HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOB SEPTEMBER, 1940—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. f Shenandoah, Iowa 
A Family of Field Boosters! 
Here’s what I mean when I say I have loyal customers. 
M. A. Greenlee of Leon, W. Va., wrote when he sent this 
picture: 
“I want to thank you for sending a catalog to each of our 
married children. They have all sent you orders again this 
year. We always used your seeds when they were at home 
and now that they have homes of their own, they still want 
good seed. We have used your seed for more than 30 years. 
The picture is of my wife, myself, and the 11 children—7 girls 
and 4 boys. Six of the girls and one boy married. Rest at 
home.” 
Advantages of Fall Planting 
Fall planting is rapidly becoming as popular as spring plant¬ 
ing. Now that experiment stations all over the country are 
recommending planting in the fall, more and more folks are 
setting out what they want at BOTH seasons of the year. 
Fall has these advantages over spring for planting. 
1. Plants have 6 months’ head start to become established. 
THE ROOTS WILL GROW ALL SIX MONTHS. 
2. Fall planted stock gets well established to stand their first 
hot, dry summer and have better chances of living through. 
3. Fall planted plants BLOOM THE FIRST SPRING, where 
some wouldn’t if planted in the spring. 
4. - Usually, most folks are busy in the spring and don’t get 
time to set stuff in their garden that they should. In fall, 
mostly they have the time. 
Now, if those reasons don’t make a believer of you, all I ask 
you to do is try a few plants this fall and see how much suc¬ 
cess you are going to have. H. F. 
How to Plant in the Fall 
There’s no mystery about fall planting. It’s the same as 
spring planting except the plants must be mulched. This mulch 
prevents alternate freezing and thawing which might heave 
the plants up out of the ground. 
All the mulch is, is a covering of leaves and straw, or lawn 
rakings. Don’t use leaves alone as they may mat and smother 
the plants. Most folks mulch their plants anyway, so it's noth¬ 
ing new to you. Here are the directions: 
ROSES, SHRUBS, GRAPES, etc. Mound dirt up to cover 
tops about 8 to 10 in. deep. Then mulch. Uncover early in 
the spring when danger of frost is over. 
OTHER NURSERY STOCK: Mulch well with straw and 
leaves or manure. Work manure in soil next spring. 
PRUNING: LEAVE TOPS ON PLANTS THIS WINTER. 
Prune severely early next spring, before the plants start new 
growth—not this fall. 
That’s not hard, is it? And on top of that, fall planting: 
gives you a head start which almost equals a year over stuff 
planted next spring. 
4 Hardiest Roses, 98c 
EVERYBODY wants the hardiest roses they can get. That’s 
why this collection has proved so popular. 
I took the hardiest red, RED RADIANCE and 
the hardiest pink, PINK RADIANCE and 
the hardiest white, WHITE RADIANCE and 
the hardiest yellow, HENRIETTA 
and put them all together in one big collection for 98c. That’s 
less than 25c each (12c each lower than the regular price of 
37c) so it’s a real bargain. Have 1000 collections ready for the 
first 1000 orders this fall. Order early. Late orders will have 
to be held for spring shipment. 
Henry Field Perennial Flowers in Illinois 
Here’s what you can have next spring if you get out and 
plant this fall. No use waiting—fall is ideal with more mois¬ 
ture and cooler weather for the plants getting established. 
This is part of the beautiful Henry Field garden of Mrs. John 
Ullrich of Morris, Illinois, who sent picture with her order. 
If you like to have fruit in a hurry, see what J. T. Alexander 
got from his Golden Muscat grapes. He bought them from me 
in 1938 and this picture taken in 1939 shows how loaded down 
the vines Were. You can imagine he’s mighty tickled with 
Field’s nursery stock. Those good looking girls peeking thrqugh 
the vine are his daughters—Edna and Dorothy. 
Fll Ship Nursery Early 
Bulbs, iris, poppies and the like will go out the same day 
you order them. But with nursery plants, it’s different. 
Some things like trees, roses, etc., don’t go dormant until 
pretty late and to move them before they are dormant would 
do you about as much good as planting broomsticks. So on 
these items, order them NOW, and I’ll hold them and ship 
them at the correct fall planting time in your locality. 
‘ Strawberries will be shipped from the middle of September; 
on the fruit trees, roses, grapes, shade trees, etc., about Oc¬ 
tober 10. Before that won’t do you any good and after that 
is the ideal time to fall plant. So get those orders in now so 
I can save stock for you and ship it at the right time. 
How to Plant Bulbs 
Planting time for tulips, crocus, daffodils and the like waits 
for nobody. You plant them this fall or do without them. 
Here’s a quick easy way to see just how deep and how far 
apart to plant the different bulbs. Some people dig out whole 
beds to set the bulbs in and some just dig a hole for each bulb. 
It makes no difference either way. Both are good. 
But it is important to tramp the dirt down well to get rid 
of all air spaces. Some folks even put a little sand below the 
bulbs which makes good drainage and helps a lot. If the fall 
is dry, water the planting some BEFORE frost. Mulch with 
lawn rakings or straw. After bulbs bloom next spring, allow 
the tops to 
die down, 
then either 
dig and 
store in a 
dry cool 
cellar or 
leave for 
another 
year of 
year of 
bloom. 
