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OUR STRAWBERRIES

One thing especially needed in the home gardens of the
South, but which is now generally absent, is an abundant sup¬
ply of small fruits, especially Strawberries of the best sorts.

A noted preacher once said that “the Lord could have
made a better berry than the Strawberry, but He never
did,” and we agree with him. This fruit is easily grown
almost anywhere in the South, is a heavy producer, and
the most delicious of all small fruits.

Have you plenty of good varieties of Strawberries in
your garden? If not, why not? Don’t you think this fall
a splendid time to set out a bed of them for family use?

In the past it has been difficult for those who wanted only
a few hundred plants to get them. Most Strawberry plant-
growers are always looking out for the big trade in plants
— where plants are bought in lots of from ten thousand to
one hundred thousand plants.

While we have no objection to selling large lots, we are
prepared for and want these small-garden plant orders. We
are doing our best to make it easy for those who want only
small beds for home use to get the number of plants they
want and need, and we believe our customers will appre¬
ciate this opportunity of buying in small quantities.

MISSIONARY

A new extra-early berry of southern
origin and adapted to the entire South.
A perfect variety, clean, healthy grower
and heavy bearer. 75 cts. per 100, post¬
paid; by express, not prepaid, $2 for 500,
$3.50 per 1,000.

KLONDYKE

Best midseason berry for the South.
Fine for both home and market use. A
strong, healthy grower, with large berries
of blood-red color and fine, sweet flavor.
75 cts. per 100, postpaid; by express, not
prepaid, $2 for 500, $3.50 per 1,000.

AROMA

Best, large, late berry for the South.
Plants are strong, healthy growers, with
bright red berries of sweetest flavor. This,
with the other two varieties will give ber¬
ries all season. 75c. per 100, postpaid; by
exp., not prepaid, $2 for 500, £3.50 per 1,000

Best Varieties for Gardens in the South

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Out of all the hundreds of varieties of Strawberries grown
in this country there are three varieties that are specially adapted
to general southern conditions; varieties that come in early,
medium and late; varieties that are healthy, vigorous growers;
varieties that make large crops of berries; varieties that will
please any and everyone in the South who like this most deli¬
cious of all berries; berries that are a sort of the first-of-the-season

fruit, coming before dewberries, blackberries, early peaches,
apples, etc. There is a distinct place among all the fruits that
the Strawberry only can fill. If you have no Strawberry-bed,
including at least three of the best varieties, you are missing
every year the choicest and most pleasing of all small fruits.

The varieties we recommend are the Missionary, Klondyke
and Aroma. Descriptions will be found above.

Home -Garden Collection: 300 Plants, Postpaid, $1.75

For $1.75 we will send 300 Strawberry plants, postage prepaid, to any post office in the United States. In this
collection will be ioo plants of Missionary, the best extra-early Strawberry; ioo Klondyke, the best medium-early,
large-sized, sweet-flavored berry; ioo Aroma, which is of enormous size, finest quality, and stays in bearing late, long
after other varieties are through. This selection has been made after hundreds of varieties have been tested, and
contains the best there is to be had in Strawberries to date.

Our One-Dollar Collection: 150 Plants, Postpaid, $1.00

Some don’t want as many as 300 plants. Our One-Dollar Strawberry Collection is just the thing for such people.
Plants of exactly the same quality as in the Home-Garden Collection, the same varieties: 50 Missionary, 50 Klondyke,
50 Aroma, postpaid to any post office in the United States for Si.

Delivery About October 15 Plants will not be shipped until they become dormant — between

- =£- — - - October 15 and November 1. We want the plants to reach you in

first-class order, which is possible only when digging and shipping is delayed until growth has stopped. We posi¬
tively will not ship until plants are in condition to carry in the very best manner. Orders can be sent in any time.

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only to the amount of 25 cents on each dollar’s worth of packets and ounces ordered. This does not apply to ounces of cauliflower,
neither does it apply to the larger sized packages, such as quarter pounds, pounds, pints, quarts, etc., nor does it apply on special
collections of seeds or onion sets. You can not order a dollar’s worth of seeds in packets and ounces and then select a quarter pound of
something priced at '25 cents, or a pint of peas or beans as a premium; neither can you order a dollar’s worth of seeds in quarter pounds,
pounds, pints, or quarts, and then select 25 cents’ worth of seeds in packets. Te be entitled to these premium seeds you must order
seeds in packets and ounces to the amount of a dollar or more, and then select the premium seeds in packets only. We shall be
glad to have you select the premium seeds that your order may entitle you to under this offer.

When Ordering Write Below

The address of five or more of your neighbors (or friends elsewhere) that
are interested in gardening, and we will send them our catalogue and send
you some extra seeds. No seeds will be sent for a list of names not ac¬
companied by an order.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

It Is Time to Quit Eating

Your Crop Before It Is Made

This may seem a rather queer way of putting it, but it’s exactly right if comfort in the farm homes of the South is to follow.
For nearly fifty years we of the South have been eating our crops before they were made. This is no fairy tale, no exaggerated or
lying statement either. It is exact, indisputable, every day fact that you have your share in and we have ours in.

You may ask. How can such a thing be possible? and a fair, square answer you are entitled to. There is a trouble here in the
South along this line that must be done away with if the South, the individual farmers and townspeople as well are to come into
their own and enjoy the comforts and luxuries of life that they are entitled to, measured by the natural advantages that Nature
bestowed on the South.

Our present troubles, our present bad economic and financial habits began in the period following the Civil War. There seemed
no other way then. The South was absolutely stripped of everything necessary to carry on industry, agricultural or otherwise.
We had land capable of producing a crop, cotton, for which there was a world wide demand, and human labor.

Without going into all the details this combination of land, climate, human labor and its consequent product, cotton, was put in
pawn, so to speak, as security for food to keep us going for a year. We got our food, doled out to us, it’s true, but we got it, just the
same, largely if not altogether before the crop was made and delivered.

Nearly fifty years ago this, at the time, necessary system was established, and in large measure it has continued to this day,
and its continuance has kept the South, as a whole, poor, and you, as an individual, poor if you have been dependent or re depen¬
dent on the pledging, either directly or indirectly, of your cotton crop, or vegetable crop, orange crop, or any other kind of a so-
called “cash crop” for your food and grain supplies as a basis of credit at the supply merchant's or country banker’s.

We believe absolutely in credit, if rightly used. If not rightfully used it is a millstone tied about your neck, and it is no mis¬
statement to say that there is a large and able-bodied bunch of these millstones tied around the necks of our people, cotton growers,
orange growers, peach growers, vegetable growers, etc.

The South as a whole is poor; you are poor; your neighbor is poor compared with the financial condition you all ought to be in
had you worked vour farm business in a plain common sense way instead of the extravagant, nonsensical way that you have been
carrying it on. The plain unadulterated truth is that you and your neighbors, or such of you that have felt the pinch during the
past year, have been eating your crop before it was made, via the supply merchant route. When your crop of cotton or oranges or
peaches or tobacco or anything else was made you OWED it instead of OWNED it, and therein lies the whole trouble.

Store bills eat you and your crop up before it is made. The credit way seems, at the start, an easy way, but it strangles five out
of six of you before the ena of your life’s journey is reached.

Are you going to stay in this credit rut, or are you going to get out and be a free and independent man, a man that need not
stand, hat in hand, so to speak, and ask supply merchant or local banker what you can do next season with your land? This is an
absolutely fair question and on its right answer depends whether or not you are going to be a free man or essentially a slave to sup¬
ply merchant, landlord or banker.

There Are Too Many Supply Stores in the South

Information came to us a few days ago that opened our eyes to this situation, and it ought to open yours if you are a buyer of
food products and grain products that can be and ought to be produced on your own acres.

There are thirteen states in what is generally termed the South. In the entire United States there are forty-eight states. In the
thirteen Southern States there are more general merchandise or supply stores than in all the other thirty-five states of this country,
in spite of our comparatively small population and wealth.

We recognize fully the value and convenience and proper place of the general merchandise store in any community, but we do
submit as a plain common sense proposition that more stores of this character, operated on a credit basis, in thirteen states than in
all the other thirty-five states, represents not legitimate merchandising, but a parasitic condition.

We are fighting to get rid of the cattle tick in the South. Why? Because the tick is a blood sucker, that prevents the cattle
reaching full growth for their age and food. Just as the cattle tick drains the blood of the range cow and keeps it poor and “sorry
looking,” just so does the average mercantile store that is carrying cotton growers and other kind of growers on credit suck the
financial or money blood from them.

One parasite sucks blood, the other sucks money. The result is essentially the same, the blood sucking cattle tick leaving a
scrawny, ill nourished cow; the credit extending merchant leaving a “busted” or nearly “busted” cotton grower or some other kind
of a one crop grower at the end of the season.

There is a difference and that is in favor of the cow. The range cow can’t help it. The ticks are there and the cow can take no
steps to escape them. The cotton grower can, if he has got energy and backbone enough to grow on his own acres so far as possible’
the things he now buys at the store.

We have no grudge against a single general merchant in the South, but there are too many of them. 1 hey live absolutely off of
the cotton growing, food buying farmers, and this is not right. It’s a poverty producing system, l;hat needs changing, but it will
not be changed until you and your neighbors and all the rest of us produce food any! gharri instead of buying it on a double or triple
price basis. Start right in food production this fall. A real fall garden, patches of oats, wheat, rye, etc., will start you on the road
to full farm prosperity.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

The Farmer With Oats Saves Money

There were more acres of oats planted in the Southern States last
fall than ever before. Despite the fact that the past season was the
worst for oat growing we have ever seen there have been more oats
harvested than ever before. Further, the fact that those oats are in
hand now has proven a "life saver” to thousands upon thousands of
cotton growers wrho were short on corn last spring.

The all or nearly all cotton grower; the cotton growing, food and
grain buying, always in debt and nose to the grindstone farmer got
an awful jolt when this European war came on. It knocked him
flat and even now he is under an accumulation of debt that will keep
him busy for years to come if he continues in his old cotton grow¬
ing, food buying rut.

The right kind of farming is a paying proposition. The kind of
farming that 75 to SO per cent of our people do does not pay, never
has paid, never will pay. Profit on the farm lies first in the pro¬
duction on the farm of every dollar’s worth of food, grain and hay
supplies needed for that farm. When that’s done a man can safely
plant his remaining acres in cotton or other cash crop.

Oats can be grown cheaper than corn. Oats are far better sum¬
mer grain food for work stock than corn. Oats are a winter grow¬
ing crop and save the land from winter washing as well. Oats come
off in plenty of time so that the ground may be planted in peas or
sorghum, insuring you a hay crop as well as grain, insuring your
land’s working full time.

A reasonable acreage of oats on your farm each year is the begin¬
ning of prosperity. Oats will help make your cotton money stick.
You won't have to turn it over to supply merchant. You will own
those cotton dollars and not owe them as in the past.

The foundation of a money-making production of cotton, even on
a 12 to 15 cent basis lies in home production of grain, hay and meat.
In not one case out of a thousand can a farmer make any money
growing cotton if he buys oats, corn and meat at ruling store prices
With all due respect to our corn crops planted in the spring and
which have a habit of giving out along from April to June in spite
of our efforts to make enough to see us through, we must depend
on oats for a summer grain feed for our animals.

Oats can be grown as cheap or cheaper than corn; most of the
work is done at a time when it don’t interfere with other crops - the
crop furnishes winter and spring grazing as well as a cover crop
to prevent washing; and as a grain crop furnishes a better summer
grain feed for w-ork stock than corn, for we never knew an animai
fed on oats to go to pieces under summer heat as do thousands of
corn fed work mules or horses. The one, two or three horse farmer
with a reasonable acreage in corn and a few acres in oats followed
by peas or sorghum and peas is always a money saver. He can’t
help but be, for he has absolutely stopped the deadly drain on his
pocket for grain and hay from farther north.

IV e have all of us in past years been following a bankruptcy sys¬
tem. We have been slowly getting out from under the past three
years. Each one of us has his share to do in stopping this grain
drain and hay drain and meat drain and a dozen or so others

A fall sown oat crop is a long step and a right step in a money¬
saving, soil-building, wealth accumulating direction. It’s time to
plan for oat acreage now. Be sure and sow enough (open furrow
system) to last your stock several months. Do this and join the
ranks of the money-saving oat growers of the South.

REALLY RE-CLEANED GEORGIA GROWN SEED OATS

Most of all in importance for fall planting is the oat crop. You can’t grow too many oats anywhere in the South. They are of high

feeding value for your own stock. If
you have a surplus there is a mar¬
ket for every bushel of it at your
nearest town. The oat crop with the
open furrow system of planting is
the safest crop you can plant and
the least expensive to grow. With
this system of planting there is
little or no danger of winter-kill¬
ing; there is no labor cost, except
preparation of the ground and har¬
vest ; you keep your land covered
all winter, thus stopping the wash¬
ing from winter and spring rains
and you have your ground abso¬
lutely free for a summer crop of
peas or peas and sorghum that will
make from $15.00 to $30.00 worth of
hay per acre in addition to the value
of the oats, and still leave your land
better off than when you started,
oats followed by hay crop being a
splendid rotation for the cotton-
grower. The price of oats, corn and
hay during the past few years ought
to be an eye-opener for every one
of us. To go on in our old way
means bankruptcy sooner or later.
There are very few of us who have
not had to go down into our pockets
in past years and pay from $1.00 to
$1.25 for sorry Western corn ; 80
cents to $1.00 for sorrier oats. We
can’t and you can’t afford to do this,
even if cotton were 20 cents a pound,
with a thirteen or fourteen million
bale crop. We preach nothing that
we do not practice ourselves. On
our own farms we plant hundreds
of acres of oats every year. We find
oats the most profitable grain crop
that we can grow and the hay crop
following brings us in more money
per acre than the average cotton
acre of the South produces. We get
from fifty to one hundred bushels
of oats per acre, according to the
quality of the land on which they
were planted; we do this by thor¬
ough preparation of the soil and
use of recleaned and graded seed,
for experience has taught us that
we cannot afford to plant anything
but recleaned and graded seed.
Every bushel of seed oats planted
on the Hastings Farm comes to our
warehouse here in Atlanta for re¬
cleaning and grading before it is

, „ , „ „ . planted. What pays us will cer-

No. 1 — Sample of Hastings’ 100-Bnshcl Oats Direct From the Farm tainly pay you,

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

WHAT THESE PHOTOGRAPHS TELL YOU
ABOUT HASTINGS' SEED OATS

On this and the preceding page we show three
illustrations of oats, illustrating just exactly what
our recleaning and grading process does to a grain
like oats; these illustrations are reproduced from
photographs somewhat enlarged so that the im¬
perfections in No. 1 and No. 2 can be thoroughly
shown. Most farmers won’t believe and can’t realize
the enormous amount of weed and grass seed aud
light weight grains there are even in the best crops
of oats. Once one of our good friends from Brooks
County, Georgia, was in our warehouse and saw
the recleaning process going on; upon being shown
the oats before they went through the recleaning
and grading machines he expressed the opinion that
he did not see how any oats could be better than
those. We took him down and let him see the whole
process and the weed seed and light weight grains
that came out in the recleaning process. After see¬
ing the whole process he said : “Mr. Hastings, 1 have
known you for a good many years and always con¬
sidered you a truthful man, but if you had told me
what I have actually seen today I am frank to say
that I would not have believed you. I had no idea
whatever that so much weed seed and trash could
be concealed in oats and not be apparent to the eye.”

Illustration No. 1 on page 2 shows a sample of
100-Bushel Oats as they came from the farm after
being threshed. Most every farmer thinks that the
threshing-machines take out light weight grains
and weed seed, but they do not. and these three
illustrations tell the story perfectly.

No. 2 shows trash, weed seed and small undevel¬
oped grain from a photograph taken of some of the
refuse from our cleaning machines, after cleaning
the lot of oats represented by illustration No. 1.

No. 3 — Sample of Re-Cleaned Seed, Hastings’ 100-Bushel Oats

No. 2 — Trash and Small Oats

See the large percentage of small, par¬
tially developed grains that never can
make strong, healthy oat plants, even
with the best of care and fertilizing.
No. 3 shows recleaned sample of our
100-Bushel Oats, just such even size
and quality oats as go from our store
to you when you order.

Will It Pay Me to Plant

Hastings’ Re-Cleaned Oats?

The fairest criticism that can be made
of most seed buyingfarmers is that they
look almost entirely at the first cost and
not what they are going to get out of
it. It is exactly the same principle thai
leads a man to say : “I can’t afford to
pay over 50c or 75c per bushel for cot¬
ton seed,” and then goes on and plants
common seed that make about 200 lbs.
of lint per acre, while his neighbor
using better seed pays $1.50 to $2.00 per
bushel for real planting seed and makes
400 to 500 pounds of lint per acre; the
extra 200 or 300 pounds of lint costing
him actually not over $1.00. Our 100-
Bushel Oat is the best oat in existence
for fall planting in the South, fully ac¬
climated and most vigorous, hardy, re¬
markably free from rust and the heavi¬
est yielder of all : yet with all these
good qualities the man who plants
them without the seed being recleaned
and graded deliberately throws away
from 10% to 15% of his stand and in
other varieties sometimes as high as
25%.

One of our customers did not believe
recleaning and grading made any dif-
ference. We sold him reclenned seed
for half of his crop and regular run-
of-the-crop for the rest. Same variety,
same land, same fertilizer, same every¬
thing all through except the seed oats
being recleaned and graded. With the
recleaned seed our friend made 131s
bushels more per acre than he did with
the seed not recleaned.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hastings' 100-Bushel Oats

BEST OF ALL HEAVY YIELDING “RUST PROOF” OATS FOR THE SOUTH

Right seed of a right variety comes as near making a profitable
crop certain as is possible in farming. When we introduced our 100-
Bushel Oat eight years ago we placed in the hands of the farmers of
the South the safest, surest cropping, best paying oat that existed.
There was nothing equal to it eight years ago and there is nothing
equal to it now. If you have “100-Bushel Oats” direct from us (re¬
cleaned seed) you need have no fears of failure or even unsatisfac¬
tory yields. It's sure and safe for a fall planted oat in every South¬
ern State. We named it “100-Bushel Oat” because that’s about what
it was'making for us on good land and under good cultivation. You
can’t help but make money out of this oat if you give it half a chance.

Right here let’s be honest with each other. This variety of oat
isn’t, going to make a crop all by itself. You have got to do your
part in the way of preparation of the land and careful planting. No
seed on earth of any cultivated crop is going to do its full share of
the work unless the planter treats it fair and honest by doing his
share. Y’ou and we can’t get 75 to 100 bushels per acre of any crop
with a 10 bushel quality of preparation. The real point, however,
is that if you give "100-Bushel Oat” anything like a chance with fair

preparation you are sure of a yield from 10 to 20 bushels more per
acre than from any other oat you can plant.

We believe in the 100-Bushel Oat ourselves; grew nearly 300 acres
of it for feeding on the Hastings Farm this past season and expect
to plant about 400 acres of it this fall to grow feed for our working
stock. This 100-Bushel Oat is the only variety of oats-we plant on
the Hastings Farm for our stock. Why? Because we can get at
least 10 bushels more per acre from it than any other. Over on our
Test Grounds we had some 25 varieties of oats from all parts of the
country, north, south, east and west, and not a single variety came
anywhere near the 100-Bushel in yield. We keep up this test work
each year and when we find any oat that equals our “100-Bushel”
we will tell you about it. The more we grow and see “100-Bushel
Oat” in all kinds of seasons and all classes of lands the more we
think of it. No oat that we have ever seen in the South is so hardy,
healthy and vigorous, no oat that will stand up so well and do more
than could be reasonably expected of it. That’s the kind of oat
that you can afford to plant and no other. With the open furrow
system w-e have never known it to winter kill.

From a Photograph of a Field of HASTINGS’ HUNDRED-BUSHEL, OATS Grown in Meriwether County, Georgia— Three Years Before
it Took Four Acres of This Eand to Make One Bale of Cotton — Why Not Grow Oats Dike This?

On the next page will be seen a reproduction from a photograph
of a bunch of “100-Busliel Oats.” Note the heavy well filled heads,
the long, stiff straw. This is also shown in the field scene on this
page, the gentlemen standing in the field being above the average
height.

For an all-round general purpose oat you will find nothing that
can compare with it. Planted in the fall it is almost as hardy as
rye, stools out strongly, makes the best of winter and early spring
grazing for cattle, hogs, horses and mules and in the right season
comes out and makes oats such ns are shown on these two pages.

It’s a true strain of Southern oat, “rust-proof” to a remarkable
degree and adapted to all the South. Grains are exceptionally large
and heavy, usually weighing 40 pounds or over to a measured
bushel. It’s just the oat for you, a Southern thoroughbred, an oat
that you can depend upon. No matter where you live in the South
it’s the right oat for fall planting.

Every fall there are tens of thousands of cotton growing farmers
who say, “I would like to plant a few acres of oats, but ha.T@ no,
place to put them. My land is all in cotton and I won’t get iitt
‘picked out’ in time.” Such farmers are dead wrong. The, field
shown in the photograph above was sown with the open furrow-
system before the cotton was picked out. On the Hastings, Farm
hundreds of acres are planted every year on cotton ground before
the cotton is picked out More and more oats are planted; between
cotton rows every year.

Oats are easier grown than corn, cost less to make and are a bet¬
ter summer time feed for work stock, being less heating, and fur¬
nish a combination grain and hay feed in case you do not wish to
thresh them out.

Georgia, in one year, bought from outside the state over thirty-
nine million dollars’ -worth of feed oats. Other states buy oats in
ns heavy proportion. Don’t you think it a good time to change
from buying oats to selling them?

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Our Oat Experience Meeting

It’s a good old church custom to have from time to time
what are called “experience meetings.” It’s a good custom
in religious matters, it would he a mighty good practice for
the farmers of the different districts or precincts, or even
counties, to get together from time to time and have “farm
experience meetings” where all the brothers could get to¬
gether and tell of (lie things that have proven profitable, as
well as tell of the mistakes they have made that should lie
avoided. We have said that “100-Bushel Oats” are good all
over the South. It’s true, not because Hastings says so. but
because “100-Bushel Oats ’ have been planted all over the
South, and have “made good,” and we have on this page tes¬
timony from eight Southern States telling how good they are.
We have sold during the last six years over one hundred and
fifty thousand bushels of our “100-Bushel Oats,” most of
them to farmers whoi have either planted them before or have
seen them growing on neighboring farms. All these oats
need is a chance to show what they can do on your farm.

“100- BUSHEL OATS” IN EIGHT
SOUTHERN STATES

f^Anl>0'i9 Planted two acres of “100-Bushel Oats” and
two acres of Appier: “100-Bushel” was the
best oat by 15% to 20%. Yielded 60 to 70 bushels per acre
against 50 to 60 for the Appier. — O. S. McRae, Walton Co.

I gave your “100-Bushel Oats” a hard test by sowing them
on poor, thin, red land. Even under these conditions they
grew well and made a good crop. They grew about waist
high, with the largest, heaviest heads I ever saw. I am going
to get more seed this fall and plant them on good land, for
if this variety will make a crop on such poor land as I used
last year, they will certainly prove profitable on good land.
— T. F. Crow. Hall County.

Y'our “100-Bushel Oats” I sowed last fall with open fur¬
row drill look fine and give promise of a large yield. It is
the only field of oats in my section that has not been badly
damaged by freezes. — Don Harris, Walker County.

From the “100-Bushel Oats” I bought from you last fall I
made 00 bushels on one measured acre. — C. W. Gray, Ca¬
toosa County.

FlflKirla “100-Bushel Oats” were very fine. Planted side
r lUIlUd b y side with another variety, they showed
themselves 5 to 1 the better oats. — McVoy & Co., Escambia Co.

Made as fine a crop of oats as I ever saw in New York
state; the heads were well filled and of very best quality.
This is the oat for us to raise in this section. — H. C. Pettit,
Hillsboro County.

I bought your “100-Bushel” Seed Oats and am delighted
with results. I have never made such a crop of oats before;
they were the heaviest and the most to the ground I ever
saw. — W. F. Cowen, Gadsden County.

Alabama “100 -Bushel Oats are the best. Made 50
nldUallld bushels per acre; other oats on same land
made 30 bushels per acre. — W. H. Harris, Pike County.

I made 12 tons of straw and oats from two and one-half
acres. I did not thresh the oats so do not know how many
bushels there were, but they were notably the best oats my
neighbors ever saw, averaging five feet high, from seed
planted October 1.— Jno. A. Rogers, Sumter County.

Mieeleeinni “100-Bushel Oats” planted last days of
lvll99l9S>l|J|JI January made fine yield with unfavor¬
able season. Texas Rust-Proof Oats in same field made
complete failure. “100-Bushel Oats” are of great value, shall
want more in the fall. — R. H. Campbell, Scott County.

Have sown several acres of your “100-Bushel Oats" and
have an excellent stand. It is the most vigorous looking Oat
that I have ever seen. Y’our seed have proven very satis¬
factory; this is more than I can say for some seedsmen in

- - and other points.— O. M. Harrill, president of Bank

of Houlka, Chickasaw County.

I Aineiana The best variety that has ever been seen
LOUIalalld jn this country. They are strictly “rust¬
proof,” which is a great point in their favor.— G. It. Jordan,
Jackson Parish.

My 11 acres of “100-Bushel Oats” yielded 685
I CAd9 bushels, an average of over 02 bushels per acre.
This yield excelled all others in the neighborhood of my
farm, 'beating the next best by about 18 bushels per acre.—
G. A. Duerler, Bexar County.

Have sold all my oats I have to
aouin l/arOlllla spare; sowed eight bushels and
threshed out 2211/, bushels from 4 acres. Your oats are fine
and am fixing for a big crop next time. Would pay $2.00 a
bushel rather than sow any other sort.— D. T. Andrews,
Greenville County.

Am well pleased with the “100-
NOrin Carolina Bushel Oats” bought of you last
fall.— W. S. Percival, Moore County.

PRIZE WINNING BUNCH

OF OUR.

HUNDRED-BUSHEL OATS

PRICES OF “100-BUSHEL OATS”

You want to get at least a start of this heavy yielding oat this fall, no
matter where you are in the South. Y’ou can’t afford to plant the trashy oats
sold by local merchants. You can’t afford to sow oats obtained from a farm¬
er who has weeds in his field. You can’t afford to plant any but tbe_ best re¬
cleaned and graded seed oats, just as clean of weed and grass seed as it is
possible for the best re-cleaning machinery there is made to do it.

Pound, postpaid, 25 cents; 3 pounds, postpaid, 50 cents; peck, not pre¬
paid, 50 cents; bushel (32 pounds), $1.50; 5 bushels, $6.75; 10 bushels, $12.50.
Freight rates and samples sent on request.

G

II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

NEW FULGHUM EARLY OATS

This comparatively new early variety lias taken Georgia almost
by storm for an early oat, that is perfectly hardy and suitable for
fall sowing in all parts of the South, provided, of course, that they
are planted by the “Open Furrow Method.”

We have watched this new oat with great interest. We placed
seed stock of it in the hands of our most expert seed growers. Based
on our observation and experience and the experience of our grow¬
ers we have not a word to change from what we stated about this
variety in our fall catalogue for 1914, which we reprint below.

This new oat will, we believe, fill a distinct place in Southern oat
growing. We do not expect it to take the place of the regular rust
proof main crop strains such as “100-Bushel,” Appier and others,
but it has a distinct place to fill, if it holds up in extra severe win¬
ters, a test which it has not been put to as yet.

Extravagant claims have been made for the Fulghum for extra
earliness, large yields, etc., which have not been borne out by actual
test. It is a good early oat with exceedingly heavy straw. A three
year impartial test by one of the Southern Experiment Stations

shows that its average date of maturity is eight days earlier than
Appier, and the yield per acre each year ranged from eight to ten
bushels less than Appier. Apparently its greatest value is as a va¬
riety to plant for part of the crop, for by planting half the acreage
in Fulghum and half in “100-Bushel” or Appier the length of the
harvesting season is lengthened and the farmer with limited ma¬
chinery equipment can handle successfully a larger acreage.

It is well to remember in oats as well as other grain crops that
earliness is always obtained at the expense of less yield per acre.

