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our enemies are, for we and all flowers have ene¬ 
mies, though we never mean to do any harm. 
“You may easily know one of the Lily family, 
for we all have six petals, and six stamens, and 
long, linear, lanceolate or lance-shaped leaves. 
Mine are very shining ; I always have two which 
spring up from the bulb. All Lilies have bulbs. 
They are composed of scales laid over one an¬ 
other, like tiles on the top of a house. They 
are very thick and juicy and serve for food to the 
young plant, and this food they draw up from the 
earth through long fibres or roots which extend 
far down into the ground. If you dig us up in the 
fall of the year and separate these scales, and plant 
each one singly, you will have a great many more 
flowers, and the larger our number is, the happier 
we shall be. When we have received all the nour¬ 
ishment we need from the bulb, the scales dry 
