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your fingers purple. And we enjoy eating the full- 
grown blackberry (Fig. 249) because a quantity of 
these juicy seedboxes are so packed upon the juicy 
flower cushion that togecher they make 
a delicious mouthful (Figs. 247, 248). 
The flower cushion of the blackberry 
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is long and narrow, not broad and flat like that of the 
strawberry. 
So do not forget that in the strawberry we enjoy 
eating the ripened flower cushion, while in the black- 
berry the juicy seedboxes give to the fruit more of its 
size and flavor than does the flower cushion. 
