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14 HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR AUGUST, 1952—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Towa, 
HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOE” on 
Published by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. 
Field No. 1 Building Shenandoah, Iowa 
Contributors 
“Alfalfa” John Nicolson (Seed) Deane Schneider (Field Seed) 
Pate Simmons (Seed & Nursery) LeOna Nicolson (Nursery) 
Geo. Rose (Nursery) Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
—and all my friends and customers 
Subscription Price—An Order to Henry Field’s 
Simple Formula for Fall Planting 
I give you just two words to remember in connection with 
successful fall planting. They are ‘“‘mulch’’ and ‘‘mound.” 
You do both to protect the newly-planted plants from frost 
heaving. 
You mulch the perennial flowers and strawberries. But 
since they have fleshy crowns, don’t mulch until after the 
ground freezes. 
You mound dirt over or around trees, bramble fruits and 
shrubs, and remove it gently the following spring. 
About pruning. Yes, you can prune established trees and 
shrubs in the fall. But don’t prune the things you are setting 
out this fall—prune those next spring before growth starts. 
Evergreens Need Water All Winter 
Please see that your evergreens go into the winter with a 
good supply of water down in the ground around their roots. 
Unlike the plants that go dormant, evergreens stay awake all 
winter, and need more water. 
After the top crust of soil has frozen, not much moisture 
finds its way from the ground surface down to the roots. So 
give your evergreens a good, big drink this fall before the 
ground freezes. 
A Green Thumb for African Violets 
A lot of our friends have been telling us of the success, they 
have in feeding their African Violets with Henry Field’s Green 
Thumb Plant Food. 
Yes, it is very good for all house plants, and it is so easy to 
use, and so clean. It also is‘non-poisonous and odorless. Just 
just put 1 tablespoonful of Henry Field’s Green Thumb in a, 
gallon of water and use it to water your African Violets and 
other house plants. It will help keep them healthy and pretty. 
More People Fall Plant Every Year 
Now I am not going to give you a lot of talk here on. the ad- 
vantages of fall planting, but I do want to tell you that each 
year more and more people do fall plant a lot of things. 
Mr. Field started preaching fall planting a number of years 
ago, when it wasn’t very popular. But he knew the idea was 
sound, and kept plugging away at it. Now thousands and 
thousands of our friends and customers do some planting every 
fall. 
I Like Merion Blue Grass 
I thought you might be interested in my personal experience 
with the new Merion Blue Grass. Last fall I sowed my back 
yard with it because, frankly, I’ve been fighting crab grass and 
weeds out there for some time. Now I have a thick, beautiful 
lawn and the crab grass and weeds have disappeared. The 
Merion Blue Grass simply crowded them out. 
We'll Have a Soil Conditioner for You 
I suppose you have been reading a lot in the newspapers and 
magazines about the new soil conditioners. We have been fol- 
lowing the whole procedure for some time, and we are test- 
ing a number of different brands of these soil conditioners. 
After running our tests, we will choose one for you and have 
it in our Spring 1953 catalog. Won’t say too much about it 
now, excepting to say it’s all exciting, shows considerable prom- 
ise—but we hope the prices will come down. 
Tell you more about it next spring. 
Strawberry Plants When You Want Them 
I wonder if you realize that we are offering something rather 
sensational in strawberry plants this fall? 
In the past, it has been the practice of nurserymen to dig 
their strawberry plants for fall;shipment sometime in late fall, 
seldom before the last of October. The plants just didn’t go 
dormant before that time. But Henry Field’s can ship you 
beautiful strawberry plants for fall planting on any date you 
want them. 
We have learned how to dig the best plants in the spring, 
My! Don’t I look happy here? And I was, too. This picture 
was taken last May when I was setting out some plants in the 
flower garden behind my home. 
There is nothing that makes me feel so good as to get out 
and work in my flower garden. I’m very fond of flowers and 
get so much pleasure from them. They’re a great comfort, al- 
ways, and help to smooth out the rough places in life as nothing 
else can do.—Mrs. Henry (Bertha) Field. 
P.S. Wish you could see how big and pretty the flowers are 
now. 
hold them dormant in cold storage during the summer and 
ship them to you anytime you want them for fall planting. 
They will be in just the right condition to get rooted and get 
some growth this fall before winter sets in. Now don’t expect 
plants in full leaf. That is just the kind of plants we don’t want. 
These Roses Can Take It 
We now are selling more of the Brownell Patented Hybrid 
Tea Roses than: all other patented tea roses put together. 
There’s a reason. ‘The Brownell roses not only have beautiful 
flowers and foliage, but they are extra hardy. They will stand 
temperatures down to 25 degrees below zero without killing 
out. 
We have a lot of these Brownell roses growing here at our 
seedhouse in Shenandoah. Just to test them, we have left 
some of them for four winters now without any protection such 
as we normally give tea roses. We don’t give them a covering 
of any kind, don’t mulch them or mound dirt up around them 
—just let them go into winter on their own. \ Haven’t even 
trimmed them. Each spring they have grown again and put 
out beautiful flowers and lots of them. 
If you have a copy of our Spring 1952 catalog around your 
house, look at the picture on page 46, upper left-hand corner. 
Those are some of the bushes we are talking about. Brownell 
bushes—five feet tall and loaded with blooms. 
No wonder so many of our customers are buying Brownell 
Patented Hybrid Tea Roses. —Bertha Field 
P.S. The ‘‘Henry Field’’ is a Brownell rose too. 
Are You Getting Two Catalogs? 
If your family is getting more than one catalog, we would 
sure appreciate knowing it. We send out a catalog to each 
name on our list, but sometimes different members of families’ 
or different people at the same address order from us and each 
different name is put down. So, two or more catalogs are sent 
to the same address, and because of this we sometimes don’t 
have enough copies to go around. If you do have an extra 
catalog please do us a favor by passing it on to a friend, and 
then let us know about it on the coupon below. Thanks.’ 
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