Plants and their children

by Frances Theodora Parsons

Here you see a likeness to other members of the Rose family, to the blossoms of the apple and the pear.

Fig. 25

You see that the green cup is cut into five little leaves (in the picture these are turned back and downward). You see also the five white flower leaves, and ever so many of the pins with dust boxes. But you find only one of those pins without dust boxes; and this, as you now know, has a seedbox below.

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Fig. 27

Well, that is all right. The cherry blossom has but one of these pins, and the flowers of the peach and of the plum have only one.

Figure [28] shows you a cherry blossom cut open. Here you see plainly the single pin with a seedbox.