14 HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1949—Henry_ 

| DON’T MISS THESE ITEMS | 
By Geo. Rose, Our Nursery Man 
Here are some especially good nursery 
items that deserve more space than we are 
giving them here. Some of these we missed 
getting in the catalog by mistake; some 
we got too late. But you ought to know 
about them, so we are running them in 
Seed Sense: 
5-in-1 Apple Tree. We forgot to “put 
this one on the Apple page of the cata- 
log but managed to get it in the Seed 
Sense section, page 5. Look it up. Lots 
of fun to grow, surprises your friends, and 
saves space and work of growing several 
trees. AN20S. Each, $2.98; 2 for $5.69. 
Express not prepaid. 3 VARIETIES ON 
TREE—AN19S—Prices: Each, $1.98; 2 
for $3.79. Express Not Prepaid. 
New Hardy Iowa Apricot. This is the 
super hardy Apricot we found on ‘a farm 
just south of Shenandoah. Bears heavy 
crop of medium sized apricots of excel- 
lent quality. Tree rapid, thrifty grower. 
Blooms later than most apricots so not 
likely to be caught by frost. Missed put- 
ting this in the catalog. No. AN255sS. 
8 ft. size, $1.00 each, postpaid. 
Alaskan Paper Birch. Had this one 
in the 1948 catalog and forgot to put 
it in the 1949 catalog. Trees are flown to 
us from Alaska. Hardy everywhere. 
Stands extremely cold winters and warm, 
rainless summers. Brown bark changes 
to white as tree ages. No. AN751S. 2 to 
3 ft. size, $1.75 each, postpaid. 
Chinese OChestnuts. Imported from 
China to take the place of our American 
Chestnut trees which the blight took. It 
is a rapid grower, heavy producer, early 
bearer, and is blight resistant. Large nuts 
with sweet, rich flavor like American. 
Tree apt to be crooked when young but 
soon straightens out. No. AN7S58S. 18 to 
30 in. size, $1.60 each; 3 for $4.19, post- 
paid. ; 
Cope’s Seedless Pear. 
different and better. Produces lots of 
large, sweet, tender, juicy pears. Fine to 
eat and the best yet for canning because 
they have no seeds or cores. Starts bear- 
ing when 3 or 4 years old. Ripens about 
2 weeks after Bartlett. Disease resistant 
and will grow almost anywhere. No. 
AN161S. 4 to 6 ft. size, $2.39 each, ex- 
press not prepaid. Too big for parcel post. 
Nanking Hybrid Bush Cherry. We believe 
in this one 100% and left it out of our 
catalog only because of a terrible over- 
sight. Gives both beauty and fruit and 
still takes little space. Cherries are bright 
red, firm flesh, with flavor like Mont- 
morency sour cherry. Good eaten raw, as 
dessert, canned, or for jellies and jams, 
and makes dandy pie. Fine ornamental 
shrub, hedge or sereen. Grows 8 ft. tall 
at most, 4 or 5 ft. broad. Solid shrub 
with clean, soft, gray-green foliage and 
loads of white flowers in spring. Three 
varieties: 
AN82S—Minn. No. 41 
AN84S—Minn. No. 63 
ANS81S—Minn. No. 20 
2 to 4 ft. trees, $1.35 each, postpaid. 
All three, No. AN87XS, $3.29, postpaid. 
Bear better if plant all three for cross 
pollination. ; 
Something new, 

