Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — The Grape’s Curions Flower. [ARTICLE]

The Grape’s Curions Flower.

Ever notice the curious flower of the grape? Beatrix will wager her favorite bonnet that not one in twenty who eat grapes with gratitude every autumn could name the peculiarity of its diminutive bloom. The unopened flower looks like a little balloon. The ballooon-shaped portion is the corolla; the calyx Is a rim or disc at its base. When the flower opens the petals break away below, or at the base of the balloon. They cohere at the top, shielding the stamens, and thus the flower is said tn be “hooded.” When the flower is fully expanded this cap or hood falls off, leaving the five bare stamens.