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petals and sepals play in pollination ? How have they 

 been modified for this purpose ? When are the seeds ripe ? 

 Of what shape and color are they ? How are they dissem- 

 inated ? In what kind of seed vessels are they borne ? 

 How does the color of the flower aid in the struggle for 

 existence? The fruit? How does the plant secure a 

 proper amount of light for its leaves ? How does it avoid 

 too much light or heat ? How is the pollen protected from 

 cold, wet and from pilfering insects? How — but what's 



the use. Do you really know any of the wild-flowers ? 



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Some time ago, the editor took occasion to criticise 

 the statement made in a horticultural journal that the 

 grape-fruit gets its name from being borne in "grapose 

 clusters," whereupon a subscriber in the home of the grape- 

 fruit, wrote to say that the grape-fruit Joes grow in clust- 

 ers, and that this fact is the distinguishing point between 

 shaddock and grape-fruit. We do not contend, however, 

 that there never are several grape-fruits near together on 

 a branch, but that they do not grow in clusters like 

 grapes. The tree that bears these fruits, seldom attains 

 the size of a small apple tree, and as single fruits average 

 as large asthe largest oranges, a "grapose cluster" would 

 be rather out of the question. Although this fruit is not 

 so well known as either the orange, lemon or lime, it seems 

 to have acquired more than its share of common names. 

 Among American cultivators it is usually called the 

 pomelo. The original species was named shaddock after 

 a Captain Shaddock who introduced it into the West 

 Indies early in the eighteenth century. The real shaddock 

 is pear-shaped and is sometimes called bell grape-fruit. 

 Another variety is called forbidden fruit. Single specimens 

 of the shaddock sometiines weigh as much as fifteen 

 pounds. 



