A Small Boy's Garden
In a recent broadcast talk, "Margaret" told about a young friend of hers: "One small boy I know, aged only three when he gardened with me, was a pure delight. Every morning in the spring we had to talk round the garden to see what new flower was ‘just peeping,’ as he called it, and we had to talk about them in whispers ‘case we disturbed them.’ And when a flower had bloomed and died he always buried it carefully and gently, putting it "bye-byes,’ he said, till next year. He really loved the flowers and knew everything in my small garden, and could plant small things like primroses as well as I could myself. In his own small garden he had the weirdest mixture. Tomatoes and sweet peas struggled for possession of the wall at the back. Violas, pansies, stocks, blue bells, and marigolds all were crowded in. If I'd planted them so closely they would have sulked and probably died, but in his garden they ran riot, and how proud he was when he could pick a bunch of his own flowers for me or for his mother, and arrange them himself in a vase of his own choice."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 July 1939, Page 10
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205A Small Boy's Garden New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 July 1939, Page 10
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