
HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOR” 
Published by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. -< 
Field No. 1 Building Shenandoah, Iowa 
Henry Field, Editor ; 
Contributors 
“Alfalfa” John Nicolson (Seed) Helen Field Fischer (Flowers) 
Pate Simmons (Seed & Nursery) LeOna Nicolson (Nursery) 
Geo. Rose (Nursery) : Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
Deane Schneider (Field Seed) —<& all my friends and customers 
Subscription Price—A Garden Seed, Field Seed . 
or Nursery Order 







Another Seed Sense in April 
Have been promising all of you that I’d start sending another 
Seed Sense in the Spring as soon as I could. It looks now like 
I’ll be able to. Paper isn’t quite so hard to get, and if promises 
to me are lived up to, I’ll send you another in April. In the 
meantime, write me a letter and send in some pictures of you 
and the kids and the garden. I like them to see them, and of 
course I print letters and pictures here in Seed Sense. And I 
pay 50c for the pictures when I print them. 
We Need to Grow More Fruit 
Although there are 59 million more people in the United States 
than in 1910, there are nevertheless 146 million fewer apple 
trees. I can hardly believe it myself. But these are Department 
of Agriculture figures, and should be right. 


Have been preaching to you all the time about how expensive 
store bought fruit is. And how easy it is to grow it at home. 
Maybe these startling figures will wake a lot of us up, and get 
us back on the right road again. So go get out your copy of the 
spring catalog. Look up all the fruit that’s there ready for’*you 
to plant. (Lots of it that will bear this spring) No reason why 
you shouldn’t. And hundreds of reasons why you should. Get 
started.’ 

“And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make 
two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow where only 
one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more 
essential service to his country, than the whole race of poli- 
ticians put together.’’—Jonathan Swift. 
Roses—3 for $1.00 
It’s not often we can make you such a 
bargain offer as this—and especially this 
year when all ornamentals are so hard to 
get—pbut I just felt like doing something to 
give you a real treat—and here it is—Climb- 
ing Roses—good varieties—3 for $1.00 or 
10 for $3.00—delivered postpaid—as long 
as they last—but you’ll have to talk fast for _ 
I have only a few thousand of these rose 
bushes to spare. 
Here’s how it is. : 
The roses we usually sell are 2 yr. field’ grown, but we havea 
nice lot of good heavy rooted 1 yr. field grown bushes coming 
on for next year. One block of ahout 10,000 of these have to be 
dug and moved this spring and instead of lining them out to 
grow another year we decided to let you have them at a real 
bargain “as quoted above. 
Use them as a ground cover or for fences. 
on the ground—fight weeds, too. : 
These are not little hothouse plants, but are field grown, 
healthy, thrifty, sure to live and ‘do well, and will all bloom this 
first summer and all summer, 
There are about 6 varieties in all, all good ones, and all 
colors, just about the same list as the 2 yr. ones in the catalog, 
but at this price and scarce as help is, we can’t and won’t bother 
to make up special lists as ordered. We will send our choice of 
kinds, all good kinds, all colors, no two alike, all good thrifty 
bushes. They are exceptionally well rooted. On a set of 3 we will 
try to give you one red, one pink, and one white or yellow, all 
everblooming. On a set of 10 we will give you every color that 
comes in these roses. They will be sent postpaid as soon as safe 
to ship and plant. Order at once, as they are offered “‘subject to 
being unsold”? and that won’t be very long. Remember the price. 
Buy all you want. 
PRICE—3 for $1.00—or 10 for $3.00—assorted colors our 
choice—all good. Ask for No. XL-21. FA, 

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HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1946—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Towa 
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Our Jersey cow and her twin calves at our Ozark home, No 
the cows don’t all have two calves a year there, but ours did that 
time. The man holding the cow is “Jim’’ that you have heard — 
me speak of. He’s been with us there for 11 years, runs the place _ 
when I’m away, and is my main help when I’m there. Jim is t : 
salt of the earth, a good farmer, and a mighty fine man. —~ H. 
Wild Flowers From My Ozark Gardet | 
As usual I am offering again this spring a choice select 
beautiful Wild Flowers direct from my private garden in the 
Ozarks. Mrs. Field and I will be down there during at leas 
part of the spring and will dig and pack and mail the pla 
fresh right from our own garden. We have a lot of varieties 
them and we are adding more all the time. Look up the list 
page 28 of the big catalog, and send in your order. We w: 
book the order and then mail it at the proper time while we a: 
down there. We also mail some strawberry plants direc 
there. * 
Here Are the Moon Signs for 1946 as 












season Mar, 2. : 5 
Beets, radishes, carrots, onions, and other reot crops, same dates 
as early potatoes. : : a 
Corn (including field corn, sweet corn, 
13-14-15, and June 1. Or in the south 
Apr. 7-8. 3 : 
Beans, melons, cucumbers, and squashes, same dates as corn, 
Tomatoes (outside)—May 4, also 13-14-15. SS 
Tomatoes, cabbage, etc., in hotbeds or in house—Feb. 11-12- 
Mar. 11-12. 5 ay eee : ie 
Cabbage (outside)—Mar. 11-12, and Apr. 7-8. ee 
Acne (also mustard, kale, and chard)—-same dates as cabbage 
side. : 7S aa 
Late Cabbage—June 9-10-11. a ee 
Late Potatoes—June 20-21. : : 
Butchering dates—Mar. 11-12. BU hae f ay 
Weeds and Briars. The Missourians say that if you chop your 
sprouts and briars and big weeds in the sign of the heart (Leo) i 
the dark of the moon in August or July (Aug. 24-25 and July 27-2! 
this year) they will not sprout up again but will die. HL 
Please Help Me — 
If you_are one of my customers getting 2 each of my catalogs 
or Seed Sense right along, you could do me a real favor if you’d just — 
drop me a card or tell me on your order when you send it. - © 
_ You see these days we can’t always get enough help to keep our — 
list right. up to date. Rather than make a mistake and cut some- 
body out of getting their catalog, I lean the other. way and some- 
times mail two to the same house. This costs me a lot of money 
and with your help I can stop the waste. Will you help? Thanks. 
Here’s a form you could pin on your order or paste on a card and 
I’d sure appreciate it. J 3 7 f 
(1 I receive more than one catalog. . 
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