The Fulghum is the best early oat we have seen for the South, yet
it is not going to take the place of the more generally planted and
heavy yielding varieties for the most profitable variety. We recom¬
mend it as an early oat only, and for those willing to sacrifice quan¬
tity to earliness. It is a clean, vigorous growing, healthy variety
for early crops. Recleaned, graded seed. Pound, postpaid, 25 cents;
3 pounds, 50 cents; peck, not prepaid, 50 cents; bushel (32 pounds),
$1.50; 5 bushels, $6.75; 10 bushels, $12.50. Freight rates and samples
sent on request.

Other Safe Varieties of Southern Oats

While we positively know by experience covering many years that Hastings’ “100-Bushel” Oat is superior in every
respect to the other varieties, there is always a greater or less demand for these other varieties, and we carry the follow¬
ing in stock as regularly as possible. All the seed we send out of these varieties is recleaned just as carefully as possi¬
ble, and is superior seed stock to any that you can obtain elsewhere of these varieties.

Georgia Grown Appier Oats

A selection from the Texas Red Rust Proof
made years ago in Georgia, and was the best
variety up to the introduction of our "100-
Bushel.” Still largely planted but yield is
usually 20% to .30% less per acre than the
“100-Bushel.” It is a genuine “rust proof”
strain. Price, recleaned and graded seed,
peck, 40c; bushel (32 pounds), about $1.10.
Write tor quantity prices when ready to buy.

Burt or Ninety- Day Oat

Largely planted as a fall oat in Florida,
where it does well at that season, but not
recommended except for spring planting in
the Central South. The Burt is a quick ma¬
turing oat, but is, in our opinion, much in¬
ferior. as a yiehler of grain per acre. Re¬
cleaned and graded seed. Peck, 40 cents ;
bushel (32 pounds), $1.00. Write for quan¬
tity prices when ready to buy.

Texas Red Rust Proof Oats

Genuine Texas grown seed. We get this
variety direct from Texas in solid car lots.
While we do not recommend it as compared
with “100-Bushel” and “Appier” we can sup¬
ply the very best recleaned seed with the
weed seed and Johnson Grass, almost inva¬
riably found in them, removed. Peek, 35c;
bushel (32 pounds), about 90 cents. Write
for prices in quantity when ready to buy.

Hastings’ Grain Book Free

Do you know how to prepare your land for 50 to 100 bushels of oats per acre? Can you prepare and get proportion¬
ately heavy crops of wheat, rye or barley? Do you know that these grain crops rightly handled will pay you better per
acre than cotton at 15 cents per pound? These are not fool questions; they are based on fact. Such crops are being
grown right along in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern States.

What other men are doing in this line you can do just as well on your farm.

We print in this booklet (40 pages) the experience and methods of some of these successful Southern grain-growing
farmers. This booklet tells exactly how they do it and how you can do it.

This grain booklet is not for sale, but it’s yours if you are interested in this subject, and honestly want to know how
to make a real success of these fall sown grain crops anywhere in the South. All you have to do is to ask us for it and
we will gladly send you a copy by return mail.

This booklet takes up in order Oats, Wheat, Rye and Barley, with a special chapter on Winter Vetch, and tells you
exactly how to handle these different grain crops successfully from start to finish.

During the next few months hundreds of millions of cotton dollars will come into the South. Let’s each one of us
do our share to make them stick here in the South. You will find this grain book a great helper in saving cotton dollars.

Hastings’ Pasture Book Free

An interesting and valuable booklet giving the best and most reliable information about preparation and seeding
down both permanent and temporary pastures and meadows in all of the Southern States.

Separate planting tables and combinations of grasses, clovers, forage plants and grains for North and South Caro¬
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Arkansas. Also carries tables showing proper quan¬
tities of seed to plant per acre of all the grass, clover and forage crops in the South, and on this account alone it should
be in every farmer’s hands. Absolutely free. All that’s necessary is for you to ask for it.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen , Atlanta, Georgia.

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SOUTHERN

GROWN RYE

AND

SOUTHERN

seed stock which we have is
Barley prices change during
prices when ready to buy.

'ery year sees large increases in the acreage of these winter cover and graz-
crops. They are of immense value wherever used, for either rye, barley or
will save from washing away in the winter rains two to three times as
much plant food per acre as the average farmer puts on in commercial fertili¬
zer in the spring. Many a reader of this catalogue may laugh at that statement
but it’s a fact just the same. In the hill lands of the South the loss of fertility
comes more from “washing away” than “wearing out.” It’s these winter cover
crops that stop that “wash” and when turned under in the spring add vegeta¬
ble matter to the soil. As a rule the worst washing is during the winter rains
and that’s when your soil needs the cover crop. In making your farm plans
don't forget to put in rye or barley as well as oats.

They are not legumes and so do not enrich the soil with nitrogen like crim¬
son clover, vetch, etc., but they make a great deal of vegetable matter, and if turned under on the land,
will greatly help poor or run-down soils. It can be sown in corn or cotton when these crops are laid by,
or later, and many of our farmers are using rye or barley for this purpose. From July to November is
the usual range of seeding, though in the Lower South it can be put in even later.

Rye is very hardy and will stand our coldest weather without serious injury. The land for rye should
be prepared the same as for wheat, but the poorer the land, the earlier it ought to be sowed, so as to give
the rye a, chance to get well established before severe cold weather comes on. It can be put in either
broadcast or with a drill, though we believe in drilling for best results. The seed should be covered from
an inch to two and a half inches, depending on the lightness and dryness of the soil. In heavier soils, of
course, the lighter covering should be used.

With early plantings, and especially on poor land, a bushel per acre is about the right amount of seed to
use. On better soil or where the crop is put in later, use from one and a half to two bushels per acre.
Some of our customers who plant for forage on first-class land use three or four bushels per acre. There
is no better fertilizer for rye and barley than good applications of well-rotted manure, and it will thrive
under such treatment. If commercial fertilizer is used, any standard mixture such as would be suitable
for oats or wheat will give results with rye.

Hastings’ Genuine Georgia Grown Winter Rye

Every winter and spring there goes up from all over the Lower South a complaint that the rye don't do
well; “rusts” badly or dies out. This complaint almost invariably comes on rye sold by local merchants
and obtained from wholesale grain dealers in Southern cities. Now the local merchant is not to blame, for
his purchase is made in good faith. The real trouble is that the mass of rye handled in this manner is
neither winter rye nor Southern grown rye, the bulk of it being what we term as spring rye from Mis¬
souri and states farther north.

All rye which we handle is strictly winter rye and perfectly hardy. It is Georgia grown rye and adapt¬
ed to this entire section, either for winter grazing or grain production. With half a chance it almost in¬
variably “makes good” wherever planted in the South. Below we give the statements of men in several
states who have used it and know exactly what it has done for them on their farms. It will do the same
for you. Every bushel of rye that goes out from this house is right stock. We know exactly where il
comes from. Every bushel of it goes through our re-cleaning machinery which takes out all dust, trash
and light grains that are left in it by the threshing machines. It's exactly what you need to make a suc¬
cessful rye crop next winter.

“We sold the rye bought of you and our customers were well pleased.” — Ricketson &
&*** Moore, Broxton, Ga.

“Rye bought of you was used as a forage crop and grew so satisfactory that I shall want five bushels
more this year. Have bought other seeds from you in the past and they have all been true to name and
made large yields.” — G. A. Wallace, Leesburg, Ga.

“Rye bought from you was planted for forage and cover crop. I never saw finer rye.
HldUdllld Grazed it all winter and spring and then plowed it in." — N. ,T. Latham, Yolande, Ala.
“Rye gave perfect satisfaction. Some of it was ordered for my neighbors and they are so well satisfied
that they have already asked me to order some of the same seed again.” — W. It. Williamson, Natural
Bridge, Ala.

“Seed rye bought of you was the best I ever used. Sowed October 20th. and my stock be-
riunuci gail t0 graze on it December 15th. Took stock oft' March 1st and then made a good crop of
rye.” — N. Hurst, Harper, Florida.

Tflvac “The rye you sent was fine. Planted it for hogs. After being grazed it went to seed and was
I fine.” — .T. M. Norwood, Hempstead, Texas.

BUI “The rye I got from vou last fall was sown for grain and gave perfect satisfaction."
IVIISSISSippi — A. .T.' Moore, McCool. Miss.

We also have dozens of testimonials from Louisiana, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and other
states. Hastings’ Seed Rye is all right. Y’ou need it, we have it.

QBipFf Prices of seed grain of all kinds are liable to change from time to time. Present
Kit rnlvkd price. 50 cents per peck; about $1.05 per bushel. Write for quantity prices when
you are ready to buy if larger quantities are wanted.

»»/■ «_ w u xn recent years there has been a great increase in barley planting, especially by

WlnT6r Dailey poultry raisers, who want it for winter green feed and grazing. Compared with
the “bearded” variety We cannot supply beardless barley, which has generally been unsatisfactory South,
the season Present price, 50 cents per peek; bushel, about $1.50, f. o. b. Atlanta. Write for large quantity

BARLEY

8

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

You Can Grow Good Wheat Too

It’s time fox- most of us to get our eyes open to plain facts. Tlie
South grows many millions of bushels of wheat every year, yet how
often do you ever see a field or even a small patch of wheat in your
neighborhood ?

All parts of the South can and do grow good wheat. It’s merely
habit that we have got into looking on wheat as a product of the
colder sections. Egypt is a great deal warmer country than any of
the Central, Southern and Gulf States, yet wheat has been one of
the great staple food crops of that country for thousands of years,
back as far as history goes.

flow, a great many of us don’t realize that the yield per acre in
the South, with intelligent handling, is heavier than the average
yield per acre of what are known as the wheat growing states of
the North. We have a corn crop growing on land this year that
five years ago produced 51% bushels of wheat on a measured acre.
The illustration below is from a photograph of a field of wheat that
yielded 35 bushels per acre.

If any one state would be classed as a non-wheat growing one, it
would be Florida, and yet one of the best crops of wheat we have
seen was grown in Bradford County, Florida, a hundred miles or
more south of the Georgia line. We could go on and repeat the

details of stories of Alabama and Mississippi planting hundreds
and thousands of acres every year, but it is unnecessary. The South
can grow wheat and grow it profitably. Why don’t you?

There are a million or more farmers in the Cotton States that
never grew an acre of wheat in their life. Thev buy wheat (in the
shape of flour) grown north, milled north, shipped from the north
and unless they pay an extra price for the extra fancy flour, thev
usually have occasion to "kick” about the poor quality.

Our Southern wheat is of the best, the quality of the flour from it
is the best. If you want the best of floui', grow your own wheat
here in the South and have flour made here. Any miller who can be
assured of reasonable acreage in wheat is always glad to put in anv
necessary machinery for milling it.

Wheat growing is one of the necessities of a good, all around,
profitable "live at home and board at the same place” agriculture
that will put the South where it ought to be, the wealthiest and
best agricultural section, not only of the United States, but of the
world. Wheat planters never regret it.

WHEN AND HOW TO PLANT £ Is gSfcati

alogue like this, to give detailed instructions. If you are really in¬
terested in wheat and
other grains we shall be
pleased to send you our
“Grain Book.” which is
free on request.

The best time to plant
wheat in the Southern
States is from the middle
of October to the middle
of December. The aim in
any locality is to give the
plants a chance to get well
established before freez¬
ing weather sets in. How¬
ever, one of the best wheat
crops A-e ever saw in this
section was planted the
day after Christmas. Seed
should be drilled in rath¬
er than broadcasted. The
“open furrow’” system for
planting oats will answer
splendidly for wheat.

In commercial fertili¬
zers, the Georgia Experi¬
ment Station recommends
at seeding time 200 lbs.
acid phosphate, 50 lbs.
muriate of potash, 350
pounds cotton seed meal
per acre, followed by 75
pounds nitrate of soda in
the spring, about 10 days
before time for first heads
to appear. In seeding ear¬
ly use one bushel per
acre. In late planting, say
after November 15, you
had best use from % to
% bushel more seed.

PLANT OATS
PLANT RYE
PLANT WHEAT

A Crop of Our Georgia Red Wheat — The Man in the Center is Six Feet Tall — This W’heat Crop
Yielded 35 Bushels Per Acre in Georgia — Why Not Grow Wheat Bike This?

|^>0r] This is a bearded wheat of the finest type
grown anywhere. Now. we are constantly be¬
ing asked the question, “What is the best variety of wheat?” Now,
there is no one best variety of wheat for all kinds of seasons, lands
and locations. Some growers prefer a bearded wheat, others won’t
have anything but a smooth or beardless wheat. Different growers
and different sections have their preferences.

Up to two years ago our preference has always been for smooth
wheats, but our wide observations convinced us that while the
smooth or beardless varieties like Blue Stem wei’e preferable in
many respects yet they only did their best under favorable seasons
and general conditions. In what may be termed bad seasons, or
on the poorer soils, or under cultivation and fertilizing below the
average, the bearded varieties made best yields in almost every in¬
stance. Our Georgia Red is the superior bearded wheat for the
South. It's a vigorous grower and a heavy yielder. The above
picture from a photograph of a seed ci’op shows a field that turned
out 35 bushels per acre, more than twice the average per acre of
northern wheat lands.

Georgia Red is a thoroughly acclimated wheat, grown here in
Georgia for many years. It’s strong, vigorous and heavy yielding.
It makes satisfactory crops in good seasons and bad. It’s extremely
hardy, standing our severest winters without injury.

There are thousands of people each year in the South that plant
wheat for the first time and possibly do not give the preparation
that more experienced growers would give. To such we especially
recommend oui Georgia Red. for it will stand adverse conditions
better than any variety of wheat we know of. When you plant
Georgia Red you know exactly what you have, an acclimated wheat
that makes heavy yields. Peck, (10 cents; bushel (60 pounds), about
$2.00. Write for quantity prices and sample.

Blue Stem or Purple Straw It Si

growers in the South. It’s a fine, rather early, productive, beard¬
less variety of wheat, a standard in this section. It has always
been a rather early variety, but the strain we are now handling
ripens from a week to ten days ahead of the old strain. Gooil for
grain production or if you desjre to cut it when “in dough” makes
a splendid hay crop. Price, peck, 60 cents; bushel, about $2.00.
Write for quantity prices, sample and freight rate.

Pnfl (Mai# U/hoat We have never been able to see where
IViesjr Tf licail t Ills variety was any earlier and better
than the Blue Stem, although many prefer it to that variety, claim¬
ing great earliness. It’s a standard variety and a great favorite
in the state of Tennessee. Peck, 60 cents; bushel, about $2.00. Write
for quantity prices, sample and freight rates.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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GRAIN SMUT

AND HOW TO PREVENT IT

With the rapid increase in acreage and production of oats, wheat, rye and barley in the South in the last few years
there has naturally come with it an increase of the enemies of these crops.

Years ago “rust proof” varieties of oats were originated and the losses from “rust” in the South are now so small as
to be almost unworthy of consideration. “Smut” of oats, wheat and barley are now spread over the whole South and
the damage from it unless checked is serious.

A few weeks ago we rode for about 250 miles over one of the leading railroads of the South and we did not see a sin¬
gle field out of hundreds that did not show more or less “smut.”

The “spores” (or seed if we may so term it) of grain smut are carried in various ways. The wind blows them from
infected to uninfected fields. The public threshing machine is a great sinner in this direction, going from one farm to
another. We might mention others, but it is unnecessary. There is hardly a grain growing section in the South that is
not infested with smut.

Weather conditions the past two seasons have been especially favorable to its spread and steps must now be taken
to stop it. Smut can only be prevented by treating the seed just before planting, and it ought to be done regardless of
whether you plant home grown seed or buy it from us or any one else. It ought to be done every season and on oats,
wheat, rye and barley.

What is known as the “Formalin” treatment is most satisfactory. The day before planting spread your seed grain
on barn floor and sprinkle it thoroughly with a solution of one pound of formalin to forty gallons of water. After sprink¬
ling stir the grain until all parts of the pile are well damped, then spread out thin and cover with a sheet for several
hours that has been soaked in the solution. Another way is to make a formalin solution of the same strength, in a bar¬
rel, dip the bag of oats or other grain in it, let stand for 30 minutes and then spread out to partly dry. Either of these
methods will swell the seed grain some and the grain drill should be opened up a little more than for perfectly dry grain.

Formalin is or should be obtainable at any drug store, but to be sure you had better get it ahead of planting time and
take no chances. One pint of formalin will make sufficient solution to treat 40 to 50 bushels of grain.

New Abruzzi Rye

Twelve or fifteen years ago agents of the United States Department of Agriculture found a variety of rye in one of
the Italian provinces and sent a quantity of it to Washington. From there it was distributed to various parts of the Uni¬
ted States. In this way a prominent planter of South Carolina got hold of it. Its remarkably rapid growth so soon after
planting attracted his attention and the small patch was carefully watched.

It made good then and it has made good regularly ever since, not only in South Carolina but in all the Southern States
where small quantities have been planted.

We have grown it for two years and do not hesitate to say that it is as far ahead of the Georgia rye as the Georgia is
ahead of Northern rye; in spite of the extreme dry weather this spring it grew shoulder high and made a splendid crop.

The Abruzzi Rye stools out quicker and heavier than any rye we have ever seen and quickly covers the entire ground.
It can be pastured a month to six weeks earlier than other varieties of rye or oats.

So far as we can learn it has succeeded equally well on stiff clay lands and the sandy lands of the Lower South.

For the dairyman this quickness of being ready to pasture will make it invaluable, and for all others it is certainly
well worth while planting a variety that will make 50 to 100 per cent more pasturage or hay in a season than the older
sorts. We believe that the Abruzzi Rye will, in time, displace all other varieties of rye in the South, and you certainly
.ought to get a start of it this fall.

Pound, postpaid, 35 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00. By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, $1.00; bushel, $3.50.

10

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

VETCH, A Wonderful Winter Crop

That is exactly what it is, a wonderful winter crop for all the
South. One of the South Carolina growers expressed it well when
he said : “I consider it the cow pea of the winter for our section.”

When we speak of Yeteli in this connection we mean the plant
known as Sand, Hairy or Winter Vetch, which is the hardy variety,
standing severe winters in all parts of the South without injury.
This is the only variety safe to plant. Do not allow yourself to be
fooled into buying the Spring Vetch either under the name of
Spring Vetch, English Vetch or Oregon Vetch, for it is known under
those three names. It is also used to adulterate Winter Vetch with,
and if you are offered Winter Vetch at a very low price, look out for
it. Spring Vetch is usually worth about 5 cents per pound and it is
easy to fool the unsuspecting buyer.

The South needs three things above all others: winter cover crops
to stop the washing from winter rains; soil improving crops to add
the most costly plant food element, nitrogen, to the soil for the use
of succeeding crops, and hay or forage making crops for our live
stock to feed upon.

In the Winter, Sand or Hairy Vetch we have in one winter grow¬
ing crop something that combines those three and it justifies fully
our calling it a “wonderful winter crop.”

With all due respect to Crimson Clover and Burr Clover, and we
plant them both ourselves, we have always considered Vetch the
most valuable of the three for the Middle South.

Planted with small amounts of rye, oats, wheat or barley for a
support after it begins to run, Vetch makes a magnificent hay crop
in spring, coming in ahead of everything else except thoroughly es¬
tablished fields of alfalfa, and at the same time leaves added fer¬
tility to the soil.

Planted on Bermuda sod and scratched in lightly in October it
furnishes an abundance of grazing all through winter and spring
for beef or dairy cattle, hogs or sheep, and in late spring can be let
go to seed, thus seeding down the ground for next season.

Grown in abundance it makes possible the profitable growing and
fattening of cattle, something that hundreds have attempted to do
and failed simply because they have had to buy feed for those cattle
at top-of-tbe-market prices. Crops like Vetch make possible profit¬
able live stock growing which in turn means prosperity on Southern
farms undreamed of by either our fathers or ourselves.

Vetch is a crop worth while. Plant at least a trial acre of it this
year. Seed must be inoculated before planting unless Vetch has
been planted on the same ground before. For inoculating material
see “Nitro-Germ, Nitragin and Farm-o-Germ,” page 17.

A Crop of Oats and Vetch — Such a Field Will Turn Out Four to Five Tons of Dried Hay Per Acre.

Vetch
Booklet
Free
If You
Ask for
a Copy

If you are
interested
in Vetch as
a crop we
shall be glad
to send you
» copy of a
booklet free
that goes
more fully
Into details
on the value
of Vetch
and its cul¬
tivation
than is pos¬
sible in this
catalogue.
¥our name
on a postal
card with a
request is
all that’s
necessary.

WAR NOTE

Winter Vetch as illustrated above is a product of Russia and Eastern Germany. At the time this catalogue
is mailed it is impossible for us or any other seedsman to say whether we will be able to supply genuine
Winter or Hairy Vetch in any considerable quantities this fall or not. These countries are involved in war. Shipments from them have
stopped, and whether or not we will be able to get any Vetch seed out of them can only be answered in the future. Write us when
you are ready to buy and we will then he able to tell you whether we can supply Winter Vetch in quantity or not. We have a very lim¬
ited quantity of last season’s seed on hand. By mail, postpaid, 30 cents per pound.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Burr Clover (No. 503)

A Builder of Land and Animals

That may seem a queer way of putting it, but it expresses exactly what Burr Clover will do.
It's a builder from start to finish, adding nitrogen to the soil for succeeding crops, adding veg¬
etable matter, holding plant food from washing away in winter rains and every day during the
growing season of fall, winter and spring building up your live stock when they are allowed
to graze on it.

The most astonishing thing about Burr Clover is that so valuable a plant is so little known
or used in this section. It is one of the most valuable winter grazing, soil improving crops
there is known. It is an annual plant, coming from seed each year, furnishing the best of
grazing all through the winter, and if grazing is stopped late in March it will make a good hay
crop in May. However, most prefer to let it go to. seed, thus re-seeding the ground for another
winter’s grazing. In the meantime summer crops can be easily grown on the same ground.
Our farmers can plant it with perfect safety, as there is nothing of a pest nature to it. Its
growth is strong, even on the poorest ground. On soil too poor for rye to get high enough to
cut. Burr Clover made a growth 2% to 3 feet high. Burr Clover is a leguminous crop, gathers
nitrogen from the air and, after furnishing winter grazing, leaves the soil in better condition
for succeeding crops.

Burr Clover seed is produced in small prickly pods wound up spirally into a ball. The
Southern grown seed is always sold "in the burr.” The first time one buys Burr Clover seed
its appearance is disappointing. The only method of harvesting is to rake up the “burrs”
after the plants have died down. Seed gathered this way always shows a certain amount of
trash and impossible to separate, but this carries with it the advantage of making inoculation
unnecessary — the bacteria being carried in the “burrs” and particles of dirt and trash.

We have discontinued the sale of the California Burr Clover, which is a somewhat different
variety and has not proven so satisfactory as our native variety which can be bad only in the
“burr.” If the seed "in the burr’ is used, sow at the rate of 50 pounds per acre. Growers who
have had the most experience with their crop advise the use of 75 or SO pounds, but 50 pounds
per acre will give a good stand.

An excellent plant for sowing on Bermuda grass land, as it matures its seeds and dies at
about the time the Bermuda grass starts into growth, and when the latter is killed by frosts
this soon takes its place. A mixture of these two plants comes nearer giving continuous graz¬
ing the year round than any other mixture we have tested.

Burr Clover will reseed itself each year if stock is kept from grazing as soon as it begins to
bloom freely. All that’s necessary is to let the seed mature and drop on the ground. Nature
does the rest and a splendid crop of clover for winter grazing is yours.

We have an extra large supply of Burr Clover this year of splendid quality, harvested dur¬
ing the dry weather of last spring. Get at least it itart of Burr Clover on your farm this fall.
Once you grow it you will never want to be without it.

PRICES — Pound, postpaid, 35 cents; 3 pounds for $1.00. Not prepaid, bushel (10 pounds).

Rape (No.400)

A SPLENDID WINTER FORAGE PLANT

We have been surprised and pleased to note how successful many of our
customers have been in growing Dwarf Essex Rape. It is getting to be more
popular every year. Essex Rape looks a good deal like a rutabaga plant,
but does not form the bulbous root. It is used for forage and green feed,
and succeeds well during the cool weather of the late fall, winter and spring
in the South. The tops grow from 18 inches to 3 feet high, and the leaves
are very juicy and tender and greatly relished by stock of all kinds. Rape
grows best on rich land. A fine clay loam gives good results, and it may
be said that it will do well on land rich enough to grow good turnips or
rutabagas. Put your land in first-class shape by plowing and harrowing,
sow the seed during the late summer and fall, either broadcast at the rate of
<i to 8 pounds per acre, or in drills 30 inches apart, which will take about 3
pounds per acre. It can be put in between your rows of corn at the last cul¬
tivation. If broadcasted, cover the seed with a light harrow.

Rape is especially a fine hog pasture and is also excellent for sheep, all
sorts of stock eating it greedily, and it puts them in fine condition. At one
of the Experiment Stations an acre of rape was used to pasture 20 hogs for
three months, at the same time feeding some grain.

There is no danger that rape will become a pest on the land. When rape
is planted under the right conditions it makes a tremendous amount of
green forage per acre.

In preparing the land for a crop of rape, it ought to be put in good condi¬
tion and fertilized as you would if you were going to grow a good crop of
turnips, rutabagas, wheat or corn. If planted in drills the crop should be
cultivated three or four times, and this method of growing the crop is t he
most satisfactory. Rape is ready for grazing in about eight or ten weeks
from the date of seeding. It is not satisfactory as a hay crop, its chief value
being for grazing and green forage. It will endure quite severe cold weather
and on account of quick growth it can be used with success from late sum¬
mer into the early part of the winter, and by making very early planting it
will supply early spring grazing.

Rape is not a legume, but belongs to the same family as turnips and
rutabagas.

So valuable is rape proving that there is not a month in the year now that
we do not sell seed for planting in almost every part of the South. It is one
of the most inexpensive crops to plant there is, seed cost being almost noth¬
ing compared with the value of the crop Thousands of poultry raisers
grow it for winter green feed. Pound, postpaid, 30 cents. In quantity by
express or freight not prepaid, about 15 rents per pound.

GRASS AND CLOVER BOOK— FREE

$1.75; 10-bushel lots or over at $1.50 per bushel.

Dwarf Essex

Burr Clover

A Single Plant of Our Dwarf Essex Rape

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia

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ALFALFA

Alfalfa or Lucerne Clover

OR LUCERNE CLOVER

We are again using this illustration of Alfalfa, not because of any special beauty but because
it splendidly illustrates the wonderful deep rooting qualities of this most valuable plant for
the South after it has been established three or four years.

If there is one plant in the world, outside of the great staples of wheat, corn, cotton and oats,
that is more talked about, written about and studied about than any other it’s this plant, it's
Alfalfa. This is not only true of the United States, but it true of all the civilized world. It's
one of the most adaptable plants in the world, seemingly growing under almost every condi¬
tion of soil, climate and elevation. We have seen it growing luxuriantly on the highly culti¬
vated farms of France, we have seen it up near the Canadian line, in the far off states of Ore¬
gon and Washington, we have seen it grow in greatest luxuriance in the extreme burning heat
of the below sea ‘level desert valleys of Southern California, and we have seen thousands of
acres of it in the high plateau country of Southern Mexico, nearly 8,000 feet above sea level.
It is a wonderful plant, wonderful in its adaptability to so many parts of the world, wonder¬
ful in its long life and heavy yield, wonderful in its high value as a stock food.

OUR MOST VALUABLE PERMANENT CLOVER

That’s exactly what it is, the most valuable permanent clover in the world, and every year
sees hundreds of thousands of acres of permanent Alfalfa fields added to the farms of this
country, and we want to assure you that if there was an acre to an acre and a half of Alfalfa
established on every “one horse’’ farm in the South the owners of these farms need never worry
about buying hay or forage, and it would also largely take the place of corn. We have seen
work stock in Southern California in the finest condition we ever saw horses and mules in and
they don’t get a peck of grain from one year’s end to another. They get all they want of Al¬
falfa hay and that’s enough. They have the muscles to do the work and yet keep fat; not the
little 8U0 to 1,000 pound mules that are so common here, but 1,300 to 1,600 pound horses and
mules that have actually got the pulling power. Alfalfa is just about as nutritious hay as you
can grow, and once well established and cared for it’s there to stay, that is, on land where
water is not too near the surface. We understand that there is one patch of Alfalfa now in
Middle Georgia some 42 years old that is better now than when 2 and 3 years old. What do
you think of a single sowing lasting over 40 years? It’s a stayer and it’s been piling up hay
for its owner right along, furnishing 4 good cuttings a year and sometimes 5, practically 5
tons per acre per year. Alfalfa hay is selling in Atlanta now at about $30.00 per ton. Do you
know any better paying farming than that? We don’t.

