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HE pear (Fig.13)# is a near cousin of the apple. 
But perhaps you did not know that plants and 
trees had cousins. | 
As you learn more and more about them, you will 
begin to feel that in many ways plants are very much 
like people. 
Both the pear and the apple belong to the Rose 
family. They are cousins to all the garden roses, as 
well as to the lovely wild rose that you meet so often 
in summer along the roadside. 
We know some families where the girls 
and boys look so much alike that we could 
guess they were brothers and sisters, even if 
we did not know that they all lived in the 
one house and had the one family name. If (7 a i "a 
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we look carefully at the plants we meet, at 
their leaves and flowers and fruits, and even 
at their stems and roots, often we may guess 
rightly which ones belong to the same family. 
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