This singular tree has been successfully introduced and fruited in California, and as it promises to be one of the most useful trees in the dryer and temperate regions of our country, the following full account from the Gardener's Chronicle will have an interest for our forestry readers. The timber is as valuable as the beans:

"The saccharine pods of the Ceratonia siliqua have become an article of considerable importance as a food for domestic cattle, and the export is now large from many of the Mediterranean countries. From Candia or Crete the shipments have been said to reach 180,000 tons annually, from Cyprus 10,000 tons are exported, and from the districts of Tarragona in Spain as much.

" In several of the countries where the tree is largely grown, horses and stable cattle are almost exclusively fed upon the pods. About six pounds a day are given of the crushed pods, raw or boiled, with or without chaff. The meat of sheep and pigs is also greatly improved in flavor by this pod, the fattening properties being twice that of oilcake; hence Carob beans form a chief ingredient in most of the artificially prepared cattle foods. They contain about 66 per cent, of sugar and gum. The tree is grown in Italy, Portugal, and Spain, the south of France, and most of the islands of the Mediterranean. It has been also carried to South America and India. The produce is annually increasing in Cyprus. The tree grows readily in most soils, and not requiring much moisture or care, its cultivation gives little trouble; however, although the tree grows and thrives without much moisture, the yield of fruit is affected during dry seasons, the quantity being less, and the quality inferior.

"In Crete the trees in the eastern part of the island produce a much finer pod than elsewhere, which realize is. a cwt. more than those in the centre of the island. The produce always finds a ready market at Constantinople and the ports of the Black Sea. These pods, in some of the countries where it is abundant, are a great resource to the poorer classes, who eat them in large quantities, particularly in Lent. Containing a good proportion of sugar, they are very nourishing and satisfying when fresh, besides being cheap, and having the virtue of keeping well. As met with here, however, they are hard and leathery, and not very attractive.

"As an economic plant already, it is strange that no attempts have been made by improved culture to transform the pod into a savory edible fruit.

" In Portugal the pods are known under the name Algarobas, and in Austria as Johannes' Bread. It has the reputation of being the food on which St. John fed in the wilderness; but this is questionable, as it was most probably the insect locusts, which are parched and eaten to this day in parts of Africa. In Vienna Carob beans are sold at all the fruit stalls in the streets; and they are even sold in many sweet shops in London and elsewhere, being purchased by children. In Sicily a spirit and a syrup are made from the sweet pods; it has a flavor not disagreeable, and resembling in taste the fruit. Aromatised liquors have also been made from it. In Egypt a mucilaginous refreshing beverage is made from the pods, and they steep in it the fruits of the Balanites AEgyptica".