Show A Nut That Is s a Fruit NE of or the daintiest packages that have ever O ONE been wrapped b by natures nature's hand is the way in which Robert S. S Walker Valker characterized characterised the thc little spherical litchi fruit No one whether he is a student of nature or not not writes Mr Walker in The Guide to Nature can cnn examine the litchi without a admiring miring its 1 i beauty and the sanitary method by which the I fruit is preserved It is probable that not many mane Americans have ho seen the thc litchi but during thelast thelast the thelast last few years ears it has been planted in Southern California and its lovers are arc hopeful that this tree of Chinese origin w will thrive at least in in some soma favored spots in the thc United States Thus Thus' jar far we ye have hn received the litchi fruit only in a s dry state and in that condition in the markets it is u improperly called the litchi nut It is not a nut J Jin in any sense of the word because the seed is not i edible The plant is grown only for the fruit i It is is an evergreen tree bearing tho the botanical 1 name of Litchi It is a native of South China where bere it attains a n height of some 25 feet few reddish fruit in mid mid- It Jt It ripens its globular summer Each individual indi fruit measures from rom j jone j jone in diameter The we i one and one-half one to two inches i flesh white and juicy is securely and snugly on- on 1 it i j cat t f closed in a rough brittle hull The Tho Chinese it raw canned or OT dried When dry it rattles Inthe in un th the hull and each has a large largo single seed in m centra centre States The fruit that has reneged reached tho the United 5 favorable r e of J Jd b by importation has met with a d that j tion lion as it is different from anything hero or imported from fo foreign hn countries r rr 0 t l ij W r 1 Jl |