Given a complete weighted graph on vertex set X and subsets X-1,...,X-
m of X, we consider the problem of finding a minimum total weight subg
raph G such that for every i = 1,...,m, G contains a spanning tree for
Xi. The NP-hardness of this problem was established in 1985 under Ron
ald V. Book's supervision. In this note, we present some results about
its polynomial-time approximation. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Sci
ence B.V. AII rights reserved.