Surface rooting crops soon exhaust certain plant food elements near the surface and cease
to do well. They also suffer from drought. Alfalfa roots go down 10, 20, even 30 feet. They
bring up plant food Jhat no other crop can ever reach. They are beyond the reach of the seri¬
ous effects of any drought we ever have. Those are the reasons why Alfalfa is permanent.

WHY DON’T YOUR FARM GROW ALFALFA?

It’s a fair question. Here is the most valuable hay and feeding crop in the world, and we
believe we are safe in saying that not one farm in five hundred east of the Mississippi River
and south of Tennessee has an Alfalfa patch.

Now, a great many of our people have planted more or less Alfalfa and failed. Why? In
practically every instance it has been because of lack of proper preparation of the soil and
planting at the wrong season of the year. We advise above all things fall planting, September
15th to October 25th being the best time. The reason for it is this: Alfalfa in this section of
the country starts off slowly. Practically all of our lands are foul with weed and grass seed
and with spring planting the weeds and grass almost invariably choke out the young Alfalfa,
kill it by smothering before it gets a chance to grow. With fall planting, while the top growth
is small all during the winter these wonderful roots of Alfalfa are penetrating down deep and
when growing weather comes it shoots up ahead of and chokes the weeds and grass.

Another point: Hardly one farmer in a hundred puts enough preparation on the soil before
the crop is planted. There is too much rough cloddy ground, too many lumps that the young
clover or grass plants can neither go around, push over or penetrate. This makes bad stands.
In getting land ready for any clover or grass crop it should be plowed deep, harrowed and re¬
harrowed and dragged until it is smooth and fine. You can’t get it too fine and smooth and
every extra day’s work put into the preparation means many dollars in the succeeding hay
crops. This thorough preparation is mighty good for any crop, but it’s an absolute necessity
for any grass and clover crop.

Now — back to the question — Why don’t your farm grow Alfalfa? Have you failed in the
past? If so, has it not been from planting in the spring instead of fall, or has it been from
lack of proper preparation of the soil. Has it been because you haven't wanted to take chances
and have never tried? If you do your part well there is mighty little chance of failure.

INOCULATION OF SEED AND LIMING OF THE SOIL

In addition to the thorough preparation of the soil outlined above and more fully covered by
our “Grass and Clover Book,” which you can have a free copy of if you will ask for it, it seems
to be necessary to lime the soil thoroughly and inoculate the seed.

Now Alfalfa don’t take up lime and it’s not a necessary plant food, but all of our soils in the
Southeast seem to be more or less acid and Alfalfa will not grow in soil in which there is an
acid condition. An average quantity, say about 25 to 30 bushels of air-slacked lime per acre,
or one to two tons of fine ground limestone, applied broadcast on the surface and plowed in
will thoroughly sweeten almost any acid soil and put it in the very best condition for seeding.
This takes out all sourness which seems to be deadly to young Alfalfa plants.

With a valuable and permanent crop like Alfalfa it's well worth while to do everything pos¬
sible to insure full success, no matter whether it be in soil preparation, liming and seed in¬
oculation. There are a great many people who do not understand this matter of seed inocu¬
lation. We believe fully in its value and importance, yes, necessity in starting Alfalfa in sec¬
tions and on farms on which it has not been grown. Alfalfa from inoculated seed will make
four to six times the growth that seed not treated will. For full information as to the matter
of inoculation of seed of Alfalfa and other leguminous crops see page 17.

ALL OUR ALFALFA 98 PER CENT PURE OR OVER

Immense quantities of low grade foreign grown Alfalfa seed, full of weeds, trash, etc., have
been dumped into the United States in past years. There is also much American Alfalfa full
of dangerous weeds and the buyer of Alfalfa seed cannot be too careful in purchasing seed. If
some weeds get a start in your fields success is impossible. We handle no Alfalfa seed less
than 98% purity according to United States Department of Agriculture tests. Most of our Al¬
falfa seed runs 99% to 99%% pure. If von are offered Alfalfa seed at a low price we advise
you to send. a sample to Washington for testing. The Department of Agriculture will tell you
the quality of any small sample of grass or clover seed you send them.

Now as to prices. Grasses and clovers fluctuate and change prices from time to time. It you
wish to buy in quantity write us when ready to buy, stating quantity wanted. We will quote
you lowest market price at that time and mail small samples of the seed. Pound, by mail, post¬
paid, 40 cents; 3 pounds, postpaid, $1.10. At time this catalogue goes to printer, price of best
grade Alfalfa seed is about 30 cents per pound.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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CRIMSON CLOVER

A Vegetable “Gold Mine" for the South

A great revolution is well under way in southern agriculture and through that revo¬
lution the South which is essentially an agricultural section is going to come into her
own and be what Nature has always intended, the wealthiest part of these United States.

We have about all been actively engaged in “land skinning.” Our fathers and grand¬
fathers did likewise before us while negro and white croppers on millions of the South's
best acres have actually “greased the slide” for quick soil exhaustion.

We have reached a turning point. The order of the day is “land building” instead of
“land skinning.” We have begun to put back the vegetable matter that we have either
burned up or let wash away. We are beginning to see the senselessness of buying that
most costly fertilizing element, nitrogen, when we have both winter and summer graz¬
ing and hay crops that capture it from the air and store it in the soil for use of future
crops of cotton, corn, oats, etc.

Five years ago few people took much stock in planting Crimson Clover, Vetch, Burr
Clover, etc., but those few have opened the eyes of the South. Last fall thousands of
farmers planted these new crops and have become full and enthusiastic converts to the
new religion of soil building in the South. Since the general use of the nitrogen gath¬
ering bacteria on the seed before planting (see page 17) success has been assured in
almost every instance, and once a man begins the use of Crimson Clover, Vetch, Burr
Clover, etc., he is a new farmer and he has a new farm on those old acres, a new farm
that opens his eyes to the possibility of yields of the staple crops that he never even
dreamed of before. Now this may seem exaggerated talk, but these crops make good
and convince a man often against his will.

We have not urged these crops on our customers in the past in any considerable de¬
gree, for we wanted it demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that they would
“make good.” They have “made good” in the fullest and best manner, and we urge
you to plant them this year and every year.

Crimson Clover is the most largely planted of these crops. It is a distinct and most
valuable annual clover for sowing in late summer and fall in all parts of the South.

One enthusiastic grower wrote : “Crimson Clover is a vegetable gold mine.” It will
yield under fair conditions 8 to 10 tons of green feed per acre, 1% to 2 tons of hay, and
is considered worth fully $20.00 to $25.00 per acre as a fertilizer crop. Succeeds on
almost all classes and qualities of soil except the very poorest, but is especially valu¬
able on light sandy or loamy soils. Sowed at the last working of staple crops like cot¬
ton or corn and is now largely used in seeding down orchards. Can be sown from July
to November in the Central and Lower South. Crop can be grazed during the winter
and if stock are taken off in March a full crop will be made. Sow seed broadcast at
rate of 20 to 25 pounds per acre and harrow in lightly. Experienced farmers who know
Crimson Clover claim that the growing of it on land will increase the yield of a crop of
corn following at least one-third and other crops proportionately. If you have never
had Crimson Clover on your land you will find that inoculation of these seed will prac¬
tically insure success. (See Nitro-Germ, Nitragin and Farm-o-Germ, page 17.) Like , t „

all other grasses and clovers the market price of Crimson Clover changes often. Write when ready to buy, asking for market price. Pres¬
ent price, pound, postpaid, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 80 cents. In quantity about 12 cents per pound, not prepaid. Write for prices.

Like Vetch, the Crimson Clover is a product of the war territory. Up to the
present, however, we have been able to get Crimson Clover out of France and
a fair supply is available. Prices' are a little higher than usual, due to a com¬
bination of causes resulting from the war, and these prices will continue to rule high so long as the European war lasts. This war also
affects prices on items like Alfalfa, Red and White Clover, Rape and some others largely imported from Europe. The best way to secure
lowest prices is to write for quotations when ready to buy.

CRIMSON CLOVER— “A Vegetable Gold Mine”

ANOTHER WAR NOTE

Da#I PIauaio a perennial clover lasting for several years on proper soil. The use of Red Clover for permanent pasture is not ad-
ImtJtJ WlUVcs vised in the Lower South, but it seems to be admirably adapted to the hill parts of the South, especially the valley
lands of North Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, as well as states farther north. Makes two or more cuttings of hay each season and
is fine for pasture and planting in orchards. Sow seed in either fall or spring at the rate of 12 to 15 pounds per acre for best grade seed.
We guarantee 98% purity or above in our Red Clover seed. Weighs 60 pounds per bushel. Write for prices when ready to buy m quan¬
tity. Pound, postpaid, 40 cents. In quantity, not prepaid, present price about 23 cents per pound.

a perennial clover. A fine grazing plant for cattle and sheep and can be sown any time from September to March,
if Mile vlUYcl Used a great deal in both lawn and pasture mixtures. Found in almost every part of country and succeeds best on
moist ground. If sown by itself use about 8 pounds per acre, but use much less seed in combination with other grasses and clovers.
Pound, postpaid, 50 cents. In quantity, not prepaid, about 40 cents per pound.

AIciLta Plni/ne Also known as Swedish Clo-
MI9IIW VlUvcr ver. The best clover for wet
lands and not suited for dry soils. Pound, 40 cents.

In quantity not prepaid, present price 25c per pound.

Melilotus or Bokhara Clover

Also known under the name of White Blooming
Sweet Clover. A coarse clover resembling alfalfa in
appearance, but not very well liked by stock. As a
land builder it has few equals. Experiments with it
on the Hastings Farm are leading us to seed down
poorer land with it for soil building. Pound, post¬
paid, 40 cents. In quantity, not prepaid, about 25
eents per pound.

The Story Told By Pictures

The seed buyer often wonders at price differences
between seedsmen and dealers and it is often times
hard to explain to him satisfactorily. These two
pictures tell the tale. One a sample of pure or nearly
pure high-grade clover seed magnified, the other a
sample of the low-priced, impure seed. A glance at
the clover market reports at this time shows a dif¬
ference of 11 cents per pound between poorest and
best grade clover seed. Which is the kind you want
No. 1— Sample of Pure Clover Seed to sow on your land for success?

No. ? — Sample of Cheap Clover Seed

n

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

GROWING GRASS BETTER THAN KILLING GRASS

Orchard Grass

Georgia bought during one year over twenty million dollars’ worth of hay from out¬
side the state, mostly from states farther north. Hay is nothing but dried or cured
grass cut at the time it is in its prime. It is one of the great staple crops of this coun
try, our recollection being that in value it is exceeded only by the great staples of corn,
wheat and cotton. Georgia is a hay buyer. So is every other one of the distinctively
cotton states. In the face of the fact, this drain of millions upon millions of dollars of
our money, there are millions of acres in the South suitable for grass crops that are
“laying out” in briers, pine saplings and brush. We have got so used to looking on
grass as an enemy in our cotton and corn fields that we have formed the habit of look¬
ing on it as a pest instead of a valuable crop. Grass in a crop needing clean cultivation
needs to be killed. Every place else it ought to be encouraged and grown as a crop.
It’s more profitable than corn or cotton per acre.

You need grass for pasture and hay for your stock, the merchant and dealer at your
nearest town needs the hay and would be glad to buy it from you instead of sending his
money to Atlanta, Birmingham or other southern city bay and grain dealers. The only
reason you don’t get your share of these millions of hay dollars is that you haven’t got
the hay. If you will just get these lands of yours that are “laying out” into grass
either for pasture or hay crop you have taken another step forward toward a better
agricultural and financial condition for yourself.

The South lacks cattle and it lacks grass. With grass land on your place you can
grow all the cattle you have grass land for. Grass and live stock are an endless chain,
and as one farmer said: "We need more grass to feed more cattle to make more manure
to grow' more grass to feed more cattle."

One point more on this grass question. While not a leguminous crop grass is a soil
builder. Any land that has been in grass a few years makes marvelous crops of corn
and cotton when put into cultivation again. Grass land don’t wash away. A stand of
grass holds land. If your lands are in grass that heavy shower or “gully washer” or
“trash mover” storm is not going to carry your soil on down to the bottoms or on to
your neighbors. Plant grass. Look on it as a friend and not an enemy. Grass has a
proper place on every farm and in its proper place it’s the greatest friend and profit-
maker the farmer has.

AHAkavfl fUa RA9 \ The most widely grown grass in the world and

urcnara UraSS ^l»Ui v*t4 ) no other grass so easily adapts itself to widely
different soils and climates. One of the most reliable grasses for both pasture and hay.
Not advised for sandy lands, but good on all clay lands that are not too wet. Any clay
or loam that will make a fair crop of
oats will grow Orchard grass suc¬
cessfully. Starts growth very early
in spring and stays green well into
w'inter. A quick grower and relished
by all kinds of stock, especially when
young. As a hay crop it is easily
cured. Grows w'ell in open ground or
in forest pastures that have been
cleared of underbrush. With proper
care it is long lived. Sow seed at rate
of three bushels per acre, October
and November being the best fall
months. Pound, postpaid, 40 cents.

When ready to buy write for quantity
prices. Present price, highest grade
seed, bushel (14 lbs.), about $3.00.

(No. 533) SSS

Kentucky Blue Grass

well known lo really need description. An excellent lawn and pas-
grass for limestone land or stiff clay lands that are not too dry. It’s
w'aste of time and money to attempt to grow it on thin or sandy soils in the Lovjer
South. Our “Elmwood Fancy” is the best grade of Kentucky Blue Grass known, coming
to us direct from the Kentucky farms. It’s pure, clean, free from chaff and of high vi¬
tality. We make a specialty of Blue Grass for the extensive lawn work here in Atlanta,
where everything depends on pure vital seed, free from weeds. Sow three bushels per
acre. Can be sown from September to April, but October and November sowing usually
give best results. Write for market price when ready to buy in quantity. Present price,
pound, postpaid, 35 cents; bushel (14 pounds), not prepaid, about $2.25.

Tall Meadow Oat Grass ( No. 54 1 ) Jg&S? “

and it is especially desirable for and adapted to the South. It withstands the heat and
drought of midsummer and the cold winter, starts very early in the spring, and con¬
tinues to give good grazing until late in the fall. For hay, it can be cut twice in a sea¬
son, and will yield nearly double as much as timothy. Its nutritive qualities are first-
class, containing, by analysis, more flesh and muscle forming materials than timothy,
but it is not quite so fattening as that grass. It ripens at the same time as orchard
grass and gives good results sown with it and red clover. For hay should be cut as soon
as it blooms. Tall Meadow Grass is best adapted for good, loamy uplands, but gives
excellent results on nearly all soils, and even on light, medium or sandy soils. Farmers
who have been sowing this grass for years are especially well pleased with the returns
from it, and are sewing constantly increasing acreages each year.

When sown by itself sow at rate of 3 bushels per acre, either in the fall or spring.
Sown with orchard grass and red clover, the quantities usually sown are 1 bushel (11
pounds) tall oat, 1 bushel (14 pounds) orchard grass, and 0 pounds red clover. The ad¬
dition of 4 pounds fancy clean Redtop or Herd’s grass seed to the acre to this mixture
increase the aftermath and the yield of grazing. This combination is excellent, and one
that has given very satisfactory results. It grows from 2 to 4 feet high, according to
soil; it roots deeply, and is thus least affected by drought. It can usually be cut twice a
year for hay and after being cut should be cured before being wet by dew or rain. It
should be sown in the fall, from September on, according to latitude. Can also tie sown
during March and April. Write for quantity prices when ready to buy. Present prices,
pound, postpaid, 40 cents; bushel (11 pounds), not prepaid, about $2.50.

Meadow Fescue f No. 538 ll A splendid hay and pasture grass for all the
** ■ BSwIiC \ vOO ) Central South, particularly valuable for late
fall and winter pasturage. Sow at rate of 2 bushels per acre August to October and Feb¬
ruary to April. Pound, postpaid, 35 cents. Bushel (14 pounds), about $2.50. Ask fop
quantity prices.

Tim nth V fNn One of the strictly hay grasses. Valuable for North Geor-

■ wtw; gia, Alabama, Mississippi and the hill and mountain sec¬

tions of the Carolinas. Sow seed at rate of 12 to 15 pounds per acre. !)!)% Purity or
above. Pound, postpaid, 25c. Bushel (45 pounds), about $4.25. Write for market price.

Tail Meadow Oat Grass

H. G. Hustings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Italian Kye Grass

HASTINGS’ PERMANENT PASTURE MIXTURE

/ij_ CC| \ Years ago a gentleman came to Mr. Hastings with a request to make him
\l*Oi 33 I ) Up a mixture of grasses that would be permanent, something he would
not have to plant over again every two or three years, something that would give all the
year round grazing. The result of that request was a well proportioned mixture of nine
different grasses and two clovers. It was planted on rather rolling red clay land. A
year ago that pasture was in better shape, had a stronger growth of grass than it had
when it was two years old. It has furnished continuous pasturage in wet weather and
dry, in hot weather and cold. It has in addition to the pasturage furnished one heavy
cutting of hay each year. At the end of ten years it showed no signs of failing, in fact,
it was in better condition that it ever had been.

The above is a record of our Permanent Pasture Mixture. The land it was sown on
was barely medium in quality. It would not have made over a half bale of cotton per
acre. Yet that ten-acre pasture furnished pasturage for numerous cows and horses
the year round for ten years. Wasn't it worth while taking the trouble to break up
the land thoroughly, then harrow it down tine, put on 400 pounds of standard grade of
guano, and then spend $0.00 per acre for a heavy seeding'/ Not a stroke of work or a
pound of fertilizer has been put on that ten-acre pasture since, and it’s yielding its
grass crop better now than ever before, and no sign of any let up.

We have detailed this to show you that a thorough preparation and seeding is well
worth while, and there should be just such a permanent pasture to furnish all year-
round grazing on every Southern farm.

There is no Bermuda or Johnson Grass in this mixture. It contains nine different
grasses blended just right together with red and white clover. It’s a mixture that will
make a pasture quickly and stay by you through many years.

Sow 35 pounds of Permanent Mixture per acre in October or November. Price, 35
pounds, $5.50, f. o. b. Atlanta. All grasses and clover seed used in this mixture of the
highest grade.

Sunny Italy Lawn Grass (Mo. 552) &,)1'30fsr,e,,V fflWl

only one really permanent grass for lawns and that is the much praised as well as the
much “cussed out” Bermuda Grass. While Bermuda is a splendid summer lawn grass
it is sere and brown in winter. As soon as Jack Frost gets in his work, good-by to its
greenness and freshness until late spring.

There is a remedy for this winter deadness trouble and its name is our Sunny Italy
Lawn Grass, a winter growing mixture of grasses which if sown broadcast on Bermuda
grass lawns in October and November will quickly spring up and make an all winter
lawn. It simply tills in the all-winter gap when Bermuda is so dead looking, yet it does
not interfere in the least, for as soon as conditions are right for growth of Bermuda
this grass mixture soon disappears. On Bermuda lawns it insures an all-winter green¬
ness that you can secure in no other way.

Further, if you have no Bermuda lawn, but only a bare spot that you want to cover in
winter, “Sunny Italy” Lawn Grass will answer your purpose just as well, if not better,
than higher priced lawn grass seed. All you have to do is to get your ground well bro¬
ken, good and smooth, then sow “Sunny Italy” Lawn Grass and Nature will do the rest
so far as winter and early spring is concerned.

Don’t misunderstand us on this. “Sunny Italy” is not a permanent grass mixture,
but a mixture of quick growing grasses for winter show only, either for planting on Bermuda lawns or by itself to grow and stay green
during winter and early spring only. This should be sown on Bermuda lawns at the rate of 70 pounds of seed per acre (42,000 square
feet) and scratched in lightly with rake. On bare ground at least 100 pounds per acre should be sown, October and November being pre¬
ferable. Pound, postpaid, 35 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00. Bushel (14 pounds), not prepaid, $3.50.

rinoct I au/n In Cniith ftanraia All U/intor “Last fall I ordered of you some of your “Bunny Italy” Lawn Grass
III vUUlll UCUiglel Villlier Seed and had the most beautiful lawn in South Georgia all winter.”

Italian Pl/P Rracc (Un C O C \ An annual grass, very valuable for MRS. .T. It. SIMPSON, Fort Gaines, Ga.

Italian vtye urass ^no. ooo; f.,u pi;mting only, in the south it

comes quickly, completes its growth during spring and early summer. So rapid
is its growth that several cuttings of hay can be made in one season.

It is also very valuable for use in Bermuda and other lawns during winter. Af¬
ter frost has killed the top of the Bermuda, burn it off, sow Italian Rye Grass on
it liberally and scratch it in lightly with a rake. It will spring up quickly and
make a green lawn during the winter, while the Bermuda is dormant. Sow at
rate of three bushels per acre. Price, 30 cents per pound, postpaid. Bushel (14
pounds), not prepaid, about $1.75.

English or Perennial Rye Grass

f No 535^ t0 Lallan Rye, grows off a little slower, but has the advantage of
\,,Wl vw ) lasting for years. Makes very heavy leafy growth, very fine for
either pasture or hay. Sow two to three bushels per acre, September to Decem¬
ber. Price, pound, postpaid, 30 cents. Bushel (14 lbs), not prepaid, about $1.75.

Hastings’ Evergreen Lawn Grass [h?s ^ STpS

MlYtliro tfin nent lawn that will be satisfactory. For Florida

“ yH"* and tile light sandy lands of the Gulf Coast section

it will not last, neither will any other grass mixture. In that section it will last
for one season, but will largely die out the first summer. On the clay and loamy
lands farther up this is an unexcelled lawn mixture. After thorough preparation,
sow about three bushels of seed per acre in October or November. We have a
booklet on preparation of lawns which we shall be glad to mail you on request.

Pound, postpaid, 35c; 3 lbs., postpaid, $1.00. Bushel (14 lbs.), not prepaid, $3.00.

Red Top or Herd’s Grass (No. 545) ggyg jrKffiX

of soil, but does best on heavy or low, moist, stiff soils. Extra fancy clean seed
of best grade. Pound, postpaid, 45 cents. Write for market price on quantities.

Genuine Rescue Grass (No. 544) SpsMa8-mt£t =eRa3

winter and spring grass for the Lower South, making splendid growth even be¬
low- Tampa, Florida. The reader must not confuse this with the so-called Rescue
or Arctic grass so freely sold by North Georgia parties. Arctic- grass is cheat or
chess, one of the w-orst pests of the small grain fields.

Sowed in August or September the genuine Rescue Grass will frequently fur¬
nish a cutting of hay by February in the Lower South, and another in April, If
used for grazing (and it makes fine winter pasture), stock should be taken off by
April 1st, to allow it to reseed itself for another season’s growth.

Rescue Grass is well adapted to all the South as far West as Texas. It is not
in any sense a pest, and can be killed out any time by close grazing, so that it
does not make seed. Sow seed in late summer or fall, at rate of about 30 pounds
per acre. Price, pound, postpaid, 35 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00. In quantity, not

prepaid, 20 cents per pound. Genuine Rescue Grass, or Bromus Pniloides

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

RHODES OR EAST COAST GRASS

12 TONS OF DRY HAY PER ACRE PER YEAR, ST. LUCIE CO., FLA. (No. 543)

Field of Rhodes Grass Before Cutting (Fellsmere, Florida)

It's not often that a really new and valuable grass
appears, but the Rhodes Grass, or ‘‘East Coast
Grass,” as it is more commonly known in Florida, is
certainly a find, for we know of no grass so valu¬
able for Florida and the Gulf Coast section.

Rhodes Grass has been grown on both the East
and West Coasts of Florida for the last four or five
years with most marked success.

Our Mr. Hastings visited the Fellsmere Farms at
Fellsmere, St. Lucie County, Florida, in January,
1913, and was greatly impressed with the rank
growth of this grass and its fully apparent value sis
a hay grass, something that Florida and the Gulf
Coast section has long sought.

We were assured by Dir, Tillman, who has charge
of the experimental work of the Fellsmere Farms,
that the Rhodes Grass produced, in their experi¬
ment grounds, twelve tons of dry hay per acre the
previous year. Believe us, that is some hay crop
per acre for sandy land.

It is not coarse and makes hay equal to if not
superior to the best Northern timothy hay.

The illustrations shown on this page are from
photographs taken on the Fellsmere Farms in the
spring and show only one of the nine or ten cut¬
tings of hay per year that this magnificent hay
grass produces.

The source of seed supply of this Rhodes Grass
has been more or less of a secret for several years,
but we have succeeded in obtaining an ample supply
of it and can furnish it in any reasonable quantities
this summer and fall. Rhodes Grass has been tested
thoroughly in South Texas this past year and the
growers pronounce it superior to alfalfa as a hay
crop.

For Florida and the Gulf Coast sections all around
to the lower Rio Grande valley, above Brownsville,
Texas, we believe that Rhodes Grass will prove the
most valuable grass ever introduced.

RHODES GRASS CAN COMPETE WITH THE TIMOTHY OF THE NORTH

One of the great and important problems of Florida and the Gulf
Coast sections is to secure an ample supply of fine hay, something
entirely satisfactory for use on the farm and at the same time be
marketable in the towns and cities in competition with that stand¬
ard market hay, the timothy hay of the North.

In a recent letter to us from P. H. Rolfs, Director of the Florida
Experiment Station, Prof. Rolfs says: “In Florida, the best land
for the Rhodes Grass has been our hammock land, especially that
which has a clay subsoil. * * * As to proper preparation of the
soil, it is about the same as that which occurs with seeding other
small seeds such as timothy, red top, orchard grass, etc.

“The time of the year for planting will depend greatly upon the
year itself. Where a good moist spring occurs it is well to sow in
the early part of the year. Toward the South, where there is no
danger of cold weather, the sowing may be made in the fall, provid¬
ing the soil is in good condition to make a moist seed bed.

“Apparently no grass has been introduced in recent years which
has better promise of becoming the competitor of the timothy of
the North.”

The above words from Prof. Rolfs mean much. We have known
him personally for years and he is a most careful man, one who
always underestimates rather than exaggerates.

A Splendid Florida Report

Mr. E. W. Amsden of Ormond, Fla., is an “old
settler.” He says, writing under date of September
20, 1914 : “I bought from you in February 5 pounds
of Rhodes Grass seed. Owing to extreme dry weath¬
er it did not come up until after the middle of April.
I commenced cutting May 10th and kept it up every
3 weeks until September 1st, when I mowed a ton
of good hay from the half acre. This was planted on
land within 80 yards of the ocean beach, land that
I never supposed would grow white beans. I have
owned this land 30 years and never considered it
worth clearing up.”

E. E. Evans, Mercedes, Texas, writing us in Au¬
gust, 1914, says: “I will w<ant for October sowing
about 125 pounds Rhodes Grass. It has proved the
most satisfactory hay maker ever introduced in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley. It has not failed to pro¬
duce one ton per acre per month. I will sow it in
my alfalfa field so that it will soon consist of
Rhodes Gi’ass only.”

Mr. J. .T. Thorber, Botanist of the Agricultural
Experiment Station of Arizona, says: “I have had
Rhodes Grass under observation for several years.
It succeeds beautifully in our heavy clay loam soils
and even in sandy or gravelly soils. Its growth is
marvelous under our conditions.”

We do not recommend Rhodes Grass for fall sow¬
ing in the Central South but for Florida and Gulf
Coast sections it is safe. Sow 8 to 10 pounds per acre.

Special Rhodes Grass ynf“

Circular* sPecial circular on Rhodes Grass,
VI1 which goes into this subject more

fully than is possible in this catalogue.

PricCQ Quarter pound package, postpaid, 25
■ ® cents: pound, 75 cents. By express or

freight, not prepaid, 10-pound lots or over, 50 cents
per pound.

