_ Chinese Bellflower. 
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40 Buds on Bellflower 
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“Dear Mrs. Field: In the spring of 1941 
_IT purchased your Green Thumb flower col- 
lection. For a free gift you sent me a 
1 I want to tell you it 
was about the nicest of the lot. Last year 
it had several blooms on it, but this sum- 
merit was loaded. Had 40 buds on it and 
over half of them in bloom at one time, 
Here’s a picture of it and my. son.’ 
" —James L. Cain, Rt. 1, Smithfield, W. Va. 
Chicks Arrive in Good Condition 
“Dear Sirs: My chicks arrived in very good 
condition. Was wery pleased. Thank you 
very much for handling my order so nicely. 
- Everything I have ever bought from you 
has come in good condition and I will con- 
tinue to buy from you for all our needs. 
Thanks for the free gift of gladiolus, too.”— 
Mrs, Scene J. Botck, Muncie, Ind. 
_ Hybrid Bush Cherries 
Hybrid Bush Cherries make beautiful 
' shrubs, and bear lots of delicious cherries 
of various colors and flavors. The bush 
of a Hybrid Bush 
Cherry is really at- 
tractive, with large, 
bright green, highly 
varnished leaves and 
thousands of snow 
white flowers in the 
spring. You can use 
them as hedges, as a shrub border, as 
house foundation plantings, or any place 
that you would use an ordinary shrub. 
In addition to that, in season you can go 
out and pick quarts of cherries as nice as 
any cherries you have ever ooh in your 
life. 
- ceptionally sweet golden 
_ Brooks, the popular variety with ‘dark red 
We are offering here a sclal collec- 
tion of 4 Hybrid Bush Cherries, 3 of 
which we have listed for several years in 
our spring catalog, and a brand new one 
—Golden Boy—which is entirely different 
in color_and flavor from the other varie- 
ties, Here is what you get: 1 Golden Boy, 
brand new Hybrid Bush Cherry, with ex- 
cherries; 1 
fruit; 1 Black Beauty, with dark glossy 
os 98c each. 
black fruit; and 1 Sioux, a deep purple- 
fruited variety. The number of this col- 
lection is A2755XS. One each of all 4 of 
the Bush cherries for $3.69, pos¢paid. Or, 
varieties may be purchased separately at 
_ these varieties are: Golden Boy, A3347S; 
‘: ‘Black Beauty, ang aa Brooks, A8345S; 
Sie ai rc sea 
The individual numbers of — 
Free Peonies for Wedding 
Pictures 
* To anyone sending in a picture of their 
recent wedding or their 50th wedding an- 
niversary, we’ll send at proper planting 
time a free peony. Peonies live and bloom 
beautifully for years and years with very 
little care and are among the most satis- 
factory of all plants for the home garden. 
For years we have had the pleasure of 
sending a wedding gift of a free rose bush 
to every newly married couple or couples 
celebrating their Golden Wedding anni- 
versary. But this year, due to a very, 
very small crop of rose plants throughout 
the entire United States, we are going to 
have to change our custom a little. That’s 
why we are sending peonies this year in- 
stead of roses. 
If you don’t have a picture, send us an 
announcement or something, though we 
would rather have a picture. Can’t tell 
you what.kind of peony we will send, but 
you can be sure you'll like it—and it will 
be a named variety. 
Biggest and Reddest Dahlia 
Every year a lot of people write in and 
ask which Dahlia is the biggest: and red- 
dest one in our catalog. Well, the an- 
swer to that question is “‘Red Giant’’— 
one of our Aristocrat Dahlias. You will 
find a picture of it on page 33 of the big 
spring catalog. As you can see from the 
picture, Red Giant is a deep brilliant red, 
and a whopper in size. It is an extra fine 
one, too . . . one that is sure to attract 
plenty of attention. 
No. BG167S—Red Giant Dahlia. 
each; 2 for $1.29, postpaid. 
