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It is hard to realize that from the center of this 
now crumpled bunch grew the pretty apple blossom. 
Now where are those tiny round things 
that were packed away inside the green 
cup? 
Well, as that cup is now this apple, the 
chances are that they are still hidden safely 
away within it. So let us take a knife and 
cut the apple open. 
What do you find in its very heart? If you cut it 
through crosswise, you find five brown seeds packed as 
neatly as jewels in their case (Fig. 7); and 
if you cut it through lengthwise, you dis- 
cover only two or three seeds (Fig. 8). 
Probably I need not say to you that 
these seeds were once the little round 
things hidden within the green cup. 
Some day I will tell you a great deal 
more about the wonderful golden dust 
which turns flowers into apples as easily Pie 
as Cinderella’s fairy godmother turned rats into ponies, 
and pumpkins into coaches. 
But all this will come later. Just now I want to talk 
about something else. 
