








Peony Pilfering 
“Tf you pull here and here the pretty 
vers come all apart. I ‘wonder why 
ier is calling to me.” 
-This is Joe Sterling, son of Mrs. Hallie 
erling, good customers of mine down in 
ette, Arkansas. Mrs. Sterling says 
-has ordered from Field’s for several 
ars and thinks the plants and seeds I 
d noe are just about right. 
How to Store Glads, Ete. 
belt: have got lots of letters from folks 
wanting to know how to dig and store 
their summer bulbs like Cannas, Dahlias, 
Gladiolus, Tuberoses, ete. 
: Well, it isn’t hard at all. Dig before 
serious frost, after the tops dry down. 
Cut back to the roots and store away in 
3 cool, dry place. A fruit cellar or cave. 
is ideal if not too“damp, except for Can- 
nas. Cannas like it best in the furnace 
room where it is warm and dry. The rest 
or eee be stored with potatoes. 
Put them in anything, a sack or bucket 
3 or box, as long as you don’t pile them 
too deep. If you do, they will heat. Keep 
- them good and dry. 
Next. spring if you want to get a head 
start, pot the bulbs up in February in tin 
- eans and then set them; or, you can wait 
until March or April and set them right 
ae oe, in your garden. 



























- 
Well, the new, big 1944 catalog is just 
~ about ready. We’ve been working on it, 
off and on, most all of the summer, and 
Ait ’s just about to go to the printers. 
-~ It’s really a sight I wish you all could 
ak see when the presses start turning out 
hundreds anid hundreds of thousands of 
- pbooks—one of which will be your copy. 
 We’ve got a first-class, top-notch sur- 
"prise for you too, next spring. There are 
a lot of new items and special deals, but 
one especially is going to really ‘“‘knock 
i the frosting off the cake.’? But you’ll just 
have to wait to see what it is. 
Meanwhile, if you have any friends that 
- you’ know would like to have the catalog, 
 J’d sure appreciate your sending in their 
rep name. We’ll put it on the list and mail 
- them one as soon as possible in the spring. 
There will be an extra lot of good prac- 
tical gardening and planting advice (not 
Soe fancy unimportant things but really 
“down-to-earth” helps) in the book for 
you, so it will make you and any of your 
1 ie friends a really helpful garden guide— 
ve the likes of which I don’t think you can 
a! ‘get anywhere else. 
4 hope ery pe Le 
& se 
Discipline yourself or the world will do 
for you 
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Part of 1085 Quarts! 
This letter speaks for itself. It proves 
you can grow your food, if you just will. 
“Dear Mr. Field: This is a snapshot of my- 
self with part.of my annual canning. This 
picture shows part of the 1085 quarts of my 
canned fruits, meats and mostly epee bles 
canned in. many different ways. The greatest 
part of my canning is vegetables, mostly cold 
packed in just an ordinary boiler. The vege- 
tables in this picture were all Field’s seeds. 
My son and daughter did the greatest part in 
the garden of raising and gathering these vege- 
‘tables and fruits. Our fruit trees were also 
purchased from ‘Henry’ several years ago. My 
son is now in service for Uncle Sam, but we'll 
do our utmost to have a good Victory garden 
again this year. Incidentally, we would not try 
raising a garden without ‘Henry’s’ Bug Dust.’ 
—Mrs. Mary Janda, Wilber, Nebr. 
Likes My “Visits” 
“Dear Mr. Field: This is our first order 
to you. We borrowed the seed catalogue 
and surely enjoyed looking through it. 
It is a grand seed catalogue and you cer- 
tainly have reason to be proud of it. We 
especially enjoyed reading your own cor- 
ner for ‘Just Visiting.’ 
“The pictures in the corner too. We are 
glad you put them in, as then it seems 
like we have met you personally. 
“We are going to order some Nursery 
Stock from you in the near future, as we 
have bought a home of our own and will 
be moving next month. So will you please 
send us a seed catalogue as we would like 
to have one of our own. 
‘We wish to thank you in advance for 
favors.”—Yours sincerely, Oliver Frei, 
Iowa City, Iowa. 
Our Radio Cookbooks 
Adella Shoemaker, the ‘‘cookbook”’ lady 
on our radio station, KF NF,-has just com- 
pleted her newest cookbook of over 200 
recipes for cooking vegetables. She has 
done a wonderful job with it suggesting 
many many new ways to prepare “‘hard to 
serve’ vegetables in ways that your fam- 
ily will ‘‘rave’”’ about. 
Beside this, she still has a fair supply 
of her Victory cookbook of sugar-saving 
recipes and her Meat-Stretching cookbook 
with recipes to make your rationed meat 
go farther. These books are going fast to 
radio listeners and you Seed Sense read- 
ers should order yours quick. The price is 
35c each or one of each (3 in all) for 
$1.00, postpaid. (You may have all 3 of 
one kind if you wish.) With the three, 
Adella is having me put in a free packet 
of Parsley seed for growing in a pot in 
your kitchen this winter. 






Field’s Strawberries in Okla. 
Here’s a picture of part of the picking 
of strawberries Earl Rayner and his wife 
of Bartlesville, Oklahoma made off of 
strawberry plants they bought of me, This 
was taken in 1942 of berries picked from 
plants set in 1941, and Hari ‘said 
never seen plants that ‘did better. 
This should give some of you new 
gardeners an idea of what you can get in 
the way of fruit in one year, if you’ll just 
set the plants. Fall is an ideal time, if 
you start right now. And keep in mind, 
strawberries don’t take much room. If 
you have space for a spread out blanket 
in your yard, you’ve got space enough 
to raise the strawberries you want. 

he had 
Strawberries in November 
“Dear Sir: Just a line to let you know 
the 25 strawberry plants (Gem Everbear- 
ing), I got of you last spring were 
simply wonderful. They just beat aye 
thing I ever heard of. 
“We had fresh strawberries all summer 
until away in November, long after frost. 
I got them in a $1.00 collection.’’—Truly 
yours, Mrs. Jane McDonald, Tahlequah, 
Okla. 
New Salesman—Same Seeds 
“Dear Sir: I have just purchased a 
Junior Seedsman collection of your seeds 
from a little boy in our neighborhood and 
would like a catalog please. 
“When I showed my husband the seeds 
I bought, he said, ‘Why, sure those are 
good seeds. I used to sell them every 
spring when I was a kid.’ ’’—Yours very 
truly, Mrs. Sam. Willis, McChesson, Kans. 
* * * 
PARSNIP, CARE—Parsnips may be left 
in the ground all winter and used as 
needed after frost. Or, after they 
freeze you may dig and store just like 
carrots or other root crops. See page 
19 for full details. 
Re oe 
Do you create your own lack of oppor- 
tunities? 
iy 
Labor disgraces no man, but many men. 
disgrace labor. ~ 
