One of my favorite books was "The Lollipop Tree." In the story, a little girl planted a lollipop stick (after she'd eaten the good part), and a tree grew which bloomed real lollipops all the time.
I can't you how many lollipop sticks I planted (red ones, of course) and never got even a sprout!
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I thought that the role of Lollipop ladies was to give out lollies. Shame!— Helen
- When I was a little girl, I used to believe that if you planted a banknote, a banknote tree would grow.— Domi Contreras
- I used to believe if you planted donut crumbs in the ground, you could grow a donut tree.Anon
- I used to think that if I planted popcorn kernels I could grow a popcorn treeAnon
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris