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13. Lastly, in the orange, the fount of fragrant juice 

 is interposed between the seed and the husk. It is 

 wholly independent of both ; the Aurantine rind, with 

 its white lining and divided compartments, is the true 

 husk ; the orange pips are the true seeds ; and the eat- 

 able part of the fruit is formed between them, in clus- 

 ters of delicate little flasks, as if a fairy's store of scented 

 wine had been laid up by her in the hollow of a, chestnut 

 shell, between the nut and rind ; and then the green 

 changed to gold. 



14:. I have said ' lastly ' of the orange, for fear of 

 the reader's weariness only ; not as having yet repre- 

 sented, far less exhausted, the variety of frutescent 

 form. But these are the most important types of it ; 

 and before I can explain the relation between these, and 

 another, too often confounded with them the granular 

 form of the seed of grasses, I must give some account 

 of what, to man, is far more important than the form 

 the gift to him in fruit-food ; and trial, in fruit-tempta- 

 tion. 



