HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1940—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co-, Shenandoah, Iowa 
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Home Grown Roses 
There’s no need paying a florist a fancy 
price for roses when you can grow them 
as beautiful as these in your own back 
yard. One rose bush should give' you 
several dozen blooms each year—and at 
37c not $1.00 a dozen. Mrs. Henry Rock- 
wood, Norfolk, Mass., sent in this picture 
of Mrs. Eliza Faulkner of Farmington, 
Mass., who was ‘95 years young’ when 
this picture was taken. 
Size Fruit Trees to Plant 
Every season I’m swamped with hun¬ 
dreds of letters asking what size fruit 
trees to plant. Generally, it’s a matter of 
choice—some like the bigger ones and 
some like the smaller ones. That’s why 
I list three sizes. Though I believe every¬ 
one has his own ideas, here is the way I 
figure: 
PLANT 4 to 6 FOOT trees if you want 
fruit in a hurry, especially if you have a 
small space. These are bigger and give 
you fruit in a hurry. Many orchardists use 
this size to get quick fruit, though gen¬ 
erally they take the smaller sizes. 
PLANT 2 to 3 FOOT trees if you want 
to save money. They are just smaller 
trees than the other sizes (same quality 
though) and often grow just as fast be¬ 
cause they transplant easier when smaller. 
PLANT 3 to 4 FOOT trees if you want 
to compromise between the two sizes 
above. This size has the best points of 
both sizes and is medium priced, too. 
But no matter what size you plant, set 
some fruit trees. Every home should 
have plenty of fruit right in its own back 
yard. It’s easy to have and it saves more 
money on the food bills than anything 
I know. 
New! Hulled Korean Seed 
Korean lespedeza has always been sold 
with its hull on just like Sweet clover used 
to be. Just why, I don’t know, so we got to 
experimenting. Pound out, we could hull 
and scarify it nice as could be and when we 
got through, the seed was easier to clean 
up and get free of weeds like dodder and 
horse-nettle. 
As usual, we’re about three years ahead 
with it, but I prophesy it won’t be that long 
until everybody will start handling it. It’s 
purple seeded, 60 lbs. to the bu. You only 
have to sow about 10 to 12 lbs. per a. (about 
2/3 the amount you have to sow using 
ordinary Korean). Only have limited supply 
to sell at $10.00 per hundred pounds, bags 
free. Get your orders in quick, if interested. 
This Garden Cost lc 
Beverly Mahar of Dahinda, Illinois 
raised this garden herself all from my 
lc conglomeration packet. I couldn’t show 
all the garden in this space, but I can 
see sweet corn, cabbage, beans, and let¬ 
tuce and maybe more. REMEMBER KIDS 
—The conglomeration packet is yours for 
lc, if you send your penny with your 
mother’s garden seed order and ask for it. 
Chinese Elms Grow 
“Friend Field: Five of the six Chinese 
elms I got from you made a wonderful 
growth, and are triple the size they were 
when planted in the spring.”—L. Brown, 
Fairmont, Neb. 
Everblooming Hybrid-Tea 
Roses That CLIMB ! 
Who said there wasn’t something new 
under the sun? Here’s the very latest in 
-plant breeding. The everblooming hybrid 
tea roses have been taught to climb. Now 
you can have the big double blooms of the 
hybrid teas covering your walls and fences 
as well as your garden. Blooms are the 
same as the bush form of the rose. All 
will bloom the first summer and will 
bloom all summer. 
I don’t have many of them, as they are 
still pretty scarce, but I can supply the 
varieties below (big 2 yr. plants) at 39c 
ea.; 3 for $1.00; all 5 for $1.50 postpaid. 
CLIMBING RED RADIANCE—Hardi¬ 
est Red. 
CLIMBING TALISMAN—Long budded, 
two tone. 
CLIMBING PINK RADIANCE — The 
hardy Pink. 
CLIMBING GRUSS AN TEPLITZ— 
Freeest blooming red. 
CLIMBING K. A. VICTORIA—Pure 
white and fragrant. 
1 each all 5 above $1.50 postpaid. 
True to Variety Ordered 
“Dear Henry: 
Eleven years ago I purchased some 
apple trees from you. All but one lived 
and now bear fruit true to the variety I 
ordered. Yes, I’m a satisfied customer.” 
—Harrison Eytle, Wausaukee, Wis. 
Time to Make Garden 
Doesn’t this picture make you realize 
it’s soon going to be time to start making 
garden? It won’t be long now, so get 
those seeds ordered. This is Melvin Butz 
'(age 2) helping his uncle John Melvin 
with the hoeing. Mrs. Butz, Seneca, Kan¬ 
sas sent this in and said, “I ordered straw- 
bery plants of you last spring. You ought 
to see my bed. Just every plant lived and 
grew.” 
Plant Trees—AAA Pays 
$7.50 Per Acre 
You folks in the AAA program don’t 
want to miss out on the $7.50 per A. 
you get for planting trees in woodlot, or 
for erosion control. What it amounts to 
is the government will pay for the trees, 
if you’ll order them and get them planted. 
The releases say, “By planting a mini¬ 
mum of 650 trees per acre for woodlot, 
general reforestation or erosion control 
purposes, a land owner is entitled to a 
benefit of $7.50 per acre. He is permitted 
to qualify for a total of 4 acres under 
this section, which means a total benefit 
of $30 is possible. Another way to earn 
this special payment is to plant a mini¬ 
mum of 300 trees per acre for shelterbelt 
purposes.” 
Incidentally these payments are made 
IN ADDITION to other payments you are 
allowed to earn through seeding practice 
and are the only ones you can get pay¬ 
ment on in excess of your unit quota. 
Whether you plant the shelterbelt 
(windbreak) of 300 trees per A., or the 
woodlot of 6 50 trees per A., you can’t 
afford to pass up a chance to do it now 
when you will get paid for your trouble. 
Trees which earn these payments in¬ 
clude American Elm, Black Locust, Osage 
Orange, Catalpa, Mulberry, Black Walnut, 
Silver Leafed Maple, Norway Spruce, 
Black Hill Spruce, Douglas Fir and Aus¬ 
trian Pine. See prices on seedling pages 
36 and 37 in the catalog. 
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There’s only one way to coast: downhill. 
—Winchell. 
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Belittle others—and be little. 
