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strawberry ; but these large southern fruits have 

 often a bitter or unpleasant or very thick rind, 

 which the birds or monkeys, for whose use they 

 are intended, know how to strip off them. 

 Cases in point are the orange, the lemon, the 

 shaddock, the banana, the pine-apple, the 

 mango, the custard-apple, and the breadfruit. 

 The melon, cucumber, pumpkin, gourd, vegetable 

 marrow, and water-melon are other southern 



Fio. 40. Fia. 47. FIG. 48. 



ADHESIVE FRUITS. Fig. 46, of houndstongue. Fig. 47, of 

 cleavers. Fig. 48, of herb-bennet. 



forms cultivated in the north for the sake of 

 their fruits. In the pomegranate the fruit itself 

 is a dry capsule, but the seeds are each enclosed 

 in a separate juicy coat. The grape is a fruit too 

 well known to require detailed description. 



As flowers sometimes club together, so also do 

 fruits. In the mulberry the apparent berry is 

 really made up of the distinct carpels of several 

 separate flpwerS; which grow together as they 



