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single berries, each containing a seed, united together ; as 
in the raspberry. Each of the separate parts is called an 
Acinus , or grain. The orange and lemon are berries with 
a thick coat. There are some kinds of berries, usually so 
called, that seem scarce entitled to the name ; for the pulp 
is not properly a part of the fruit, but originates from some 
other organ. 
In the mulberry and strawberry the calyx becomes coloured 
and very juicy, surrounded by seeds like a real Berry. Some 
botanists, in describing the strawberry, say that what is com- 
monly called the berry, is but a pulpy receptacle, studded with 
naked seeds. In the fig the whole fruit is a juicy calyx, or com- 
mon receptacle, containing in its cavity innumerable florets, each 
of which has a proper calyx of its own, which becomes pulpy, 
and invests the seed, as in the mulberry. The paper mulberry 
of China, which is analogous to it , is an intermediate genus bo- 
tween the two, being, as it might seem, a fig laid open, but with- 
out any pulp in the common receptacle. 
9th. Strobilum, a cone, is a Catkin or Ament hardened and en- 
larged into a seed vessel, as in the pine ; this is called an 
aggregate, or compound pericarp. In the most perfect ex- 
amples of this kind of fruit the seeds are closely enveloped 
by the scales as by a capsule. The Strobilum is oblong in 
the pine, round in the cypress, very small in the alder and 
birch. 
The time for examining fruits is, of course, after the flowers 
have passed away. After you have understood the simple divi- 
sion of fruits we have now given, you will not generally be at a 
loss to which of these classes to refer them, when you see an ap- 
ple, a walnut, a currant, or a pine apple. You may gratify the 
mental appetite by examining their appearance with an inquiring 
mind. It would seem more rational for young persons to ex- 
amine the number of cells or seeds in an apple, with a view to a 
classical arrangement, than to count the seeds with the fool- 
ish idea that there is some charm in a certain number, which 
will throw light upon their future destiny. 
Strobilum — Best time for examining- fruits. 
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