at times. 
In its report for 1910, the entomological division of this station 
ids that in one case practically the entire crop of a private 
orchard was destroyed, but in the following year, when attempts 
were made to prevent Loss "by spraying, the moth, though apparently 
(loii)'_C little damage to the small litchi crop, was present as usual in 
klu (Acacia farnesian a and in pods of koa (Acacia Jcoa). The moth 
