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lanes. These hang in bunches that remind you some- 
what of the clusters of the currant. They are much 
smaller than the market cherry; yet if you cut one 
through, you will see that in make-up it is almost ex- 
actly like its big sister. 
Those of you who live near the sea find wild beach 
plums (Fig. 30) growing thickly along the sand hills. 
These are hardly larger 
than good-sized grapes; 
yet if- you cut “them 
open, you see that they 
are really plums. - 
In our woods and 
fields we do not find 
any wild peaches. The 
peach was brought to 
us from far-away Persia. 
FIG. 30 
Only in the garden and 
orchard do we meet its beautiful pink blossoms. To 
see these growing naturally we must go to their Persian 
home. 
So, while we remember that the cherry, the plum, 
and the peach belong to one little group because of 
their likeness to one another, let us not forget that 
the peach is one of the foreign members of the Rose 
family. 
