Some good messages about the importance of loving and caring for people and things (like gardens), and how a lack of attention can cause things to falter.
Some name-calling and disrespect, like calling a teacher a "sow," or when a boy calls Lizzie "American" in a derogatory way.
A student of an English boarding school asks a girl newly arrived from America if she brought cigarettes, because she says they could make money selling the cigarettes in the nearby village.