HENRY FIELD'S §s NS 1) 
D’S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1945—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 




Five Generations 
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This five generation picture certainly 
shows how important a garden can be to 
a family. Good food and good living are 
what count and you get both in a garden. 
In the front row are great-great-grand- 
mother Mary L. Haring, age 98, great- 
grandmother Mrs. George Beyer, 72, and 
great-great-grandson Donald Baier, 1 yr. 
ne back are Mrs. Gerhard Baier and 


An H. F. Wedding 
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“Dear Mr. Field: | want the rose bush, 
as the rose is my favorite flower,”’ says 
Mrs, D. L. Ryan, recently married to the 
handsome Lieutenant. Their home is at 
7308 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri. 
Okay Mrs. Ryan, a rose will go forward 
to you when planting season arrives. 
Hope you like it, and take good care of it 
until your husband comes home. 
Hope all the rest of you newly married 
couples will send me your pictures. Not. 
fancy studio pictures. Just snapshots. 
Preferably those taken in the garden, TI 
always send a rose or a peony to couples 

Family of Fourteen 
_ “Dear Mr. Field: Want you to see this 
picture of Yankee Doodle and Happy, my 
Buttercup Warblers. Mr. Hand bought 
from you as a Christmas present to me in 
1943. The ones in the bottom cage are 
their family of 14, all raised this summer, 
Nine of them are singers. Needless to say 
: Tm very proud of them.’’—Mrs. Walter 
AR. Hand, Rt. 1, Washington, Indiana. _ 
Yes, things in the Henry Field Pet De- 
partment are just as good, and carry the. 
same 100% guarantee as all my seeds and 
nursery. Look up pages 56 and 59 and 
see for yourself. = ai 
Have Rhubarb All Winter 
_ You can have fresh rhubarb all» win- 
ter if you will grow it in your basement. 
-Here’s how to do it. First, plant 1-year- 
old roots and allow them to grow in the 
garden 2 full yrs., three is better, using 
the stalks as you go. Then dig roots up 
in the fall, and leave outdoors to freeze. 
(Do not allow to freeze and thaw.) 
Pack frozen roots close together on top 
of 2 in. of sand, allowing sand to com- 
pletely cover. Use fine sand and pack it 
moderately. Place in dark place where 
temperature is above freezing. Stalks will 
appear in short time and ‘grow to a height 
of 3 ft. The darkness makes the stalks a 
dark red, but the quality is almost as good 
as from the garden. 
Henry’s Special Belmars 
This is my favorite of all the June 
bearing strawberries, and is the one I 
have made such records with at my Ozark 
garden. It will do equally well anywhere 
strawberries are grown. It is very hardy, 
a strong- grower, and an enormous yielder 
of large deep red luscious berries. It is 
the healthiest kind I have ever grown 
and the heaviest yielder and the best eat- 
ing, and that just about fills the entire 
bill. I have selected and improved them 
every year until they are better than ever 
—a really special strain.. 
I do not have very many plants this 
year, but as long as they last they will be 
first come first served. Order them early 
to be sure. They will be mailed, fresh 
dug, from my Ozark Garden. Price: 25 
for $1.00; 50 for $1.85; 100 for $3.25, all 
postpaid. Ask for No. HFS-9. 






































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of it. Was 
mind all of you that Bug Dust is the best Roses — 
of its kind as usual, that it takes care of. 
most of your garden needs for an insecti- 
cide, and that it still carries my 100% 
guarantee. Most of my customers use 
Bug Dust. This is only a reminder to in- 
clude it in your order if you haven’t al- 
ready done so. Price’is the same as last 
year, 3 lbs. for $1.00, postpaid. Order it 
early so it’s on hand when you need it. 
“Front Cover” 
The mailman smiled on me today, your 
catalog came both bright and gay, it’s 
Henry Field’s of course you know, seeds 
of the best and sure to grow. The Great 
Lakes lettuce, green and bright, sure does 
improve the appetite, Sugar Lump wa- 
termelons—all colors true, Red and Yel- 
low and White kinds too. Golden Hybrid 
Popcorn—the first of all, make’s the best 
of popcorn balls, peas of Harly Giant 
- strain, yield and yield, then yield again. 


the way people want it. Take Brownell 
Roses, for instance. I’ve been giving them 
a real recommendation in the catalog, and 
you customers have been ordering them 
on my advice. And now, all of a sudden, 
all of my customers seem to be ordering 
.them. at once. Just like they all got to- 
gether and compared notes, F 
Glad to see it happen, because they are 
good, winter-hardy roses that will grow 
in temperatures that no other roses can 
stand. But I don’t think I’m going to 
have enough to supply everybody this 
year—at least, of all varieties. So get 
your order in early, and if I can’t fill late 
orders, don’t say I didn’t tell you so. 
Watch the Birdie 
Emil Schannk, Rt. 
2, Box 252, Savannah, 
Missouri, sends this 
picture of his son 
Frank. Didn’t say 
what the boy was do- 
ing. Just getting his 
picture taken, I guess. 
“TY always order from 
Henry Fields,” says 
Mr. Schannk, “and I 
think your seeds are 
fine. We are planning 
a bigger and better 
garden this year.” 
Hope you let the boy 
be a part of that gar- 
den, 
H. F. 
















Apples both Red and Yellow too, lick 
the food shortages anew, tomatoes— 
Orange and Scarlet slicer, you tell me 
what could be nicer. Victory peonies, to 
lighten the load, and make our path a 
brighter road, sweet corn ears with ker- 
nels gold, it’s downright fun to have and 
hold. Last of all but best to me, it’s 
Henry Field’s from A to Z. Your catalog 
cover of the year ‘45’? makes a gardener 
glad to be alive. 
P.S. My order now is on the way— 
H. F. Customer 








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