. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. 80 UNDER THE OPEN SKY. into the meaty fruit, it pushes up out of this green cup and leaves it behind as a shriveled border about the point where the peach is fastened to the branch. For this reason the peach has no star opposite the stem, as the apple has, but ends instead in a little point that is almost lost in the general plumpness of the fruit. For this reason too it lacks the papery case we call a core in the apple. WHERE THE APPLE GETS ITS CORE The apple, coining late in the season, finds leaves already before it. So it is
. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. 80 UNDER THE OPEN SKY. into the meaty fruit, it pushes up out of this green cup and leaves it behind as a shriveled border about the point where the peach is fastened to the branch. For this reason the peach has no star opposite the stem, as the apple has, but ends instead in a little point that is almost lost in the general plumpness of the fruit. For this reason too it lacks the papery case we call a core in the apple. WHERE THE APPLE GETS ITS CORE The apple, coining late in the season, finds leaves already before it. So it is com- pelled to put stems to the flowers, though even these are not so long as those of the cherry. But the crowning peculiarity of the apple-blossom is the rounded green knob on the under side of the flower. Look- ing at this bloom from the front, one cannot see so deeply into it as he did into the peach- blossom. The portion of the blossom which was the cup in the peach closes in over the knob and grows fast to it. Hence, when the fruit ripens, not only are the seeds covered with the pulp, as in the case of the. 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 Schmucker, Samuel Christian, b. 1860. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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