CORE FRUITS.
In the great Rose Family we find a number of the most important genera of trees, whose seed envelopes man has developed by the arts of horti culture into luscious and wholesome fruits. Be side trees, the family embraces shrubs, herbs, and vines known for their fruits as useful and beautiful additions to the fruit and flower garden.
The core fruits are the apples, pears, quinces, the medlar, and loquat. The seeds are borne in a papery, five-celled ovary, surrounded by the fleshy "pome," which we eat. The most im portant of these core fruits is the genus Malus, the apple.