16 



Fruits and Seeds 



LESSON 2. (A WALK) 



Season. Second week in October. 



Fruits are divided into two main classes : fleshy 

 fruits, which include wild berries as well as all the sweet 

 kinds of fruit we eat, and dry fruits. Each of these 

 kinds of fruit is sub-divided according as it contains 

 many seeds or only one. For our two typical fruits of 

 the fleshy class we will take a grape and a plum. We 



Fig. 10. A Plum and a Grape cut through longitudinally to show the 

 difference between a drupe and a berry. 



find that the grape consists of a thin skin enclosing the 

 sweet juicy pulp (Fig. 10). In the pulp are embedded 

 several small hard seeds. The plum is like it as far as 

 the skin and pulp go, but instead of several seeds there 

 is one hard stone. The shell of the stone is really part 

 of the fruit, and the soft kernel inside is the seed. A 

 stoned fruit like this is called a drupe, while grapes and 

 other similar many-seeded fruits are true berries. 



