THE APPLE ORCHARD. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 



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THE APPLE ORCHARD. 



THE APPLE. Let us take a 

 fair-sized apple of good shape, cut 

 it through as shown in fig. 50. 

 We see that the stem is con- 

 nected with the core, and beyond 

 it at C are the small ends of what 

 appear to be leaves. These are 

 the ends of the calyx leaves. The 

 core is the seed box ; it is made 



Up Of hard, tOUgh, fibrOUS ma- F 'g- S- Section .of a fully formed 



apple. A, seeds in seed-' ox or core, 



terial, E, in which are the seeds, - 



A. If you cut another apple 



across the core you see the five 



seed boxes. The apple, then, is 



firmly attached to the branches 



by the stem which is closely con- 



nected with the core. The part 



j'\ outside of the core, is made 



up of the enlarged stem and the ta.SfS.5S 



lower and thicker portion of the calyx leaves which have 



closed over the seed forming portion of the blossom (the 



ovary), and have become thick and juicy. What we eat, then, 



is really the leaf portion of the blossom, united with the 



swollen stem. Cut a thin slice across the apple and hold it 



up to the light you will observe five parts somewhat resem- 



bling the blossom of the apple. Frequently the five tips of 



the leaves at C are easily observed. The relation of the 



apple to the blossom is now known. 



