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GENIEEAL PKINCIPLES. 



Berries. — These have soft, pulpy flesh, containing seeds 



without capsules, as the gooseherry^ currant^ raspherry^ 



strawberry^ and grajye. 



A^uts, or capsule fruit, as the filbert^ cliestmit^ etc., the 



fi'uits of which are nuts contained in husks or cups, 



that when ri2:)e, open and let the fruit drop. 



The outlines or forms of fruits and their colors exhibit 



great variations, even in the same species. Every portion 



of the fruit, the sMn^ flesh (6', fig. 41), care (Z>, fig. 41), 



seeds {E) or stones', 

 stems (J[), and in ker- 

 nel fruits the c ■ yx 

 (^), have all, in some 

 cases, marked peculi- 

 arities, and in others 

 more minute and 

 scarcely perceptible ; 

 but yet in a strictly 

 scientific study of po- 

 mology, of more or 

 less service. It would 

 be foreign to the pur- 

 poses of this work to 

 notice these points in detail ; all that is deemed necessary, 

 useful, or appropriate, is to point out well-defined and 

 practical distinctions, and the tenns ordinarily made use 

 of in popular descriptions. 



3d. Different Parts of tJie Fruit: 

 Tlie Base [A) is the end in which the stem is inserted. 

 The Eye (B) is the opposite end, in the apple, pear, etc., 



that have an adhering calyx. 

 The Neck^ in pears, the contracted part near the stalk, as 



seen in fig. 49. 

 The Point is the end opposite the stem in stone fiTiits ; 



Pg'. 41, vertical section (f an apple, showing 

 its difi'erent parts. A, the base. B, the eye. 

 C, the flesh. Z>, the core. jE, the seed. A, stem. 

 B, calyx. 



