Child Neville watches his mother direct rose grafting

As a child Neville watched his mother direct the gardener in grafting shoots onto her rosebushes, some grafts taking and blooming with the flower of the graft, others failing.
Date (happened)
c. 1910
unresolved
  1. c. 1910 stated · preferred
    Source The Implanted Word ¶3"when I was a child", told in The Implanted Word (nid 1206)
  2. before 18 May 1965 bound
    Source The Implanted Word ¶3
    Reasoning The childhood memory is completed before its independently corroborated 1965-05-18 telling.
  3. between 1910 and 1918 stated · probable
    Source Whom God Hath Afflicted ¶0"an experience of my childhood", told in Whom God Hath Afflicted (nid 2180)
Place
Barbados
Persons
Wilhelmina Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 18 May 1965 stated
    Source The Implanted WordThe Implanted Word (nid 1206), telling 1206-0, told 1965-05-18
  2. 1971 stated · probable
    Source Whom God Hath AfflictedWhom God Hath Afflicted (nid 2180), telling 2180-0, told 1971
Sources

Source

  • The Implanted Word ¶3 (I know when I was a child my mother had the most wonderful garden. She loved a garden! I can see her on the outside, giving instructions to the gardener how to graft to this rosebush.)
  • Whom God Hath Afflicted ¶0 (My mother was very fond of flowers. I can see her every morning with her parasol — she was very fair-skinned — and she always had this parasol against the sun, not against rain. She had a gardener who would do all the weeding and the digging and the raki…)