fruit

This book provides readers with a complete and comprehensive understanding of the role of seeds and fruit, their structure and how they are brilliantly designed to do these jobs.

Introduces the parts of a fruit, explains and shows how fruits grow from seeds, discusses the ways people use fruits, and presents instructions for growing one's own tomatoes.

Describes the cultivation of different kinds of fruits around the world and how they are transported and sold.

Explains why fruits are nutritious, describes where fruit comes from and how it is grown, and discusses how to eat, buy, store, and cook fruit.

Discusses fruits as one of the five groups on the food pyramid, explains where fruits come from, how they are eaten, what they look like, how they taste, and why they are healthy, and suggests fruits for every meal.

Describes the life cycle of an apple from its initial appearance as a spring bud to that point in time when it becomes a fully ripe fruit.