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HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR AUGUST, 1945— Henry Field Seed & Nurser 

Going for the Cows 
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_ “The boys are Bill and Pat Riley. They 
go for our cows every night just to get to 
ride Beauty, the pony,” says Mrs. L. W. 
Branstetter, Rt. 1, Anderson, Missouri. 
“year. Sato 
‘Hybrid Vegetables 
They’re Coming 
You’ve been hearing a lot about -Hy- 
brid Vegetables. Most of it nonsense. But 
not all of it. Up until now the only really 
practical hybrid vegetable has been sweet 
corn. And it has been a wonder, as you 
all know. z 
f But more are coming. Have been work- 
ing on some for years. And they are 
about ready. Will feature one or two 
next spring in the big catalog, and tell 
you a lot about my work on them. One 
thing you can be sure of, when Henry 
Field puts his name and recommendation 
on a new Hybrid, it will be good. And 
you can plant it with complete assur- 
ance. 
Take Care of Rhubarb 
Keep removing flower stalks that de- 
velop on the rhubarb. Flower stalks al- 
lowed to develop seed use up food mate- 
rial that should be stored in the roots. 
Care of the rhubarb this year will help 
insure strong, productive plants next 

Nothing Like Bluebells 
i _ Don’t know how any gardener could be 
without Bluebells. 
If you get technical 
‘| you call them Mertensias, but for me it’s 
Trying Hard 
‘Dear Mr. Field: I am nearly 6 yrs. old 
and in the ‘Beginners Grade’ in our lit- 
tle school. I tried to make a garden last 
year. This picture is to show you how 
hard I tried.’”—Michael Jones, Rt. 1, 
Grand Ledge, Michigan. 

‘She Grew It Herself 3 
pha adalah sensation saa eee 
“Dear Mr. Field: I am 5 yrs. old. I or- 
dered your Conglomeration package. One 
of the many vegetables I raised was a 
beautiful pumpkin. Mother and I made a 
Jack-O-Lantern out of it and I took it to 
school for our party. Mother took my 
picture. She told brother John to stay out 
but he said he wanted his picture taken, 
too.”—Peggy Roberts, Box 816, Scotts- 
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just Bluebells. For a north-side-of-the- 
house location they can’t be beat. They 
bloom so early and have such delicate, 
appealing little blue flowers that I look 
forward to them every Spring. One thing 
you have to watch out for with Bluebells, 
is that they ‘die down by Midsummer so 
you can’t see them, and oftentimes they 
get dug up without knowing about it. So 
when you plant them, be sure to remem- 
ber where they are. Have a bigger supply 
of Bluebells this year than ever, so am 
making a special price on them of 25c 
each, 5 for $1.00, postpaid.—W-125. 
Payment in Nursery 
Sometimes we have orders that include 
postage free items and others which 
should be shipped express collect. When 
these two go out together, which happens 
sometimes, the customer has to pay ex- 
press charges on the items which he 
bought at a postpaid price. Naturally, this 
isn’t fair. To make it right with the cus- 
tomer, we always try to send along extra 
nursery stock that is worth MORE than 
the postage charges involved. This seemed 
better than to make up two packages, and 
the customer actually gets a very good 
bargain out of it. 


The Irish potato is native to South 
America, not Ireland. 
From West Africa 
“Dear Sir: With much pleasure to write 
you these favorable words to let you know 
that your name and address were given to 
me by one of your customers. He told me 
all the stories about your beautiful and best 
seeds. So from him I know that you have 
many fine different seeds which are good to 
be planted in the Gold Coast. I am a com~ 
plete farmer in Pram Pram. So I beg of you 
to send me some of your best seeds, because 
LI have a fertile soil.’”—Ernst 0. Martey, c/o 
State Secretary, Upper Town, Pram Pram, 
“Gold Coast, West Africa. 
Don’t know which one of my customers 
could have been in Africa to give Mr. Mar- 
tey my name, but thanks to him anyway. 
Am sending some vegetable seed, and will 
let you know what I hear from the results 
of them in far oif Africa.” 


y Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 5 

cothemth We weddine. 
A beautiful rose is going out to Sgt. 
and Mrs. V. W. Pitts of White River, 
South Dakota. This is my H. F. wedding 
for this issue of Seed Sense and congrat- 
ulations to the happy couple. Always 
send a rose or a peony. 5 


» 
I Give Up!! 
People are always ribbing me about 
weddings because I send a free rose or 
peony to all couples whose picture I print 
here in Seed Sense. But here’s a wedding 
picture to end all wedding pictures, sent 
in by my good customer Mrs. Otto Baltz, 
Rt. 2, Fremont, Nebraska. Can’t tell who 
or how many are getting married here, 
but if Mrs. Baltz will send me the names 
of the kids I’ send them all something. 


1st Birthday 
“Dear Mr. Field: Here’s a picture of 
my baby, a young Field’s customer tak- 
ing her daily bath in the kitchen sink on 
her ist birthday. Look at that water 
glisten on her fat little body.”—Mrs. Olaf 
H. Berg, New Rockford, North Dakota. 

