Bride and Groom 
“Dear Mrs, Field: I am sending 
you a picture of my daughter and 
her husband taken on their wedding 
day. They would like to receivé one 
of your catalogs so they can order 
some garden seeds next spring. Their 
name is Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Latare, 
Oxford Jct., Iowa.’—Mrs. Fred 
Wagner, Grand Mound, Iowa. 
Oongratulations, Mr. and Mrs. 
Latare. We’ve sent yeu a catalog 
ao beautiful wedding rose—Mrs. 
Combination Spray 
Saves Peaches 
“Dear Field’s: I sprayed my peaches 
5 times with your Combination Fruit 
Spray, and believe it or not, we had 
the first crop in, years of unblemished 
peaches, although we had sprayed 
with every other known spray on the 
market. Yours did the trick. Not a 
wormy peach in the crop.’”—C. F. 
Longstreth, Grover, Mo. 
Climbing Tomato 
Here is a tomato the neighbors 
will want to look at for sure. It 
will grow 10 to 18 ft. tall and often 
yields 2 to 3 bushels of tomatoes on 
one vine. The tomatoes are good, 
too. Big, meaty and have a small 
seed cavity. Fine for slicing. Be- 
cause it is such a shy seeder, we 
have only a little seed to offer this 
year. 430—Pkt. 25c, postpaid. 
Look Closely 
“Dear Mrs. Field: I am enclosing 
fa picture of my little daughter, June, 
‘which was taken in the kitchen last 
summer. Seeds for the tomatoes and 
watermelon were bought from you. 
fIwo of the largest tomatoes weighed 
a pound each.’’—Abbott U. Sinclair, 
{i623 So. Water, Wichita, Kansas. 
Have you found June yet? She’s 
behind the watermelon—Mrs, H. F. 
Going for a Ride 
“Dear Sirs: Tam enclosing a snap- 
shot of three girls having a good 
time on a pony. They are: my 
daughter Ruth, age 9; Judy and 
Carolyn Beamer, ages 7 and 9. [had 
fine luck with your seeds this year, 
especially the Bountiful beans.”’— 
Mrs. L. V. Hartgrove, Rt. 4, Cen- 
tralia, Mo. 
Plant Oriental Poppies 
this Spring 
After much time and work, we 
have finally developed a way to keep 
poppy roots dormant until spring. 
This way they transplant as easy as 
a peony, get a fine start through the 
first summer and are ready to de- 
liver a gorgeous crop of blooms the 
following spring. 
We’re so sure these plants will do 
well that we guarantee them 100%. 
If one doesn’t grow by Aug. 1, let us 
know and we’ll replace it in the fall 
at no charge. These special plants, 
though they are better, don’t cost 
you one cent more than the usual 
fall-sold poppies. 
B1706—Glory Glow. Double 
orange. Early. 
B1709—Helen Elizabeth, Crin- 
kled. Bright pink, 
B1724—Red Flare. Brilliant 
scarlet. 
Bi701i—Betty Ann. Clear light 
pink, Tap, 
B1725—Royal Scarlet. Beauti- 
ful scarlet. 
B1705—Edna Perry. Best sal- 
mon, 
B1707—Glowing Ember. Best 
Crimson. Ruffled. 
Bi708—Gold of Ophir. Golden 
orange. 
Prices: 59c ea., 2 for 1.00; 5 for 
2.39, ppd. 
Oriental Poppy Bargain 
B3226X—1 each of Glowing Ember, 
Edna Perry, Betty Ann for 1.29, 
ppd. 
Blaze Climber Does Well 
“Dear Sirs: I’ve never seen any 
pictures in Seed Sense from Agra, 
Kans., so I thought I would send in 
a picture of your Patented Climber 
Blaze rose and myself. The rose was 
planted in late spring 1949 and 
bloomed beautifully this year. We 
enjoy Seed Sense very much.’’—Mrs, 
Hy. Suchsland, Agra, Kans, 
Don’t Sow Too Much Seed 
Here is some good advice. Sow 
your garden seed thinly—don’t sow 
too much. Over seeding is wasteful 
and requires thinning out plants 
and that’s a back-breaking job. For 
best results just follow the direc- 
tions on the seed packet. 
$1.00 for Your Snapshots 
Yes, we still want and need your 
snapshots, just as always. We have 
to have them or we just can’t put 
. out a Seed Sense or a catalog. We 
here at the seedhouse enjoy looking | 
at them too, as they give us an idea 
-of how well our seeds and nursery 
stock are doing. Of course, we can’t 
“use all we receive, but this year 
we’re going to give $1.00, instead. of 
50c, for the ones we do use. So get 
busy today and send in your snap- 
shots of your flowers, vegetables, 
gardens, children, chicks, etc. The 
more you send, the better we like it. 