“The Ruralist Is Like Bread” fbama,LwHung0to°resafd'

“The Ruralist is like bread, can’t get along without it.”

Hauling in Rhodes Grass Hay (Fellsmere, Florida)

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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INOCULATE THE SEED

Help Your Crops Grow the Highest Priced Plant Food

That may be a new way of patting it, but it’s pretty close to facts. The most costly
element of commercial fertilizers is nitrogen and is usually estimated as being worth
about 17 cents per pound. Practically all of our soils are short of nitrogen.

All the clovers, cowpeas, vetch, peas, beans, alfalfa, and some other leguminous
plants, have the power to draw plenty of nitrogen from the air — if there are present
what are called the nitrogen-gathering bacteria in the soil to attach themselves to the
roots. These bacteria on the roots of this class of plants are necessary to enable the
plant to do full work in nitrogen gathering. If they are not present the crop will be
more or less a failure. Plenty of bacteria on the roots means rank growing crops,
their absence means sickly looking plants. Where successful crops of any of these
plants mentioned have been grown before, there are bacteria in the soil for them, but
on new ground or where these crops have not been grown, the bacteria must be sup¬
plied before success can come.

These bacteria are now obtainable in commercial form and are very easily handled
effectively by any one following the simple directions found on the bottles or packages.
All you have to do is to add a small quantity of water, then moisten the seed and your
soil then becomes thoroughly inoculated at seed sowing time. It’s the easiest, quick¬
est, cheapest way to improve soil.

This inoculation is not for direct use on crops like corn, cotton, oats, sorghum, mil¬
let, etc. When used on all kinds of clovers, cowpeas, soja beans, these crops accumu¬
late a great store of nitrogen on the roots. These decay after a leguminous crop is
cut off and the nitrogen is available in the soil for succeeding crops of cotton, corn or
grain, etc. In effect, it helps make your soil richer for succeeding crops, as well as
making far better clover, alfalfa, vetches, cowpeas, soja beans or peanuts.

Personally we have been watching very closely this matter of inoculation of the
various leguminous crops ever since the attempt was made to put the bacteria in some
form for safe distribution over twenty years ago in Germany. Various methods were
tried in this country, both by the United States Department of Agriculture and vari¬
ous firms and chemists. None of these methods proved satisfactory, and it was only
by recent discoveries that a safe and sure way of distributing these nitrogen-gather¬
ing bacteria was made possible. We have been furnishing these bacteria to our
customers for the past seven years, and there has not been a case reported to us
where it has failed to give satisfaction when properly used. In these preparations of bacteria under the various names the bacteria can
be kept in perfect condition and vigor and sent to you by mail for use on your crops.

These Nodules Gave 200% Increase in Yield

Makes Better Crops, Saves Fertilizer Cost

Making better crops at less cost for fertilizer ought to be the aim and object of every farmer aud gardener. Inoculation will help do
both. Remember, however, that these bacteria only act directly on what are known as leguminous crops ; this includes all kinds ,of clo¬
ver, beans, peas, alfalfa, vetches and peanuts. On these the bacteria can be applied with direct benefit — that is, it will make a great deal
larger crops per acre than you would otherwise get.

Our illustration above shows how these bacteria act on the roots of leguminous plants such as we just mentioned. The knobs or “nod¬
ules,” as they are termed, are little storehouses of nitrogen, that most costly element of plant food that these bacteria have gathered from
the air. Some of this goes to feed the plant while growing, but the larger part remains stored in the roots. After the clover, peas, etc.,
have been harvested these roots decay, leaving in the soil a store of nitrogen for succeeding crops. A good crop of any leguminous plant
growing in soil deficient in nitrogen will, if the seed be inoculated, add to that soil available nitrogen equal to that found in 700 to 1,000
pounds of nitrate of soda, worth anywhere from $25.00 to $30.00. What’s more is that the nitrates added by a leguminous crop stay in
the soil much better than when applied in the form of nitrate of soda.

The use of these bacteria on any leguminous crop means 50% to 100% more of that particular crop per acre, and it means a store of the
highest priced element of plant food in your soil for succeeding crops. Isn’t that worth while to you? It certainly is to us and these in¬
oculating materials are used extensively on the Hastings Farm every year.

SPECIAL BOOKLETS FREE

If you want to know more about the inoculation of seed of leguminous plants send for
free booklet telling all about it.

mb M ■■ >■ in E* m This was the first successful preparation of nitrogen-gathering bacteria ever put out and we have

!■ £k Bv HV| — |W| sold it to our customers for several years with entire satisfaction. Farm-O-Germ is prepared by

■ ti,e Earp-Thomas Co. of New Jersey, who are exclusive in their preparation of these bacteria.

The Earp-Thomas Co. operate under a number of patents, including a special bottle, that through an air tube keeps the bacteria more ac¬
tive and longer-lived. While a little higher in price than other preparations, the entirely satisfactory results covering a period of many
years certainly justifies full credit being given to their claims for superiority. Their reputation for thoroughly reliable inoculating mate¬
rial is a firmly established one. , „

We have Farm-O-Gemn for Alfalfa, Red Clover, White Clover, Crimson Clover, Alsike, Garden Peas, Garden Beans, Cowpeas, Velvet
Beans, Soja Beans, Vetches and Peanuts. When ordering be sure and specify what kind of a crop you want to use it on, for each crop re¬
quires a different bacteria. , ,,, „„„„„„ ... , _ .

PRICE, per one-aere bottle, $2.00; 5-acre bottle, $6.00; 50-acre bottle, $55.00; 100-acre bottle, $100.00, delivered. Garden size for peas or
beans, 50 cents, postpaid.

& | B V JB f \ B si Another commercial form of the nitrogen-gathering bacteria that is guaranteed as to strength and purity by
|%l | I If ai-1 the Armour Fertilizer Works of Chicago. “Nitragin” conies in a distinct form in cans for which the claim is

■ ^ made of superior keeping qualities. Used on more than one million acres last year. Seed can be ready for

planting within 10 minutes of opening up the can. . _ _ . , ,, , ,

Nitragin for Alfalfa, Red Clover, Crimson Clover, W’hite Clover, Alsike, Vetch, Cowpeas, Soja Beans and Garden Peas and Beans. In
ordering specify crop you want it for.

PRICE, garden size, $1.00; 1-acre size, $2.00; 5-acre size, $0.00.

ApMBI This is a preparation of the nitrogen-gathering bacteria put out by the It. K. iWulford Company of
Ilf Iwl Philadelphia, a concern with a world-wide reputation for good preparations. This nitrogen prepara-
tlon is sent out in sealed bottles which are not ventilated or the bacteria given air. Personally we do
not like to pass an opinion as to the relative merits of any of these three forms of nitrogen-gathering bacteria beyond saying that in the
past they have all been sold with apparent satisfaction to buyers and users. „

We have Nitro-Germ for the inoculation of Alfalfa, Red Clover, White Clover, Crimson ( lover, Alsike, Garden 1 eas, Garden Beans, Cow¬
peas, Velvet Beans, Soja Beans, Vetches and Peanuts. When ordering be sure and specify what kind ot a crop you want to use it on for
each crop requires a different bacteria.

PRICE, per one-acre bottle, $1.50; 5-acre bottle, $5.00; Garden or %-acre size for any of the above named crops, 50 cents, postpaid.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

THE SOUTHERN RURALIST

Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the great printing and publishing cen¬
ters of this country. Out of the nearly one hundred publications
sent out from Atlanta, there is one, the Southern Ruralist, that
stands head and shoulders above all agricultural publications of the
country in value to the Southern farmer.

We well remember the first issue of the Ruralist ever planted.
It started out with 4 pages and about 500 circulation once a month.
Now each issue contains from 24 to 56 pages, going twice a month
to over 265,000 subscribers in all the Southern States.

Believe us, the Ruralist has grown beyond all expectations of its
publishers. Why? Because it satisfies its readers. Because it’s
above all things a practical Southern farm paper, edited and printed
strictly for Southern farmers. Because it brings to its readers in
every issue something new and of value that they can use in help¬
ing in the solving of the farm problems that are constantly coming
up for you and for us to solve.

Why Not Read a

Yes, why not ? Is there any real good, solid common sense reason
why you should not have the Southern Ruralist as a visitor in your
home 24 times a year at a cost of 25 cents, the price of two or three
pounds of cotton, a peck or so of corn, or a couple of feeds of oats ?
That’s just about the cost of having it for a year under our special
offer below, with the chance to have your money back if you are
not fully satisfied.

Now, we know that thei’e is a prejudice in the minds of many
farmers against farm papers or books on farm subjects. Is there
any real ground for this prejudice against a thoroughly practical
Southern farm paper like the Ruralist? Surely not. It is true that
there has been a whole lot of rot and nonsense printed in some of
the Northern farm papers that have been largely circulated in the
South. It is also true that there has been a great deal of imprac-

You Don’t Know

Neither do we. We find and you find something new coming up
every year on our farms. So do other folks. This is “farm news.”
It gets into the right kind of farm papers like the Ruralist. Plant
diseases appear, insect pests are showing up right along, soils
after being cropped too long require different treatment. Do you
know how to handle all these things to best advantage when they
appear? The chances are 99 times out of 100 that these subjects
have been handled and handled rightly by somebody else, and how
to do it has been printed in the Ruralist long before the trouble
ever shows up on your farm or ours.

We have no patience with the farmer who will sneer at or con¬
demn good farm information that comes in the printed page of
paper or book and at the same time take the same thing all in as
gospel truth when some brother farmer who has gotten it from the
paper repeats it at a Farmers’ Union meeting, at a fish fry or picnic
or outside the church at “preaching.”

We haven’t got any better sense than to want to get all the in-

We positively know that the Ruralist is the right kind of a paper
for every one interested in farming and gardening to read. Thou¬
sands of our customers have either told us or written to us of its
real practical value to them and have thanked us for bringing it to
their attention.

We read it regularly ourselves. We get many good ideas from it
that help us in the farm w’ork on the Hastings Farm.

Below you will find our special “Half Price” and “Money Back”
offer. We have carried this offer for six years and in that time
have received and turned over to the Southern Ruralist Company
over one hundred and fifty thousand subscriptions. In only one
single case have we ever had a customer ask us to have the paper
stopped and his money returned under the terms of this offer. We
believe that is fair evidence that every one of these one hundred
and fifty thousand people have found the Southern Ruralist worth
while reading and of value.

Good Farm Paper

tical stuff printed in some Southern farm papers and in the farm
departments of the weekly, semi- and tri-weekly issues of the city
dailies published in almost every state. All the more reason then
that you should read regularly a paper that is a thoroughly prac¬
tical farm paper for the South.

There are a lot of farmers that won’t believe that anything true
about farming can appear in a paper or a book. You may have
some of that kind in your neighborhood. If they see in the county
weekly paper that Bill Jones killed John Smith over in the next
county last Tuesday, they believe it. If they see in an agricultural
paper that Henry Williams of Sumter County, Georgia, increased
his yield of cotton nearly a half bale per acre by plowing his land
three inches deeper with a two-horse plow instead of a “Boy Dixie,”
they won’t believe it. Why? Just because it was printed in a farm
paper. Is that a common sense way ?

Ul About Farming

formation about farming we can and we don’t care two straws how
it comes to us, whether through the printed page of a farm paper
or a book, or whether by word of mouth from a neighbor, or by
letter from one of our seed buying customers.

First, last and all the time we need all the farm information we
can get and so do you. This summer and fall catalogue goes to
about 275,000 Southern farmers and gardeners. Of these about 150,-
000 subscribe for and read the Ruralist regularly. What of the
other 125,000? Are you one of these? If so, why not send in your
subscription now and try it on? Remember, you have the Hastings
guarantee to return your money if you are not fully satisfied. It’s
a fair offer. The H. G. Hastings Co. does not publish the
Ruralist, but we have a very great interest in having it in the hands
of every farmer in the South, for no man in the South can read the
Ruralist for one year, and follow its teaching, without being a bet¬
ter and more prosperous farmer in every respect. The men who
make the Southern Ruralist are shown on the opposite page.

“Half-Price” and “Money-Back” Offer

The regular subscription price of the SOUTHERN RURALIST is 50 cents per year. Through a special agency
arrangement we are able to offer it to you for half price, 25 cents per year. We want every Hastings’ seed buyer to
have the SOUTHERN RURALIST for the next year simply because we know it will be worth many dollars to you in
your farm work. Let no one say that he “can’t afford” it. At our special half price offer the whole cost for one year is
less than the value of 3 pounds of cotton, or about the value of a peck of corn. We are so sure that you will be satisfied
with the RU RALIST that we hereby agree that if you will send us 25 cents along with your seed order for the paper for
one year we will send you your money back at the end of 3 months and have your paper stopped if you write us that
you are not satisfied that you are getting full value for your money and more.

In this offer we guarantee full satisfaction and money back if you don’t think it worth it. You need the RURALIST.
Every issue of the 24 during the year you will find helpful. Through us you can buy it for 25 cents, exactly half price,
with an absolute, positive guarantee of your money back if you are not fully satisfied at the end of 3 months. You
can’t get anywhere in this world a fairer, squarer offer than that. Just enclose 25 cents extra with your seed order
for the RURALIST for one year. We will start.it coming promptly.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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That Best of All Farm Papers

AND THE PRACTICAL FARM MEN OF THE SOUTH WHO MAKE IT

Dr. H. E. Stoekbridge, Agricultural Editor of the Ruralist

F. J. Merriam, President Southern Ruralist Company

HE Clnrl/hrirloo We don't hesitate a minute to say
■ “■ wlWURIINUge that in our opinion Dr. H. E. Stock-
bridge is the best agricultural editor on any farm paper in this
country. First and above all things, he is a thoroughly practical
farmer, and one of very wide experience. Second, he is thoroughly
equipped from a scientific standpoint. He is the owner of a large
plantation in Sumter County, Georgia. He has been director of
both the North Dakota and Florida Experiment Stations, and when
the Japanese government wanted to organize a national department
of agriculture many years ago. Dr. Stoekbridge was the man chosen
and spent four years in that country. He is a man of both national
and international reputation.

With all his scientific and practical knowledge he has a way of
putting the great scientific facts and truths relating to farming in
such plain, simple, understandable words that even the most uned¬
ucated man is never at a loss to know exactly what he means.

All agricultural matter for the Southern Ruralist goes under Dr.
Stockbridge’s eye and you can rest assured that unless the infor¬
mation is practical and workable it doesn’t get into print through
the Ruralist.

F" J SV5<* rriant *s an°ther practical man who has done

Jm mci ■ Hull an almost lifetime’s work in the few years
that he has been at the head of the Southern Ruralist Company.
Under his management the Ruralist has grown from a little 8-page
monthly paper of a few thousand circulation to the present 24 to 56
page, twice a month, leading agricultural paper of the South, going
into over 265,000 Southern farm homes regularly.

Mr. Merriam is a thoroughly practical Southern farmer. He
knows exactly what it is to be in close touch with the soil and de¬
pendent on the right handling of the farm for his living. First, in
Florida, and later here in Georgia, he has made his living and all
his living from the soil.

Like Dr. Stoekbridge, Mr. Merriam knows farm prosperity and
farm troubles. On the farms near Atlanta he has had to “buck up”
against exactly the same things in farm methods and farm manage¬
ment, bad weather and good weather conditions, etc., just as you
have. He is practical because he has had and is getting farm ex¬
perience right along. Mr. Merriam and Dr. Stoekbridge know by
actual experience and they pass this experience along to Ruralist
readers through the Ruralist twice each month.

THE SOUTHERN FARMERS’ MONTHLY EXPERIENCE MEETINGS

In addition to the lines carried directly by Mr. Merriam and Dr.
Stoekbridge, there are many special departments cared for by men
specially fitted to handle these particular subjects. Among these
is the Dairy and Live Stock Department, edited by C. L. Willough¬
by, professor of this subject in the University of Florida; the Vete¬
rinary Department, edited by Dr. Cary, veterinarian of the Alabama
Experiment Station, Dr. Cary answering all questions asked by
subscribers as to disease and injuries of all kinds of live stock : the
Horticultural and Fruit Growing Department, in charge of Prof.
T. H. McHatton, of the Georgia State College of Agriculture, and
the Poultry Department is ably looked after by Mr. F. J. Marshall,
a poultryman of national reputation.

With all due respect to Mr. Merriam and Dr. Stoekbridge, and the
able gentlemen we have just mentioned, we get just as much, if not
more, out of the special “What Farmers Are Doing” issues that
come the middle of each month.

These middle-of-the-month issues of the Ruralist are regular
Southern farmers’ experience meetings. The articles are written

strictly by farmers themselves. They give the actual farm experi¬
ences of men right on the ground, day in and day out, of the “one-
horse” farmer, the two or more horse farmer as well as the planta¬
tion owner. They all have their chance and tell it in their own
language. The Ruralist is open to them all. They don't tell what
they are going to do but what they have done and how they did it.
You can’t say that the experiences of these hundreds of farmers
who write for the Ruralist every year is theory. It’s the actual
statement of things actually done on their farms. They tell it to
you through the Ruralist just as your neighboring farmer friend
would tell you about his farm work and which you are always
mighty glad to hear from him.

It’s just this kind of information on every farm subject in the
course of a year that makes the Ruralist such a valuable paper to
over two hundred and sixty-five thousand Southern farmers. If
you are not already a reader, take advantage of our special offer of
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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Summer and Fall Gardening

Most of our people Seem to feel that they have done their duty
When they have made garden in the spring, apparently forgetting
that many of the vegetables planted during the spring months are
quick maturing, soon reach maturity and are used up and nothing
is put in to take their place. Others think that a turnip patch fills
the bill for summer and fall planting and let it go at that. As a
matter of fact, in most parts of the South continuous gardening
or rather a continuous supply from the garden is a possibility the
year around.

Several years ago one of the Atlanta papers used to publish a
monthly crop report from each county in the state and along about
June or July almost every county would report “gardens failing.”
Now gardens "dry up" in June or July most frequently because
people stop working them, let the ground get hard and crusted.
They “fail” both from this cause and for the reason that the people
don’t plant something else to take the place of the vegetables al¬
ready used up. As a matter of fact that garden ground ought to be
kept, busy the year round, and some of the most profitable garden¬
ing of the year can be done during the fall.

We of the South ought to be more regular growers and consumers
of the garden products. We are not talking about the grower for

market, for he needs no talking to. Growing vegetables is his
business. We need the home vegetable garden worked to the limit
of its producing capacity during the year. We all need a plentiful
supply of vegetables, not from tin cans bought from distant States,
but from our own garden plots. It means money-saving and it
means health-saving, and we all need to save both.

With the wide range of conditions of temperature and date of
first killing frost it is difficult to lay down any hard and fast rule as
to when and what to plant in the fall, and the schedule given below
in the various states is to be considered only as a general guide.

We would emphasize here as to garden work what we stated as
to farm work on previous pages, be sure and give thorough prepar¬
ation before planting. It saves work later and practically insures
success where with indifferent or careless preparation success would
be doubtful.

Below we give an outline of garden work in the different states
for the months August to December, so far as it can be given. It is
really surprising how many vegetables can be grown even in the
Central South from late summer and fall planting. Market garden¬
ers plant something every month in the year even as far north as
Atlanta, and this should be a guide to those who think that garden¬
ing is something to be done only in the spring months.

YOU CAN HAVE A GOOD GARDEN IN YOUR HOME STATE

SfiAne Bush varieties can be planted in the northern half of

Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas,
also in North and South Carolina up to August 15th; in the south¬
ern half of these States named up to September 1st. Pole snap vari¬
eties like McCasland and Old Homestead, also the pole and bush
limas, can be planted in the southern half up to August 15th. In
Florida plant all kinds during August ; the bush varieties during
September, and in South Florida beans can be planted with more
or less safety during all the fall and winter months.

The turnip-shaped varieties such as Hastings’ Improved
®***»l»* Blood Turnip, Eclipse, and Lentz Extra Early can be
planted in August in northern half of Georgia, Alabama, Missis¬
sippi, Louisiana, Texas and the Carolinas during August and first
half of September. In the southern half of these states beet plant¬
ing can continue until about October 15th. In Florida, Southwest
Texas and many of the more protected Gulf Coast sections the
planting of beets may be continued during all of the fall and win¬
ter months. Beets are semi-hardy and will stand heavy frost with¬
out serious injury. In Florida beets should be planted October,
November and December.

liflnuior Planting of Cauliflower is not advised during
vdllllllUwer the fau months except in Florida, Southwest
Texas and well protected spots along the Gulf Coast. Seed had best
be sown in late September or October for maturing in early spring
months. Cauliflower will not stand heat, and to be successful must
be matured not later than April 1st in those sections. The same is
true of broccoli, which resembles cauliflower closely.

In the Lower South, Florida, Southwest Texas and
VdUUagc the <3uif Coast sections this is the most important
fall sown vegetable crop. Early varieties such as the Wakefields can
be planted in northern half of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Missis¬
sippi, Texas and the Carolinas in August for maturing before cold
weather comes. In the southern half of these States planting may
be made in September and October of the flat varieties, All-Head,
Perfection, Surehead, Sure Crop, Centennial Late Flat Dutch, Flor¬
ida Drumhead for maturing during the late winter months. In
Florida, the immediate Gulf Coast sections and Southwest Texas,
the bulk of seed planting should be during the month of October
for March and April maturity. Cabbage is a half hardy vegetable,
and will stand considerable cold -without serious injury except when
“in bud,” that is, the beginning of the formation of the head. If
frozen at that time it is apt to run to seed without forming heads,
p n r’r'n t C; Suitable for August plantings in the northern half
I U IS 0f fpe South, for September planting in the southern
half. For Florida, Southwest Texas and close to the Gulf, plant¬
ings may be made almost any time up to December. The carrot is
a vegetable that should be more largely planted in the South in the
fall as well as in the spring.

We do not advise the planting of celery in the fall ex-
'**»!'*■ Jr cept in Florida, Southwest Texas and in sheltered
spots along the Gulf. In that section August and September plant¬
ings are the most desirable for March and April maturity.

A. While looked on as an almost strictly spring
vutiUlIluei vegetable it can be planted in August and early
September for quick maturity along the Gulf Coast and in Florida.
Limited areas of this are found profitable in South Florida for ship¬
ments North during the winter months.

Fffvnlanf Not advised for planting in the fall except in
South Florida. July and August plantings will
mature in that State in about 110 days and like cucumbers limited
areas are found profitable for shipments from South Florida dur¬
ing the winter months.

MjT _ I— DavapaIo The most delicately flavored of all the

■ VI DUTcLUIC cabbage family yet entirely hardy in

all parts of the South in any average winter. In the northern half

of the South September and October sowings are the best. In Flor¬
ida and Gulf Coast sections plant up to January 1st. Kale should
be in every garden in the South for winter and spring greens.

I One of the most widely grown and largely planted of

the “salad” vegetables. Requires rich or well manured
soil and plenty of moisture for quick growth. In northern Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and the Carolinas sowing of lettuce can
be made during August and up.to September 15th. In the southern
half these sowings can be continued up to October 1st. In Florida,
Southwest Texas and protected Gulf Coast points plantings may b.e
continued all through the fall and winter, although the best months
are October and November. Where the garden has cold frames or
protected beds lettuce can be planted and grown in them during all
the fall and winter months in the northern districts.

IUI ■ ■ R*rl Largely planted in family gardens in both fall and
ITIU9LC8I U spring. In the more northern sections of the South,
August, September and October sowings are best. In Florida and
the Gulf Coast sections October sowings are the best, although in
Florida continuous sowings can be made October to February.

Plant sets of the hardy varieties (Yellow Danvers and
■ I ■ V ■ D S Silverskin) in the northern half in September and
October; in the southern half plant from September to December.
In the southern half, also Florida and Southwest Texas, plant seed
of the Bermudas during October. Sets of all the onions can be
planted all through the fall in that section, but the Bermuda varie¬
ties from seed are preferable.

Garden or English Peas

planted in northern half of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana in August : in the southern half plantings of them can
be made as late as September 15tli. In Florida, South Texas and
near the Gulf plantings can be made both of the extra earlies and
second earlies, such as Home Delight and Bliss’ Everbearing almost
any time during the fall and winter months. Peas ax-e fairly hardy
except when in bloom.

RariicIlAC In tlle northern half of Georgia, Alabama, Missis-
nauiSIICS sippi, Louisiana, Texas, and both the Carolinas,
succession plantings of radishes may be made every ten days to two
weeks from August 15th to October 15th. In the southern half of
those States, also Florida, plantings may begin in September and
continue at intervals all through the fall months. Good, or well
fertilized, soil with sufficient moisture to insure quick growth is
necessary to make crisp, tender radishes.

Sniiaeh We would not advise planting this in the northern
«A|Ua9ll half of this general district except between August
1st and 15th. In the southern half plantings can be made up to
September 1st. In South Florida the bush squashes can be planted
almost at pleasure any time during the fall months.

SnEnarh Most of our Southern people like “greens” during
^(JlllciWII winter and spring, and for this purpose there is
nothing better than spinach. The seed does not germinate freely
in warm weather, so that planting should be deferred until weather
cools down. It is perfectly hardy, standing any ordinary winter
weather, making growth all through the winter and spring. For
Florida and Gulf Coast sections November and December plantings
are best.

Tnrnine This is the old standby in Southern fall gardens. In
■ Ul llips all the States except Florida, South Texas and im¬
mediate Gulf Coast sections the planting season opens with ruta¬
bagas in July and August, followed two or three weeks later by
the bulb varieties of turnips such as Purple Top Globe, Flat Dutch,
White Egg, Purple Top Flat, etc., followed in September and Octo¬
ber by the “salad” varieties like Seven Top and Southern Prize.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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SPECIAL SEEDS FOR SUMMER AND FALL

HASTINGS’ RIGHT VARIETIES OF RIGHT QUALITY AT RIGHT PRICES

For Late Summer and Fall Plantings

BUNCH BEANS Palmetto Asparagus

Hastings’ Excelsior Extra Early Refugee Beans

riilhifA If you don’t plant beans in late summer and fall you lose a
wUltUrc good part of the “bean season.” Beans can be planted all
through the summer in the Central South up to September with safety.
In Florida and the Gulf Coast sections they can be planted still later.
Late summer and fall plantings often yield heaviest crops. Sow in drills
18 inches to 2 feet apart : drop a bean every 3 or 4 inches, covering about 2
inches. Keep soil stirred frequently and when about to blossom draw the
earth up close around them.

Hastings’ Excelsior Refugee Beans (No. 14)

For late summer or early fall plantings there is no better bean than Ex¬
celsior Extra Early Refugee, where earliness of maturity, heavy bearing
and resistance to hot summer sun is wanted. For the home garden it is
all right; for the market gardener, for local market, or shipment to North¬
ern cities, it is a money-maker. It is a vigorous grower and heavy bearer,
of medium sized, round, very finely flavored green pods. No other variety
equals it in ability to withstand either extreme wet or dry weather with¬
out serious injury; holds pods well up off the ground. ATe recommend it
fully for either early or late plantings if you wish to combine sureness of
crop, quality and quantity. Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 15 cents; pint, 25
cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.75; bushel, $6.50.

Every Time You Order
Seeds or Write to Us
Be Sure and Write Your
Name, Post Office and
State Plainly. Hundreds
of Orders Are Delayed
Every Year Because the
Sender Forgets to Sign
His Name or Give His
Post Office Address.

Seeds Postpaid by Mail

Liberal Premiums

Stamps

Remember that the prices given in this list include
delivery of all seeds by packet, ounce, quarter-
pound, pound, pint or quart, except where noted. Send us the amount named in this cata¬
logue, and we guarantee safe delivery by mail in these quantities.

Please bear in mind that on seeds in packets and ounces only
except cauliflower in ounces (no quarter- pounds, pounds,
pints or quarts), the purchaser may select 25 cents worth extra on each dollar sent. This
does not apply to orders for collections, -prices of which are net. Please read carefully our
Special Premium Offer on back of Order Sheet.

if^rte#1 rtf Cnnrlincr Mnnnu In all cases where the order for seed amounts to
WI ITIUllcy one dollar or more, the cost of post office or express

money order, or cost of registering the letters from places that are not money order offices,
may be deducted from the amount of the order.

