WILD FRUITS OF FARM 19 
varieties, the best of which offer proper 
materials for selection. 
Wild fruits, like the cultivated, fall chiefly 
in three categories: core fruits (pomes), 
stone fruits (drupes), and berries. The 
structural differences between pome and 
drupe are indicated in the accompanying 
diagram. The apple is the typical core 
fruit (pomus=apple; whence, pomology). 
The seeds are contained in five hardened A\ 
capsules (ripened carpels), together forming ' 
the core, surrounded by the pulp or flesh of 
the apple, which is mostly developed from 5 
the base of the calyx. The calyx lobes... y ee 
persist at the apex of the apple, closed pome Rae a and 
together above the withered stamens and 
style tips. The plum is a typical stone fruit: the single 
seed is enclosed in a stony covering that occupies the 
center of the fruit and is surrounded by the pulp. The 
term berry is used to cover a number of structural types 
which agree in little else than that they are small fruits with 
a number of scattered seeds embedded in the pulp. 
If, with the coming of improved varieties of cultivated 
fruits, the wild ones have ceased to be of much importance in 
our diet, they still are of importance to us as food for our 
servants, the birds. The birds like them. Nothing will do 
more to attract and retaia a good population of useful birds, 
than a plentiful supply of wild 
fruits through the summer 
season. Who that has seen 
orioles pecking wild straw- 
berries or robins gormandizing 
on buffalo-berries or waxwings 
andaannvbeny (Piburmin lentag). Stripping a mountain ash, can 
