Mrs. Field and I. Look about 
the same as we always have. You 
can tell we’re well fed and feeling 
fine. This picture will have to do 
this year for the family. Just the 
“old folks’’ left at home these days. 
Strawberry picking time in Mis¬ 
souri. Mrs. Field and Lettie (my 
youngest) are stemming strawber¬ 
ries for preserves. (Mrs. Field has 
a dandy recipe—if you write. I’ll 
be glad to send it to you.) Yes, 
that’s me on the step. These hap¬ 
pen to be “New Gems” so they 
make mighty good eating. 
Ruth’s two children—“Big Boy” 
(his real name is Lucien and he’s 
16 months old) and Henrietta, age 
3 years. Believe me, they’re some 
pair. 
Own Paae— 
w’vrii ■ visitin 
1 ALWAYS save this one page for sort of a letter to you all. Not a 
letter either, really, but just a good old-fashioned visit after the catalog 
is all done. *. 
We’ve had a busy year here at the seedhouse—so busy we had to puff 
to keep up with you folkses’ orders—but we did and we’ll keep on 
“keeping up,” too. I make it an ironclad rule to get your orders out just 
as promptly as humanly possible. 
And the orders all seemed bigger than usual, too. That’s the way I 
like them. It means you’re planting bigger gardens, have more stuff 
canned and in the cellar and-—well, it’s a good step toward real “feet on 
the ground” prosperity. 
And you folks getting your friends and neighbors to order from me, 
too, has given me a big boost. I thank you for it. When you recommend 
my seeds and nursery stock to a neighbor, I appreciate it, and promise 
to live up to your recommendations. 
My wife says, even if I didn’t make a dime, I’d keep right on at this 
business just for the friends I make and the letters they write. And I 
believe I would. Write me a letter, even if it isn’t a long fancy one. I like 
to hear what you’re doing, planting and all about it. You know, I was a 
gardener a long time before I started to sell seeds and am a gardener yet 
and don’t enjoy anything better than planting gardens and, next best, 
reading letters about them. 
Guess that’s why I enjoy my home down in the Ozarks so much. Have 
a little bit of everything planted there and go down whenever I can get 
away to “keep it growing.” That’s down where Ruth and Kermit live 
and that’s where most of the pictures I’ve stuck on this page were taken. 
Sorry I couldn’t get a new picture of all my family together, but they are 
spread so far and wide, now—just us old folks and John Henry and 
Lettie are left at home. 
Well, this doesn’t have much to do with the seed catalog, but this page 
isn’t for business anyway. There’s a lot more to this world than just 
dollars and cents. Just as well get a little fun and enjoyment out of it 
as you go along. 
Most of my enjoyment in life has come from helping you with your 
gardens and planting and I ask nothing better than to keep on doing it. 
Always glad to give any advice I can and I hope to keep on supplying you 
with the seeds and plants you need for another 50 years. That’s my am¬ 
bition in life. Anyway, send in your orders. I know I can please you. 
And be sure and come see us all, one of these days. Yours, H. F. 
Here’s my Missouri home that you hear me talk about over the radio. Real solid 
comfort, believe me. Come on down and I’ll show you how good Henry Field’s 
nursery stock and garden seeds really are! 
Henry Field Seed and Nursery Company, Shenandoah, Iowa 
