Capitolo 36
joined above to him. The central and whole part of the cucumber, in shortly
(answering to the seeds and pulp of a mature melon), it squirts out
elastically through the breakup in the external wall, leaving the cable
opens behind as an empty and mere leather bag.
The cucumber that squirts naturally knows better, its his/her own business, and it is
not without enough reasons for his really for this strange and, to some
extension, coarse behaviour. From his/her strange makeup to squirt, it
he/she succeeds in killing at least two birds with a stone. For, in the first one
puts, the elastic and sudden jump of the fruit frightens browsing away
animals as goats and bovine livestock. Those meditative ruminants are
a little gotten used to find bushes or cried he/she takes the weapon
against them; and when they sees a fruit that rather literally the flies in
their faces of his really accord, they hesitates to attach the mysterious grapevine
what bristles with so magic defenses and almost miraculous.
Besides, the juice of the cucumber that squirts is bitter and nauseating,
and if it gets in the eyes or nostrils of man or beast, it thrills
him on the memory stinging likes red pepper. Then the makeup of
services that squirt in a double way as a protection to the plant against
the attacks of herbivorous animals and the other enemies.
But that is not everything. Also when any enemy is nearby, the mature fruits finally
you allow to fall away from them, and elastically sprinkles their seeds in each
direction. This that they simply does for disseminating their kind in
new stains and not busy, where the young plant they want root and they find a
opening in the life for them. You observe, indeed, that the a lot of word
'you disseminate' it implicates a vague and general recognition of this principle of
the plant-life from humanity. He/she wants to say, etymologically, to
sprinkles seed; and sharp to the fact that everywhere in seeds of nature
shed pains you/he/she is sprinkled, endless that are taken by the mother-plant
for their general diffusion on wide areas of woody ground, plain, or