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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 6

Most parents like to think that their children should take after them and assist them in such pursuits as gardening, but the imitative faculty of the very young sometimes leads to unlookedfor results. Father was very busy breaking-in a new piece of ground in the garden, turning over the soil and, as he did so, gathering up the weeds and throwing them into the wheelharrow. His little daughter, aged eighteen months, who was busy assisting, sitting just where he was gohm to dig next, or eating handfuls of eai®.. suddenly became very quiet and industrious. Looking round he found that she was helping him to till the wheelbarrows, but. instead of weeds had pulled up the lettuces planted the night i before.