Prize-Winning Reed 
Canary Grass 
‘‘Dear Sirs: 
Enclosed is a pic- 
ture of me and 
some Reed Ca- 
nary Grass. I 
bought the seed 
from you some 3 
or 4 years ago. I 
find it makes ex- 
cellent pasture 
and fine for wa- 
terways. to stop 
erosion. I have 
won 2 red rib- 
bons, ist prize, in 
as many county 
fairs. I like this 
grass so well I have ordered 150 
more Ibs. this fall.’-—Murray Ben- 
jamin, Princeton, idaho. ea 
“CONGO”—A New, Sweet, 
Disease-Resistant ; 
Watermelon 
“Congo’”’ is a brand new, better, 
disease-resistant watermelon. Is so 
good it won a Bronze Medal at the 
1950 All-America trials. Developed 
by the U.S.D.A., it resists anthrac- 
nose and wilt. It’s a long melon, 
striped light green and dark green, 
with deep red, sugar-sweet flesh 
(9. 4% sugar by actual tests). Rind 
is tough, making it an ideal variety - 
for market gardeners. Matures in 
88 days. 
We've tried it here, of course, 
and think it’s a very fine mélon— _~ 
one you should get acquainted with. 
Its seed is scarce this year so we 
can offer it only in packets. 704— 
Pkt. 15c; 2 for 25c, postpaid. 
Enjoy Our Catalog 
“Dear Field’s: We enjoy your cata- 
log very much. 
tion very helpful and are sure thou- 
sands of other people do too, with 
their homes, orchards, and gardens.”— 
C. E. Stumberg, Rt. 2, St. Charles, Mo. 
Fragrant Pink Snowball 
Viburnum Carlesii 
This beautiful shrub is so scarce 
this year we decided not to offer it 
on the shrub page in the catalog. 
One of the most beautiful and most- 
fragrant of all shrubs, it is always 
in great demand. Makes a big 4 to 
6 ft. tall, round shrub with clear, 
grey-green leaves and ball-like clus- 
ters of pink and white flowers in 
early spring. Flowers look and 
smell like the fragrant Trailing 
Arbutus, or Mayflower, of New Eng- 
land. 
We have some very fine, well 
branched’12 to 18 in. plants that 
should begin blooming next spring. 
We are offering them for 2.45 each, 
postpaid, while they last. The order 
number is A1473. 
Please Help Us 
If your family is getting two or 
more copies of our catalogs or Seed 
Sense, you could do us a real favor 
by passing your extra one to a 
neighbor and then tell us about it 
when you send in an order. We 
want everybody to have one of our 
catalogs, but, in order to make sure 
we have enough to go around, we 
can only give one to a family. 
- tional postage charges. 
We find the informa-— 
14-Inch Cucumber! © 
a 
“Dear Friends: I am enclosing 2 _— 
snapshot of my little son with a 
cucumber grown in my garden this. 
year. It is from some of your 
Straight Hight cucumber seed. This ‘S 
one was 14 inches long and 11 inches 
in circumference. We always plant _ 2 
your seeds and have good luck.”’—_ 
Mrs. Wm. J. eke Belgrade, — 
Nebr. ae 
Extra Payment in Nursery — 
In shipping orders to customers 
we sometimes send postage-free 
items along with others that go ex- 
press collect. When this happens 
the customer has to pay express 
charges on the whole shipment. Nat- 
urally this isn’t fair, but to make it 
right and rather than put up two 
separate packages, we always put in 
a little extra nursery stock. This 
more than makes up for the addi- 
Seems like 
a good deal to us because you really — 
get a bargain out of it. — 
Best Place to Buy 
“Dear Field’s: Iam firmly coneitaee i | 
that the best place to buy seeds and | 
plants is from Henry Wield’s..—Mrs. _ 
Hjalmar P. Peterson, Box oe eae - 
Minn, . 
And It’s Good to Eat, Too 
“Dear Mrs. Field: I am sending 
you a picture of my little grands« 
Bob Lundy, taken with one of the 
Guinea beans from my garden. You 
sent the seed as a free gift. I want 
to say we had good luck with every: 
think we ordered. And the Guinea 
bean is good fixed as egg plant or 
fried as okra when small.’”’—Mrs 
Amos Lundy, Russell, Kansas, ~ 
Sun-Cured Kentucky a 
Blue Grass 
Here’s a special offer that hag ai 
world beat for value. Good quali 
new crop Kentucky Blue Grass se d 
of our own harvest. Not a mixt 
of cheap grasses, but honest 
goodness 100% Kentucky 
Grass, cured right out in hee 
course. Be 
Ask for lot*Sun Cured on voll 
order. 65c-per Ib.; 1.85 per 3 
3.00 per 5 Ibs.; 5.75 per 10 Ib 
