Sometimes specimens are washed upon the northwestern coast of France, and when they are handled they give out a violet dye. EGYPTIAN TREES FOR AMERICA. Here is a new kind of tree with which people in some parts of the United States will probably celebrate Arbor Day after a while. In Southern California, Arizona and some parts of Texas, and, generally speaking, in the southwestern portion of this country, are great tracts of land without a solitary tree. The government has at last found a tree which it is believed will grow and thrive in these warm, dry climates, and has imported seeds and settings with which to make experiments. It is called the lebbek tree and is a native of Egypt. It grows to a large size and has a thick foliage, with compound leaves like those of the honey locust. The bark makes good dye stuff and the wood is fair timber. One of the avenues leading to the great Pyramids is lined with these trees for a distance of four miles. They form a complete arch and the shade is so dense that no sun ever reaches the roadway beneath. In India these trees are called the Siris trees. They grow wild in the forest and their trunks attain a circumference of nine feet. Their adaptability to the dry sections of the United States was discovered and reported upon by David G. Fairchild, one of the explorers for the agricultural department at Washington. The lebbek tree is a deep feeder and therefore is expected to thrive on the moist subsoil found at great depths even in the American desert. INDEX. VOLUME VII.--JANUARY, 1900, TO MAY, 1900, INCLUSIVE. Figures in Black-Faced Type Indicate Illustrations. Across the Way, 205 A Curious Survival, 233 A Glimpse of Beautiful Pictures, 209 A Good Uncle to Ants, 239 Air, Liquid, 37 Animals as Patients, 162 Animals, Danger from Importation of, 41 Animal Pets in School, 108 April, 145 A Scrap of Paper, 59 A Tragedy in Three Parts, 175 Bird, A Brigand, 176 Birds and the Weather, 29 Birds and Reptiles Related, 188 Birds and Farmers, 228 Birds, A Strange House, 167 Birdland Secrets, 157 Birds, Migratory, 204 Bird Notes, 19 Birds, Snow, 79 Birdlife in India, 187 Birds, Snow Prisons of, 164 Birds, The Wise Little, 7 Birds, Taming, 103 Birds, The We May Hear Sing, 193 Bird, The Dead, 199 Bird, The Silliest, 229 Bison, The American, 42 Bittern, The American, =146= Blackbird, The Yellow-Headed, =15= 14 Blood-root, =178= 179 Boar, The Brave, 120 Bobby's Cottontail, 67 Brook, The, 176 Butterfly's History, 197 Carbons, =82= 83 Chickadee, The, 168 Chippy, A Baby Mocking Bird, 155 Cotton Fabrics, 5 Cotton Textiles, 53 Coues, The Late Dr. Elliott, 65 Cup, The Scarlet-Painted, 92 Daisy, The Field, 199 Dictionary, Bailey's, 109 Digitalis, =173= 170 Dogs, Something About, 221 Dove, Ring-Necked, =212= 212 Dove, The Turtle, 44 Dove, The. Noah's Messenger, 25