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tion, columbine or foxglove seeds, and notice 
how different the arrangement and number of 
the seeds is in each case. The seed of some 
plants is surrounded by soft pulpy growth which 
is eatable, but the process to produce the seed 
is always just the same. In a peach or cherry 
there is a little mark or scar on the end, which 
shows where the “style” was ; the soft part is an 
COLUMBINE 
DANDELION 
BLACKBERRY 
extra surrounding to the hard stone, inside of 
which is the real seed. These fruit-stones are 
so hard that they do not break open and let 
the seed fall out, as thinner seed-vessels do, but 
when planted the outside gradually rots away 
as the seed begins to germinate. An apple, 
orange, or gooseberry has several seeds col¬ 
lected in a soft and edible fruit, but the straw¬ 
berry is different; the little yellow spots are 
fruit carpels, each containing a seed, and they 
are arranged outside the soft red pulp, not 
