HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR APRIL, 1940—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 
Readin’ Henry’s Seed Sense 
“This sure is a nice magazine Mr. Field 
puts out. It has too much readin’ in it 
to suit me, but I sure like the pictures— 
especially of Henrietta and Big Boy. 
Maybe, some day he’ll put one out all 
pictures.’’ 
The little girl so busy reading is Eliza- 
bet Ann Allen, granddaughter of Mrs. R. 
S. Hughes, of Dawn, Mo. 
Few Crepe Myrtle 29c 
Any number of people have wanted to 
buy Crepe Myrtle, but I’ve never sold it to 
them. It’s really a shrub for the south. 
I admit it’s the prettiest shrub in the 
world, but if it isn’t hardy everywhere, I 
don’t like to list them. They do all right 
up to about the middle of Missouri, but 
up here at Shenandoah the tops winter- 
kill and have to come up from the ground 
each spring, and they need winter pro¬ 
tection. 
Anyway, for you southern customers 
and you northern customers who want to 
try this shrub, I can send you either red 
or pink at 29c each postpaid. 
Oh yes, if you’ve never seen it, you’ve 
missed the world’s greatest sight. Blooms 
twice as heavy as Hydrangea P. G. (blos¬ 
soms look like that, only larger) and is 
loaded solid all over the plant. 
Save—Use Quantity Prices 
Lots of folks order 4 fruit trees of one 
kind, and 1 of another, and want to know 
if they can get them for the low rate per 
5 trees. Absolutely yes. It’s a good way 
to save money. If you’re buying 5 or 10 
or 100 fruit trees in all, but they are dif¬ 
ferent kinds, you may use the rate earned 
by the total quantity of fruit trees you 
buy and you’ll be surprised how much you 
save. 
The same is true of shrubs. By buy¬ 
ing in quantity, you get low quantity 
prices for the total number you buy, even 
though part of your shrub order is for 
one kind and part for another. 
Buying this way, you can get apples 
and peaches for as low as 12 1 / 4c each, 
plums for as low as 19c, shrubs for as low 
as 15c, etc. Buying at Field’s pays, 
doesn’t it? 
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The difference between just an ordi¬ 
nary doctor and a specialist is about 
twenty-five dollars. 
Get your rose bed out in full sunshine 
away from trees. They like that best. 
See What We Grew! 
“Aren’t these nice beans we got from 
Mr. Field? They yield! too much and 
there’s too much picking, but they look 
nice, don’t they?” 
That’s Cecil Conrad, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. CLeo Conrad of Wheeler, W. Vir¬ 
ginia. Yes, they even use my seeds clear 
out there. Mrs. Conrad says, “These are 
the Stringless Yellow Pod and we think 
there’s no bean quite like them.” 
The New Fuchsia 
There has been a lot of fuss made this 
year about the new fuchsia—how hardy 
it is and how beautiful. There’s no doubt 
about its beauty for it’s really the most 
gorgeous thing you ever saw — simply 
loaded with blooms, hanging down over 
the entire plant. But there is some doubt 
about how much hot dry weather it will 
stand. I didn’t list it in the catalog, but 
have had so many requests for it I’m 
pricing it now at only 39c each postpaid. 
You don’t need to pay more than that 
even though it’s asked. If you have a few 
extra cents, by all means try it. If you’re 
a good enough gardener, you’ll be re¬ 
warded a thousand times over.—H. F. 
When To Plant Glads 
Lots of people don’t seem to know just 
when or how glads should be planted. 
There’s nothing to it. Wait for the 
ground to warm up, then start putting 
them in, planting some one week and 
some the next and so on so you’ll have 
blooms coming on all summer. 4 to 5 
inches deep is about right and about 5 to 
8 inches apart. 
You can’t have any trouble with glads. 
Our bulbs are the finest “high-crown” 
bulbs which means they are plump and 
round—not like the flat exhausted bulbs 
you see for sale in some stores cheap. 
Any of the collections we have this year is 
a real bargain, but one of the most pop¬ 
ular is the rainbow glad collection on 
page 29 in the catalog. These are all 
named and you get 5 bulbs each of 10 
choice varieties for only 98c postpaid. 
Other real glad bargains are there on 
page 29 and on the back cover of the 
catalog. 
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Lots of folks who seem to profit most 
from their mistakes seem to have the 
least. 
“That man, Henry Field, sure talks on 
the radio. Though he mostly talks about 
planting and tilings like that, I sure like 
to listen.” 
This was sent in to me by Mr. and Mrs. 
Roy Ecker of Elmo, Mo.—good customers 
of mine. 
Some Landscaping Tips 
Here are the answers to a lot of ques¬ 
tions you have been sending in about 
planting your lawn. I think you’ll get 
some good ideas out of them. 
Every home should have a shrubbery 
border along at least one side of their lot. 
Put taller shrubs at the back and set 
about 3 ft. apart, and lower shrubs at the 
front about 18 in. to 2 ft. apart. Planting 
in groups of 3 to 5 makes a more attrac¬ 
tive planting. 
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In front of this shrub border, put in 
lots of perennials. They give color and 
if you plan right, you’ll have blooms all 
summer—first the iris, oriental poppies 
and peonies, then the summer bloomers 
and then the fall bloomers — mums, etc. 
Don’t crowd perennials too close to 
shrubs. Plant in clumps of 3 to 5. 
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For foundation planting, plant tall 
shrubs at the corners and near entrances 
and low shrubs under the windows. Set 
out at least 18 in. from the foundation. 
Place a few low-growing shrubs—such as 
Spirea Anthony Waterer or Red Leaf Bar¬ 
berry—in front of the tall shrubs. Ever¬ 
green planting follows the same rules. 
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Most people like to edge their borders 
in big, generous curves. You can do this 
by throwing out a garden hose in about 
the' shape you want and then spading up 
to it. 
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Don’t worry if your plants don’t start 
growing the day you put them in the 
ground. They need a little time and some 
plants start slower than others. 
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When setting hedge, be sure to prune 
it severely right after setting. This 
makes for stronger plants and more bushy 
growth close to the ground. 
Likes New Gem Everbearer 
“Dear Mr. Field: The 50 New Gem 
Everbearers I bought last spring gave me 
50 quarts of berries last fall. They were 
the marvel of everybody—such nice large 
berries and plants. I plan to plant many 
more this spring.”—Laura Gilmore, Ed¬ 
mond, Okla. 
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For the newest idea in farming read 
about the Mule-Hybrid Weather-Proof 
Blend on page 15 of this Seed Sense. 
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