70 THE APPLE BLOSSOM 
3. Turn the piece with the blossom end so that the skin 
and the five little points are up; lay this beside 
the middle section showing the core plainly. How 
many points are there to the core? How many 
points at the blossom end? 
4. If you have an apple blossom, try to find something 
that is lke these five points. If not, turn to the 
plate and look at the picture of the apple branch 
in blossom, and try to find points like them.! 
5. Notice the pink and white color of the flowers. Notice 
the leaves or petals of which each flower is made. 
Count these on one large wide-open flower; how 
many are there? 
6. Do you see any small green points anywhere in the 
picture which are at all like the dried points in 
the apple? Where? (Hxamine the young apples 
in the lower part of the plate.). 
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The questions we have to answer are, What has the blossom to 
do with the apple? and then, How does the apple grow from a 
small green ball to a big red apple ? 
If you will look at the picture of the apple branch with the 
blossoms, you will see in the center of each wide-open apple blos- 
som a tuft of hairs with little yellow balls on the end of them, 
‘ Leave the matter unsettled for the moment until a clear image of the blossom 
has been obtained, then decide in § 6. 
