HOW FRUITS ARE FORMED 
the strawberry. They are not covered with any soft 
substance. ach seed 1s a ripened pistil. There were 
berries are 
ripening, 
you can see 
howthe 
fleshy part 
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pea: a pod split O f t h € 
open. 

strawberry 
is formed, by reading 
the stories from the 
flower through the 
green strawberries up 
to the ripe ones. You 
will see that the part of 
the flower to which the 
pistils are joined grows 
larger and thicker, and 
finally forms the fleshy 
part of the strawberry, 
raising the seeds up as 
it grows bigger. This 
part of a flower, to 

many pistils in the strawberry flower. If 
you go into a strawberry garden when the 
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which the pistils and usually the other parts are joined, 
is called the re-cep'ta-cle or to!rus. The fleshy part of 

