Fig. 6
On the top of the apple, in a little hollow, we see some crumpled things which look like tiny withered leaves.
You remember that when the bee left the yellow dust in the apple blossom, the green cup began to grow big and juicy, and to turn into the apple. And these little crumpled things are all that is left of the five green leaves into which the upper part of the cup was divided. These little leaves have been out in all kinds of weather for many weeks, so no wonder they look rather mussy and forlorn.
It is hard to realize that from the center of this now crumpled bunch grew the pretty apple blossom.
Now where are those tiny round things that were packed away inside the green cup?
Well, as that cup is now this apple, the chances are that they are still hidden safely away within it. So let us take a knife and cut the apple open.
Fig. 7
What do you find in its very heart? If you cut it through crosswise, you find five brown seeds packed as neatly as jewels in their case (Fig. [7]); and if you cut it through lengthwise, you discover only two or three seeds (Fig. [8]).
Probably I need not say to you that these seeds were once the little round things hidden within the green cup.