Two Pewaukee apples

Pewaukee Apples

Two Pewaukee apples

A bunch of Seckel apples

Seckel Apples

A bunch of Seckel apples

1, twig with male flowers; 2, ripe pendulous fruit opening; 3, fruit after removal of one-half of the penicarp, showing the dark brown seed surrounded by the ruptured arillus; 4, kernel freed from the seed-coat.

Myristica Fragrans

1, twig with male flowers; 2, ripe pendulous fruit opening; 3, fruit after removal of one-half of the…

A forget-me-not fruit

Forget-me-not

A forget-me-not fruit

Flower of comfrey after removal of corolla, showing unripe fruit

Comfrey

Flower of comfrey after removal of corolla, showing unripe fruit

Platysamia cecropia. The caterpillar occurring on a great variety of plants, including many of our fruit-trees and certain small fruits. Its green, and has six rather prominent warts on the thoracic segments, of which four are coral-red in color and the hinder two are yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge.

Emporer Moth Caterpillar

Platysamia cecropia. The caterpillar occurring on a great variety of plants, including many of our fruit-trees…

A bread-fruit tree with cuneate-ovate pinnatifid leaves, male flowers in a club-shaped deciduous catkin, and female flowers in rounded clusters.

Bread-Fruit Tree

A bread-fruit tree with cuneate-ovate pinnatifid leaves, male flowers in a club-shaped deciduous catkin,…

Transverse section of the male spike with numerous flowers

Bread-Fruit Tree

Transverse section of the male spike with numerous flowers

Male flowers

Bread-Fruit Tree

Male flowers

Single male flower separated, with a perianth in 2 segments and a single stamen

Bread-Fruit Tree

Single male flower separated, with a perianth in 2 segments and a single stamen

Female flowers

Bread-Fruit Tree

Female flowers

Single female flower separated, with ovary, style and bifid stigma

Bread-Fruit Tree

Single female flower separated, with ovary, style and bifid stigma

Ovary laid open to show the ovule

Bread-Fruit Tree

Ovary laid open to show the ovule

A variety of the ovary with 2 loculaments

Bread-Fruit Tree

A variety of the ovary with 2 loculaments

Transverse section of a bilocular ovary.

Bread-Fruit Tree

Transverse section of a bilocular ovary.

Fruit of Silver Maple, Acer dasycarpum, of natural size, the seed-bearing portion divided to show seed.

Silver Maple Key

Fruit of Silver Maple, Acer dasycarpum, of natural size, the seed-bearing portion divided to show seed.

Germination of Silver Maple, natural size; merely the base of the fruit, containing the seed, is shown.

Germination of Silver Maple

Germination of Silver Maple, natural size; merely the base of the fruit, containing the seed, is shown.

An African palm that produces ginger bread flavored fruit that is very fibrous.

Doum palm

An African palm that produces ginger bread flavored fruit that is very fibrous.

pinnate leaved palm that produces thick clusters of red flowers and fruit that produces high quality palm oils.

Oil palm

pinnate leaved palm that produces thick clusters of red flowers and fruit that produces high quality…

A small Passion-flower (<em>passiflora sicyoides</em>), showing the tendrils.

Passion-flower

A small Passion-flower (passiflora sicyoides), showing the tendrils.

A small Passion-flower, with crown of slender threads.

Passion-flower

A small Passion-flower, with crown of slender threads.

A tree with pinkish blossoms whose fruit is very fiborous. It is native to Asia and Africa but is grown in England and Europe for it's fruit.

Almond

A tree with pinkish blossoms whose fruit is very fiborous. It is native to Asia and Africa but is grown…

The fruit of an almond tree.

Almond

The fruit of an almond tree.

Forming fruit (capsule) of Gaultheria, with calyx thickening around its base.

Gaultheria

Forming fruit (capsule) of Gaultheria, with calyx thickening around its base.

Section of mature fruit of Gaultheria, the berry-like calyx nearly enclosing the capsule.

Fruit of Gaultheria

Section of mature fruit of Gaultheria, the berry-like calyx nearly enclosing the capsule.

Leafy shoot and berry (cut across) of the larger Cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon.

Cranberry

Leafy shoot and berry (cut across) of the larger Cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon.

Longitudinal section of a peach, showing flesh, stone, and seed.

Peach

Longitudinal section of a peach, showing flesh, stone, and seed.

Fruit (cremocarp) of Osmorrhiza; the two akene-like ripe carpals separating at maturity from a slender axis or carpophores.

Osmorrhiza

Fruit (cremocarp) of Osmorrhiza; the two akene-like ripe carpals separating at maturity from a slender…

A fig-fruit when young.

