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case which opens so as to show a scarlet seedbox within 
(Fig. 31). A little earlier in the year you could not 
see this bright-colored 
seedbox. It is only a 
short time since the 
outer case opened and 
displayed its contents. 
These are the berries 
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of the bittersweet. Last June you 
would hardly have noticed its little 
greenish flowers, and would have 
been surprised to learn that they 
could change into such gay fruit. 
Do you see a shrub close by covered with berries? 
These berries are dark blue. They grow on bright-red 
stalks. If we wait here long 
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enough, it is likely that we shall 
see the birds alight upon some upper 
twig and make their dinner on the 
dogwood berries; for this is one of the 
Dogwood family, — the red-stalked dog- 
wood, we call it (Fig. 32). When its ber- 
ries turn a very dark blue, then the birds 
know they are ready to be eaten, just as 
we know the same thing by the rosy 
cheeks of the apple. 
You can be pretty sure that any fruit so 
FIG. 32 
gayly colored as to make us look at it 
twice, is trying to persuade some one — some boy or 
girl, or bird, or perhaps even some bear — to come and 
eat it. 
