COPYRIGHT 1943 BY J. 
D. LONG, 
BOULDER, COLO. 

No magazine that comes to our home is more welcome than READER’S DIGEST. We 
have over 100 copies from “‘way back when”. 
and stories originally too long for my reading budget. 
So why not prune descriptions in our seed catalogue so readers can grasp at a glance, 
or a couple'glances, the main facts regarding varieties? This we have done, and hope you 
like it. Cost of paper, printing and mailing greatly reduced. This saving is passed on to 
you in pricing Long’s seeds—‘Best in the Long Run!” Sounds CEL IS reasonable.- 


The Long and 
Short of It 
As you know, there is 
aA growing tendency to 
shorten things. Remem- 
ber the old horse blanket 
size bills, from $1.00 to 
$1,000? (1 -ean’*t crecall 
any $1,000 bills myself.) 
The present shorter and 
smaller bills much bet- 
ter. 
Remember mustaches 
of the Gay Nineties and 
a decade or two after? 
Those luxuriant, stream 
lined soup strainer, 
handle bar models? lt 
still wonder how they 
were grown to such 
colossal size long before 
we heard the praises of 
Vitamin Bl. 
Other examples are 
shorter and fewer phone 
calls. Joy rides, if any, 
are shorter. Men’s shirts 
are to be shorter. 
The short way is the 
hard way: Ever hear this 
one? About the man who 
wrote a five page letter 
to a friend, and finished 
with this apology: 
“Please excuse this long 
letter. I’m too busy to 
write a short one.” The 
joke is that he wasn’t 
trying to be funny. Mull 
this over. Rather inter- 
esting. 
Now if we could have 
shorter radio commer- 
cial announcements—but 
Why Spring that Uupy sole 
doesn’t seem to get us 
anywhere. 

Zz 

x*«x«*«x« The«x«x« «x 
SEEDER’S DIGEST 



~ Copuright 1942 by J. PD. LONG, Boulder, Colo. 
Weed ‘em ane Reap 
Don't ever let the weeds get big. Funny, 
isn’t it, how we think we're doing something 
great when slaughtering big weeds, but don't 
fee] half that glow of satisfaction if we 
kill ‘em off when small and when it is so much 
easier done. But the time to get the weeds is 
before they take their toll from the soil’s fer- 
tility. Frequent raking, hoeing and cultivating 
is the way to get the weeds just as sprouting. 



Irritating the Garden” 
One summer evening a caller at a Boulder 
home asked the little girl who came to the 
door: “Is your father home? “Yes,” replied 
the little miss, “he’s in the back pats irritat- 
ing the garden.” 
Many do just that—squirt cove on gar- 
dens a few minutes only, which does little 
more than “irritate” the garden. 
Tiny plants do need just a little light sprin- 
kling at a time and often. But when plants are 
larger they want a godd thorough soaking once 
in a while, then should be left alone a few 
days, may be a week. Is far better to give a 
good w atering, then cultivate as soon as 
the gzround is dry enough, than to keep “irri- 
tating” the garden with daily light sprinkling, 
which brings the feeding roots to the surface 
instead of keeping them at work lower down. 
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Shorts under such titles as: Garden 
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For me it’s a life saver, dehydr guns articles 


Get the Habit— 
Use the Index 
Make this your help- 
ful slogan. I myself lose 
much time pawing 
through catalogues with- 
out referring to index. 
Often wind up by getting 
down on my knees and 
asking the index to help 
me out. See page 31. 
Hard to classify every- 
thing under names each 
reader may be accus- 
tomed to use. In general, 
we employ the common 
names, Known to every: 
dirt gardener. Not all 
readers may know that 
Antirrhinums are Snap- 
dragons. But all know 
Snapdragons. 
This reminds me of a 
squib in the Rocky 
Mountain News (Denver) 
by Lee Casey; one of my 
favorite columnists. 
Lee told about a news- 
paper office needing a 
news item published 
some years back, regard- 
ing a cyclone. The head 
filing clerk was on vaca- 
tion. The office force 
looked under headings: 
Cyclones, Tornadoes, 
Storms, High Winds, 
Twisters, ete., but to no 
avail. 
Soon as the filing clerk 
returned, the force 
jumped: all over. him. 
The accused went calmly 
to the filing cabinet and 
found the data under 
“Regrettable . Occ u r- 
rences.”’ 


1943 SPRING GARDEN BOOK 
, Lang Seed Co, 
he J. BOULDER, COLORADO 

