
Another H. F. Wedding (?7) 
Looks like somebody is trying to pull 
my leg here but, just in case I might be 
wrong, a beautiful rose bush is going for- 
ward to the “bride and groom.” Mrs. 
Minerva Beseke, Arlington, Minn., moth- 
er of Allen and Gayle, says both of the 
kids like to work in the garden. I hope 
so, because the rose I’m sending is a beau- 
ty. 
Send in some more wedding pictures. 
I always like to send a rose or a peony 
bush to each newly wedded couple, and 
those H. F. flowers sure bloom season 
after season. 
Don’t Save Seed 
from Your Hybrid Corn 
A lot of people write in and want to 
know if they ean save seed from their 
Hybrid corn. This question can be well 
applied to field corn, popcorn, and sweet 
corn. The answer is, no. Don’t try to 
save your seed. The good qualities of 
Hybrid corn are there because certain 
inbreds have been cross bred in such a 
way as to bring out the good qualities 
of all of them in one generation. In other 
words, when you cross breed certain in- 
breds, the result seems to be an explo- 
sion, bringing out the best of all of them. 
Now, if you try to save seed from that 
erop the force of this explosion is gone 
and the resultant crops will be not better 
than ordinary open pollinated corn. You 
just can’t afford to do it. 
The cost of seed corn is so small any- 
way compared to what you get, you ean’t 
afford to fuss with trying to gather seed. 
Man with the Hoe 
Virgil Eugene Stout, age 2, did a man’s 
size job in the garden last spring, according 
to Mrs. Virgil Stout, Weatherby, Mo., his 
mother. “We 
used Henry 
Field seed 
and had the 
finest gar- 
den ever 
last year,” 
she says; 
and with 
such kind of 
help she is 
eertainly 
entitled te 
the full ben- 
efit of Field 
seed. I bet 
that hoe 
gets heavy 
after a 
while, Hope 
Virgil had 
one of our 
Con glomer- 
ation Pack- 
ets in his 
garden, 


Pick Tomatoes from Stepladder 

‘Dear Henry: This is a snap of my Ox- 
heart Tomato patch. We planted 100 
plants and 96 grew. They were 10 to 14 
ft. high. We criss-crossed the tie poles at 
8 feet, so they would not fall down, and 
had to pick tomatoes from a stepladder. 
This variety sure is the sweetest, biggest 
and reddest. We got more than 1 bushel 
per plant of ripe tomatoes, and vines 
were full of green ones when frost hit. 
Picture includes myself and three kiddies. 
We have used Henry’s seeds ever since 
I can remember, and I was somewhat of a 
man in 1917-18 with the Marines.” G. C. 
Chandler, Box 486, Sullivan, Mo. 
Order Gladiolus Bulbs Early 
This year we didn’t raise such a big 
crop of gladiolus. We had fine growing 
weather and all that but with the war ef- 
fort, shortage of labor, and food produc- 
tion program, our gladiolus plantings 
were not as large as usual. You know 
the answer as well as I. It means late 
buyers may be disappointed. So order 
your gladiolus bulbs early and don’t get 
mad if we send you some other variety 
‘than the one you order. We’ll send you 
something that is just as good or better 
than what you sent for. We guarantee 
' satisfaction the same as always. 
In speaking of gladiolus bulbs, don’t 
overlook the Aristocrat Glad offer on the 
back cover of the catalog. I claim that’s 
the best one of the year. 
Picker Worked Best with Your Corn 
“Dear Mr. Field: I had some of your 135 L 
seed corn last year. It made 75 bushel to 
the acre. I had anether hybrid beside it and 
it made 10 bushel less. I picked it with a 
picker and with your corn the picker worked 
twiee as good. I could pick your corn as 
well in the afternoon as in the morning, but 
the other could be picked only in the morn- 
ing when it was damp. This other hybrid 
cost almost twice as much.”—Lawrence 
Leimkuehle, Slater, Mo. 
87 Qts. from 2 Lbs. of Peas 
“Last year I planted not quite 2 Ibs. of 
your Little Marvel Pea. From this I eanned 
87 quarts. There were 10 to 12 at the table 
all the time and we ate all we wanted,”— 
Mrs. Ted Brecheisen, Eudora, Kans. 
* 2 *£ © «# 
An optimist is a fellow who doesn’t care 
what happens so long as it doesn’t happen 
to him. And a pessimist is a fellow who 
lives with an optimist, 

HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1944—Henry Field Seed & Nursery ‘Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 


A Drink and a Shower 
“Dear Henry: Here is a picture of my 
grandson, Gerald Silke, 244 years old, 
taken in front of my greenhouse. I have 
been selling plants 18 years, and must say 
I have better luck with your seeds than 
any others. I hope you put this picture 
in Seed Sense.”’—Mrs. Paul Silke, R. 6, 
Box 249, Salem, Ore. 
Here’s the picture, I hope you like it, 
and that you and everybody else will con- 
tinue to send them in. This young fellow 
sure has the right idea for a hot baie . 

Plant Some New Things 
I’d be the last fellow in the world to 
fill your garden up with novelty rainbow 
chasers and things that haven’t proven 
themselves. 
Believe me, I mean every word of it 
when I say plant some new things this 
year and get acquainted with some of the 
newer vegetables and flowers. There are 
even things in this world you and I 
haven’t met yet. The sooner we meet 
them the better off we’ll be for having 
gotten acquainted. Take this New Hybrid 
South American popeorn for instance. It 
beats the old fashioned open pollinated 
kind so far there isn’t any comparison 
and once you get acquainted with it, I 
know that you’ll want to buy nothing but 
the new Hybrid kind. 
Our Double Duty bean is a good one 
too. We don’t.say so in the catalog but 
it’s a bush variety, white seeded and you 
can use it either as a green pod bean or 
as a dry bean. If you happen to let some 
of them get tough in the garden, just 
leave them on the vines until they ripen 
and you’ll have the finest kind of dry 
beans for winter. 
Scarlet Slicer tomato is another new 
one that you should know about. It’s 
disease resistant and it has lots of foliage 
to protect it from the hot summer sun. 
Could say a lot more for it too, but take 
my word it’s one of the best and worth 
knowing. 
I’ve talked about Sugar Lump water- 
melons until some of you are probably 
tired of hearing the story but it’s so good 
that I want to tell itagain. If you haven’t 
planted my Sugar Lump melons, you 
missed a real treat. About the sweetest 
and best melons you ever ate. 
Hybrid sweet corn, Coreless carrot, 
New Wrinkled Alaska pea, Disease Re- 
sistant cabbage, Field’s Daisy muskmelon 
and Wilt Resistant watermelon are just a 
few of the other things that you should 
know about—you should try in your gar- 
den this year.—H. F. 
