BERRIES. 
Some berries, such as raspberries and strawberries, 
are so good they seem to grow on purpose to be eaten. 
Very likely they do. 
It is quite necessary for the blackberry and raspberry 
bushes to have their seeds sown at some distance from 
the parent plants, and it is also an advantage to straw- 
berries to have their seeds dispersed. So what is better 
than to get the help of the birds ? 
To this end the berries are sweet and juicy when ripe, 
and they are bright in color, so that the birds can easily 
find them. A bird often picks a berry and carries it 
somewhere else to eat, and often it eats only a part and 
leaves the rest, which falls to the 
ground. 
