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Stone fruits: 



Drupe (figures 90 and 92), of which the best examples are the fruit of 

 the Cherry, Plum, Peach etc., are one-seeded or rarely two-seeded, in the 

 ripening of which the outer portion of the pericarp becomes fleshy or pulpy 

 and the inner portion becomes much hardened. The term is also commonly 

 appHed to similar fruits of the Hackberry, Cornus, Rhamnus etc. In the 

 case of the Blackberry (figure 89) and Raspberry, the several pericarps of 

 the aggregate fruit are called drupelets. 



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Pome (figure 91), the name of the fruit of the Apple, Pear, Quince etc., 

 which are fleshy fruits, composed of two to several carpels, of parchment- 

 like texture (or hard in the Thorn Apples), inclosed in flesh which has 

 developed from the inclosing calyx and receptacle. Indeed, the fruit of 

 the Thorn Apple might well be called a " several-seeded drupe." 



Pepo, or Gourd-fruit, a type of fruit typified by the Melon, Squash, 

 Cucumber, Gourd and other members of that family. 



