. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. WILD FRUITS OF FARM 19 varieties, the best of which offer proper materials for selection. Wild fruits, like the cultivated, fall chiefly in three categories: core fruits (pomes), stone fruits (drupes), and berries. The structural differences between pome and drupe are indicated in the accompan3^ng diagram. The apple is the typical core fruit (pomus = apple; whence, pomology). The seeds are contained in five hardened capstdes (ripenedcarpels), together forming the core
. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. WILD FRUITS OF FARM 19 varieties, the best of which offer proper materials for selection. Wild fruits, like the cultivated, fall chiefly in three categories: core fruits (pomes), stone fruits (drupes), and berries. The structural differences between pome and drupe are indicated in the accompan3^ng diagram. The apple is the typical core fruit (pomus = apple; whence, pomology). The seeds are contained in five hardened capstdes (ripenedcarpels), together forming the core, surrounded by the pulp or flesh of the apple, which is mostly developed from the base of the calyx. The calyx lobes, ^^^ ^ Diagrams of persist at the apex of the apple, closed ^°^lf^\J''^' ^^^ together above the withered stamens and style tips. The plum is a typical stone fruit: the single seed is enclosed in a stony covering that occupies the center of the fruit and is surrounded by the ptdp. The term berry is used to cover a nimiber of structural types which agree in little else than that they are small fruits with a number of scattered seeds embedded in the pulp. If, with the coming of improved varieties of cultivated fruits, the wild ones have ceased to be of much importance in our diet, they still are of importance to us as food for our servants, the birds. The birds like them. Nothing will do more to attract and retain a good population of useful birds, than a plentiful supply of wild fruits through the summer season. Who that has seen orioles pecking wild straw- berries or robins gormandizing on buffalo-berries or waxwings ;ryH«r»«^'/™&Y '"^ Stripping a mountaiu ash can. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1956. Ithaca, N. Y. ,
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