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Beautiful Bridal Wreath 
“Dear Mrs. Field: I am sending 
a picture of my daughter and 
daughter-in-law standing beside my 
beautiful Bridal Wreath. I ordered 
it from you'a’few years ago and 
this spring it was the most beauti- 
ful thing I ever saw.’’—Mrs. David 
Bowlin, Rt. 4, Richmond, Ky. 
Likes Quality of Onion Plants 
“Dear Folks: Just a note to tell you 
how much I appreciate the quality of 
the Sweet Spanish onion plants which 
I received from you. They are so 
nice.”’—Mrs. H. R. Eden, Humphrey, 
Nebraska. 
Hello There! 
“Dear Mrs. 
snapshot of our grandson, 
Seider, 
ground are some of the beautiful 
Field: I’m sending a 
Wayne 
10 months old. In the back- 
shade trees from Field’s. I always 
use your garden seeds. They are 
the best and cheapest I have ever 
used.’’—Mrs. Clarence Seider, Rt. 
3, Appleton City, Mo. 
Mrs. Field’s Vegetable Soup 
1 oz. turnip 1 tbsp. pearl 
2 oz. green barley 
pepper 1 tbsp. broken 
2 Oz. carrot spaghetti 5 
1 oz. okra % tsp. black 
1g 1b. cabbage pepper 
1% 1b. potato 1 tbsp. salt 
4 1b. onion 
% Yb. tomato 
[144 1b. meat 
pinch paprika 
pinch red pepper 
1 qt. soup stock 
1 tbsp. rice 2 qts. water 
Boil one hour. Makes 3 quarts of 
soup, or enough to serve 10 to 12 
people. 
Bride and Groom 
“Dear Mrs. Field: We are send- 
ing our wedding picture and would 
like the rose you offer. My hus- 
band’s parents have used your seeds 
for several years and are well 
pleased with them. I can hardly 
wait until we can start our garden. 
Thank you for the rose.’’—Mrs. 
Billie Beams, Rt. 1, Maysville, Okla. 
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. 
Beams. Your wedding rose has been 
sent. We hope it gives you much 
pleasure for many years.—Mrs. 
Henry Field. 
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$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 we’ll pay 
$1.00 for the ones we do use. So 
get busy today and send in your 
snapshots of your flowers, vege- 
tables, gardens, children, chicks, ete. 
The more you send, the better we 
like it. 
Gladiolus Seed 
Grow your gladiolus from seed. 
It’s the inexpensive way to get’some 
fine glads. Takes a little longer for 
them to flower, but it’s fun to do, 
and it’s easy, and who knows,, may- 
be you- will originate some new 
sorts. 
This seed was saved from our 
very finest varieties.and with proper 
care will produce nice, big flowers 
the second year. Full, simple, ‘““‘How 
to Grow” directions on the packet. 
1096—Big generous packet 15c, 
postpaid. 
Our Nursery Guarantee 
All our stock is guaranteed. If 
you are not pleased with it in every 
way when you receive it, return it 
promptly, at our expense, and it will 
be replaced or your money refunded, 
whichever you prefer. After you 
have planted: it, if it fails to grow, 
we think we should both take part 
of the blame., We will take one-half 
and you and the weather take the 
other, and we’ll replace at half-price 
anything unsatisfactory through any 
fault of the stock if you will notify 
us not later than August 1, 1953. 
Fair enough? 
If you wonder how we can make 
such a guarantee, here are some of 
the reasons: 
1. Our nursery stock is all state 
inspected. 
2. Our nursery stock is free from 
disease. 
38. Our nursery stock is of the 
highest quality. 
4. Our nursery stock is true to 
name. 
5. Our nursery stock is mature, 
live, ready-to-grow stock, first-class 
in every way. 
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 on 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. 
Glowing Gold 
Thermopsis Caroliniana 
We missed get- 
ting this in the 
catalog and since 
it?s such.a good 
perennial we 
want to mention 
it here in the 
Seed Sense sec- 
tion. This plant 
will grow 4 to 5 
ft. high with long 
spikes, often 3 ft. 
long, of soft yel- ™ 
low blooms that look for 
all the 
world like great spikes of beautiful 
Lupines. A planting of Glowing Gold 
together with hardy Blue Delphin- 
ium is a sight to behold. Glowing 
Gold is hardy, will grow anywhere, 
lives for years and years. It’s a 
mighty satisfactory plant and as 
good a hardy perennial as you would 
ever want to buy. B2080—39c each; 
3 for 98c, postpaid. 
Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., “MIDWEST'S LEADING SEEDHOUSE,” Shenandoah, Towa 
Heres the Picture That 
Won the H. F. Potato 
Seed Set Contest 
In the Seed Sense section of our 
1952 Fall Catalog we stated that 
we would pay $25.00 to the person 
sending in the best snapshot and 
story about the success of potato 
seed sets bought from us last spring. 
