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7. Describe the young leaves as they appear around the blossoms. 

 What is their color? Have they any stipules? Why do they make the 

 flowers look like a bouquet? 



8. After the petals fall, what of the blossom remains? What part 

 develops into the apple? Does this part enclose the ovaries of the 

 pistils ? How can you tell in the ripe apple if any stigma failed to receive 

 pollen ? 



9. What is the position of the calyx-lobes directly after the petals fall? 

 Do they change later? How does this affect spraying for the codling moth? 



10. Watch an apple develop; look at it once a week and tell what 

 parts of the blossom remain with the apple. 



11. How many blossoms come from one winter bud? How many 

 leaves? Do the blossoms ever appear along the sides of the branches, as in 

 the cherries ? How many blossoms from a single bud develop into apples ? 



1 2 . Since the apple is developed on the tip of the twig how does the 

 twig keep on growing ? 



1 3 . Compare the apple with the pear, the plum, the cherry and the peach 

 in the following particulars; position on the twigs; number of petals; 

 number and color of stamens; number of pistils; whether the pistils are 

 attached to the calyx-cup at the base. 



THE APPLE 

 Teacher s Story 



'Man fell with apples and with apples rose, 

 If this be. true; for we must deem the mode 

 In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose, 

 Through the then unpaved stars, the turnpike road, 

 A thing to counterbalance human woes." BYRON. 



seem to have played a very important 

 part in human history, and from the first had 

 much effect upon human destiny, judging from 

 the trouble that ensued both to Adam and to 

 Helen of Troy from meddling, even though 

 indirectly, with this much esteemed fruit. It 

 is surely no more than just to humanity shut 

 out from the Garden of Eden that the apple 

 should have led Sir Isaac Newton to discover 

 the law which holds us in the universe; and 

 that, in these later centuries, apples have been 

 developed, so beautiful and so luscious as almost 

 to reconcile us to the closing of the gates of Paradise. 



While it is true that no two apples were ever exactly alike, any more than 

 any two leaves, yet their shapes are often very characteristic of the varie- 

 ties. From the big, round Baldwin to the cone-shaped gillyflower, each has 

 its own peculiar form, and also its own colors and markings and its own 

 texture and flavor. Some have tough skins, others bruise readily even with 

 careful handling; but to all kinds, the skin is an armor against those ever- 

 present foes, the fungus spores, myriads of which are floating in the air 