On orders of seeds where the amount is less than 50 cents, we will accept
Parcel Post stamps in good condition (one-cent and two-cent stamps pre¬
ferred) the same as cash, but we would ask those remitting stamps to wrap them in oiled
paper, if possible, to prevent their sticking together or to the order.

Tha Mow Fvncoec Over a year ago the sweeping reduction in express

I lie L_ A|Jb CSS ndt,C9 rates ordered by the United States Interstate

Commerce Commission went into effect, and we have now had enough shipping-by-express
experience to know the effect of these changes. Under the old rates seeds were carried by
the express companies on a special class basis which was about one-third less than the reg¬
ular rates. Under the rulings of the Commission all of these special express rates were
abolished and the new rates applied to seed shipments. After working under the new rates
for some time we are now able to say that there is no material difference between the new rates and the old special seed rates that were
so generally satisfactory. Rates to some points are raised, to others lowered, but on an average they are about the same.

Warraritv H. HASTINGS CO. gives no warranty, either express or implied, as to description, quality, produc-
mJUUl **«> ■ dllljr tiveness or any other matter, of any seeds, bulbs or plants they send out, and will not be in any way respon¬
sible for the crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned, and any money that may
have been paid for them will be refunded. Crops are dependent for success or failure on so many things besides the seed that it is impos¬
sible for us to give any warranty or guarantee. This does not mean that we lack confidence in the seeds we sell, but we have no control
over the seeds after they leave our house, especially so as to the methods of planting, cultivating and fertilizing, all of which are important
factors in the success of any crop. If we should warrant or guarantee seeds in any way, we could be held responsible for the failure of
the crop, regardless of cause, and this is a responsibility we cannot and will not accept. No responsible seedsman gives any warranty.

Pnlmotfn Aenaraonc Cnnrl /UA l\ The Palmetto, while an old variety, is beyond
rczllTIcllO nsparaglls «3fc:fcS*J ^Isu. If question the best variety for the South. Seed
can be sown in either fall or spring, thinly in drills one foot apart. AA’hen well up, cultivate frequently
and continue until the roots have grown for one year. In transplanting, put the roots 18 inches apart each
way and 4 inches below the surface. Use your richest piece of ground and remember that you cannot use
too much manure on Asparagus. Palmetto is earlier, a better yielder and more even and stronger in
growth than, many of the later introductions. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; % pound, 20c; pound, 60c.

Palmetto Asparagus Roots ( No. 2 ) *0°uur ^pa'agus1^ i^Sion1?® cutgbeytnh!

use of our splendid, large 2-year-old Palmetto Asparagus Roots. Plant them this fall in the Lower South
and save six months’ time. While this is a little more expensive than planting the seed, yet the time saved
and the generally more satisfactory growth makes it well worth while to use the roots. 50 roots, 75 cents;

$1.25 per 100; postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, per 100, 75 cents; per 1,000, $5.00; per 10,000,

$45.00. Roots ready about November 1st. Orders booked now.

French Globe Artichoke

/lj« A vegetable little known or
^llUi O) liked by Americans, but highly
prized by the French and Italians. This
variety is for table use only. Best im¬
ported French seed. Packet, 10 cents ;
ounce, 30 cents; A4 pound, $1.00.

OUR BUSH OR

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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HASTINGS' EXTRA EARLY RED VALENTINE BEANS (Round Podded)

WHY DON’T YOU MEET “GOOD GARDEN LUCK” HALF WAY?

Yes, you, Mr. Gardner, who have been planting: doubtful quality seeds, why not? Most garden “ba>d luck” comes
from planting doubtful seeds bought from ‘'boxes” in the stores. You can meet "good garden luck” a little more than
half way this summer and fall by promptly ordering and planting Hastings’ Seeds. With half a chance they won’t
disappoint you.

/ |Jn OC\ The standard, green podded" bush bean for either market or home gardens any-
Ln"* where in the South at all times of the year. An all right bean when the seed

stock of it is right and our stock is right. Fine, meaty, and round podded ; vigorous, early
and prolific. Very uniform in ripening and size of pods. Packet, 10 cents; y2 pint, 15
cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 40 cents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.65; bushel, $6.00.

Hastings’ Stringless Green Pod (No. 6) ^ " beLhjffhan.

For our personal garden use it is the only green podded bush variety that gets a place in
our home garden. Not advised for shipping because pods are too large, but for home use
and near-by markets it has no equal. Pods absolutely stringless from the time they start
to form until they begin to dry up. Very prolific, a strong, vigorous grower, coming in
about same time as our Red Valentine. Pods retain their fine flavor and quality to the
last. If you want bean quality combined with heavy bearing, plant our Stringless Green
Pod. (This is entirely distinct from the Giant Stringless, which is so inferior in quality
that we have never catalogued it.) Packet, 10 cents; Ms
pint, 20 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid.

Not prepaid, peek, $2.00; bushel, $7.50.

Improved Round Pod Refugee

/mnntn IWNo 13^ Identical in character of
\IUUUlO 10) growth with our Excelsior

Refugee except it is the heaviest yielder of all, coming in
ten days to two weeks later, and it is fairly loaded down
with round, green pods of fine quality, holding up splen¬
didly in long distance shipment. Also good as a bean
for canning purposes. It is very resistant to drought,
cold and generally unfavorable conditions. This variety
is used almost exclusively by many market gardeners in
certain parts of Florida both for nearby markets and
long distance shipment. Packet, 10 cents; y2 pint, 15
cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 40 cents; postpaid. Not pre¬
paid, peck, $1.75; bushel, $6.50.

Extra Early Black Valentine (No. 23)

Packet, 10 cents; Ms pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart,

45 cents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $2.25; bushel, $8.00.

Full Measure Bean

(No |Q\ c*e<^ bosh bean for either shipment or home
V1*”* 1 3 / garden use. Becoming a favorite in ship¬
ping sections. Vigorous grower. Pods about 5 inches
long and hold up well in shipment. A fine bean for Flor¬
ida and Gulf Coast sections. Packet, 10 cents; y2 pint,

15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid. Not
prepaid, peck, $1.75; bushel, $6.00.

White Mexican Tree Bean (No. 28)

Small white seeded variety of especial value for growing
for shelled beans for winter use, although can be used
for “snaps” when young and tender. Plant in rows like
other bush beans but give plenty of space between plants.

Packet, 10 cents; V2 pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart,

45 eents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.50.

WAX BUSH BEANS SOLD OUT

Seed crops of wax beans were exceedingly short last
season and wTe sold out of them, also green podded
varieties not catalogued here, last spring and have
none to offer now.

Henderson Bush Lima Kmfo^aSiThe

(No Pure w’hite seeded lima varieties, being a true
\',w. 1 / bush form of the small lima or “Sieva.” Be¬
gins to bear with summer planting in about 50 davs. It
is one of the most popular varieties. Packet, 10 eents;
Ms pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid.
Not prepaid, peck, $1.65; bushel, $6.00.

Fordhook RugH Lima Beyond any ques-
ruruiiuun Dusn Lima tion the best of the

(No 33^ large seeded bush lima varieties. Bushes of
\,,VI uu; strictly erect habit, brandling freely, but all
the branches field upright. This is a true bush form of
what is known as the potato or large, thick seeded, bush
lima. From four to six days earlier than other of the va¬
rieties of this class. Pods are found in clusters of four
to eight and are well filled with delicious large beans
that in quality surpass by far all the other lima beans.
You will make a mistake if you don't plant Fordhook Bush Lima in your garden this season. Good
when fresh and a splendid shell bean dry for winter use. Packet, 10 cents; Ms pint, 20 cents; pint, 30

Hastings’ Extra Early Red Valentine

cents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid. Peck, not prepaid, $2.25; bushel, $8.00.

Burpee Bush Lima (No. 8)

quart, 50 cents; postpaid.

True bush form of the Large White Lima Pole Bean. A great
favorite. Packet, 10 cents; Ms pint, 20 cents; pint, 30 cents;
Peck, not prepaid, $2.25.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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"SNAP BEANS” UNTIL FROST-DRY SHELLED BEANS FOR WINTER

Most gardeners in the South neglect a splendid opportunity in late summer
and early fall. These pole varieties all reach maturity in about 50 days
planted during July, August and early September, bear heavily, furnishing a
supply of “snap’" beans till frost and, if a part of the pods are left to fully
mature, there is always an abundance of dry shelled beans for winter use.
The same is true of the lima varieties, both pole and bush. Be sure and plant
pole beans in August and September. It will pay you well.

McCasland Pole Bean (No. 26)— It’s a Wonder

A large white seeded pole bean of Georgia origin, introduced by us in 1912.
Pronounced by every seed trade expert, who has seen it growing, as the best
pole bean in existence. Our illustration on this page shows its enormous
productiveness, the photograph being taken of a single matured vine from
our seed crops of this variety. Its productiveness you can see, the quality of
the beans as “snaps” is unexcelled, while the large, pure white beans, shelled
for winter use, surpass anything ever grown in the South. The McCasland,
wherever it’s grown, is now acknowledged to be the bean that beats “Ken¬
tucky Wonder.” Mr. ,T. H. Sheffield, of Wingate, Miss., wrote us : “McCasland
Bean surpasses anything in the bean line I ever saw.” Mr. Win. Thomas,
Sante Fe, Isle of Pines (Cuba), also writes: "I bought a pint of the McCasland
Pole Bean and from it sold 82 tomato baskets full and took first prize at the
Sante Fe Fair this year.” Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 20 cents; pint, 30 cents;
quart, 50 cents; postpaid. Peck, not prepaid, $2.00; bushel, $7.50.

Early Golden Cluster Wax Pole Bean (No. 31)

In this variety you can have a wax pole bean equal in all respects to the old
Homestead or Kentucky Wonder, in vigor of growth, size and quality of pods,
earliness, length of bearing, fine flavor and tenderness. The dry beans are
large, white and make a most excellent shell bean for winter use. thus giving
an excellent variety both for snap and shell beans. Packet, 10 cents; % pint,
15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid. Peck, $1.50, not prepaid.

Hastings’ Genuine Cornfield

Oaan /Ua I Q \ The only really satis-
Dedn 1 factory cornfield bean

offered by any seedsmen. While its special
value is its ability to make an entirely satis¬
factory growth and bearing in the shade of
the corn, it is equally valuable as a pole bean
— growing on poles, bush or along wire fences
and trellises. It is a very heavy bearer of
fine, meaty, splendidly flavored pods, con¬
tinuing its heavy bearing qualities right up
to frost. You will be more than pleased with
this splendid bean. Order a few of them this
summer. Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 20 cents;
pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid.

Southern Creaseback

New McCasland Pole Bean — Fine for “Snaps” or Dry

PaaM /Na I I \ Fine for shell beans for use in winter, also known as “Fat Horse” bean. A strong
uca 1 1 V i*”i 1 1 / grower and heavy bearer; pods tender wlmi small but as they get full grown become
tough. The beans are pure w'hite and most excellent for shell beans for winter use. Packet, 10 cents; %
pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents ; quart, 45 cents; postpaid. Peck, $1.50, not prepaid.

Florida Butter Lima Bean (No. 21) aS&Ti!

growTs and bears profusely all through the season. Makes fine on poor land, begins early and stays late,
furnishing plenty of delicious butter beans for fall use and then some for dry beans in winter. \\ e have
knotvn Florida Butter for 20 years. It’s a bean you can depend on. Heaviest of bearers and the quality
will please you. Will make where other sorts fail completely. Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 20 cents; pint, 30
cents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid. Peck, $2.00, not prepaid.

Small White Lima or Sieva Bean (No. 9) IS? 510ariidth?upoie niVvaritties0^

the South. Also known as the “Sewee” bean. Immensely prolific, good quality and a great favorite for
use either green or dry. Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid.

I arm Whito I ima Pnlp ( UA I n \ Th<‘ best of the large white seeded pole Innas not very
Large Willie Lima m Oie ^liQi lUj satisfactory when planted in the spring, but a heavy
bearer in the fall. Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 20 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid. ....

Texas Prolific, Old Homestead, Kentucky Wonder S °tnheurexcseption

/l|A |C\ of the McCasland, the best of the pole “snap” varieties. Known under all three names and
^llvi I v ) liked everywhere that pole beans are prnwn. Planted in late summer or early fall it begins to
hear in about 50 days and all through fall and until frost puts on heavier crops of its extra large, deliciously
flavor pods than from early spring plantings. You can absolutely depend on this bean doing its full duty
right up to the time of killing frost. Pods 6 to 12 inches long, well rounded out, meaty, tender and abso¬
lutely stringless. Immensely prolific, a peck of green pods having been picked from a single vigorous
vine. If you have planted it before you know that what we say above is so. Don’t forget to plant a tew
of them this summer or fall. Pole bean planting in August or early September is worth-while. Packet,
10 cents; pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.75; bushel, $6.o0.

Florida Butter Bean

DON’T FORGET TO PLANT A FEW ACRES OF OATS

No matter where you live in the South don’t forget to plant at least a few acres in Hastings’ 100-Busliel
Oats this fall. They are good for your pocket as a money-saver; good for your land as a winter cover
crop. Oats pay if you plant recleaned, graded seed of the right variety. ^ ^ ^

BEG PACKETS OF BEANS AND PEAS

It is the rule in almost all mail order seed houses to put up packets of
beans and peas containing two ounces to sell at 10 cents. Most of our
packets of beans and peas contain 3Vi» to 4 ounces, each, same selling for
10 cents, postpaid. In buying beans in packets from HASTINGS you not
only get the best but twice as much for your money.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hastings’ Improved Blood
Turnip Beet (No. 45)

Hastings’ Crimson King

HASTINGS’ GARDEN BEET SEED

Hot© The best beet seed in the world is grown in France. The
best beet seed growers live in France, and Hastings’ Beet
seed of all varieties come from those French growers, beet seed which,
when planted here in the South, makes the smoothest, cleanest, finest
form beets that can be grown.

The South does not appreciate beets as much as they should. Sown
thickly the young plants when thinned out make splendid “greens.”
Planted any time up to September 15th they make splendid young
beets for fall and early winter use.

CultUB*© S°'v in ric'h> well manured or fertilized ground, after
vv! I tu I game has been deeply plowed or spaded; sow thinly in
rows 18 inches to 2 feet apart. In this latitude sow from July to
September 15th; in Florida and the Gulf Coast sections plantings can
be made from September to January. The seed is rough and the soil
should be firmed or rolled after planting, providing the ground is
dry or sandy. When 2 to 3 inches high thin out to 5 or 0 inches apart
in the row. Young plants are superior to turnips and spinach for
greens. In light, sandy soil cover seed 2 inches; in stiff clay not over
1 inch. Quantity of seed required, 1 ounce to 50 feet of row, 0 to 8
pounds per acre. Keady for use in 50 to TO days, according to variety.

Mo^t popular variety
for home use and near¬
by markets. An improvement by
our growers over the Early Blood
Turnip Beet. Color a deep blood red. A fine even form, very uniform
in growth, as shown in our illustration from a photograph; medium
early and very productive, tender, free from stringiness and very
sweet, good for either home or market use and most valuable variety
for succession sowings. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; *4 pound,
30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Of turnip shape, very uni¬
form in size, shape and
/U. /IC\ color. Sweet and tender and in favorable seasons it has
) been ready for use in (1 weeks from time of sowing. A
splendid all-season beet. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; ^4 ponud,
30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Extra Early Egyptian (No. 42) £t beet

A quick grower, producing smooth, rather flattened, turnip-shaped
roots. When young flesh is sweet and tender but becomes stringy
with age, and we do not advise for home garden use. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce, 10 cents; % pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Ton shuts art ^aa<l> / ()■ AT \ Almost identical with our Improved Blood Turnip Beet except in color, which is a deep yel-
B SfsIlsW B las HBBgJ ** ■ ) low. Slices of these alternating with red beets make a pleasing show on the table. Packet,

5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; % pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Ellnnrl Til smart / Mm The most Popular market gardeners’ beet for the South as well

aloSayilgS feCslpS© I IflH Blip t “U/ as a favorite for home gardens for late summer and fall plant¬

ing. Fine form, smooth, and free from stringy roots. Small top, rapid grower. Color a deep blood red, which it retains fully after be¬
ing cooked; quality extra fine, very sweet and tender, a heavy bearer and its handsome appearance makes it an easy seller when placed
upon the market, either locally or for long distance shipments. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; % pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; post¬
paid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $7.50.

Lentz’ Extra Early (No. 50) f

gardeners in certain parts of Florida for shipment to Northern markets.

Nearly as early .as the Egyptian but larger and of extra fine quality.

Color a deep blood red, tender and sweet at all stages of growth. Small
top and in favorable seasons can be used in 6 to 7 weeks from sowing.

Very productive, a splendid keeper and shipper. If you want a first qual¬
ity, extra early beet the Lentz will please you. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c;

% pound, 25c; pound, 75c; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $5.00.

Half-Lcmg Blood Beet (No. 44)

between our Improved Blood Turnip Beet and the Long Smooth. Color a
deep blood red, smooth and free from stringy roots. In quality it is
lender and sweet and remains in good condition for a long time after ma¬
turity. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; % pound, 30c; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Long Smooth Blood Beet (No. 49) “IVe11!!!6 the

South; has long, smooth, blood-red roots growing well down into the
soil, enabling it to resist drought and heat. A few of these should be
planted in every garden for use after all the other varieties are gone.

Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; % pound, 30c; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Swiss Chard ©r Sea Kale r?b

/U. cooked and served like asparagus, the other portion is

\ HW" tIw/ cooked and served like spinach. This does not make a good
root. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; % pound, 30c; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

STRAWBERRIES

Along with the year ’round gardening for health’s sake
and the pocket’s sake, why not some of the extra good
things in the fruit and berry line as well.

Take a look at the home garden strawberry bed on last
cover page, then see our special strawberry plant offer on
first inside cover page. You can have the best of berries
if you start a bed this fall.

HASTINGS
ECLIPSE BLOOD
TURNIP BEET

II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

MANGEL AND SUGAR BEETS FOR STOCK FEED

Every year sees an increase in the number of farmers in the South who plant, at least, a small crop of
Mangel or Sugar beets for stock feeding purposes. It is almost impossible to find crops that will give
greater returns for the small amount of time and fertilizer spent on them than the Mangels, Sugar beets
and White Belgian carrots. They are all immense yielders under good cultivation and make an agree¬
able change of feed for any animal kept on dry forage throughout the winter. In dairy cattle the in¬
creased flow of milk and generally improved condition of the animals in the spring will show their great
value. Have your ground deeply plowed, then well harrowed until smooth. In the Middle South seed
should be sown only in the spring, but in Florida and along the Gulf Coast plantings can be made all
through the fall and winter. Make rows 2 y2 to 3 feet apart, planting seed at the rate of about 10 pounds
per acre. Both the Mangel and Sugar beets are equally profitable for stock feeding. Where their value
is known almost every farmer plants from one to ten pounds of seed each year, and they find that it
pays them well.

Jumbo Long Red Mangel (No. 41 ) yKK sVwV„T$ni',a'!

to two-thirds above the surface; are usually 18 inches to 2 feet long and 1 to G inches in diameter. Ounce,
5 cents; ^4 pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $3.00.

Large White French Sugar Beet (No. 51)

Largest and one of the best of true Sugar beets and the rich
sugar content makes them especially valuable in fattening live
stock of all kinds. The sugar content when grown South is not
sufficiently great to make them profitable for manufacturing
sugar, but they are a most, profitable crop for stock feeding.
Ounce, 5 cents; % pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents; postpaid.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS £, "S.TO.g'SS:

bage family, especially desirable for late summer and fall plant¬
ing in Florida and the Gulf Coast section. The “sprouts” are
miniature cabbages, growing closely on the stalk of the plant,
a small head being formed at each leaf joint. Plants are quite
hardy and live through the winter in all parts of the Lower
South. Quality and flavor are much improved by frost. Sow
seed in July, August or September and when plants are 1 to C
inches high transplant to open ground, like cabbage.

A most desirable
variety for the
South, producing compact “sprouts”
of the very best quality. Packet, 5
cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % pound, 50 ets.; pound, $1.75; postpaid.

vegetable very closely related to cauliflower,
E»i U3.J.VUB8 from which it is supposed to have come. Its cul¬
ture is the same as that for cauliflower, and in the South¬
ern States in the hands of any except expert cauliflower
growers is a much surer header. There are many de¬
terred from growing cauliflower by the high price of the
seed. To those we recommend Broccoli; there are two
varieties which do well in the South, the only difference
being in the color of the heads.

improved Dwarf Brussels
Sprouts (No. 59)

Our Jumbo Mangel Beet

Improved Dwarf Brussels Sprouts

White Cape (No. 56)-- Purple Cape (No. 57)

cents; ounce, 25 cents; ^4 pound, 75 cents; postpaid.

Each, packet, 10
cents ; Ms ounce, 15

ONE FALL GARDEN IN OVER 90 MILES

One day last fall our Mr. Hastings and Mr. Freeborn, Superintendent of our Mail Order Department, decided to take a day off and
visit the Georgia State Fair at Macon. It was about the middle of October, just the time that fall gardens should be in their prime in
Middle Georgia. On the way down to the train they got to discussing this fall garden question and finally decided to count the num¬
ber of real fall gardens between Atlanta and Macon, a distance of a little over 90 miles.

How many real gardens did they see? Just one in over 90 miles, and where do you suppose that was — on a farm? Not on your life.

It was in the back yard of a town man’s place, and it was a really worth while garden too, with pole and bush snap beans, lima beans, ||
young beets, turnips, onions, salsify, cabbage, collards, tomatoes, sweet peppers, carrots, mustard and lettuce. The train happened to
stop directly beside this garden, giving a good chance to see what was in it.

Hundreds of straggling collards near negro cabins were seen, and an occasional sickly looking “salad turnip” patch showed up, but 1
of real gardens there was only one and that in a town man’s back yard.

Some six Aveeks before that Mr. Hastings attended a “Cotton Conference” in the Auditorium in Macon. That large building was
crowded with cotton farmers trying to find a way to dispose of their cotton so as to pay their debts and buy food for their families.

It was a serious crowd of men, and they were up against a most serious situation. They stood with outstretched arms toward
Washington and begged that something be done or else they and their families would perish.

Now we had the greatest sympathy for cotton growing farmers last fall. We had over 600 bales ourselves. It was a real question
of bread and meat for most of that crowd at Macon, most of them drawn from the territory covered by that trip six or seven weeks
later between Atlanta and Macon. All the way down fields were white with cotton, hundreds of bales were piled up around the houses,
but not a blamed thing to eat growing anywhere at the white men’s farm homes. A few milk cows, probably a dozen hogs, collards
around the negro cabins — that’s all in a 90-mile trip through what is figured as being a good farming section.

Cotton growers had plenty of time to attend cotton conferences, to “cuss” and discuss the situation up at the store, but apparently
not one of them had time to spend making a fall garden that would have gone a long way towards keeping the farm tables well sup¬
plied and store bills down.

There is one and only one safe way to real farm prosperity anywhere and that is to “live at home and board at the same place,”
and in this, the right kind of a fall garden will play a larger part than you ever dreamed of. Just try it this fall and see.

Let’s have no more of this one real fall garden to 90 miles foolishness. A better, more common sense record would be 9 good gardens
to every mile and other food crops in proportion. Then and then only can the cotton grower snap his fingers in the speculator’s face
and sell his cotton in his own good time and at a satisfactory price. Have a good garden this fall. It’s a long step in a money-saving
direction, that leads to cotton growing independence, comfort and prosperity.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

250,000 PLANT HASTINGS’ CABBAGE

A quarter of a million is a large number of people, yet a few thousand more than that plant Hastings’ Cabbage Seed of different varie¬
ties every year. Ever since we started in business 20 years ago we have made a specialty of the very highest grade of American grown
cabbage seed, and the illustrations on this and the following pages from Mississippi and other states show just how good cabbage Hast¬
ings’ seed makes. We know that we can't be too particular about the quality of our cabbage seed, and you can’t be too particular about
what you buy and plant. Neither you nor ourselves can afford to take chances. No matter how good your soil, how carefully you cultivate
or fertilize it, if the cabbage seed quality is not right you make more or less of a failure.

In our seed crops, every head of cabbage is most carefully inspected before it is allowed to produce seed for us. We know it is right.
We have only one grade — the very best that can he grown— and the buyer of a 5 or 10 cent packet gets exactly the same quality as does the
big trucker or market gardener buying in 50 to 100 pound lots. We play no favorites among our customers. We believe that the man
planting a home garden for his family’s use is entitled to just as good seed quality as is the market gardener who plants for market. If
you want to be successful in growing cabbage, you must plant right cabbage seed, and the Hastings quality is exactly what will please
you and pay you, the quality you want to plant in the summer and fall of 1915.

CABBAGE CULTURE f'or,h°me pr,le“s the seed

for faii anci winter cabbage
can be sown in shaded spots and covered from hot sun. Later
plantings may be made in open ground in September and October.
Work soil in seed beds down as fine as possible. Beds should be
slightly raised for drainage. Do not fertilize soil in seed beds at
least to the extent of making it much richer than the open ground
in which the crop is to be grown.

Sow seed in drills 6 inches apart across the bed, dropping the
seed 5 or 6 to the inch. Thicker sowing than this means spindling,
unhealthy plants. Cover seed about inch in heavy soils, % inch
in light sandy soils ; firm the soil after covering and then water the
bed thoroughly. Keep beds moist but not soaking wet. Seed ger¬
minates in 3 to 8 days, according to weather. The young plants
should be kept growing steadily from the start. A check in the
growth of cabbage is injurious. When plants have made the fourth
or fifth pair of leaves transplant to open ground.

Cabbage can be grown on almost any soil from light sand to heavy

clay or muck. Naturally the light soils will require more fertilizer
or manure than the heavier ones. Most of the fertilizer or manure
should be worked into the soil before transplanting. The best all-
around commercial fertilizer for cabbage should contain: Available
phosphoric acid 7 per cent, potash 8 per cent, nitrogen 5 per cent.

Most of the cultivation should be before the crop is planted. This
means two to three deep plowings and then work the soil as fine as
possible, l’ou can’t overfeed cabbage, so you need not be afraid of
putting too much manure or fertilizer on the crop.

Transplanting should be done, so far as possible, on cloudy days
and just before a rain. In small gardens this can be done late in
the afternoon. Set plants upright with only the leaves above the
surface. Firm the soil around the plants. Cultivate frequently
and very shallow, as roots come near the surface. Keep out abso¬
lutely all weeds and grass. Seed required: In late summer plant¬
ings one ounce of seed will usually produce about 1,200 plants; 10 to
12 ounces per acre. After cooler weather sets in about half those
quantities of seed is needed.

of Corpus Christi, Texas,
re six heads weighing 9714
pounds, in a previous cat¬
alogue, it so interested
Mr. D. D. Cowan, of
Hancock County, Miss.,
that he sent us a photo¬
graph of what he did in
Mississippi with Hast¬
ings’ Cabbage Seed. Mr.
Cowan wrote us that his
crop of cabbage went
through two months of
severe drought and then
made cabbage like this.
Mr. Cowan and Mr.
Noakes are both good
truck farmers, and Texas
and Mississippi are both
good states, but getting
right down to bottom
facts, all their work and
intelligent efforts would
have been lost if they
had not had the right
seed.

Hastings’ Cabbage Seed

never fails to make good,
solid heads of cabbage to
every plant when treated
right. It’s not a question
of having “good luck”
with your cabbage; it’s a
question of right seed,
and right seed is not on
sale at country stores or
in commission boxes.
Most of the failures on
cabbage in the South
come where seed is
bought from merchants
and small stores.

Every year a great
many people write after
planting time, saying
they expected to find our
seed at their store. Hast¬
ings’ Seeds are never on
sale in boxes in the
stores. Order direct

William Murdock Cowan and Four Heads of Hastings’ Centennial Flat Dutch Cabbage Grown at Caesar, Han- from us here in Atlanta
cock County, Miss.— Weight of Cabbage 50 Pounds, After Enduring a Two Months’ Drought and be safe.

