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And if you should cut them open lengthwise, 
right through the stony center, all three would 
look much like the next picture, which is taken 
fomea peach (Fig.25). All these fruits. have 
the soft outer part which you 
find so pleasant to the taste. 
Within this, in all of them, is 
a hard object, which we call the Fic. 23 
stone or pit; and inside this stone or 
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These next pictures show you two 
views of the flower of the cherry (Figs. 
26,127). 
Here you see a likeness to other mem- 
FIG. 24 
bers of the Rose family, to the blossoms 
of the apple and the pear. 
You see that the green cup is cut into 
five little leaves (in the picture these are 
turned back and down- 
ward). You see also the 
five white flower leaves, and ever so 
many of the pins with dust boxes. 
But you find only 
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one of those pins 
without dust boxes: 
and this,as you now 
know, has a\t seedbox below. 
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cherry blossom has but one of these 
pins, and the flowers of the peach 
and of the plum have only one. Fic. 27 