We received many fine snapshots 
and letters, but the above snapshot 
and its accompanying letter, sent 
in by Mrs. L. C. Rhule of Burling- 
ton, Colo., were judged the best of 
all. So, we are happy to announce 
that Mrs. Rhule wins the $25.00. 
Here, in part, is her letter: 
Dear Sirs: I am enclosing a. 
snapshot of my daughter, Mary 
Louise,. holding two potatoes. 
The one on the left weighs 2 
pounds and the one on the 
right weighs 1 pound. Also 
shown in this picture are five 
bushels of potatoes we ‘just 
dug. 
We ordered the potato sets 
late and planted them ‘the 
third week in May. Our sum- 
mer was very hot and dry. We 
had about three rains all sum- 
mer. We watered the potatoes 
about twice a week from the 
last of June until the middle of 
August. 
We ordered 100 White Cob- 
blers and 100 Red Pontiacs. I 
planted only 175, as my neigh- 
bor wanted a few. The Cob- 
blers did the best. We got 4% 
bushels from them and 2 bush- 
els from the Red Pontiacs. I. 
believe we ate about a bushel. 
We were very well pleased 
with the results, in view of the 
kind of summer we had and 
since we planted them so late. 
I entered the potatoes at the 
Kit Carson County Fair and 
won first on the Cobblers and 
first on the Red Pontiaes. I 
entered 17 vegetables and won 
12 prizes. I received 5 firsts, 
4 seconds and 38 thirds. I think 
this is a good record. All the 
vegetables were grown from 
Henry Field seed. 
Yours truly, 
Mrs. L. C. Rhule, 
Burlington, Colo. 
Can’t Do Without Grow-Aid 
“Please send the Grow-Aid soon, as | 
I am about out of it. I sure think it 
is wonderful and cannot do without 
it.”,—John Rau, Continental, Ohic. 
FREE FOR le 
FOR KIDS ONLY 
202—This is 
for the kids 
and how 
they love it. 
They can’t 
buy every- 
thing they’d 
like to raise 
SO we’ve 
rolled 100 
packets into 
oneand 
made a big 
mixture of 
every kind 
of garden 
and flower 
seed, 
It’s a giant packet. It costs le. But 
it must be your own penny. Don’t ask 
the folks for it. 
Write “Conglomeration Packet” on 
your folks’ order, slide in your lie, an 
yow’ll be buying your OWN garden. 
' This must come with your folks’ or- 
er. 
FREE GIFTS with Your 
Potentilla Gold Drop 7 
A Very Fine, Yell ow-Flowered, 
‘Small Shrub 
We are always watching out fo 
all shrubs (shrubs which neve 
grow more than 2 or 38 feet high © 
or broad), because there are so 
many places where large-growing ‘a 
shrubs cannot be used. We recent- — 
ly came across a fine little shrub 
called Potentilla Gold Drop, and are ~ 
happy to be able to offer it to you 
for general home use. 3 
It has bright canary “yellow. ‘flow- . 
ers the size of a.25c¢ piece all sum- 
mer long. These are scattered over 
a ball of finely cut grey- green foli- ~ 
age that gradually attains the ‘size~ 
of some 3 feet high and 3 feet — 
broad. The shrub is neat, hardy, 
and adapts itself to most growing — 
conditions. Its only requirement is 
that it must have sunlight—it will 
not do well in the shade. - Just the 
thing for planting around the house, 
under windows and in front of the 
larger shrubs, .- 
We offer 2-year-old plants spouse 
12 inches high. A1471—98c on 
3 for 2.69, postpaid. 
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- — 
tional postage charges. Seems like 
a good deal to us because you really is 
get a bargain out of it. 
Good Luck Plant 
Some call this . 
Good Luck Plant, 
others call it 
Shamrock; but 
its real name is 
Oxalisey It is a 
dandy bulb plant 
that bears pretty 
little flowers and 
bmi t ere em 
leaves which resemble those of a 4- — 
leaf clover. Fine for borders, hang- 
ing baskets, window boxes or out- 
door garden. Also does well indoors 
as a potted house plant, constantly — 
providing a big supply of lucky “‘4-_ 
leaf clovers.”” BG409—Mixture of | 
red, white and pink-flowered bulbs. — 
4 for 25c; 8 for 45c; 24 for 75c; 100° a 
for 2.25, postpaid. 
Orders 
Giving full measure plus a little — 
extra has been a custom here at — 
Field’s for a long, long time. We — 
get hundreds of letters every season ~ 
saying “thanks” for something ex-_ 4 
tra. You will always get a free gift 2 ae 
with your orders. The bigger ‘the o3 
order, the bigger the free gift or — 
the more of them. 
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Having Fun with the Goats : 
“Dear Field’s: I amesending a 
picture of my three grandsons with ~ 
my two milk goats. Hope to see it 
in Seed Sense. I can say Henry — 
Field’s garden seeds and’ Bug Dust © 
are the best I have-ever used.” — 
—Frank Emrick, Langsville. Ohio.. 