Mississippi Grows Some Cabbage

After we first printed an illustration of Mr. Noakes
and six heads of Centennial Flat Dutch Cabbage, tl

HASTINGS’ CENTENNIAL FLAT DUTCH CABBAGE (No. NO)

Just above on this page is shown an illustration from a photograph of four heads of Centennial Flat Dutch grown in Mississippi after
enduring a two months’ drought. This was taken without our knowledge and sent to us unsolicited. Mr. Cowan planted Hastings’ Cen¬
tennial Flat Dutch Cabbage, the best main crop, heavy producing strain of Flat Dutch Cabbage now being sold. While we do not recom¬
mend it for an early cabbage, for main crop and late it is about the best you ean plant. The only objection we ever heard is that on very
rich ground it grows too large. This can be controlled by planting rather close in the row. Good for either fall or spring planting, being
remarkably hardy, vigorous and resistant to both heat and eold. We sell more of this to cabbage growers for shipment in Gulf Coast sec¬
tions than all other varieties combined. For home gardens Centennial is unexcelled for later use after early varieties are gone. Its vigor
makes it especially valuable to grow under unfavorable conditions. If you have planted it before you know this; if not, plant some this
fall and see just how good it is. Packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; Y4 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

HASTINGS’ “PREMIER” CABBAGE SEED

WILL ALWAYS “HEAD UP” FOR YOU IN THE SOUTH ALL RIGHT

"Premier Brand”

REMEMBER, every packet,
ounce or pound of Cabbage Seed
sent out by us of every variety
is “Premier Brand” Seed, tile
very best American Cabbage
Seed that can be grown.

No vegetable crop is so depend¬
ent, for full success, on seed qual¬
ity as cabbage. We realized this
before we had been in the seed
business many years and set out to
obtain the very best cabbage seed
quality obtainable. We succeeded
and named all our cabbage seed
“Premier Brand Seed.” It is the
very best quality of cabbage seed
grown. Every pound of it is strict¬
ly American grown seed. Every
ounce of it is grown from heads in¬
spected and approved by one of the
great cabbage experts of this coun¬
try before it is replanted for seed
production. Every packet, ounce or
pound going out from this house is
exactly the same high grade of qual¬
ity. It couldn’t be better if we
charged you $10.00 per pound for it.

It is especially adapted to plant¬
ing in the Southern States. It
makes good with our customers
wherever and whenever it is plant¬
ed in the South.

A single head of Hastings’ famous “ALL-HEAD EARLY” grown near Atlanta, Ga., by a market
gardener, from Hastings’ “PREMIER BRAND” grade of Cabbage Seed — Y’ou can do
likewise with Hastings’ Cabbage Seed — See description and prices below.

HASTINGS’ SURE CROP CABBAGE (No. 101)— A Large, Early, Flat Dutch Variety

Hastings’ Sure Crop — Our Largest Medium Early Flat Cabbage

This is the earliest of all the large, round,
flat varieties. For the last twenty years we
have sold it in every State in the South, and
it is planted every year by more people than
any other variety with the possible exception
of Sure Head. It is fully adapted for either
fall or spring planting, for shipment, for
nearby market and home use. On good soil
and with proper cultivation it makes heads
weighing from 8 to 12 pounds; very firm and
solid, uniform in shape and size and well flat¬
tened on top. Quality is excellent, being crisp
and tender and when rightly cared for scarce¬
ly a single plant will fail to form a good mar¬
ketable head. Color, a dark green, holding up
well after being cut. This is an exceptionally
good variety for late summer planting in the
southern half of Georgia, Alabama, Missis¬
sippi, Louisiana, and Texas, for September-
October plantings in Florida. Packet, 10 cts.;
% ounce. 15 cts.; ounce, 25 cts.; *4 pound, 65
cts.; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Hastings’ All - Head Early

( Nfl I 0 I \ Hastings’ All-Head Early is the
V I*"B 141 | finest, medium size, flat early
cabbage. Note illustration on this page, re¬
produced from a photograph of a single head
of our All-Head Early, grown by one of the
Atlanta market gardeners. We think that
you will agree with us that it’s a cabbage
very hard to beat. A medium early, flat head
variety, weighing 5 to 6 pounds, a sure head¬
er with half a chance, and well named “All-
Head,” as it has very few loose outer leaves.
One week earlier than the famous old “Early
Summer.” We are sure that you will be
pleased with it. Packet, 5c; y2 ounce, 15c;
ounce, 25c; % pound, 65c; lb., $2.00; postpaid.

Hastings’ Seeds Please

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II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia

HASTINGS’ “BIG 5” CABBAGE COLLECTION

Hastings’ Hong Island (targe) Wakefield Cabbage

HASTINGS’ LONG ISLAND WAKEFIELD CABBAGE

Hastings’ New Perfection Cabbage

We have been carrying this “Big 5” Cabbage
Collection for a great many years. Sometimes
we think we ought to drop it because we have
been selling it so long, but customers who
bought it sixteen years ago continue to buy it,
together with hundreds and thousands of new
ones. So long as the “Big 5” continues to grow
in popularity we shall keep on selling it. The
sale of this collection keeps up and grows just
because it gives the largest value that the seed
buyer can get in cabbage seed for 25 cents. It
gives an all season's succession in cabbage for
every family in the South. It’s popular with all
home and market gardeners ; and gives greater
returns in quantity and quality of cabbage
than you can get from any other house in the
country. Every seed in this collection is “Pre¬
mier Brand” quality. You make no mistake
when you plant it. Since we first introduced
this cabbage collection we added another splen¬
did variety, so each purchaser gets five pack¬
ages, five varieties, for the 25c.

Our “Big 5” now consists of one full size
packet each of 5 of our best varieties for the
South : Hastings’ Sure Crop, Hastings’ Long
Island Wakefield, Hastings’ Florida Drumhead,
Hastings’ Centennial Flat Dutch, and Hastings’
Genuine Surehead. No better cabbage combi¬
nation than this collection can be made. By
buying it in this collection you can get for 25
cents what would cost you 45 cents at full cata¬
logue price. You can get more “crop” out of
25 cents invested in the “Big 5” than anything
you can get from any other seed house.

5 Packets, 25c, Postpaid

Hastings’ New Perfection
Cabbage (No. 124)

This new cabbage of
ours comes as near per¬
fection for the South for late summer
. or fall planting as any we have ever
seen. An absolutely new variety originating with one of our growers
and for a second early or main crop cabbage it has no equal. Heads
the firmest and most solid we have ever seen, surpassing even Danish
Ball Head in that respect. Heads weigh 5 to 8 pounds; in maturing
comes in about the same time as Surehead. A first-class variety for
either home use, market or shipment and entirely adapted to late
summer and fall planting anywhere in the Lower South or Florida.
It will stand greater extremes of heat and cold than any other va¬
riety. Its remarkable hardiness and vigor make it the very safest
cabbage that you can plant. Packet, 10 cents; Ms ounce, 20 cents;
ounce, 35 cents; % pound, 90 cents; pound, $3.00; postpaid.

Selected Early Jersey Wakefield (No. 106)

Almost every one knows the popular Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage.
Comparatively few know the superiority of our strain of this variety.
It’s grown with the greatest care, and a well cultivated crop shows
the greatest regularity of size, shape and solidity. If you are grow¬
ing the Early Wakefield you cannot afford to be without our extra
select seed. It pays to use it. Premier Brand Seed. Packet, 5 cents;
% ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 75 cents; pound, $2.25.

fNn The largest, earliest, surest heading of any of the large Wakefield strains. Ear-

'* '* Her, larger, and finer bred than any of the strains of Charleston Wakefield. One

and a half to two pounds heavier, firmer, better shape and more solid than the Early Jersey
Wakefield. In good soil and with favorable weather conditions it is often ready for use in 50
days from transplanting. It is a gem for those desiring a first-class pointed cabbage, and
makes a splendid first early cabbage for family use. Premier Brand Seed. Packet, 10 cents;
Ms ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 75 cents; pound, $2.25.

Hastings’ Florida Drumhead (No. 115) S^fnMn^thlfVeclu^ms6

superb Drumhead variety is called Florida Drumhead that it is only adapted to the State of
Florida. We have yet to find any part of any Southern State where this variety does not grow
to perfection. Earliest and best of all the Drumhead varieties for the South. It has stood
the test of twenty-five years’ planting in the South, and is always a favorite for either mar¬
ket, shipping or home use. Resists both heat and cold. Short stemmed, medium early.
Grows compactly and leaves turn in, as shown in the illustration. Large, solid, and well
flattened on top. Premier Brand Seed. Packet, 10 cents; M-js ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents;
% pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Hastings’ Florida Drumhead Cabbage

Perfection A Sight Worth While

“I have never seen such fine cabbage as I have now maturing
from your New Perfection. The real estate men bring their cus¬
tomers around to see it as a sample of what can be grown here.”

SELDEN L. STEWART, Lee County, Florida.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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HASTINGS’ GENUINE SUREHEAD CABBAGE

/U|> We have sold tens of thousands of pounds of seed of

^llV« I CV f our genuine Surehead Cabbage during the past nine¬
teen years, and it is today the most popular cabbage for main crop
that we have on our list. Our special strain of Sureliead (Premier
Brand Seed) never fails to make fine, large, solid heads with fewer
outer leaves, as shown in our illustration. Sureliead is the result
of a cross between the Early Flat Dutch and a hardy Drumhead
variety, and has the good points of each combined. It’s a strong,
vigorous grower, maturing for main crop, and is very uniform in
size, shape and color. It's good for spring planting everywhere,
and one of the best for summer planting in the Central South and
fall planting in the Lower South for maturing in winter and spring.
It’s hardy, a good keeper and a good shipper. Invaluable for the
home garden and one of the best for market. No Southern garden
should be without some of our Surebead Cabbage in it. Premier
Brand Seed. Packet, 5 cents; 14 ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents;
14 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00.

Early Summer (No. 122)

two weeks later than Jersey Wakefield. Premier Brand Seed.
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 25 cents; 14 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00.

Early Dwarf Flat Dutch (No. 109) aM“|

standard for planting in the South, especially in family gardens
and for nearby markets. Premier Brand Seed. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce, 25 cents; 14 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00.

All Seasons (No. I 00 ^ As improved by us during the

acasvlis \,*Wa I vUJ past; few years, is a most valu¬
able cabbage for the South. Heads are large and solid, flattened
on top. It is a good reliable header and resists heat and drought
well. Premier Brand Seed. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 25 cents; 14
pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00.

Succession — A Splendid Market Gardener’s Cabbage

Early Winningstadt (No. 104) ^e0ty pintja Id

most entirely for early family use. Heads weigh l1/, to 2 pounds
and are pointed. Packet, 5c; oz., 20c; 14 lb., 50c; lb., $1.60; postpaid.

Premium Late Flat Dutch ceXmtJaiiFjatrDut°chr

TNa I | Q \ but not quite so firm and solid in heading. An old
\,*u* 1 1 a/ favorite in many parts of the South. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce, 20 cents; 14 pound, 60 cents; pound, $1.75; postpaid.

Charleston Wakefield (No. 107) Early Jersey

Wakefield, about two weeks later in maturity and weighs about one
pound more to the head. Packet, 5 cents; 14 ounce, 15 cents; ounce,
25 cents; 14 pound, 70 cents; pound, $2.25; postpaid.

Large Late Drumhead (No. 1 14)

head but larger and two to three weeks later in maturity. Packet,
5 cents; ounce, 20 cents; 14 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Hastings’ Genuine Surehead Cabbage

SlirrA««inn / Nn I I G 1 “Succession” is largely a market
^nu. I lo; gardener’s variety in many parts
of the South, being used almost exclusively for shipping crops. It
is of rather large size, well flattened on top. In maturity it is al¬
most ten days later than Early Summer and Early Flat Dutch, but
it is nearly double the size of those varieties. Is firm and solid, a
very sure header, and stands shipment to the North, arriving in
good condition and color. Premier Brand Seed. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce, 25 cents; 14 pound, 65 cents; i>ound, $2.00.

Stein’s Early Flat Dutch fig KkKKSS

/U. 10E\ popular cabbage in South Texas and Gulf Coast sec-

\ ’* • *** ) tions for a market and shipping variety. This is a

splendid strain of Flat Dutch cabbage, just a little later than the
Early Flat Dutch varieties, just a little earlier than Centennial. For
best results a trucker should divide his crop between the two, for it
will insure a longer shipping season, the Centennial immediately
following Stein’s in maturity. Packet, 5 cents; % ounce, 15 cents;
ounce, 25 cents; 14 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Danish Ball Head (No. I II)

well in thin soils and exposed situations. Heads medium size,
very firm and hard. A splendid cabbage for late planting. Packet,
5c; 14 ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c; 14 pound, 65c; pound, $2.00.

North Carolina Buncombe tp&dolikeePeear e and

TNn I f|0 \ favorite winter and spring cabbage in North Caro-
^IIU. I wt/ lina. Packet, 5 cents; 14 ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25
cents; 14 pound, 70 cents; pound, $2.25.

Perfection Drumhead Savoy (No. 103)

The tenderest and richest variety of all. It does not head so well
in hot weather, hence should be planted in July and August for
heading in fall and early winter. Premier Brand Seed. Packet, 5
cents; Ms ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 c; % pound, 75c; pound, $2.50.

Blood Red Erfurt (No. 117)

Medium size and a sure heading variety. Most largely used for
pickling purposes. Packet, 5 cents; 14 ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25
cents; 14 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Green Glazed (No. 1 12) 5,nSSi,1SS«5tt%?S2;

tween cabbage and collards. Its greatest value is in its resistance
to insect attacks during the summer months, as they very seldom
attack it. Packet, 5c; oz., 25c; 14 lb., 65c; lb., $2.00; postpaid.

Why Not Live at Home and Board at the Same Place?

Yes, why not? Doing it spells “Farm Prosperity” regardless of cotton prices or fruit prices or any other
prices. It means eating home-grown breakfasts and dinners and suppers. It means better health and iess
living costs; more money in your pocket and less of your money in the pocket of the supply merchant. A
good Fall garden, started now, will be found a great helper.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

OUR GILT EDGE CAULIFLOWER

Chervil (No. 131) ^nt"a""*£

seasoning or to use with lettuce for a
salad. Sow it broadcast in October or
November for winter and spring use, and
in February and March for summer use.
Packet, 5c; ounce, 15c; pound, $1.00.

S* race Water (No. 133) — Packet, 10
cents; oz„ 40c; % lb., $1.25.
Extra Curled or Improved Pepper Grass
— Tastes same as Water Cress. Extra
Curled (No. 132), Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c;
Y* pound, 20 cents.

Corn Salad or Fetticus

Large Green Cabbaging (No. 194) — This
is used for salad dressing during winter
and spring. We find it does best sown
in drills 9 inches apart. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce. 10c; % pound, 25c; pound, 75c.
DanHplinn 1 >» P r O V e 11 Large
ISdllUieBIUn Leaved (No. 192). Sow
in October and November in Florida and
along Gulf. Packet, 10 cents; Yz ounce,
30 cents; ounce, 50 cents.

ET nHil/n Early Green Curled (No.
CIIUIVC 193) — The best variety.
Packet, 5c; oz., 15c; % lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.

The

For

Best Early Cauliflower
the Southern States

Southern or Georgia Collard

THE SOUTHERN RURALIST

Comes Twice a Month. See Our Special Offer on Pages 18 and 19. You Need It.

CAULIFLOWER

We import all of our Cauli¬
flower Seed direct from the most
reliable growers in Europe. No
Cauliflower seed of any value is
produced in the United States.
We furnish you the highest
grade of seed and do not charge
you from 50c to $1.00 per ounce
extra for Red, Yellow or Blue
Seals on package.

Cllltlirp D°es best in rich,
vuuure wen - tilled soil;
will do in a well-manured soil.
Sow in seed bed at same time as
cabbage. Transplant when 3 or
4 inches high ; give plenty of
water in dry weather. Keep wet,
hoe thoroughly and often. In
Florida and along the Gulf sow
the seed in Sept., Oct. and Nov.

Our Gilt Edge (No. 85)

We introduced “Gilt Edge”
Cauliflower in the South in 189.3.
Since that time we have watched
all new introductions closely,
and we have not found in the
last 21 years a variety that
comes anywhere near being its
equal, for either fall or spring
planting.

“Gilt Edge” is rightly named.
It is “Gilt Edge” in every re¬
spect. It is the largest, most
perfect and surest header of all
the early varieties, and in qual¬
ity it is unexcelled. One speci¬
men was sent to our store by a
gardener which, when the leaves
were trimmed off. weighed 7 lbs.
and 8 oz., the largest head of
early Cauliflower we have ever
seen in the South.

In general appearance. Gilt
Edge is like the Snowball, but
is much larger, a sure header
and stands much longer with¬
out decay than any other. Caul¬
iflower should be more gener¬
ally grown in the South than it
is, and there is no variety equal
to Gilt Edge where a sure crop
of the finest quality is wanted.
Packet, 20e ; % ounce, 75c; Yz
ounce, $1.25; ounce, $2.25; %
pound, $8.00; pound, $30.00.

Early Snowball (No. 86)

A good early variety, second only in
value to the Gilt Edge. Packet, 15c; Yk
ounce, 65c; Yz ounce, $1.15; ounce, $2.00;
Yk pound, $7.50; pound. $28.00.

Extra Early Paris White (No. 87) —
Heads medium size. Fine for family
garden. Packet, 10c; Yz ounce, 30c; ounce,
50c; Yk pound, $2.00; pound, $7.00.

Le Normand’s (No. 88), Late Algiers
(No. 89, and Autumn Giant (No. 90),
each, packet, 10 cents; Yz ounce, 30 cents;
ounce, 50 cents; Yk pound, $1.75.

A great many peo¬
ple look upon the
lowly collard, or “Georgia Cabbage,” as
some jokingly refer to it, as something
not worth while growing. Now there are
thousands of collard patches scattered
over the South, and most Southern peo¬
ple like them. The collard is an old-time
favorite, adapted to all parts of the
South, and as a producer of “greens” for
boiling in winter and spring it has no
equal. It will pay you to have a collard
patch just to give your cows an occa¬
sional taste of “green stuff.” Sow any
time up to September 15th.

Southern or 3?-t5S%*j£
Georgia (No. 135) SSSV.i-'

COLLARDS

verse conditions without injury. Is very hardy, standing winters
as far north as Atlanta. In many places where the soil is too poor
to grow cabbage, the collard grows easily and makes a good sub¬
stitute for cabbage. Packet. 5c; ounce, 10c; Yk pound, 25c; lb., 75c,

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Hastings' Selected Carrot Seed

Our Prices Include Payment of Postage

Culture

Carrots deserve a more general cultivation in the South than they now have.
The young, tender roots are excellent stewed or boiled, either alone or with
meat, as well as for seasoning and for flavoring soups. Sow 1 ounce seed to 100 feet of row.
Sow seeds in shallow drills in August or September. Make several sowings about two weeks
apart so as to give a succession crop. When plants are well started, thin out to four inches
apart in the row. Sow in rich or well manured soil worked deep. This is a deep rooted crop
and the soil should be prepared deep enough so that the roots can penetrate without difficulty.
Cultivate frequently, keeping your ground free from weeds and grass. Best make drills 10 to
18 inches apart to allow easy working. In Florida and near the Gulf sow seed in September
to December.

Phanfanav /UA CC\ This new stump rooted variety we consider the best of its
vlUllllcilay \n"1 Oit f class. It’s a half-long sort unexcelled in quality and produc¬
tiveness. Very uniform in growth. Flesh deep golden orange color. Roots 3 inches in diam¬
eter at top, about five inches in length, gradually tapering in a very symmetrical manner to
the base. Packet, 5 cents ; ounce, 10 cents ; % pound, 30 cents ; pound, $1.00.

Dad Ct Valaru t Un C7 \ Roots very smooth and regular in growth, of large size,
l*cu " dlCI y ^IlUa v l ) froln io to 12 inches in length, and from 2 to 3 inches

in diameter at the top, tapering gradually throughout. Rich, deep coloring, and free from
hard core. A favorite with many of our customers, especially in sections subject to drought.
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound, 80 cents.

Ualf-I Ano CraKlnf /UA 7 | \ A favorite with market gardeners and for home
rldll LUIIg atarlcl V“*"' I ly use. Bright scarlet color and of fine flavor.
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound, 80 cents.

Danvpr’c IntprmAribfp /Ma fiJU Bright orange color, very smooth and
uranver 5 miermeaiaie ^no. OO j fine]v formed. Produces more weight to

the acre than any other half-long variety. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents;
pound, 80 cents.

Old, well known variety. Roots long
and of a deep rich orange color. A very
heavy cropper, so heavy in fact that it is profitable to grow for stock feed, although in qual¬
ity it is a table carrot. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound, 80 cents.

Oxheart or Guerande (No. 66)

inches wide at top and taper to a 2-inch diameter at bottom. Length from five to six inches.

Roots are very free from hard core and of the finest quality for table use. Both skin and
flesh are highly colored. Being very short they are easily pulled from the ground, where
the long sorts often have to be dug in heavy soil. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 14 pound,

30 cents; pound, $1.00._

The value of root crops for stock
is just beginning to be appre¬
ciated in the South. One of the most valuable is the
Belgian Carrot, an immense cropper, having produced
as high as 20 tons of roots per acre. In the Central South they are easily kept for feed all
through the winter, while in the Lower South they can be left in the ground all winter and
pulled as needed. The use of carrots in connection with dry feed helps keep the animals in
good condition, and in milk or dairy cattle the flow of milk is largely increased. One thing
must be remembered when large crops are wanted and that is that the crop must be fed by
manure or commercial fertilizers in proportion. Sow in drills 3 feet apart, using 4 pounds
of seed per acre. When well up thin out the plants to 6 inches apart. They should be grown
on land that has been previously cultivated and worked deeply. Give thorough cultivation throughout the season. Packet, 5 cents; ounce,
10 cents; 14 pound. 25 cents; pound. 70 cents; postpaid.

Chantenay Half-Long Carrot

Improved Long Orange (No. 69)

Large White Belgian Carrot (No. 70)
For Stock Feed Only

Oxheart or Guerande Carrot

m For late summer and fall planting celery is

t " strictly a crop for Florida and the lower Gulf
Vvlvl Jr Coast country, sections not ordinarily subject to
extreme cold during the winter. It is a most
important commercial crop for Florida and there is no reason why
it should not be just as largely and successfully grown in South¬
west Texas as a market crop.

CultlBI*6 Celery requires rich and moist soil. If not rich it
^ can be made so by proper fertilizing. In Florida and
Gulf Coast section so\v seed in August and September in shaded
beds, covering seed not over half-inch. When 6 inches high trans¬
plant to open ground. Celery planted as above should be ready for
marketing in following March and April. This crop frequently
brings in as high as $1,500.00 per acre.

GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING (No. 77) marlret garden-

Fronrh ftrnufn CaaH ers. Any but French grown seed of this
• iCHLII uruwil uccu variety' is worthless. We have imported
seed direct from originator. Packet, 15 cents; % ounce, $1.25; ounce, $2.00;
14 pound, $7.00; pound, $25.00. Seed Very Scarce.

Savannah Market (No. 78) fefnTV thVsVut^ ITtZl

lighter classes of both sandy and clay soils. Strong, vigorous grower and
will make a large crop where other sorts fail altogether. Large, solid and of
first-class flavor. Stalks when well blanched are clear white and centers are
light golden y'ellow. When quickly grown it is crisp and tender, making a
fine appearance in market. Not recommended as a market variety for ship¬
ping from Florida. Packet, 10c; ounce, 20c; 14 pound, 50c; pound, $1.50.

Mexican Solid Celery (No. 80) S.s itsunflavor >s? uny

equal to that grown in the famous Kalamazoo (Mich.) celery district, having
the rich, nutty flavor so desirable in celery. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents;
14 pound, 50 cents ; pound, $1.50.

White Plume (No. 76) — Giant Pascal (No. 79)

Old, well-known varieties, preferred by many planters. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce, 15 cents; 14 pound, 50 cents; pound, $1.50.

roloeiar /||A TEN or Turnip Rooted Celery. It is mostly used for
\ ■ *1 ) flavoring. Cultivate the same as for celery except

that it requires no hilling up. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; % pound, 50 cts.

YOUR SMALL ORDERS--WE WANT THEM

Thousands of seed planters think that a 10- to 50-cent seed order is too
small to send. It’s not. We are glad to have your order, no matter how
small, and the better results in your garden make it worth while for you
to send to us. Remember, there is no order so small or so large that it is
not welcome at HASTINGS’, and gets the best of attention.

Savannah Market Celery

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hastings’ Best Cucumber Seed

FOR SOUTHERN SUMMER AND FALL PLANTINCS

There is a steady increase in the planting of cucumbers all over the South in sum¬
mer and fall during late years, and limited plantings are usually found to be more
profitable than in spring. In this latitude cucumbers can be planted in July and
August and later farther South. In Florida and along the Gulf Coast August and
September plantings are profitable as a shipping crop. If insects trouble you, dust
the plants with Bug Death, the safe but sure insecticide. See page 43.

HASTINGS’ WHITE SPINE (No.

rinoet Cvtra l^arLr Cfesin er, for the gardener for nearby markets
rlllcal "All Ual A wlldlll and the family garden. Our illustration
on this page shows its size and shape perfectly. In size, shape and prolificness it’s
right for all purposes. For the cucumber shipper it has the great advantage of
"holding up” in color during long distance shipping, reaching market with the same
fresh appearance that it had on the vine in the field. It has all the good points a
cucumber can have and none of the bad ones. It’s always crisp, tender and fine look¬
ing, and in color it’s just the right shade of green. During the past six or seven
years we have sold thousands of pounds of the Hastings’ White Spine, and that is
the very best evidence we can give you that it is an “all right” cucumber. Packet,
5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid. 10-pound lots,
not prepaid, 75 cents per pound.

THE KLONDIKE CUCUMBER (No. 184)™“*®^*^.

S\ll|a Cnneial Cfrain troduced we were much impressed with many of
JJJCLIdl its good points but it was so irregular that we did

not care to catalogue it until it had been bred up to a satisfactory strain. We have
now a special strain of it which is regular in size, color and growth and we are sure
that you will be pleased with it. It’s a very attractive dark green variety with a
green that stays for days after being picked and shipped. The cucumbers are 7 to S
inches long, 2 to 2% inches in diameter and very regular in size and shape. Extra
early, very crisp and unsurpassed for slicing. When young makes excellent pickles.
Prolific, very hardy and a sure cropper. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound,
30c; pound, 90c; postpaid. 10-pound lots or over, not prepaid, 75c per pound.

Davis Perfect Cucumber (No. *79) sh“rictaLa;ukcug”been

color; it is uniform and regular in size; is exceedingly tender and as a slicing cu¬
cumber for the table is almost unsurpassed. This is a favorite with shippers in some
parts of Florida and Texas; it is almost seedless, one-third of its length from the
stem end, and the seeds that are contained in it when in slicing condition are so
small and tender that they are almost unnoticeable. It is an exceedingly prolific va¬
riety. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid.
Ten-pound lots or over, not prepaid, 75 cents per pound.

Early Fortune Cucumber (No. 175) smSS

much liked by market gardeners in parts of Florida and Texas as a variety for ship¬
ment to Northern markets during the fall months, holding as it does its dark green
color for many days after picking. Early Fortune is of a very deep green color and
does not show up much white color before maturing as does most of the old strains
of the White Spine. Stays plump and fine looking long after reaching markets in the
North. It’s of good shape, very regular growth and an extra dark green color, very
seldom found in the older strains of cucumber. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; % pound, 30c;
pound, $1.00; postpaid. Ten-pound lots or over, not prepaid, 75 cents per pound.

Improved Long Green (No. 181 ) t0£V0'uS' 3

good size and holds the dark green color until well matured. Crisp, tender and free
from bitterness, making a splendid slicing cucumber. When 3 to 4 inches long they
are fine for pickling. A good variety for planting at all times, from earliest spring
to late summer and fall. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound,
75 cents; postpaid. Ten-pound lots or over, not prepaid, 60 cents per pound.

JAPANESE CLIMBING CUCUMBER

/UA IQC\ early fall planting, being a specially vigorous grower, vines often at-
■°',/taining twice the length of the common varieties. The young plants
are bushy, but as soon as they become well established begin to climb and may be
grown on fences, poles or trellises, thus saving much valuable space in small gar¬
dens. With this cucumber the product of a given area can be increased three-fold.
Fruits are 10 to 12 inches in length, of a fine dark green color ; flesh is thick and firm,
never bitter, has few and very small seeds and is fine for pickling as well as slicing.
It is a very prolific variety and the fruits being raised well above the ground they
never suffer from wet weather or insects, the vines being practically proof against
mildew and continue bearing until very late. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 14
pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.25; postpaid.