Fig-Fruit

A fig-fruit when young.

A fig-fruit when young in section.

Fig-Fruit Section

A fig-fruit when young in section.

Magnified portion of a fig-fruit, a slice, showing some of the flowers.

Fig-Fruit Flowers

Magnified portion of a fig-fruit, a slice, showing some of the flowers.

The fruit is a multiple fruit, 2-3 cm long, red ripening to dark purple, edible, and sweet with a good flavor in several species.

Mulberry

The fruit is a multiple fruit, 2-3 cm long, red ripening to dark purple, edible, and sweet with a good…

The Walking Fern, Camptosorus, showing its fruit-dots on the veins approximated in pairs.

Walking Fern

The Walking Fern, Camptosorus, showing its fruit-dots on the veins approximated in pairs.

A small piece (pinnule) of a Shield-Fern: a row of fruit-dots on each side of the midrib, each covered by its kidney shaped indusium.

Shield-Fern

A small piece (pinnule) of a Shield-Fern: a row of fruit-dots on each side of the midrib, each covered…

Also known as the Seventeen-Year Locust, derives its specific name from the fact that it makes its appearance in certain districts at stated intervals of seventeen years in immense numbers, when the millions of them, swarming on the forest and fruit trees, almost deafen the observer with their trilling calls to the female, and form an abundant feast to the swine, fowls, and wild animals on the land, and if near a river or lake, to the fishes in the water.

Cicada Septendecim

Also known as the Seventeen-Year Locust, derives its specific name from the fact that it makes its appearance…

The plant that produces castor oil.

Castor Oil Plant

The plant that produces castor oil.

A tree that produces melons.

Melon Tree

A tree that produces melons.

The tree that produces the tropical fruit banana.

Banana

The tree that produces the tropical fruit banana.

A South American palm whose fibrous make up is used in industry and it also produces te coquilla nut.

Coquila Palm

A South American palm whose fibrous make up is used in industry and it also produces te coquilla nut.

Thought to be native to Southern Asia. They are extensively cultivated throughout the tropical zones, both north and south of the equator. Since their fruit is very nutritious, and the yield of a given fruit are great, they form an exceedingly important staple of food.

Banana

Thought to be native to Southern Asia. They are extensively cultivated throughout the tropical zones,…

Bread-Fruit is the pulpy fruit of a tree which grows only in the tropics. The tree yields fruit during most of the year, and is said to be a native of the South Sea Islands, though it is now quite common in the Friendly and Society groups, and in many of the neighboring islands.

Bread Fruit

Bread-Fruit is the pulpy fruit of a tree which grows only in the tropics. The tree yields fruit during…

One of the lobes of its fruit-bearing portion, bearing two rows of spore-cases.

Schizea Pusilla

One of the lobes of its fruit-bearing portion, bearing two rows of spore-cases.

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus has been found to produce a secondary form of fruit, being that forming the subject of the genus Eurotium.

Aspergillus Glaucus

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus…

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus has been found to produce a secondary form of fruit, being that forming the subject of the genus Eurotium.

Aspergillus Glaucus

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus…

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus has been found to produce a secondary form of fruit, being that forming the subject of the genus Eurotium.

Aspergillus Glaucus

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus…

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus has been found to produce a secondary form of fruit, being that forming the subject of the genus Eurotium. Magnified thread.

Aspergillus Glaucus

A genus of Mucedines (Hyphomycetous fungi) forming common molds, such as the blue of cheese. Aspergillus…

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; cranberry on which the eggs are laid.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; cranberry on which the eggs are laid.

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; eggs.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; eggs.

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; eggs.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; eggs.

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; larva.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; larva.

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; pupa.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; pupa.

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; tip of the pupa.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; tip of the pupa.

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; cocoon.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; cocoon.

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; moth.

Cranberry-Fruit

The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; moth.

Breadfruit is a tree and fruit native to the East Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean Islands.

Breadfruit

Breadfruit is a tree and fruit native to the East Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean Islands.

Fruit of the primrose scabious, <em>scabious succisa</em>.

Fruit of the primrose succisa

Fruit of the primrose scabious, scabious succisa.

A section of the fruit of the primrose succisa, <em>scabious succisa</em>.

Section of primrose succisa fruit

A section of the fruit of the primrose succisa, scabious succisa.

Common scurvey grass, an abundant sea-shore plant.

Scurvey Grass

Common scurvey grass, an abundant sea-shore plant.

Fruit of the common scurvey grass.

Fruit of scurvey grass

Fruit of the common scurvey grass.