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If we place side by side an apple blossom and a pear 
blossom, we see that they are very like each other.’ 
Both have the green outside cup which above is cut 
into five little green leaves. Both have five white or 
pinkish flower leaves. Both have a good many pins 
with dust boxes, and from two to five of those pins 
without dust boxes. 
If we place side by side a pear and an apple, we 
see in both cases that it is the green cup, grown 
big and juicy and ripe, which forms the delicious 
fruit. 
If we cut these two fruits open lengthwise, we can 
see just how the pins without dust boxes are set into 
the green cup; and we can see that the lower, united 
part of these pins makes a little box which holds the 
seeds. 
In the picture (Fig. 14) the shading shows you where 
this seedbox ends, and the green cup, or 
what once was the green cup, begins. This 
is rather hard to understand, I know; but 
your teacher can make it clear to you with a 
real pear. 
So it ought to surprise you no longer to 
learn that the apple and the pear are cousins. 
Now, I want you to look at the picture at 
the head of this chapter. This is the wild 
rose, the flower from which the great Rose 
family takes its name. 
This rose is a much larger flower than either the | 
apple or the pear blossom. Its flower leaves are deep 
pink. These bright flower leaves make gay handker- 