Our Everbearing Cucumber (No. 186) uiar varXXfhoX

gardens on account of its everbearing character; first fruits are ready very early,
then the vines continue to flower and produce fruits continually until killed by
frost, whether the ripe cucumbers are picked or not, thus differing in this respect
from all other varieties. A single vine would show at the same time cucumbers in
every stage of growth. Splendid for slicing, but size is rather small, but they are
perfect in shape and of a fine green color and just the right size for pickling. Packet,
5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound, 85 cents; postpaid,
rovlw PrAmP / tin |QO\ Two well-known varieties. Early Frame is a de-
t&iral IJr ■ l oihg yiiv. iv&j sirable variety for home gardens for slicing.
rh!p90A PirlflA (IIa | Q9\ Chicago Pickle is strictly a pickling variety.

■ ICASC iOvJ Each, packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14

pound, 25 cents; pound, 85 cents; postpaid.

FULL SATISFACTION FOR OVER 17 YEARS

“I have been ordering seeds from you for over 17 years and have never found
any seeds from you which have given me any trouble. I have never failed to get
what my order called for. I have tried many other seeds, but none of them have
been equal to yours. Hastings’ Seeds for me. first, last and all the time.”

MRS. ALMA CAMP, Comanche County, Texas.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia

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EGGPLANT

While this is a crop mostly grown from
winter and spring sown seed in most locali¬
ties it has been found a most satisfactory and
profitable crop for late fall and winter ship¬
ment from South Florida. For October to
January shipment seed should be sown dur¬
ing July and August. The result from an
acre or two of eggplant planted in Florida at
that season is often surprisingly satisfactory.
It is usually customary to plant one-half
pound of seed to furnish plants for an acre.

Hastings’ Improved Large
Purple Thornless tT^es ^af/arl

Eggplant (No. 190) excellence f o r

Eggplant in all the market gardening sec¬
tions of the South. It has been grown for 19
years by market gardeners with profitable
results and in the home gardens with entire
satisfaction. Our seed is pure and the plants
thornless. There is no crop we exercise more
care in and in which our constant and con¬
tinued selections show better results. In a
properly cultivated crop streaked or off-col¬
ored fruit is almost unknown. Plants are
large, strong and vigorous, each plant pro¬
ducing from 5 to 8 large fruits of dark, rich
purple color. The earliest of all large fruited
varieties and always gives satisfaction with
proper cultivation, and the vigor and strength
of this variety makes it less subject to the
effect of “blight” and “dieback,” which is so
disastrous to this crop in so many sections.
Packet, 10 cents; 14 ounce, 20 cents; ounce, 35
cents; 14 pound, $1.10; pound, $4.00.

Florida High Bush (No. 189)

Desirable for home gardens and nearby mar¬
kets. Packet, 10 cents ; 1 4 ounce, 15 cents ;

ounce, 25 cents; 14 pound, 85 cents; pound,
$3.00; postpaid.

I ooLr I artra Leeks are very similar
uccri) 1.C1I gc to onions except that

Carenten (No. 203)

The stems grow quite large and are cut up
and used in soups or else boiled like onions.
The culture is the same as for onions. Sow
at same time.

The Large Carenten is the best variety for
the South. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents;
14 pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.25.

ICnilG .DARI A vegetable largely
nmai grown by the German
gardeners. Has a very delicate flavor.

Early White Vienna Kohi-
Rabi (No. 202)SS‘Sfi;»7c*;.£

ready for use, and are of a pale whitish green
color. They have a delicate cabbage-like fla¬
vor. Per packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 cents; 14
pound, 50 cents; pound, $1.75.

Hastings’ Improved Large Purple Thornless Eggplant

BORECOLE OR KALE FOR WINTER GREENS

We sincerely wish we could get our friends to grow Kale more extensively, as it is so
much superior in eating qualities to the collard. Kale is more hardy than cabbage and
will stand through the entire winter in any ordinary season in the Central and Lower
South. It is much improved in quality by being touched by frost. Of all the
cabbage tribe this is the most finely flavored, and it would be more generally
grown were its good qualities more widely known. The tall varieties should
be sown thinly in drills in August and September, the dwarf sorts one month
later. It is a favorite vegetable to furnish “greens” in the South during win¬
ter and spring, and for that use there is nothing better.

f q m I my P /*B Also variously known as Dwarf Geiman.

*y wiccll l/UrlcQ “Dwrarf Curled Scotch,” and “Siberian.”
/II. OAri\ This is the variety usually sown in the fall for spring use. It
^HUa tUUj js rather low growing, with fine curled leaves of deep green
color. The young leaves are tender and delicate in flavor. Packet, 5c; ounce,
10c; ^4 pound, 25c; pound, 70c;. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $5.00.

Tall Green Curled Scotch (No. 201 ) ormuueXilnfludeYy

Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; pound, 25 cents; pound, 70 cents.

Early Green Curled Kale or Borecole

Plant Hastings’ “100-Bushel” Oats This Fall

on a few acres of fairly well prepared land and you won’t have to run to
the supply merchant when your corn gives out in the spring.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hastings Lettuce Seed For Market Crops

Lettuce seed is one of our greatest specialties, and in addition to supplying over three hundred thousand family gardens each year we
sell thousands of pounds of highest grade lettuce to shippers and market gardeners. Our four great market varieties, BIG BOSTON,
FLORIDA HEADER, DIXIE HARD HEAD and CALIFORNIA CREAM BUTTER have no equals. The high quality of HASTINGS’
Lettuce Seed is known everywhere in the South where Lettuce is grown, for purity, hardness of heads, and a slowness to run to seed.
Our lettuce seed is ail grown in California by the most careful lettuce seed grower in the world, and the crops are personally inspected
by Mr. Hastings almost every year during the growing season so as to insure the quality being kept up to the HASTINGS standard. Do
you know of any other seed firm where the head of the house, or even an employee, will travel over 6,000 miles each year to see that every
possible care is taken to have the lettuce seed just right?

HSiaiSF;

♦ ",•&& K « ‘M?

wm

A Field of Our BIG BOSTON Lettuce Beady for Shipment— Note the Regularity of Growth — HASTINGS’ Seed Does It

BIG BOSTON /N« The illustration show’s a field

“waivirs INO. Cl Uj of lettuce from our Big Boston
Seed. It is perfection in that variety and you cannot buy any Big
Boston lettuce at any price that is superior to our strain. The heads
of this strain are so firm and solid that almost every head has to lie
cut open before the seed stalks can grow. It is a standard market
garden and shipping variety, being grown almost exclusively in
many sections for shipment and for market. Extra large, round, firm
heading variety and makes a good appearance in market. Our seed
of this variety is grown for us by a lettuce seed specialist whom we
consider the best in the world. Our seed of Big Boston is the pur¬
est and hardest heading stock that you can obtain. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce, 15 cents; % pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.35 ; postpaid; 5 pounds
or over at $1.00 per pound.

HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD „”,r “5"™ K:

^S/HiTF riety that W’e have ever carried has

®* B B bi E. p.ui a steadier sale. It is not a ship-

1 BTTTII^F /Mm O f I \ ping variety, but belongs to the
““ i B AJ? Bn ^ilUi Cl l J orjsp leaved class. Superb for home
gardens and nearby markets. When properly grown it reaches ex¬
tra large size. One gardener near Gainesville, Florida, produced a
single head weighing nearly four pounds. It is always large, with
outer leaves a clear, light green color, inside of the head bbing almost
pure white. Leaves are large, extra crisp and tender and entirely
free from all bitter taste. Especially good for fall and winter plant¬
ings in Florida and the Guif Coast. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents;
>4 pound 30 cents; pound. $1.00; postpaid.

SUjACTIMtfitt* I t" D IT R? A beautiful as w'ell as useful
Es P’A.aS I I DCDluiiD variety, being exceedingly

crisp and tender, growing a long
time before running to seed. Known
Is a hard header. Splendid for either
open ground planting or for forcing under glass. Heads of conical
shape and medium size. Heads tightly folded and blanched to a
beautiful white. Outer leaves light green, growing closely up around
the head. Packet, 5c; oz., 15c; % pound, 40c; pound, $1.25; postpaid.

LETTUCE (No. 216)

as a “crisp leaved” variety.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Hastings’ Florida Header(No.2l5)

Florida Header is one of our favorites that has stood
the test of time. We have sold it for 19 years, and it is
recognized as one of the leading varieties for either
market or home use. No better variety exists for any¬
one who wants large, solid heads ; heads quickly, and
is slow to run to seed. Very resistant to both heat and
cold, passing through severe freezes practically un¬
harmed. Crisp and tender, and its fine appearance adds
greatly to its selling qualities. In field tests it held up
over two weeks over Big Boston before running to seed.
Backet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 14 pound, 35 cents;
pound, $1.25; 5 pounds, $5.00.

Hastings’ Superba ^tbbgJStiflif M

Lettuce (No. 212)

extra large heading variety
especially resistant to heat.
Outside leaves light green, becoming more and more
yellow towards the center. Especially desirable for
home gardens and nearby markets, but not for ship¬
ment. For crispness, tenderness and freedom from bit¬
terness it is unexcelled. Packet, 5 cents ; ounce, 20
cents; 14 bound, 60 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

New Dixie Hard Head
Lettuce (No. 221)

(See illustration
below.) In a visit
to one of our California
seed farms some years ago,
our Mr. Hastings was most favorably impressed with
this new extra hard heading lettuce. It was such a hard

header that it was very difficult to get it to produce
seed. Each year we are more and more impressed with
its great value, both for the home and market gardener
as well as superiority over any other known variety for
hardness of head and slowness to run to seed.

In general character of growth and appearance it is
much like the California Cream Butter, but is a much
harder header, presents better appearance in a market,
and is slower than any other variety to run to seed.
Heads are large and solid. Seed supply rather limited as
yet. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 cents; 14 pound, 65
cents; pound, $2.00; 5 pounds, $8.00.

California Cream Butter (No. 220)

Also known as “Royal” in some localities. Good for
open ground planting at all seasons in the South. Fine
variety for market gardeners and shippers. Heads large
and solid, the inside bleaching to a beautiful cream yel¬
low when properly grown. The pure strain of this va¬
riety can be distinguished by the small spots on the out¬
er leaves. Our stock is strictly high grade and of the
purest strain, grown on the California farm that is noted
for the production of high quality seed of this variety.
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; % pound, 35 cents; lb.,
$1.25; 5 pounds or over at $1.00 per pound.

Well Known Varieties of Lettuce

These old varieties need no description. Grand Rap¬
ids, Improved Hanson, Prize Head, All-Year- Round,
B. S. Simpson, White Paris Cos. Each, packet, 5 cents;
ounee, 10c; 14 pound, 30c; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Hastings’ Florida Header — A Superb Shipper for All Parts of the South

California Cream Butter or Royal Cabbage Eettuce

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

BERMUDA ONIONS

A Money Making Vegetable Crop For the South

White or Yellow Bermuda Onions from Hastings’ Seed Grown in Florida — This Crop Netted the Grower Nearly $1,000.00 Per Acre.

THE MILLION DOLLAR CROP FROM HASTINGS' SEEDS

We Started Bermuda Omens as a Crop

Some 24 years ago we began talking Bermuda Onions as a com¬
mercial crop. We knew the Bermuda Onion and had full confidence
that, once it became known, there would be a market for it that
would put hundreds of thousands of dollars in Southern truck
growers’ pockets. The development of this great industry in Texas,
Florida and other states has justified our judgment fully. It is now
one of the great Southern vegetable crops, the safest, surest vege¬
table crop a man can plant right on year after year. It has reached
its greatest development in Southwest Texas where, during the
shipping season, solid train loads of Bermuda Onions leave daily
for Northern and Eastern markets.

While Texas is the most important Bermuda onion growing state,
this crop is assuming larger proportions each year in Florida, Cali¬
fornia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

This development of a new and great industry lias been possible
through genuine, good, unmixed seed obtained from Hastings. If
it hadn’t been for Hastings there would probably be no Bermuda
Onion industry in Texas now.

The Bermuda Onion is the safest vegetable crop that you can
grow. It’s adapted to the Southern third of Texas, the coast sec¬
tions of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, all of Florida,
and the valley lands of Southern California. The Bermuda Onion
grower has a sure and steady market for his product, North, South,
East and West, and it seldom nets him less than 1% cents per
pound, and often 3 and 4 cents. Its importance as a money crop
can hardly be over-estimated. Let the consumer once get a taste
of genuine Bermuda Onion, he will buy no other so long as a Ber¬
muda is on the market. No gardener should fail to grow them
either for market or home use.

We Have Sold 80 Per Cent of the Seed

There is no other seed house in this or any other country that
has sold 80 per cent or even 50 per cent of the seed used in any one
great crop for a series of years. We have sold 80 per cent of the
Bermuda Onion seed used in the United States up to and including
1914. We are not saying this as a matter of boasting but simply
stating a fact. It is an unequaled record and there must naturally
be a reason for it, especially so when our prices for seed are as high
or higher than those of other firms. Why is it, then, that we sold
such a large proportion of the seed used in a commercial crop worth
millions of dollars? It’s all a question of seed quality. Hastings’
Bermuda Onion Seed is the only seed that has been of even grade
— seed that has gone on and “made good’’ year after year in the
actual crop tests. Almost every seed house that sells seed in the
South has tried on Bermuda Onion seed. None of them have ever
been able to get a quality equal to Hastings’, and most of them
have given up attempting to sell in the commercial onion-growing
districts where high quality is insisted on by the growers. These
men, with their years of experience in Onion growing, have learned
the impossibility of growing the big paying crops with inferior
seed, not true to name, seed that makes thick necks and scallions
instead'-of fancy onions. Mr. T. C. Nye, of Laredo, Texas, who uses
our seed exclusively, reported one crop of 400,000 pounds (8,000
crates) without any culls. This is a combination of first-class cul¬
tivation and first-class seed.

Every pound of seed we sell is the best that can be grown with
carefully selected and bred stock running back for more than a
dozen years; then the seed is thoroughly re-cleaned of every light
and imperfect seed. It is equaled by no seed yet produced or of¬
fered by any other person or firm.

$100.00 to $600.00 PER ACRE CLEAR PROFIT

Send For Our Valuable Special Pamphlet On Bermuda Onion Culture

Every year we have hundreds of letters asking for information
about this crop and we have just prepared a new and up-to-date
pamphlet on Bermuda Onion Culture. It gives the methods of the
most successful growers, both with and without irrigation. It takes
up fully the subjects of preparation of soil, fertilizing, cultivation,
seed-beds, transplanting, harvesting and packing. It takes up the
whole subject and gives all the information necessary to enable the
careful grower to make a successful crop.

No seed firm in this country has been in such close contact with
the Bermuda Onion industry as we have or is in better position to
give you information covering the growth of this crop under the

different conditions existing in the various Southern States. This
crop is being grown successfully and profitably in every Gulf State
and there is plenty of room for thousands of acres more in these
states, both for home markets and shipment.

Onions cannot be grown with the same careless cultivation as cot¬
ton or melons or beans, but for the grower who is willing to give an
onion crop the care it needs, no more profitable vegetable crop can
be found. Enormous yields can be made, Florida reporting 700
bushels per acre, with Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi not far be¬
hind that. This pamphlet is free. It shows how growers are clear¬
ing $100.00 to $000.00 per acre net profit. You can do likewise.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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You Must Have The Genuine Seed to Succeed

No crop, with the possible ex¬
ception of cabbage, depends more
on the genuineness and quality of
the seed for a successful crop.
Outside of the Hastings’ importa¬
tion there is little Bermuda Onion
seed that’s safe to plant for the
man who wants to make success¬
ful crops. There is not a seed
house in the country except our¬
selves whose Bermuda Onion seed
has made good with the growers
right on year after year. It’s the
only dependable Bermuda Onion
seed sold in the United States.
Others occasionally get hold of a
small lot of good seed, then fall
down on quality the next year.
This experience has been repeated
over and over again.

We could fill this entire cata¬
logue with letters from onion
growers who have depended on
seed from other sources than Hast¬
ings’ to their sorrow. Hastings’
Bermuda Onion seed (Crystal
Wax, Bermuda White, and Ber¬
muda Bed) always “makes good’’
everywhere and every year, in
good growing seasons and bad. It
bas stood the test of 24 years con¬
tinuous planting without a “fail
down.” There have been all sorts
of cut-price propositions put up
to the growers in years past.
There are beginners in onion¬
growing every year and older
ones wanting to take chances for
the sake of saving a few cents per
pound in seed cost.

Veteran onion growers like T.
C. Nye, of Laredo. Texas, are not
caught by offers of a cut price.
When they start a crop they want
to feel sure that the seed is right,
and when Bermuda Onion seed
comes from Hastings’ they know
it’s all right. Mr. Nye has made
$7,000 clear net profit from his 20
acres in a year, and it wasn’t a
specially good year for onions
either. In Bermuda Onion Seed
it's a whole lot better to be sure
at planting time than sorry at
harvest.

Wax Bermuda Onion — The Pure Waxy White Variety

Hastings’ Crystal

There Is No Seed “Just As Good As Hastings’ ”

Readers of this catalogue who have been in the Bermuda Onion
business for years have representatives of other seed houses call on
them and the talk put out is always “Our seed is just as good as
Hastings’.” They are not telling the truth, and what’s worse, they
know that they are not telling the truth. Not a single house has sold
seed in the Bermuda Onion territory that has made good two years
in succession. The truth of the statement can be borne out by every
onion grower in the large onion growing districts. There has never
been a crop of Bermuda Onions produced from seed from other
houses that has equaled crops from Hastings’ for purity, shape and
yield per acre. Every record crop of Bermuda Onions produced in
this country has been from Hastings’ seed. Practically every seed

It’s Much Better To

Harvest time tells the tale and the onion grower who for the sake
of saving a dollar or so per acre in planting is reasonably sure of
losing a hundred or more in the crop.

Mr. T. C. Nye, of Laredo, Texas, pioneer of the Texas Bermuda
Onion industry, once said in a letter to us :

“I have always purchased my onion seed from Hastings except on
two occasions, when I wished to place additional orders with them,
and found that they had already accepted orders for as much seed
as their contracts would yield, and so I was compelled to buy part
of my seed from other parties. I can say that I never got from any
other source the same pure seed that I got from Hastings.

“I have bought Bermuda Onion seed from Hastings all the years
that I have been in the Bermuda Onion business, and I will never
buy from any other house as long as I can get them from him.

house in the United States that attempts to do Southern business
has taken a shot at this Bermuda Onion business during the last 15
years and none of them have succeeded. Why ? Simply because the
seed has not “made good.” They have not the right growing ar¬
rangements. The seed is not “bred up” properly. This mongrel,
more or less “scrub” onion seed has occasioned losses of hundreds of
thousands of dollars to growers in Texas, Florida and other States.
This seed makes ill-shaped, thick neck, unsatisfactory onions, while
much of the seed sold is not Bermuda Onion seed but Italian and
Spanish varieties that are worthless in the South. If there is one
crop you can’t afford to take chances on the seed, it’s Bermuda
Onions. If you plant Hastings’ Bermuda Onion Seed you are safe.

Be Sure Than Sorry

“The planter who lets every dealer in Bermuda Onion seed catch
his order is very foolish, and takes a risk that no sensible man
ought to incur. Any speculation with the business is more than
likely to land a man in the poorhouse.

“I am confident that during this season the sensible and reliable
growers of this section are placing their orders with Hastings’, as
we have fully satisfied ourselves that their seed is more reliable than
the seed sent out by other houses. Hastings’ seeds are good enough
for me, and when I can’t get them, there won’t be any other seed
planted on my place, even if the land should remain unplanted.”

There is many a man in Texas and Florida who has_“gone broke”
as a result of buying cheap and inferior Bermuda Onion Seed. Un¬
less the seed is right there is absolutely no chance for success with
this crop. With right seed it is the safest vegetable crop a man can
plant in any section that it is adapted to.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia,

TIME FOR DELIVERY OF THE NEW 1915 CROP SEED

We positively will not fill any orders for Bermuda Onion Seed until after the arrival of the new 1915 crop seed.
This will be some time between August 10th and 25th. Seed should not be planted before September 15th, while after
September 25th is better. Send in your order for onion seed as early as you wish. Same will be booked and the seed
sent you just as soon as we can get it thoroughly recleaned after its arrival in Atlanta.

White or Yellow Bermuda
Onion (No. 288)

The most widely and
largely planted of the
Bermuda varieties. Before we introduced
our Crystal Wax this was generally called
white to distinguish it from the Bermuda Red, although it is a
light yellow or straw color. Since the appearance of Crystal Wax
on the markets the produce trade of the country began calling this
variety “yellow” to distinguish it from the pure white Crystal Wax.
This has led to some confusion as to the name and from now on we
shall list it under the name of White or Yellow to avoid any mis¬
understanding. We make this explanation, for many who plant this
variety for the first time expect it to be a pure white in color.

Our illustration on page 36 shows the Bermuda White or Yellow
as grown in Florida from seed sown October 1st. Less than six
months from seed sowing to the fully matured onions. No onion
grown compares with the Bermuda in mildness of flavor, and for
this reason it is immensely popular with millions of people who
dislike the strong flavor of most of the varieties. You will make
no mistake in planting the Bermuda Onion. Large packet, 10
cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 75 cents;
pound, $2.50; postpaid.

U ti or c ^ Wav The most attractive onion

ndatmgb crystal wax in the WOrld. Our own in-
Rarmiirla fMn 9RQ\ troduetion and one that we have been
DcrillUUa ^ lit). COJ3 J exceedingly proud of. It is an ab¬
solutely pure white Bermuda Onion with a most beautiful waxy ap¬
pearance that makes it sell on sight in the retail markets. In New
Y'ork and other large markets our Crystal Wax usually sells at 25
to oO cents per crate above the Bermuda White or Y’ellow. Here in
Atlanta markets it has largely displaced all other onions during
spring and early summer months. Except in color it is identical
with the Yellow Bermuda, has all the desirable qualities of the old
variety combined with much more handsome appearance. Seed of
this is always in short supply, as it is a very light seeder. Packet,
10c; y2 ounce, 20c; ounce, 30c; 14 lb., $1.00; lb., $3.50; postpaid.

Red Bermuda Onion (No. 287) S MSS',

favorite everywhere in the South for home use and Southern mar¬
kets. Identical in size, shape and mildness with our White Bermu¬
da. The color is a pale, waxy red, and it is just the right variety in
all sections where a red but mild onion is preferred. Large packet,
10c; Vs ounce, 15e; ounce, 25c; 14 pound, 65c; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

BERMUDA ONION SETS FOR EARLIEST CROPS

We do not advise the use of onion sets exclusively for the large commercial crops. There is a high priced demand for limited quanti¬
ties of Bermuda Onions both for shipment and to supply the demand for local or nearby markets throughout the South and the planting

of a small part of the onion acreage in sets is usually found profitable. As a rule onions
grown from sets are not as well formed as those grown direct from seed, but this is not a
serious drawback on the early markets.

For earliest shipments or to meet the local market demand for full grown onions early the
planting of sets has a distinct place in the fall gardening operations. These Bermuda Sets
grown from Hastings’ genuine seed ripen fully grown onions four to six weeks ahead of crops
grown direct from seed, ff you want an extra early onion crop plant some of these Bermuda
Sets this fall. Sets ready for delivery about September 1st, possibly a little earlier.
Rarmiirla U/L;&« nt> Vallnuf The genuine White or Yellow Bermuda Onion
Dermuaa wmieor leieuw of 1he great commercial crops. In the set
form they often have a rather reddish colored skin, but on maturity are a light straw color.
Pound, by mail, postpaid, 30 cents. By express or freight, not prepaid, peck (8 pounds), 90
cents; bushel (32 pounds), $3.00.

UfL;ia EWIillf’inlioi'e Finest sets for earliest crop. Pure white color, very produc-
VVIIIIe BvBUB ll|Jllcl 3 tive, one set frequently making 20 bulbs in one season. Right
size for bunching or pickling. Their greatest value is for an early onion for bunching green,
coming in three to four weeks ahead of any other onion. Pound, 40 cents; postpaid. Peck,
(8 pounds), not prepaid, $1.00; bushel (32 pounds), $3.50.

Cate Sets of white Portugal or Silver Skin Onion. Large white
onion. Pound, 25 cents; postpaid. Peck (8 pounds), not pre¬
paid, 70 cents; bushel (32 pounds), $2.25.

Yellow Danvers Sets Forms globe-shaped yellow onions. Lb., postpaid, 25c;

White Multiplier Onion Sets

Garlic

peck (8 lbs.), not prepaid.

Pure Italian Garlic.

Pound, 50 cents; 2% pounds, for $1.00; postpaid.

60c; bushel (32 lbs.), $2.00.

Turn 50 Cent Dollars Into Dollar Dollars

For some fifty years the farmers of the South have been getting their pay in 50 cent dollars. No, we are not raking up the old “free
silver” and “gold standard” discussion of the Bryan-McKinley campaign of 20 years ago, but just trying to get you to see that you are
only getting about half value out of the Cotton Dollars, the Peach Dollars, the Tobacco Dollars, the Orange Dollars, and so on down
the list of the so-called “money crops” of the South.

All sections of the Cotton Belt and the Lower South are notorious food, grain, hay and canned vegetable buyers. We get in hundreds
of millions of dollars every year and few of them stick. Why? Because as fast as these dollars come in they go to pay debts made for
food and grain supplies, and in most cases at two to three times what those same supplies would have cost if grown on the buyer’s
own acres. You can’t, we can’t, your neighbors can’t ever reach any considerable degree of prosperity by selling everything you pro¬
duce at lowest wholesale market price and buying everything you need and must have at highest retail prices. This is exactly what
most of our people are doing now.

That’s why we say that you are only getting about 50 cents real value out of the dollars received for your “money crop.” It isn’t the
government’s fault or the railroad’s fault or anybody’s else fault except your own.

It’s time for you to begin turning your present 50 Cent Dollars into Dollar Dollars. The way to begin is to plant first of all a good
big family fall garden; then oats, rye, barley, wheat, alfalfa and the dozen and one things that ought to be planted on the farm of
every self-respecting farmer. These are the things that turn 50 Cent Dollars into Dollar Dollars. The time to start doing this is now.

39

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia,

OTHER GOOD VARIETIES OF ONIONS FOR THE SOUTH

In the previous pages we give a great deal of space to the Bermuda
varieties. They are the most important for fall planting for Florida,
and all along the Gulf Coast. The Bermudas are the earliest to ma¬
ture, and hold a distinct place, both as a commercial crop as well as
for home gardens and nearby markets. There is a place, however,
that they do not fill. They are early and the quantity of them grown
is so small compared with the large and steady demand for onions
that the Bermudas seldom take care of the market over two months
in the year. This leaves a nine or ten months’ demand to be supplied
with other varieties, for the Bermudas, carelessly handled, do not
keep well over three months. Carefully handled, however, we have
known them to last in Florida from April until Christmas.

Many have the idea that the American varieties, such as Prizetaker,
the Hastings’ "White, Yellow and Red Globe Onions and others cannot
be grown in the Lower South. We have seen first-class onions of Prize-
taker grown as far South as Miami, Florida, which is some 400 miles
south of the Georgia line. Planted during October they mature 4 to
6 weeks later than the Bermudas, but being of slower growth they
are firmer, and are naturally longer keepers. Try a few of these va¬
rieties this fall, growing them direct from seed. You can easily have
onions all the year round, either for home use or nearby markets by
planting the Bermudas for first early, followed by almost any of the
varieties on this page.

Hastings’ Snow White SSieWiSlS0^

Globe Onion (Mo. 292) VffSSSS. TSVBfe

firm, rather mild, and a first-class keeper. Remarkably even and uni¬
form in growth, will always prove a favorite wherever it once appears
on market. Large packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents;

% pound, 75 cents; pound. $2.50.

