LONGAN

or Longyen, a fruit, much esteemed in China and Malaysia, which resembles the lite hi, though smoother and vellowish-brown of shell, and generally smaller and inferior in flavor. It is rather insipid as a fresh fruit, but it makes fairly good preserves and is exported both in that form and plain dried. The tree is hardier than that of the litchi and thrives in protected parts of Florida and California _—O Og gee LOQUAT (see ) Meteaes) the fruit of a small, handsome, ever i ae Sey | = xzreen tree believed to be native to China: Japan, now cultivated in California ud iad - ” a « a 4 and the Gulf states. It varies from. ’ A‘ ae f round to pear-shaped, from pale to deep orange in skin, and from white oN bi ‘ to pinkish-orange in flesh. Fine specimet ¥ ‘ ' mens of good varieties are frequently fe ‘ mt three inches in length. The flesh is ‘. ‘ € a. juicy and very agreeable when fully suggesting the cherry in yi »* aN flavor. It can be eaten in almost any " @° i» j) manner, raw or cooked, that serves for See Pa ee wee «6(Other fruits. Its chief defect is of the large seeds which fill the |: a! ~ Ve center. The down should be carefully i> we #4 wiped off before serving to eat raw.. For a, jelly-making, one uses the more acid, only partly ripened, fruits. ] ‘ “s The loguat is also known as the ee h) T"! \\ LOTUS. What was the lotus of the J; cla ical Libyan lotophagi--the original olf 2: lotus-eaters — which produced such ) is 4 | dreamy forgetfulne that travelers and sojourners who ate of it lost all desire to! f) 4:; | return to their own homes? Perhaps the » ' yellow-blo omed, trailing, leguminous a fem me ‘‘bird’s foot trefoil’? (Lotus Z i; fus) that now runs wild in some parts; of the United States; or the date; or a oir jujube (Zizyphus lotus); or the fruit of a nettle-tree; or an Oriental fruit allied to the persimmon—or any one of several other surmises. It was not any of the waterlilies which now bear the name.