FRIENDS AND ENEMIES 
an example of this kind. Did you ever notice 
that one clover blossom is made of dozens of 
tiny flowers? If you haven’t, pull one apart the 
next time you have a chance and you will see 
them. Bees love clover because of its sweet nec¬ 
tar, but they could never find it if these tiny 
flowers grew by themselves. Because they 
have clubbed together into a good-sized group, 
the bee has no trouble whatever in finding them. 
There is another family which has even 
smaller flowers. These flowers are so tiny that 
most people never think of them at all but say 
that a daisy is a flower, or that a dandelion is a 
flower. It is more correct to say, “A daisy is a 
great many flowers growing on one head.” If 
you take a daisy apart, you will find two kinds 
of flowers. Each one of the outside petals is 
nearly a complete flower all by itself. It has 
one big petal and a pistil, which is the part that 
holds the baby seed. It usually does not have 
any stamens; and so it has to get pollen from 
other flowers. The inside, or heart, of the daisy 
has hundreds of tiny flowers. They do not 
Clover is made 
of many 
blossoms 
