LABORATORY PRACTICE 



It is especially from this latter point of view that we shall 

 study fruits. It is very necessary that the seeds should be 

 scattered in such a way that the plants produced from them 

 may not grow so near to one another as to be limited for 

 space in which to grow. Some fruits are evidently so con- 

 structed as to send their seeds only a short distance, others 

 so as to scatter them to a considerable distance. Some 

 simply expel their seeds to a comparatively small distance 

 from where they were produced, while others make use of 

 animals, of the wind, and of water to send their seeds a 

 greater distance away. 



Fruits are classified according to their consistency into 

 fleshy and dry fruits. Dry fruits are classified into dehiscent 

 and indehiscent, according to whether they split open or not. 



