is, 
chiefs for signaling when the rose plant wishes to 
attract the attention of the bees. 
but there are five of them, just as there are inthe 
apple and the pear blossom; and there are the pins 
with dust boxes, —so many of them, in the rose, that it 
would take some time to count them all. And in the 
center are the pins which have seedboxes 
below; for these pins in the rose are quite 
separate one from another, and each one has 
its own little seedbox. 
So, though different in some ways, in others 
the flower of the rose is very much like those 
of the apple and the pear. 
In this picture (Fig. 15) you see. its fruit: 
Whicis- called the ‘rose hip!’ When ripe, it tums 
bright red. In late summer you see the rosebushes 
covered with these pretty hips. At times this fruit 
does not look altogether unlike a tiny apple or pear; 
but if we cut it open lengthwise, we see that its inside 
arrangements are quite different. 
The lower parts of the pins without dust boxes do 
not grow into one piece with the green cup 
(now the red cup), as in the apple and the 
pear. Instead, this cup (Fig. 16) is hollow 
To its inner sides are fastened the little seed- 
boxes, as you will see if you look carefully 
at the picture. This hollow case with its 
separate seedboxes shows you that the rose 
plant is not so closely related to the pear 
and the apple trees as these trees are to each other. 
Fic. 15 
Fic. 16 
DANA’S PLANTS. — 3 
