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pollination. Now just what is meant by 

 this term? 



To give a clear idea, a little of the detail 

 of the growth and development of flowers 

 is necessary. When the flower of a straw- 

 berry opens, around the outside edge is seen 

 five white leaves, called petals. One of their 

 functions is to attract insects to the blossoms. 

 Toward the centre of the flower are seen 

 a lot of little tubelike bodies with caps on 

 their heads or tops, called stamens. In these 

 caplike bodies are small grains of a yellow 

 substance, called pollen. This is the male part 

 of the flower and is the part that when placed, 

 at a certain time, on the top of the pistil 

 of a strawberry flower, germinates or grows, 

 sending down a small tube or root into the 

 ovary of the pistil, there uniting with the 

 female parts and starting the growth and 

 development of the seed and flesh of the 

 fruit. By this it is seen that to obtain 

 strawberry fruits, pollen must be produced 

 and deposited on the top of the pistil. 



At the centre of the flower, underneath 

 the stamens, is found a collection of vaselike 

 structures. These are the pistils. Each 

 pistil develops a certain part of the flesh of 



