Capitolo 42
apple, pear, apple quince and medlar of which they is surrounded by a quantity
edible and spongy meat. Indeed, the variety in which it prevails among fruits
this respect almost challenges the classification: for sometimes, as in the
mulberry, the small fruits separated of many separate flowers grow
together finally in a common berry: sometimes, as in a fig tree, the
general flower-walks stiff of a lot of small forms of flowers one-sowed the
edible part: and sometimes, as in the strawberry, the truths small walnut-trees
or fruits seem mere dots or sting on the surface full of the
inflated and stem excessively grown to which it forms the dear sweet bit the
human palate.
Still in every case it is interesting to observe that, while the seeds
what they depend for dispersion on the breeze you/he/she is easily freed from
the plant of parent and without breath around from every wind of doctrine, the seeds
or fruits that depend for their dispersion on birds or animals
always, on the contrary one, hangs above to their native branches to the very
hard, you cultivate some unconscious friend he/she pecks at away them and it devours them.
Hawthorns, pink-also, and holly-berries will wither and they will fade on the tree in
mild winters, because they cannot leave him without the help
of birds, while the birds with the other food are provisioned also well for taking care of
for them. One of the strangest cases of everybody, are however that of the
mistletoe that, living parasitically on the forest-branches and
apple-trees, would suddenly be lost clearly if its berries allowed to fall
their seeds above to the earth under of him. To avoid such adversity,
the berries of mistletoe are exaggeratedly filled with a the viscid and sticky
you pulp, while surrounding the hard small walnut-tree-as seeds: and this pulp ago
the seeds grab on to the accounts and feet of various birds on which you/they feed
the fruit, but more particularly of the thrush of missel that he/she deduces his
name of English common from his/her devotion to the mistletoe. The birds then
unconsciously transport them to of the tree of neighbouring, and you rub them