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]
- Duck, The Ruddy, [118], [119]
- Duck, The Ring-Billed, [166], [167]
- Easter Egg, Origin of, [151]
- Easter Lilies, [152]
- Egrets, The Young, [137]
- Egyptian Trees for America, [240]
- Fabrics, Linen, [113]
- February, [85]
- Fish Have Favorite Haunts, [229]
- Fishing, Uncle Nick on, [194]
- Flowers, Wild of May, [236]
- Forest, A Submerged, [200]
- Forest, Moral Value of, [152]
- Fruit Bats in the Philippines, [173]
- Genista, The, [226], [224]
- Geography Lessons, [73]
- Getting Acquainted with the Teacher, [121]
- Goose Plant in Bloom, [210]
- Gopher, The, [70], [71]
- Grosbeak, The Blue, [182]
- Hans and Mizi, [72]
- Heron, A Baby, [49]
- Illuminations, Strange, [30]
- Ibis, The Scarlet, [154], [155]
- I Know Not Why, [119]
- In the Old Log House, [158]
- Ireland's Lost Glory, [188]
- January, [1]
- Jay, Steller's, [111], [110]
- Johnny Appleseed, [211]
- Killdeer, The, [51], [50]
- Lily of the Valley, [46], [47]
- Lark, Song of the, [101]
- Licorice, [87], [86]
- Magpie, [195], [197]
- March, [103]
- Marked with Bleeding Hearts, [44]
- Martin, The Purple, [207], [206]
- May, [193]
- Minerals, Common and, [38]
- Minerals, Common and, [82], [83]
- Minerals, Common and, [142], [139]
- Mink, The, [75], [74]
- Mole Cricket Lodge, [78]
- Monkeys as Gold Finders, [173]
- Moth, The Cecropia, [223]
- Mushrooms on Benches, [48]
- Muskrat, [122]
- Naturalist, The Young, [36]
- Naturalist, The Young, [95]
- Naturalist, The Young, [143]
- Naturalist, The Young, [185]
- Naturalist, The Young, [215]
- Nut-Hatch, Red-Breasted, [202], [203]
- Odd Places Chosen, [182]
- Old Year and Young Year, [1]
- Opossum, [219], [218]
- Ores, Common Minerals and, [38]
- Ores, Common Minerals and, [82], [83]
- Ores, Common Minerals and, [142], [139]
- Our Feathered Neighbors, [181]
- Our Little Martyrs, [146]
- Paper, Rice, [239]
- Partridge, The Call, [180]
- Peacock, The, [98], [101]
- Plants, Strange, [175]
- Poppy, The, [128]
- Primrose, The, [135], [134]
- Ptarmigan, The Willow, [106], [107]
- Quail, The Massena, [158]
- Quince, The, [34], [35]
- Rail, The Clapper, [62]
- Rail, The Virginia, [3], [2]
- Raven, The, [235]
- Reflections, [169]
- Robin's Mistake, [24]
- Shells, The Rock, [190], [191]
- Some Early Risers, [212]
- Sparrow, Not a Falleth, [125]
- Sparrow, The English, [97]
- Sponges, [138]
- Snail, A Floating, [240]
- Songs, Remembered, [13]
- Southward Bound, [20]
- Spider, The Grasshopper, [8]
- Spring, The Herald of, [102]
- Spring, The Procession of, [145]
- Spring Has Come, [192]
- Squirrel, The Black, [22], [23]
- Stump, The Gray, [12]
- Tansy Cakes, [180]
- Teal, The Blue-Winged, [10], [11]
- Teal, The Cinnamon, [58], [59]
- The Country! The Country!, [68]
- The New Sport, [77]
- The Pink House in the Apple Tree, [31]
- The Swinging Lamps of Dawn, [62]
- The Treating of Whitey, [127]
- Thyme Plant, The, [230], [231]
- Tree, The Sorrowful, [44]
- Tree, The Triplet, [163]
- Trees, Planting The, [150]
- Trees, Countries Devoid of, [163]
- Vegetation in the Philippines, [80]
- Warbler, The Sycamore, [116]
- Washington's Monument, [96]
- Weasel, The, [27], [26]
- Where Vegetables Came From, [226]
- Wings, [119]
- With Open Eyes, [17]
- Woods, A Winter Walk in the, [90]