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FOKMS OF FRUITS. 



IT is time now that we should give attention to the different 

 forms of fruit, and gain a clear understanding of the terms 

 applied to them. An Apple cut in two exhibits a five-celled 

 core enclosing the seeds, the whole surrounded by the swollen 

 juicy flesh of the calyx. This is the type of the pome (fig. A). 



In the drupe we have one seed contained in a woody case, 

 and surrounded by a fleshy pulp. The sketch of a half Peach 

 (fig. B), is a good example. Another form of arrangement of 



drupes is in the Bramble, where a number of them are collected 

 together around a receptacle (fig. C) ; the Strawberry fruit 

 is also fixed upon a receptacle, but the seeds are naked and 

 embedded in pulp (fig. D). 



The Rose fruit or hip is a collection of hairy, nut-like seeds, 

 enveloped in the enlarged and fleshy tube of the calyx, and 

 carrying the sepals as a crown on its summit (fig. E). We 



