ON SPECIFIC NEEDS 
quality and flavor. Yet others are the Pineapple 
quince, which has the flavor of the pineapple it- 
self, and the Sunberry, which has the exact flavor 
of the blueberry intensified. 
Corresponding modifications of the pear as well 
as of all other fruits lie within reach of the patient 
experimenter. 
LEAVING OUT THE CoRE 
But perhaps the most inviting field of all, in 
connection with the possible development of or- 
chard fruits, is that having to do not with the form 
or texture or flavor of the pulp but with the seed 
of the fruit. 
Of course it must not be overlooked that, from 
the standpoint of the fruit itself, or rather from 
the standpoint of the tree on which it grows, the 
seed is the only really essential part of the fruit. 
All of the embellishment of juicy pulp and highly 
pigmented skin is but the lure put forth by the 
plant on behalf of the seed, in the interests of self- 
preservation. 
The really essential part of the entire structure 
is but an infinitesimal cell lodged at the heart of 
each kernel of the seed. 
Indeed, we may go even one step further, with 
the aid of the microscope, and say that the nucleus 
of a single cell, born of the union of the nuclei of 
two germ cells, is the really important part not 
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