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d’s Strawberry Jam 
eat at our house admire Mrs. 
awberry Jam so much that I 
ught to tell all of you how she 


: 0 water). Mash the strawberries and 
Be guear together thoroughly in an ordinary 
_ sauce pan or preserving kettle. Put on fire 
and bring to quick boil. Boil 10 minutes. 
- Pour out into jelly glasses and treat exactly 
Tike jelly, Cover with paraffin if your pre- 
fer. This makes 8 jelly glasses full. 
é _. CAUTION: The measurement is not pound 
for pound, but measure for measure. Also 
note short cooking time—exactly 10 min, of 
_ brisk boiling, no more. Also, mash the ber- 
ries and sugar together thoroughly. 
Don’t try large batches or you will fail. 
_ A quart of berries is the most you can work 
at one batch. 
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Free Roses 
I send a rose free to anyone who sends 
me a picture of a current wedding, or 
their 50th Wedding Anniversary. If you 
don’t have a picture, send me-a wedding 
_ announcement, or something, although I’d 
. rather have a picture. I want every new- 
lywed to have a rose if they have a place 
to plant it, and will plant it. 
Ts send the free rose at the proper 
planting time. 


Two Strawberries from My 
Ozark Place 
I grow thousands of strawberry plants 
at my place in the Ozarks. Some [I ship 

~. to the Seedhouse in Shenandoah for filling 
your orders and some I grow just for fun 
—experimenting .and testing and com- 
paring. Here are two that have been de- 
veloped down there and they are so good 
I want you to plant some of them. 
- 
The new “half wild” everbearer, Honeysweet. 
Honeysweet. A cross between the small, 
sweet wild strawberry and a big, modern 
everbearer. The result is a strawberry that 
js the most delicious you ever ate. Not 
large, but “honey sweet” and vigorous and 
wvhardy and everbearing. No. BN7148. 25 for 
Postpaid. 
$1.25; 50 for $2.25; 100 for $4.00. 


Boonemore, a “foolproot” main crop straw- 
berry. 
Boonemore. One of my Ozark neighbors 
aarp this one and named it after 
aniel Boone, whom he admired. He started 
out to develop a foolproof berry that would 
do well with little care. This is it. Large, 
smooth berry. High color. And hardy and 
sure yielding and heavy bearing. No. BN7158, 
25 for $1.25, 50 for $2.25, 100 for $4.00, P.P. 
Special Offer No. BN729XS—100 Boonemore 
and 25 Honeysweet, $5.00, postpaid. 
§ SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1949—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa ae 
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Our Farm Home in the Missouri Ozarks 
Here are some pictures I took of our farm home near Centerville, Mo., 
about 100 miles south of St.-Louis. Started this place 17 years ago when I 

thought seriously of retiring, but the boys at the Seedhouse won’t hear of it 
So we just spend part of our time there. 
We first lived in a small cabin, but three years ago we moved into this 
home. We have REA electricity, and water in the house, and everything 
very comfortable, A lovely garden, and endless flowers and fruit, and horses 
and cows and hogs and chickens. Jim Wimsatt stays there all the time and 

takes good care of the place. 
and stay as long as we please. 
This is our farm home. Bluegrass lawn, 
hard maple trees for shade. Climbing 
roses by front porch and everblooming 
rose garden at the side. 

Mrs. Field in the garden back of the 
house. On right, flowers and grapes and 
sweet corn. 
the strawberry trial grounds—18 differ- 
ent kinds. 
A two-acre field of strawberries, and a 
field of Gurno growing for cow feed. 
Nursery building, where we _ prepare 
strawberry plants for shipment, is be- 
tween house and barn. 
At left is the beginning of 
We go down whenever the notion strikes us 

The bottom field across the road from 
the house. Jim is raking bromegrass and 
canary grass hay. Road is in background, 
with old rail fence, and beyond that the 
river. Nice? 


Down the hill from the house, past the 
corn crib, tool shed and private black- 
smith shop, to the river ford. Strawberry 
patch at right is between the house and 
barn. 

Mowing alfalfa hay mixed with brome 
and canary grass. Jim has his saddle 
horse working with one of the mules; a 
neighbor was using the other mule to 
break a colt with. 
NOW YOU CAN SEND A GIFT CERTIFICATE 
“]¥ want to send a gift of some kind of a plant to a friend of mine,” a customer 
wrote me the other day, “but my friend already has a lot of everything and I don’t 
know what to send her.” 
We zet a lot of letters like that. 
So we had some beautiful Gift Certificates printed. 
All “you need do is send us a letter and the money, telling us to whom you want the 
Gift Certificate sent. Or we will send it to you and you can send it to them. 
for one dollar, or two, or five, or any amount you want. 
cate that you are sending it, and with the Gift Certificate we send a 
It can be 
We state on the Gift Certifi- 
Henry Field 
Catalog so your friend can pick out what he or she wants. 
Now it’s simple and easy for you to send a gift for Easter or Christmas or birthdays 
or anniversaries, or for no reason at all except that you want to send a gift. 

