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Show An Orange Secret. I If you look at thy stem end of an oralis, you will see that the scar where it pulled away from tho I stem is like a little wheel, with spokes going out from the center. If you count the spaces bet -.wen these spokes, you will find that there are just a many of them as there will be sections in the urnnzi- j when you open it; and so you can tell how manv j "pieces" your orange has. i Perhaps you think all oranges have the -air j ' number, just as every apple has five cells which hold j its seeds; but you will find it is not so. Why not! j Perhaps away back in the history of ihe orangn. j when it is a flower, or perhaps when it is only a bud, something may happen which hurts one of the cells or makes some of them outgrow the rest. Then the number of cells is fixed; and, no matter how lug and plunip and juicy the orange becomes, it has iv more sections than it had when it was a little gn eu j button, just beginning to be an orange. .1 The next time you eat an orange, try to find out I its secret before you open it. j ' ; 2 |