
Don’t Laugh At Me! 
“T know these overshoes are _a little 
big, but when it’s muddy and folks want 
a picture to send to Henry, what are you 
going to do?” Mrs. A. W. Archer of 
Hutchinson, Kansas, sent this in with her 
order this year and said, ‘‘Picture of our 
granddaughter and we think she is grand 
all right. Our garden has to be small this 
year, but I wouldn’t feel like we had a 
garden if the seed didn’t come from 
Field’s. I always enjoy your catalog and 
Seed Sense.” 
Recipe Corner 
Usually I put Mrs. Field’s choice recipes 
in Seed Sense, but this time we had so 
many good ones sent in by our customers 
during a radio contest, I thought you’d 
like to see some of them. 
Hot Potato Salad 
Here’s a dish that’s flavory as potato 
salad, and hearty as only a hot dish can 
be. 
Potatoes, one kettle full, 
Onion, 1 large. 
Bacon, two strips for each person served. 
Vinegar—z2 to 3 Tbsps. 
Bacon Fryings—2 Tbsps. 
Three eggs. 
Boil potatoes with skins on. Start eggs 
boiling and bacon frying at the right time 
so they will all be ready when the pota- 
toes are done. 
Dice eggs and potatoes. Flavor with 
salt and pepper. Mix with chopped on- 
ions. Add bacon, broken up into bits. 
To the*bacon fryings, add the vinegar, 
and let get very hot, but don’t burn. Pour 
this over mixture, stirring well. Top with 
egg slices, and a little parsley. Serve at 
once. 
Serve this with hot biscuits or corn 
bread, fresh greens or salad, and you'll 
have as good and hearty a meal as you 
ever cooked. Your family will love it. 
* * * * * 
If you still have some of the corn you 
canned last year, try this when your green 
onions are ready to use: 
Drain all the liquid off the corn, and 
instead of creaming it, fry it in a little 
butter, with some green onions, sliced in 
thin pieces. Use the young, small onions. 
They will give a delicate, slightly sweet 
flavor to the corn, with just enough on- 
iony ‘“‘zing’”’ to it to make the corn better 
without smothering the good corn taste. 
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They’ve got safety devices for every- 
thing but the politician who gets a screw 
loose every so often. 
Did I Do Something? 
“T didn’t do nothin’, honest. I was just 
standing here and she began to cry!”’ . 
Mrs. C. M. Mustard of Silver Creek, 
Nebr., sent in this picture of their two 
grandchildren, Theda Joyce Hopkins and 
cousin Peggy. She said, ‘‘Received. Seed 
Sense this morning. Always read it from 
cover to cover.”’ 

About Planting Berries 
So many questions have 
come in this spring about 
planting raspberries and 
blackberries; I’m going to re- 
print part of our planting di- 
rections right here. Remem- 
ber, every order that goes 
out has complete directions 
for planting right with it, so 
don’t worry, if you’re not 
just sure how to plant. The 
‘directions will make it very 
plain. 
Raspberries and Blackberries 
Set in good sized hole about 2 inches 
deeper than they were in the nursery row. 
Spread roots well and pack firmly. Trim 
back to within few inches of the ground 
when planting. (See Illus. EH). Set 4 
feet apart in rows 7 feet apart for field 
cultivation. (1500 per A.) Closer for 
gardens. When new growth reach 24” 
pinch off tip to encourage branching. 
Next spring early trim back to 10”. Prune 
right after picking the fruit. Later re- 
move all old cane that have borne fruit 
and burn. Leave 3 to 5 branches on new 
canes. A permanent mulch may be kept 
on berry beds to conserve moisture and 
keep down weeds. Dig out any sickly 
bush that appears and burn. 
Plant Plenty of Glads 

Gladiolus ought to be made the national 
flower. Anyone can grow them. They’ll 
grow in spite of you. They'll live through 
more grief than any flower I know. And 
I don’t know what flower could give you 
more variety of colors. ‘ 
If you want bloom all summer long, 
plant yours at intervals, the first ones 
early in the spring, and then at intervals 
of ten days, until the fourth of July. 
You'll have cut flowers until frost. Of 
course you'll want to dig the bulbs, after 
frost kills the tops, and store in the cellar 
for next spring’s planting. 
We have plenty of them for you. Pick 
yours out by color or by size, on page 31 
in the catalog, or get my special Aristo- 
crat Glad collection, 50 bulbs of prize 
winning varieties, for only 98c postpaid. 
Order them from the back page of the 
catalog. These bulbs are lively, sure to 
bloom for you this year. 
See What I Grew! 
Ls * * 
‘See the fine cabbage I grew. Well, — 
maybe I didn’t grow it all, but I helped.” _ 
Picture of her brother sent in by Hazel — 
Dahi—granddaughter of Mrs. W. H. Rowe 
of Granton, Wisc.—another customer. of 
mine in very good standing. - 






Planting Suggestions 
By Paul the Nurseryman 
This is the time of year to get your 
garden and berry patch cleaned up in 
good shape. Rake up all the old leaves 
and burn them. This will keep disease 
from spreading into your garden this 
year. 

* * * * * 
April is strawberry planting time, You 
should have a patch even if you have only 
a 10x10 ft. space. You’ll get quarts and 
quarts from it and 1/100 the cost of ber- 
ries in the store. 
* * * * * 
Now is the time to get your lawn re- 
seeded and fertilized. Rake the lawn 
carefully before seeding, then sow about 
one pound of good grass seed to every 400 
square feet of lawn, and apply a good ~ 
fertilizer. After seeding, rake well and 
roll if possible. A good lawn is the foun- 
dation of all good landscaping. 
* * oe * * 
We still have a few Royal Rose collec- © 
tions left and I suggest that you order 
early. Roses are scarce this year and — 
that’s one collection where you can get 
them for less than 25c each. See back 
cover of catalog. 
* * * * * S 
A good cultivation around all of your — 
shrubbery, shade trees and your rose bed © 
now, will help alot. Hardy nursery stock 
needs cultivation just like garden stuff 
and this would be a good time to get the f 
% 
soil loosened up in good shape. 
ok * * * * 
Mildew on roses doesn’t need to be such 
a pest. Start dusting your roses with 5 
Henry Field’s Bug Dust as soon as leaves — 
come out and do it regularly about every 
week to 10 days. i I 






sects, too. Healthy plants mean, 
neat blooms. os 
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A farmer friend gave me a good ae ‘the a 
other day. He said he wanted an ever- 
green windbreak, but was going to pl 
Chinese Elm behind it to give QUI 
windbreak while the evergreens wet 
ting a good start. That’s a good id 
lots more of you will want to try 
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