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HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR MAROH, 1945—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., 

Garden Advice 
I don’t know how many hundred let- 
ters a day I get asking for advice. It 
Keeps me busy, I ean tell you. Of course 
I have to tell some of the help how to an- 
swer a lot of them. Too many for me. 
But I try to answer as many personally as 
Ican. And I read all of them. 
Seems like there are more letters this 
year than ever, And that probably means 
that more people are thinking earlier 
about | making a garden. I hope so. 
There’s nothing like a garden for filling 
the larder and resting the soul. And this 
year, more than ever before, we need to. 
grow food at home, so we’ll have more 
for our boys overseas. 
Just want to remind all the new cus- 
tomers that the big catalog they received 
earlier this year is about as complete a 
garden guide as you can find anywhere. 
It tells all about how to grow vegetables, 
fruit, flowers, field seeds and chickens, 
too. Don’t start a garden without refer- 
ing to it, and if you get stuck, and want 
some more answers, write me. If I don’t 
know, I’l] find out for you. 
Send in Pictures 
: Lots of friends are still sending in their 
pictures for Seed Sense. Not so many as 
before account of the film shortage. 
Makes me appreciate them more than 
ever. I always like to get pictures and 
letters about H. F. gardens. Then, I know 
how my seed and nursery is going over. 
I can see things grow here at Shenandoah, 
but I can’t get to see everybody’s garden, 
-So write me when you send in your or- 
ders, or any time you can, and be sure to 
nda picture. Remember, I pay 50c for 
c orinted in Seed Sense and the 
dou or $1, for Hybrid pic- 







Strawberries _ 


aes ‘ 
/ oO 3 7 a 
_ for ourselves and sold $65 worth.’—R, T. 
Officer, Hillsdale, Kansas, he ‘ 
We only had 6—50 ft. rows 

Best in Minnesota 
“Dear Henry: Here you can see how ; 
tall your sunflowers get in Steele County, bent with clusters of fruit. As this is a 
_ Minnesota. I am holding my niece Kath- selected strain, we cannot grow it from 
- ~  erine. She likes to helpcan th » OF I 
beveled Aaa 1 6- ws. The rest of the seeds I got from you we have to bud it so as to be sure it is 
your strawberries, but we picked enough” turned out good too.”—Reynold Hanson, true. Prices—large plants 98c each or. 
“ Rt. 2, Owatonna, Minnesota. oe oer 
Shenandoah, Iowa | 5 

My Mistake 
Seems like I always make a few mis- 
takes in the catalog. And I always leave 
something: or other out. Worst mistake 
this year is on page 5, lower right hand 
corner. There you can see where I’m 
quoting my new Hybrid South American 
Popcorn at $6.00 a hundred. Of course 
this should have been $60.00, and maybe 
it’s the printer’s mistake. Don’t know. 
Anyway you customers have bought so 
much of my new Hybrid that I ean’t sell 
it by the hundred pounds, even at $600. 
Wish I had more of it. Will have next 
year. This spring am limiting sales 3 lbs. 
per customer for $1.85 postpaid. 
Asters 5’ Tall 
“Dear Sir: I am near my 4 score in age 
and have a small plot of land here in the 
mountains. The vegetable seeds were more 
than satisfactory, and the flower seeds won- 
derful. The asters and zinnias grew 4 to 5 
ft. tail, Am in no hurry about your filling 
my present order—thought it best to get it 
in early.”—N. H. Beerbower, Burnt Ranch, 
Trinity Co., California, ; 
Gardener for 42 Years 
“Dear Henry: I have been producing: 
enough vegetables to supply my family the - 
year around for 42 yrs. Gardening & can- 
ning are hobbies of mine & H. F. seeds and 
nursery are favorites.” — Mrs. Marry Ber 
rier, Rt. 1, Norborne, Missouri. 
Best Bush Cherry _. 
Somehow when we made up the catalog 
we missed putting in the best of all bush 
cherries and did not discover it until it 
was too-late to do anything about it. The 
fruit of this: cherry is almost as large as 
plums. A deep rich purplish-red color of 
both skin and fiesh. The bush really 
makes a small tree about six feet high 
and as much across, which in season is 
loaded down so that the branches are 

e garden. ‘seed as the ordinary Hansen is grown— — 
2 for $1.79 postpaid. Ask for K-3. 

About Flowers | - 
him to set some for you at your next home. 
The first whole dollar I ever earned, I spent the whole 
wad for flower seeds. ; 
That was: when I was about five years old, and during a 
long: an'd busy life time since that time, I have been planting 
flowers and giving away flowers and flower seeds and flower 
plants, and incidentally selling a few, too, as I go along. It’s 
my idea of missionary work, and I really don’t believe there 
is.anything much better that I can ‘do than to brighten up 
the world a little and cheer it up along the hard road by 
seattering flowers along the way. 
In over 65 years I have never missed a year setting out 
Pansies and Roses and Strawberries and Peaches and giving 
away ten times as many as I planted myself, and I intend to 
keep it up as long as I live, which I hope will be quite some 
time yet. Yes, fruit goes right along with flowers—they 
just naturally go together. : : 
The more flowers and fruits we can have in this old world 
-of ours, the better place it will be for all of us to live in. 
Of course, I believe in growing a good vegetable garden, 
too. I have preached it all my life—and practiced what I 
preached too—an‘d I intend to keep on preaching it. 
But don’t overlook having some flowers too. No matter 
how crowded your garden is there is still room for a few 
flowers around the edges or stuck in the vacant spots, or if 
nothing more, some vines climbing on the garden fence. 
And plant some fruit. Even if you are only a one year 
renter you can set Everbearing Strawberries and get fruit 
the first year—the finest fruit that ever grew. And you can 
set Raspberries and Blackberries and Grapes that will bear 
the next year, and peaches and plums that will bear in an- 
other year. You’ll probably be there that long even if you 
are only a renter—and if you don’t get the good of them 
somebody else can—and meanwhile we’ll be trying to get 
And if you’re a land owner—well, you simply have no ex- 
cuse at all for not putting out fruit and flowers. No excuse 
at all other than just plain laziness or contrariness, 
Or maybe you’re like the man I knew when I was a young 
man selling seeds and plants and trees through the country, 
I had talked to a farm woman for an hour trying to get her 
sold on the idea of setting out some fruit, and finally she 
said “It?s no use, Henry. I’d love to have fruit but I can’t 
get John stirred up to plant it. My John’s a good man, but 
he just ain’t got no git.” 
Now wouldn’t you hate to haye your wife say that about 
you? Better beat her to it by getting busy and setting out a 
nice lot of fruit and flowers this spring. Never was a better - 
time and ‘‘time’s awastin’.’? Some of these days you'll be be- 
ginning to talk that you’re too old to set fruit. Although 
really there’s nothing to that. I aim to set fruit for twenty 
years yet, and I’m no spring chicken. My father set worlds of 
fruit for years'after he was my age—and lived to eat off of it, 
too. He always said that “if he didn’t get to eat it someone 
else would, and it would be as good a legacy as he could 
leave.”’ 
You can grow fruit and flowers anywhere in the United 
States. I’ve been over a lot of it in my time and I’ve never 
found a place yet that you couldn’t, if you really want to, 
and have a reasonable amount of grit and “‘git.’’ * 
Hop to it. And start early and keep going. And confi- 
dentially, it’s more fun and better exercise than any sport 
you ever tried. 
We've got ‘“‘the makins” for you in the way of plants and 
seeds and trees a plenty—if you order in time. But if you 
put it off too long you’ll probably get what the tail ender 
always gets. You’ll get left. 
