AND HIS PLANT SCHOOL 



A field of lilies, showing heights and styles. 



Some had only one petal tightly rolled up; some had two 

 petals like the wings of a gorgeous butterfly; others had 

 three, four, or five petals; while most of them had six, as 

 the other lilies have. 



There were all colors, shading from white, or palest 

 straw color, to the deepest yellow, orange, crimson, or 

 brown; and there were spotted and speckled ones all 

 mingling with the different shades of the green foliage. 

 Their stems were from six inches to eight feet in height, 

 some having a single stem, others branching ones. A few 

 bore as many as fifty flowers on one stalk; and there was 



