III.] 



POME^. 



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side by side, but generally only one seed in each 

 becomes perfectly ripe. As the seeds advance, 

 the fleshy tube of the calyx swells out and be- 

 comes what we call the apple ; while the leafy 

 part or lobes of the limb remain on, and form 

 the eye. Fruit of this kind are called pomes. 



The Pear (Pi/rus communis) differs from the 

 apple in the shape of the fruit (see a in Jir/. 28), 



Fig. 28.— Fruit axd part of the Flower ov the Pear, 



which tapers towards the footstalk, instead of 

 being umbilicate, that is, indented at the point 

 of the insertion of the footstalk, as is the case 

 with the Apple. The construction of the flowers 

 in both species is the same, except that the 

 styles are quite free for their whole length in 

 the Pear, and not partially united into a column 



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