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FRUITS IN THEIR- SEASON. 335
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the usual course of nature would liave changed into stamens _, are arrested in their progress and retained in the former stage , the
iiower thus spending its whole capital at once to obtain the more showy appearance of a largely increased number of transitory
petals , instead of making a provision for the future by investing some portion in the formation of stamens , a proceeding which
involves its fortune dying * with it , for in the absence of those organs of fertilization the ovary cannot be fecundated , and can
never therefore mature into a fruit . In the double cherry-blossom , howevera still more marked retrogression often takes place , an
ultra re- , actionary movement beginning just when the extremest point of difference has been reached , and not only do extra petals
take the place of stamens , but the innermost carpels , instead of combining to form a pistil , revert to the most normal figure , and
become a group of separate leafy expansions in the middle of the iioweras though a party of princes of the blood who had overcome
all opposition , should suddenly resign all thoughts of monarchy , and resolving themselves into a democratic convention hang out
the red fLag of egalite from the very throne-room of the palace . The result isthat the withering of the blossom leaves behind a
bunch of leaves , instead of a succulent fruit . Even , however , when no such striking proof of identity of essence in the various parts of
the plant occurs , the morphologist still traces in the ordinary cherry ( the germ of which was seen in the blossom in the form of
the little ovary at the base of the pistil , now swollen and become pul ) all the elements of the leavesand looks on it as only a leaf
bent py in upon itself and with its ed , ges united , the _iDlace of their junction being marked by the furrow seen not only on the surface
of the fruit but which extends even to the very kernel , always found to be more or less deeply fluted . The leaf consisted of three layers ,
an inner integument covered on each side by an epidermis , and in the cherry these three parts are still found , similarly disposed , the
external membrane , somewhat thickened , still remaining outside as the icarp ( from epiupon ) the moister middle layer , grown
vastly more qp succulent _, , is , the inesocarp , , or middle part ; while the covering of the under-side , become central hj the inward turning
of the leafhas hardened into the endocarp , or inner part , the woody case , which contains the kernel . Fruit so formed is
technically termed a drupe , a name which applies therefore to some of the many growths which popularly share the very indiscriminately
used title of " berry . " as well as to all which in common parlance are called " stone fruits" of which number the plum is so strikingly
similar in its construction , to the cherry that they were classed together by Linnaeusbut have been separated by modern botanists
on the ground of other , differences in the plants , chiefly seen in the unfolding of the leaves .
The foliage of the different varieties of the cherry varies very
much , but it is usually found that trees where this is of large growth ,
Fruits In Their- Season. 335
FRUITS IN THEIR- SEASON . 335
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/47/
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