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3 Dishpanfuls of Strawberries 
Now this is the way to raise straw- 
berries. Have a patch big enough to give 
you 3 full dishpans full at one picking! 
Really doesn’t take much room at all and 
strawberries are so good fresh picked. 
If yow don’t have a patch of your own— 
you should. 10 feet by 10 feet is big 
enough. Better try it. Picture sent in 
by Milton Bathke, Waseca, Minn. 
Pve Cut the Daylights Out 
of Evergreen Prices 
Remember back when you had to have 
a $10 bill just to look at an evergreen, 
let alone buying one for your yard? It 
hasn’t been so long ago either. Ever- 
green prices were just too blamed high 
for anybody with good sense to buy. 
So about 8 years ago, I stopped put- 
ting evergreens in my catalog and set out 
to find a way to make prices cheaper. 
And I’ve finally found it. Instead of hav- 
ing to pack evergreens with big balls of 
dirt and then wrapping them in burlap 
and other expensive materials, I’ve found 
a special way to pack them, so that I can 
postpay them to you at about ONE- 
FOURTH what you used to have to pay. 
And you don’t have any big freight bill 
either. Instead of costing you $2, $3 or 
$4 each, f.o.b. Shenandoah, they cost you 
89c, 49c and 55¢c POSTPAID RIGHT TO 
YOUR DOOR. 
They’re listed there on page 42 in the 
catalog, big as life, and fine as ever, but 
here are a few of the sample prices so 
you can order direct from Seed Sense. 
All are ornamental specimens, not seed- 
lings. 
Colorado Blue Spruce (10 to 12..... 39c 
Spreading Juniper (1 to 1% ft.)....49¢ 
Globe Arbor Vitae (1 ft.).......... 49c¢ 
Pyramidal Juniper 
(1% ft., grows tall) 49c 
Norway Spruce (% to 1 ft.)........ 59c 
Mugho Pine (10 in.)............. 59c 
About Nursery C.O.D. 
Yes, we can ship nursery stock to you 
C.O.D., if you want, but we really think 
it’s better not to. First place there’s a 
C.0.D. fee you have to pay which makes 
it cost you more than it should. And then 
there’s always a delay in the postoffice 
handling C.O.D.s and that’s not good for 
nursery stock. So, if you will please, don’t 
request a C.O.D. nursery shipment unless 
you absolutely won’t pay in advance. If 
you pay in advance as most people do, 
your nursery comes right at proper plant- 
ing time, there’s no delay, and no extra 
cost to you. 



81 Plums on Cluster 
“Dear Mr.Field : This is Lyla May and 
David Bates standing beside a 4 year old 
Sapa plum I got of you. Notice cluster 
of plums—81i in all. When ripe and 
picked the one cluster was 34 of a gallon. 
I think the Sapa plum an ideal ‘buy’ for 
anyone with small space for fruit. They 
bear so abundantly even in dry seasons 
and come into bearing second season after 
planting. Hard to beat for flavor too.”— 
Mrs. Myrtle Bates, Red Oak, Ia. 
About.Our New Asparagus 
I never thought I would ever see as- 
paragus that you could cut from the first 
year it was put out and not have it hurt 
the plants. But I did. 
This new Paradise asparagus not only 
wasn’t weakened by this early cutting, 
but its stalks were bigger, whiter, more 
tender and yielded about just twice as 
much as the varieties we had been prop- 
agating up to now. : 
Right then I decided to grow nothing 
but Paradise. 
There’s never been an asparagus to 
compare with it, and I don’t believe there 
will be for a long time. You folks who 
are putting in a bed this year are starting 
at just the right time. Don’t fatil to put 
in Paradise. I’m not asking any premium 
prices as I have big stocks. 1 year plants 
are 98c¢ per 100 and the heavy 2 year 
plants are $1.69 per hundred postpaid. 
Get HARDY Chinese Elms 
There are certain strains of Chinese 
Elm, I have found, that are not the 
genuine hardy Siberian strain that I sell. 
Some folks have been disappointed with 
Chinese Elms because they had gotten 
a less hardy strain when they bought at 
another nursery. 
Every one of my Chinese Elms is the 
genuine hardy Siberian strain—the strain 
that stands cold or heat equally well 
and grows like sin despite everything. 
Some are priced more or less than others, 
not because they are a different strain, 
but because they are a different size or be- 
cause I made some saving growing that 
I am passing on to you. But whichever 
size you buy from me, you may be sure, 
it is the Genuine SIBERIAN STRAIN. 
Incidentally, where you need quick shade 
to replace dead fruit trees, there’s nothing 
grows faster than Chinese Elms, 
Answers to Puzzle Page 6 
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Peas, Potato, Tomato, Okra, Onion, 
Carrot, Beet, Bean Corn, Mint. 



Mother’s Helper 
You other boys and girls can learn 
a good lesson from little Bobby Smith 
of Red Cloud, Nebr. See how he helps — 
his grandmother? But then, I suppose 
most of you don’t need a lesson and are ~ 
pretty good helpers already. 
Picture. sent in by Bobby’s grand- 
mother, Mrs. Sid Peterson, with her big 
nursery order. 
We Prepay Fruit Trees 
Re TS 
Maybe you’ve noticed in other catalogs 
and maybe you haven’t, but 9 out of 10 
quote a price on fruit trees that maybe 
looks low but then you find out you have 
to pay postage on top of that. But it’s 
not that way at Henry Field’s. No sir. 
The prices on our fruit treeg are all 
delivered prices and you don’t need to 
send any extra money. Even on the big 
4 to 6 foot size—the heavy, ready-to-bear 
size, the price ig prepaid. That makes a 
big difference and is just one other reason 
why so many people prefer to order from 
Field. 
Now on the big 4 to 6 foot size we 
can send two trees by parcel post, but 
more than two have to go by prepaid ex- 
press because the shipment is too big for 
the postoffice to handle, so we send them 
to your nearest express station prepaid. 
Be sure and let us know the nearest one 
to you. 
With so many trees killed in the 
Armistice Day freeze, folks are going to 
want the big reacy-to-kear size fruit 
trees—and Henry Fieia- is the place 
to get them—with no extra charges that 
will have to be added on later. 
A Tip on Hybrid Corn 
There’s only one reason more farmers 
don’t plant Hill-drop corn—and that’s 
because they don’t know about it. If 
more did know this grade well, the price 
would be nicter than Edge-drop. Hill- 
drop is the perfect type to plant. The 
kernels are larger ana will stand more 
cold when planted and will feed the young 
corn plant better. It’s beautifully uniform 
when graded like we do and goes through 
the plates as easy, if not easier, than the 
flat Edge-drop. Farmers used to think it 
was just odds and ends, because it sells 
for less, but they slowly are learning 
better now. 
Right now, Hill-drop is selling for 
$1.50 per bu. under Edge-drop Grade. 
AND THAT’S A REAL SAVING. Plates 
for planting it, if you don’t have them, 
only cost 60c¢ each and the saving OF 
THE FIRST BUSHEL PAYS FOR 
THESE. The saving on the other bushels 
is just so much more profit. 
So if the tip of an experienced seed 
corn man is worth anything to you, take 
his advice and at least give Hill-drop a 
try. You won’t change, ; 
