APPLES. 
Apples have tough cores in which their somewhat 
delicate seeds are protected. When we eat apples we 
throw the cores away. We now 
know that this is just what the 
apple wants. 
the core is tossed into a hedge 
by the roadside, its 
seeds may get a chance 
to sprout, and indeed 
they often do, for in 
the country we often 
come upon apple trees 
in out-of-the-way corners, where they were not planted 
by man on purpose. 
Apples do not grow wild in this country, excepting 
crab apples. No doubt the birds carry 
away the ripe crab apples and drop the 
cores. 
Pears and quinces have cores like the 
apples, and they are not natives of this 
country, but w r ere brought here because 
of their delicious fruit. Sometimes we find them grow- 
ing wild, and we know how this happened. 
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