New Customer Writes 
“Dear Mr. Field: I never knew what 
Field’s seeds were until this year. I havea 
wonderful garden and my flowers were 
beautiful. From now on I will certainly 
stick to H.F. seeds.”—Miss A. B. Mathews, 
129 Howell St., Canandaigua, New York. 
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Less Bugs—More Fun 
A lot of my friends say, ‘‘Henry, I’d 
get a lot more fun out of gardening if I 
had one like yours—no bugs.’’ Well, 
that’s a fact, you’d have to look a long 
time and mighty close to ever find a bug 
in my garden. 
Now. I'll tell you how I do it. 
about ‘the vine crops—melons, cucum- 
bers, pumpkins and squash. I dampen 
the seed a little, then dust it thoroughly 
with my Bug Dust. That not only keeps 
the bugs away from the seeds, and the 
fungi, but varmints too. “Varmints just 
don’t seem to like the smell of it.’ 
Then, whether it’s vine crop seeds, or 
anything else, I sprinkle Bug Dust on the 
ground where I have planted. That pro- 
tects the new shoots. Lots of times bugs 
will get these new shoots early in the 
morning before you have a chance to see 
them. You may never know they- have 
come up. 
After that I dust my whole garden 
lightly twice a week with Bug Dust. 
By the way, when I sprinkle Bug Dust 
on the seed before planting it, I mix a 
little Grow-Aid in too. 
Now if you use Bug Dust like this, 
you’ll have more fun gardening too. This 
method gets most of the bugs. There are 
a very few it won’t kill, but apparently 
even those don’t like the smell of it and 
go over to your neighbor’s garden. One 
bug that is especially tough is the big 
hardshell squash bug. I just pick these 
squash bugs off by hand before they have 
a chance to lay eggs. If they once lay 
eggs, you’ve got an awful fight on your 
hands. . 
I have found it pays to dust bulbs with 
Bug Dust too, both before planting and 
before storing. Just put the bulbs in a 
paper sack, put some Bug Dust in the 
sack too, and then shake the sack up and 
down lightly. 
Something to “Crow” About 
“Dear Mr. Field: I really have wonderful 
luek with your seeds. The plants are al- 
ways so reliable. This is my native state 
but have seen your seeds grown successfully 
in 5 states. That’s really something to 
‘crow’ about.”—Mrs. W. A. Hill, Haworth, 
Oklahoma. 
Two New Henry Field 
Hybrid Tomatoes 
No reason in the world why you 
shouldn’t enjoy the benefits of hybrid 
work in tomatoes just like you do in 
other plants, and field seeds. So take 
another look at these two shown on the 
front cover of my big 1949 catalog: 
No. 4288. Red Rival. A main crop va- 
riety. 25c a pkt., postpaid. 
No. 4278. Red Knight. An early one. 
25c a pkt., postpaid. 
No. 425XS. One of each for 39c, post- 
paid. 
Joyous Surprise 
“Dear Mr. Field: My collection of 20 Glad- 
iolus bulbs proved a joyous surprise. More 
than twice that many long spikes of flowers. 
So many different colors, and every blossom 
was large and beautiful.”—Edith E. Day, 
Arthur, West Virginia. ~ 
Moon Sign Book Price Wrong! 
In my big Spring catalog I priced the 
Moon Sign Book at $1.30 postpaid. 
That’s wrong. It should have been $1.10. 
So if you order one, send only $1.10. 
an anyone sends me $1.30, ’'Ul refund 
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Hybrid South American 
Mrs. Walter Mulanox, Payette, Ida 
sends this picture of her husband and @ 
sample of his Hybrid South Americar 
Popcorn grown from H. F. seed. § e 
says, “Some of it has 5 ears on a stalk. 
He is 6 ft. tall so you can see how tal 
the corn is. We were well pleased wit 
all our seed and especially the pop 
and peanuts.”’ oe 
No matter what the vegetable, it will aste 
better the sooner it is cooked after being 
harvested. : aa 
All legumes, including beans, peas, sweet 
peas and lupines, should be inoculated with. 
Nitragin (listed on page 10 of my 1949 cata- 
log). It helps the plant take nitrogen fr 
the air and deposit it in the soil. Th ; 
means bigger and better crops. If you dou 
it, just plant two rows of peas, one with 
and one without Nitragin. You’ll see f 
yourself, aS Hi 

Hurrah for Bug Dust! 
Here is a picture of Florence Lier, a 
11, from Putney, South Dakota, with 
gourds she grew from a packet ¢ 
seeds. Florence says, “Your bug « 
really good. This is the first t 
raised good cabbage.” rate 
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