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cinque-celled rose, both in number of petal and 

 division of treasuries; the calyx has eight points, 

 and nine cells. 



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 eatable part of the 

 fruit is formed between them, in clusters of 

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

 scented wine had been laid up by her in the 

 hollow of a chesnut 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 represented, far less exhausted, the variety of 

 frutescent form. But these are the most impor- 

 tant 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-temptation. 



