A LILY THAT WE EAT 
garlic plant looks very much like it. The bulbs of these 
plants were among the early foods of the human animals. 
A long time ago some one who was able to read certain 
hieroglyphics in one of the pyramids found that the rec¬ 
ord was of the food bought for the workmen who were 
building it. It seems that one thousand six hundred tal¬ 
ents, which was a great deal of money in those days, had 
been set down against the purchase of garlic, onions, and 
radishes. 
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