80 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



raspberry is, in fact, a bundle of individual 

 fruits held close together. Each one of these 

 individual fruits is a little drupe, having its 

 own single seed surrounded by a soft pericarp, 

 or flesh. It is, in effect, a very small plum. 

 In some varieties these individual drupes are 

 comparatively very large, and stand out from 

 one another almost separately. In other va- 

 rieties they are small and closely pressed 

 together. 