T5c 
Beautiful Dwarf Pyracantha 
Most of you folks have visited the 
southern states and have seen the wonder- 
ful Pyracanthas that fill the yards and 
line the roads. You know the plant we 
* mean, with the small dark green, shiny 
leaves and great clusters of bright orange- 
red berries? 
Though the original Pyracantha doesn’t 
seem to be hardy over most of the mid- 
west, we have a strain that has been grow- 
ing here in back of the Seedhouse now for 
more than four years. It seems to be 
Dwarf, doesn’t get more than 3 or 4 ft. 
high. And, it has the same clean, dark 
green, shiny leaves and the bright orange 
berries. We haven’t given it a chance to 
grow very tall, as we have been taking 
-cuttings off pretty regularly, but it comes 
through the winter without any protec- 
tion at all in fine shape. Sometimes the 
leaves burn a little bit at the edges but 
that doesn’t seem to hurt the plant at all, 
as the new leaves come right out in the 
spring and start growing again. So, we 
“are pretty sure it is hardy, at least as far 
north as Shenandoah. 
It will make a beautiful shrub any- 
where you want to put it and will be es- 
pecially good for you folks with small 
homes. Also makes a beautiful low hedge, 
which will stand shearing. You can keep 
a hedge of this about 12 to 18 inches high 
and about 12 inches broad without any 
trouble. We offer fine field-grown plants 
at 98c each; 8 for $2.79, postpaid. The 
number is A1477S. 
Enjoy Catalogs and Seed Sense 
“Dear Sirs: We have bought seeds, plants, 
-trees, and bulbs for a long, long time from 
the Henry Field Seed Co. We enjoy your 
eatalogs and Seed Sense very much.”—Mr. & 
Mrs. Thomas Friend, New Weston, Ohio. 
Raised on Henry Field Seeds 
‘Dear Sirs: Here is a picture of some of 
my children and my sister’s children. We 
have used Henry Field seeds ever since I, 
can remember. I don’t think there is any 
finer. I expect to have a fine garden for 
1951 as I am buying my seed from you.” 
—Mrs. H. F. Miller, Rt. 1, Janesboro, Ark. 
Red Bud Tree of the Midwest 
This is the beautiful tree you all know, 
whose springtime blooming outlines every 
branch and twig in brilliant pink. The 
trees are simply covered from top to bot- 
tom with clusters of small, gorgeous blos- 
soms borne close to the branches. The 
flowers come out before the leaves and 
show off beautifully against the dark bark. 
_ Most people don’t know that Red Buds 
make beautiful lawn trees, but they do. 
Ours grow about 20 to 30 ff. tall and are 
rather spreading, with thin foliage, so 
that they make a light shade, but do not 
kill the grass. As a flowering tree, they 
simply can’t be beat. We grew a large 
stock of them here at Shenandoah last 
year, so can offer you some genuine Shen- 
andoah-grown, 38 to 4 ft. Red Bud trees, 
just right to transplant. Order No. 
A4281S. Price: 98c each; 2 for $1.89, 
postpaid. 
P.S. If you folks know anything about 
tree prices, you will recognize that this 
price is just about the existing wholesale 
price at the present time. As we grow our 
own trees, we feel as though we can set 
our own prices, and if we set them low 
enough so that most anyone can afford to 
buy a tree, we think you folks will appre- 
ciate it. Oh yes, we also have the 2 to 3 
ft. size at 79c each; 2 for $1.49, postpaid. 
Order No. same as above. 
Ready for the Garden 
“Dear Sirs: Am 
sending a picture of 
my grandson, Rus- 
sell. Doesn’t he look 
as ‘though he is 
ready to go to work 
in the garden? [I 
got a Conglomera- 
tion packet last year 
for my grandchil- 
dren and am send- 
ing for another this 
year. Their garden 
sure did well. So 
did my own.’’—Mrs. 
E. Beasor, 138 Ar- § 
mour Road, Orchard 
Park, N. Yo 