Hastings’ Dark Red Globe ™| ffaSj’A

AnSnn (Un 90 I \ skin that is found in no other. Onions are
VIIIUI1 ^HU. i J large, perfectly globe-shaped, and of rich,
deep dark red color. Exact shape and size of the White and Yellow
Globe, the only difference being in the color. Large packet, 10 cents;

% ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 eents; % pound, 75 cents; pound, .$2.50.

Hastings’ Yellow Globe Onion (No. 293)

Like the Snow White and Dark Ked, it has a distinct globular shape.

All our Globe Onions are extra large in size, and large croppers as
well as first-class keepers from the firmness and solidity of the flesh. Color a very light shade of straw yellow, almost the same color
as the Bermuda White. Parge packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 75 cents; pound, $2.50.

The Hastings’ Globe Onions, White, Ked and Yellow

One Large Packet Each of Hastings’ 3- Globe Varieties for 25 Cents, Postpaid

Australian Brown (No. 297) & f£Sp2

splendid keeper. Fine flavor, skin an amber brown color. One of
the best for fall plantings. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 14
pound, 45 cents; pound, $1.25; postpaid.

HASTINGS’ PRIZETAKER ONION

/U. 9QC\ We have the Prizetaker Onion of the best American
\I*U| growth, far superior to all imported seed of this vari¬

ety. It has been
successfully grown
in all parts of the
Central South with
both spring and
fall sowings. The
illustration shows
the shape of this
variety perfectly. It
is an immense on¬
ion, measuring from
12 to 18 inches in
circumference. Fine
bulbs have been
raised weighing
from 4 to 5% pounds
each. It ripens up
hard and firm and
presents a hand¬
some appearance.

Flesh is white and
fine grained with
mild flavor. Packet,

5 cts.; oz., 20 ets.;

14 pound, 60 cents;
pound, $2.00.

Extra Early
Barletta
(No. 295)

Small, pure white
pickling, growing
small round bulbs
about one inch in
diameter. Just the
right size for pick¬
ling. Packet, 5 cts.;

Va oz., 15 cts.; oz.,

25 cts.; 14 lb., 75
cents; lb., $2.50.

Louisiana Creole Onion

A flat, light - red variety,
grown extensively in Lou-
/ OQQ \ isiana, Mississippi and other parts of the South. Very
^ HU. CuO I gne and solid, a splendid keeper. Good heavy crop¬
per, but strong flavored. We do not recommend it to those who
want a mild onion. From six weeks to two months later in matu¬
rity than the Bermuda. Delivery of new crop seed (Louisiana
grown) about September 1st. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents; %
pound, 85 cents ; pound, $3.00.

Hastings’ American Prizetaker Onions Grown Direct from Seed in Georgia

40

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

MUSTARD FOR SOUTHERN FALL PLANTING

One of the most popular and useful of the fall, winter and early spring salad plants,
and hardy throughout the South. Sow August to November. Florida plantings can be
made throughout the winter months. Fine for salad, like lettuce.

Chinese Mustard

--- -

/Un 977 \ Superior to the
^liUa ell) Southern Curled
in size, quality and flavor. See
the engraving, which is a good
representation of it. Packet,

5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44
pound, 25 cents; pound, 75
cents; postpaid.

Giant Southern

OurlArl An old and well-
'/U* ,cu known variety
/Na 970 \ used in all parts
\ e IQ) 0f fhe South for
salads like lettuce and for
boiling. Our strain of this
variety is w h a t is sold by
many as the “Ostrich Plume.”

Packet, 5 cents ; ounce, 10
cents; 44 pound, 25 cents;
pound, 75 cents; postpaid.

ALhji nu AiimkA A most healthful vegetable and a general favorite in
wf%l <ei VI UUIIIUU all parts of the South. It can be planted in the Central
South up to August 1st and into September in Florida. Many of the Florida
truck growers find this a very profitable crop for fall and winter shipment.

Perkins’ Mammoth Long-Podded Okra (No. 306)

This Okra is the best for market and shipping purposes, being used by the
Florida shippers almost exclusively to grow for market. We have greatly im¬
proved the original strain as introduced by us and now its productiveness is
simply wonderful, the pods shooting out from the bottom of the stalk within
three inches of the ground, and the whole plant is covered with them to the
height of a man’s head, five to six feet. Pods are an intense green in color, of
unusual length, nine or ten inches, very slim and do not get hard as is the case
with other okras. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 20 cents; pound,
60 cents; 10 pounds, not prepaid, $1.50.

White Velvet Okra (No. 305) ^SSVH

specially fine early strain of this variety, with medium size, round, smooth pods,
free from ridges and not prickly to the touch. This strain of White Velvet we
find to be the best of all white varieties. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44
pound, 20 cents; pound, 60 cents; postpaid. 10 pounds, not prepaid, $4.50.

PARSLEY An extremely beautiful plant used
“ n ■ for garnishing. Can be sown in
either fall or spring in drills 15 inches apart. When
plants have become strong thin out to six inches .
apart in the row. Parsley seed usually takes three
to four weeks to germinate. Soak seed twelve hours
in water before planting. Keep beds free from weeds
and grass.

Extra Moss Curled g;fra”n,S0itr“c',",.,od'

is the most ornamental of all varieties.

It is handsome enough to have a place I
in your flower garden. It is a favorite sort for gar¬
nishing and to supply hotels and markets. It is
planted almost exclusively by Atlanta market gar¬
deners for that purpose. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10
cents; 44 pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00. Moss Curled Parsley

f'lirlarl (tie. 9ftQ\ Plants of dwarf, compact growth and the
OJOUOie IcUrieCS (NO. JOS) young leaves have the edges heavily
crimped, giving it a general appearance of coarse moss. Often used by market
gardeners. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents.

Plain I oauArl /Na Is very hardy, a strong grower, and excel-

rldlll tCdVcia \>*V. QIU) ient for seasoning, for which purpose it is
grown almost exclusively. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 25 cents;
pound, 65 cents.

DADCNIPC In the fall in Florida and along the Gulf Coast, sow from
rMniPIllr P September to December for winter and spring crop. Pars¬
nips are a most desirable vegetable.

improved Hollow Crown (No.3ll) S'KSSSt./'ffi;

South. The leaves start from a small depression in the crown, giving it the name.
Rich, sweet flavor and very productive. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44
pound, 20 cents ; pound, 50 cents.

(No. 308)

Perkins’ Mammoth Long-rodtled Okra

A GOOD FALL GARDEN IS A HELPER

It helps a lot keeping down your store bills and gives a variety on
your table. Too many have the idea that a fall garden should be
limited to a turnip and collard patch. That turnip patch is a mighty
good thing, but there are plenty of other vegetables as well — Beets,
Beans, Cabbage, Lettuce, Radishes, Squash, Onions, Spinach, Kale,
etc., all coming in and adding variety to your table, health to your¬
self and family. Don’t forget to plant a good fall garden.

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GARDEN or

ENGLISH

PEAS FOR

FALL PLANT¬

ING IN THE

SOUTH

Prices Include Postage
Prepaid by Packets, Pints
and Quarts. Pecks and
Bushels by Express or
Freight at Purchaser’s
Expense.

Clllt-lirfx l'ar fall

VUIUlrc planting in
Central South garden
peas should be sown ear¬
ly in September, espe¬
cially the second early
varieties. Extra early

_ _ , sorts such as Alaska and

John L. can be sown the
latter part of the month and mature before frost. In
Florida and along the Gulf Coast they may be sown
during any of the fall months, October and November
being preferable. Sow in drills, covering seed 2 to 3
inches deep, according to soil. To avoid the necessity
of sticking of brushing, plant the peas in double rows
6 to 8 inches apart, and when the vines get large enough
run them together. Most varieties of the earlies and
second earlies are of sufficiently stiff growth to support
each other and they can be handled in this manner with
much less trouble.

Hastings’ John L. (No. 316) — Our
Famous Extra Early t“rVfPeaSf either

for market or home use. For 19 years it has held the record against the best
strains of Extra Early peas sold by the prominent Northern houses, and
during that time no pea has been introduced that equals it in earliness and
productiveness in its class. The John. L. is the standard variety with South¬
ern gardeners both for shipping and home markets, and each year shows
our sales of it increasing largely. The earliest time on record in this coun¬
try was made with the John L. by C. ,T. Montgomery, St. Augustine, Flor¬
ida, who planted one peck of John L. and on the 30th day from planting
gathered one bushel of peas therefrom. Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 15 cents;
pint, 25 cents; quart, 40c; postpaid. Peck, $1.25; bushel, $4.50; not prepaid.

Alaska Extra Early (No. 317) best of all the round, extra

early peas; it follows John L. in earliness, is the best in quality and the heaviest bearer of all
the round, extra earlies. Seeds are of bluish shade,
well rounded out and the fresh peas are almost equal
to the wrinkled sorts in quality. A splendid shipper
and one of the very best for home use. There are a
great many peas being sold under the name of
“Alaska” that are from run out stock or else not
kept true to name; these dwarf varieties of garden
peas have to be “rogued” very carefully every year
to keep them true to type. This we do and when
you buy Alaska from us you know exactly what you
are getting. Packet, 10 cents; % pint, 15 cents; pint,

25 cents; quart, 40 cents; postpaid. Peck, $1.25;
bushel, $4.50; not prepaid.

Hastings’ Extra Early eaViV wUn-

CiirnHiea Dasc kled pea beats them all for
surprise r Cd3 combining earliness, quan-

Hastings’ John X,. Peas

/Ma Q | K\ tity produced and most delicious qual-
ity in one variety. A true, wrinkled
pea that ranks with the earliest; vines grow 20 to 24

pea _ _ . .

inches high; require no brushing or staking if plant¬
ed in double rows, as described in cultural direc¬
tions. Its extreme earliness, its delicious flavor, sweetness, and tenderness combined with
extra heavy bearing for an extra early sort make it a favorite. See the illustration on this
page showing exact size of the pods crowded full of peas. If you want early peas this fall
plant the Surprise for your home use. It has also developed into a splendid variety for ship¬
ping, many preferring it to Alaska. Seed of this variety exceedingly scarce. Packet, 10
cents; % pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid. Peck, $1.00; bushel, $600.

Gradus or Prosperity Pea (No. 330) pod? a7mosktleads Sg TL

Telephone and Mammoth Podded. This pea combines earliness, productiveness and finest
quality. Very hardy, strong and vigorous grower, very prolific, the peas being very large.
Quality and flavor is most delicious and peas remain tender and sweet for a long time. Seed
stock is very limited. Packet, 10 cents; M: pint, 20 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents;
postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.85; bushel, $7.00.

MeMoil / U A 900 \ Recommended for Florida and Gulf Coast regions
r Iwrllld IrlvIlCII yHU. OQO ) only where it is well known. A medium early, very
heavy bearing small seeded variety that has proven itself an intensely prolific bearer in
Florida and lower Gulf Coast sections. For home use and nearby markets only. Its greatest
value is its hardiness and heavy bearing qualities. Packet, 10 cents; Va pint, 20 cents; pint,
30 eents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid.

Hastings’ Extra Early Surprise Pea

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Bliss7 Everbearing (No. 329)

Height of vine 18 inelies to 2 feet; pods 3 to 4
inches long, each pod containing 6 to 8 very
large wrinkled peas, which are often Vi of an inch in diameter and of extra fine flavor. Its
habit of growth is of peculiar branching character, forming many stalks from a single root.
The individual branches are extra strong so that when hilled up properly they stand up well
without brushing. This variety had best be planted in double rows about 8 inches apart.
For continuance of bearing this variety is notable — a characteristic giving it a special value
for late summer and fall use. After repeated picking the vines continue to he covered with
blossoms and buds, developing to maturity in turn. The quality is equal to any pea we know
and it is a variety that should be in every garden. Seed supply very short. Packet, 10 cents;
Va pint, 15 cents; pint, 35 cents; quart, 40 cents; postpaid. Peek, $1.40; bushel, $5.00.

Hastings’ Mammoth Podded Pea ffior K^suM

/ Un GIO\ should be brushed or staked. Grows 3% to 5 feet high, according to soil, and
win ) js fairly loaded with enormous, well filled pods. Of the very finest flavor and
stays in bearing 4 to 0 weeks in the Lower South. This variety is for home gardens and
nearby markets only. Packet, 10 cents; Vi pint, 15 cents; pint, 35 cents; quart, 40 cents; post¬
paid. Peck, not prepaid, $1.50; bushel, $5.50.

Hastings’ Improved Telephone Peas

/Ufl 097 \ been greatly improved by our growers. Grows from 5 to 6 feet tall and must
\ HU" I f ],e brushed or staked. Immensely productive, bearing from 25 to 30 extra large
pods to each vine. Telephone has that excellent sugary flavor so desirable in peas. Seed
crops of this variety for several years have been more or less of a failure, owing to unfavora¬
ble weather at time of maturity. Quantity limited. Packet, 10 cents; Vi pint, 15 cents; pint,
35 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid. Peck, not prepaid, $1.65; bushel, $6.00.

Hastings’ Home Delight Pea (No. 328)

thousands of our customers

during the past seventeen years with entire satisfaction. Earliest bearer of the second early
or heavy-bearing varieties; a strong, vigorous grower, coming in right after the extra early
sorts, and while enormously productive is of such stiff, stocky growth that it can be easily
grown without “brushing” when planted in double rows 6 to 8 inches apart, rows running
together as soon as high enough. The sweetness and tenderness and heavy-bearing qualities
will give you entire satisfaction. Packet, 10 cents; Vi pint, 15 cents; pint, 35 cents; quart,
40 cents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.40; bushel, $5.00.
extra early, dwarf-

An
growing

wrinkled pea.

Tall Cncrar Color! A distinct variety with edible
i ail 9Ugar UI dalall pods, cooked and eaten in the
Da<>» /Un OOC \ same manner as snap beans. These are great
1 CO » |I1Ui OtO) favorites with those who have once used
them. Packet, 10 cents; Vi pint, 30c; pint, 30c; quart, 50c; postpaid.

Dwarf Sugar Pea (No. 326)

grows in short bushy form. Packet, 10 cents; Ys pint, 20 cents; pint,
30 cents; quart, 50 cents; postpaid.

Black Eye Marrowfat (No. 320)£^^wn
Large White Marrowfat (No. 321) \nh|tTreetfa-

vorites in many parts of the South. When properly “brushed” or
“staked” they are exceedingly heavy bearers and very profitable.
Each, Packet, 10 cents; Vi pint, 15 cents; pint, 35 cents; quart, 40
cents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.35; bushel, $4.50.
rown for forage and

Bliss’ Everbearing Peas

Mott’s Excelsior (No. 319)

very similar to the old American Wonder but a third larger, 'with
about the same earliness and delicious flavor in the peas. Peas are
more closely packed in pods than in any other variety. Packet, 10
cents; % pint, 15 cents; pint, 35 cents; quart, 45 cents; postpaid.

Peck, $1.65; bushel, $6.00; not prepaid.

Premium Gem (No. 331)

about 15 inches high and is one of the earliest of the good quality
varieties for home gardens. This is one of the older varieties that
has always been a great garden favorite. Packet, 10c; % pint, 15c;
pint, 35c; qt., 45c; postpaid. Not prepaid, pk., $1.50; bushel, $5.75.

First and Best (No. 324)

early peas. Packet, 10 cents;

% pint, 15 cents; pint, 35 cents; quart, 40 cents; postpaid. Peck,

$1.35; bushel, $4.50; not prepaid.

PiolH p^ae (Ufa 347 \ A (-vIle of English Pea „
waiBeslIffil r IcIU i JHI J soji improvement. Hardy in winter in Florida

and Gulf Coast sections. Good for fall and winter growth. Packet, 10 cents; pint, 30 cents;
quart, 30 cents; postpaid. Not prepaid, peck, $1.00; bushel, $3.35.

Sweet Peppers For Planting Now

Some of the most profitable crops of sweet peppers ever grown in Florida and Southwest
Texas were from summer and early fall planted seed. If you live in those sections try a few
of them this year. We have splendid seed of the highest quality.

riiinaco Pj^nf t EJa OKK\ '-The monster of the pepper family. Single specimens of
Vrlllllcsc UIdBIl \ ) Chinese Giant have been grown weighing 18 ounces.

The plants are strong, stocky, bushy and erect growth, growing 18 inches to 2 feet high, and
are very prolific, setting 3 to 4 extra large fruits at the base which ripen while a second crop
is setting on the branches. Fruit is much larger than liuby King, almost square in shape,
while the flesh is very thick. In flavor it is very mild and entirely free from any fiery taste.

Very Scarce. Packet, 10 cents; V-> ounce, 30 cents; ounce, 50 cents; V4 pound, $1.50; pound, $5.00.

Large Bell or Bull Nose (No. 356) ZS’p-

ping to Northern markets from Florida, Louisiana and Texas. It is sweet and has a very mild
flavor; is comparatively early and very prolific. Fruits 3 to 3% inches long and 2 to 3 inches
across the shoulder. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 35 cents; V4 pound, 65 cents; pound, $3.00.

RufciV BCinC flio One of tlle leading varieties of sweet peppers for home use,

■ hum j \ j and very largely grown by market gardeners for shipping. A

very vigorous grower with large, sweet mild fruits. A close favorite with the Bell or Bull Nose,
slightly larger and equally mild. Packet, 5 cents; Vi ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 35 cents; Vk pound,

70 cents; pound, $3.35.

Mildest and sweetest of all peppers. Packet, 10 cents; %

30 cents; ounce, 50 cents; Vi pound, $1.50; pound, $5.00.

SALSIFY— Culture

and September in
shallow drills 18 inches apart. Prepare good soil
deeply, as Salsify is a deep rooter. Cultivate fre¬
quently and let grow as long as they will. Plants
are hardy, so let them stay in the ground and use
through the winter and spring as desired. Sow one
ounce of seed to 100 feet <>f drill.

MAMMOTH SANDWICH ISLAND (No. 484)— Best
white variety. Attains large size, being twice the
size of the Long White. In quality it is much supe¬
rior to the other sorts. Packet. 10 cents; ounce, 15

Hastings’ Mammoth White Sandwich Island Salsify or Vegetable Oyster cents; Vi pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00.

Pimiento (No. 358)

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BUG INSURANCE

You have all heard of and probably carry fire insurance, life in¬
surance, accident insurance, or some one or more of the dozens of
kinds of insurance that are offered. We want to talk to you a little
while about another kind of insurance which is of the greatest im¬
portance to any one living in sections where there are insects that
eat up the garden crops. Every market gardener and trucker who
grows vegetables on a large scale has to fight bugs, and this is
true of many of the vegetables that grow in the home gardens.

Why not insure your crops and your income from them by the
use of Bug Death, which is the best all-round insecticide that we
know of — a preparation that is death to almost every kind of a bug
that is destructive to vegetable crops. We have known Bug Death
for many years, have seen it used by others and have used it our¬
selves, and from personal experience we know just how good and
how effective it is and can recommend it to you because of our own
personal knowledge. It ought to be kept in hand by every gar¬
dener who grows either for home use or market, in the South.

Bug Death Kills the Bugs

and, at the same time, does not injure the plant or its growth as
does every insecticide or bug poison that contains arsenic in one
form or another, as practically all of them do. Paris Green, Lon¬
don Purple, Arsenate of Lead and other forms of arsenic will kill
the bugs, but unless carefully used either kill the plants or else
“burn” them so that they will not make satisfactory crops. On
green vegetables, such as cabbage, they are positively dangerous
to those who eat the vegetables afterwards. Instead of Bug Death
burning or killing the vegetable plants to which it is applied it
actually acts in a small degree as a fertilizer. Do you know of any

other insecticide that this is true of? To the best of our knowl¬
edge Bug Death is the only insecticide now’ made that is both ef¬
fective on the bugs and at the same time is harmless alike to the
plants, all animals and human beings. It’s sure death to all leaf-
eating bugs and it positively will not “burn” the plants like Paris
Green and other arsenical poisons of that class. The damage to
tender growth of vegetable plants by the application of Paris
Green is often almost as bad as that of the bugs. Now that Bug
Death is obtainable, you don’t have to use a poison to kill the bugs,
for, strange as it may seem —

Bug Death Is Not Poison

to human beings and animals, but it is sure death to LEAF-EAT¬
ING bugs of all kinds, the bugs that eat the potato plants and beans
and all the other bugs that make life a burden for the gardener
i who growrs vegetables in bug-infested localities. You need not be
afraid to leave Bug Death around. We doubt if it would hurt you
any if you ate some of it yourself, although we would not advise
your trying a mess of it for breakfast. It is a fact, however, that
you can dust it on cabbage one day and eat that cabbage the next
with no bad effects. It is most effective on bugs, and that’s what
you want to kill, and at the same time you need have no fear in
keeping it around the place, for it won’t hurt the children or your

live stock if they should happen to get into it by accident or
through ignorance. Many a child and animal has been poisoned
by getting into Paris Green left around or else eating the plants.
That kind of an accident can’t happen with Bug Death around, for
it won’t hurt them if they do get into it.

While Bug Death is the best insecticide wTe know’ of to destroy all
the varieties of insects that chew or eat the leaves or stems of
plants, it is not recommended for use against insects WHICH
SUCK THE SAP, as this is an entirely different class and requires
a different insecticide. However, the leaf-eating insects are much
more numerous and destructive and are the ones which do the most
damage.

Don't Wait Until The Bugs

have eaten up half your crop before you begin to think about a
remedy. You can be reasonably sure that Mr. and Mrs. Bug are
going to come around and try to raise several Bug families in your
patch. The right way, the safe way, is to keep Bug Death around
the house and at the first sign of Mr. Bug’s appearance in your
crops either dust or spray the plants with Bug Death and Mr. and
Mrs. Bug will shortly be in a condition that w ill make the raising
of “Bug” families impossible in your neighborhood. It will be a
bug funeral instead of a large increase in the family, and in the
meantime your crops are going on to maturity uninjured. You
may think it strange that wTe say “dusted or sprayed” on the plants.
That’s exactly correct and one method is as good as the other. If
you have a powder gun or shaker you can dust the fine powder
on the plants W’hen they are wet with rain or dew and it will stick i

so tight that it will take the hardest kind of rain to wash any of it
off. If you have a sprayer, and are working on a large scale, dis¬
solve about 12 to 15 pounds of Bug Death in 12 quarts of clean water
and spray it on. This much will go over an acre of vegetables and
the bugs will quit eating the leaves of your plants in a hurry.

In some parts of the country vegetable crops are troubled with
fungus diseases as well as bugs. In such cases Bug Death can be
mixed with “Bordeaux Mixture” and sprayed on together. Full
directions go with each package of Bug Death for its use. If you
have no duster or sprayer you can easily dust the plants by placing
some Bug Death in cheese cloth or other thin cloth. Bug Death is
such a very fine powder that it can very easily be shaken through
thin cloth onto the plants. It’s just the sort of insecticide you need
I — safe, easily applied and a sure Bug Killer.

PREPAID PRICES On Bug Death by PARCEL POST

(These Prices Named Below Include Price of BUG DEATH and Postage)

1st and 2d

3d

4th

5th

6th

7th

8th

Zones

Zone

Zone

Zone

Zone

Zone

Zone

1 pound package ....

... $ .21

$ .23

$ .26

$ .29

$ .32

$ .36

$ .39

3 pound package ....

... .43

.47

.54

.61

.68

.76

.83

5 pound package ....

... .60

.66

.77

.88

.99

1.11

1.22

12 1-2 pound package . .

. . . 1.19

1.34

1.63

1.93

2.21

2.51

2.80

Your Postmaster or Rural Delivery Carrier

can advise you the zone

you are

in from Atlanta.

100-POU ND KEG BUG DEATH BY EXPRESS OR FREIGHT, NOT PREPAID, $7.50.

We suggest that as a trial you order one of the smaller size packages by mail, and if you find it satisfactory for
your purpose that you then order it in sufficient quantity to have it come by freight, and thereby secure a low trans¬
portation charge. You would then have it on hand for use at any time.

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Long White Icicle Hastings’ Glass Radish

HASTINGS’ SELECT RADISH SEEP

THESE PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE PAID BY US

Culture For best results radishes require a rich, loose,
v moist soil, so that they can be grown quickly.
The crisp, tender flesh of early radishes depends almost en¬
tirely on rapid growth. Succession plantings should be made
every 10 days or two weeks to keep up a continuous supply
of crisp and tender radishes. For early use plant the round
or button radishes and olive shaped. For later use plant the
long and half-long varieties, as they root much deeper and
resist heat and drought better. What are known as winter
radishes should be sown in August and September. All
radishes should be sown thinly in drills one foot apart,
covered y2 inch and kept clear of grass and weeds. Sow
one ounce of seed to 100 feet of row; 10 to 12 pounds per
acre. Our radish seed is of the best, all being grown from
carefully selected and transplanted roots.

Hastings’ Early Long Scarlet (No. 376)

This is the most popular of all radishes in the South for the
general garden use and market. Our illustration shows the re¬
markable regularity and tine shape of our strain,of this variety.
It’s a favorite everywhere, no vegetable garden being complete
without it. Tops rather small, roots long and tapering to a
decided point ; color an intense bright scarlet. Flesh is very
crisp and tender and when grown rapidly, as all radishes should
be, it is free from all pungent taste. Packet, 5 cents ; ounce,
10 cents; % pound, 20 cents; pound, 60 cents; postpaid. Ten
pounds, not prepaid, .$4.00.

Long White Vienna or
Lady Finger (No. 388) arSS.’’lih cS.

Beautiful shape; skin and flesh pure white, crisp, tender and
of quick growth. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; % pound, 20c; lb., 60c.
I nno Whilfi Ii'irln Excellent and profitable; a new
Ww IIKC ILSLIC and distinct sort; ready for use
f Nit as soon as Hastings’ early Long

radUIOIII |iiu. Scarlet, but has fewer leaves. Ad¬

mirable alike for open air and under glass. The Icicle is per¬
fectly white in color, and long, slender and tapering shape. It
quickly grows to market size, is crisp and brittle, and of mild,
sweet flavor. A fine variety for both market and home garden¬
ers who want, an early, long white radish. Packet, 5c; ounce,
10c; % pound, 20c; pound, 65c. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $4.50.

Grows to a large size, but not
very uniform in shape. Red at
the top, pink in the middle, white at the tips; handsome ap¬
pearance when pulled at the right time. It is especially fine
flavored when grown quickly in the South. Packet, 5 cents;
ounce, 10 cents; *4 pound, 20 cents; pound, 60 cents.

Chartier (No. 373)

Wood’s Early Frame (No. 379)|“sca.{et!

but earlier. Shorter and broader, more brilliant color and bet¬
ter for forcing and market. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents;
44 pound, 20 cents; pound, 65 cents.

French Breakfast (No. 389) ™Ge™ua

favorite -for an early half-long variety in many parts of the
South both for home use or market. Packet, 5 cents; ounce,
10 cents; 44 pound, 20 cents; pound, 65 cents.

Hastings’ Glass Radish ft!.* " 3i jrSS!

( 383^ years ago it was named “Cincinnati Market Rad-

VjW. uuu / ish” by a Northern seed house and is generally
catalogued by Northern houses under that name. We consider
it one of the finest of the long red or pink radishes. It is of
bright pink color with white tips; very
regular and uniform in size and shape.
Flesh transparent, always crips and brit¬
tle, with mild flavor even when grown to
large size. Desirable for both market or
home use. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10
cents; 44 pound, 20 cents; pound, 60 cents;
postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $3.75.

White Strasburg (No. 385)

Oblong, tapering shape; skin and flesh
pure white; firm, brittle and tender, re¬
taining its crispness even when the roots
are old and large. Best variety for sum¬
mer use and an excellent all-around variety. Packet, 5 cts; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound,
20 cents; pound, 65 cents; postpaid.

Hastings’ Early Long Scarlet Radish

14 VEGETABLES FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER

“Last winter I planted Hastings’ seed and had the best garden, so every one
said, in this part of the country. Could have had 14 varieties of vegetables for
our Christmas dinner. Hastings’ seeds for me first, last and all the time.”

MRS. C. C. SMITH, Claiborne County, Mississippi.

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Rosy Gem Radish (No. 375)

Also known as White Tipped Scarlet Ball.

This is the favorite among our market gar¬
deners for forcing as well as for open ground growth. We have seen it ready for market
here near Atlanta in eighteen days from the time seed was sown. It is also very desirable
for home gardens, being almost identical with our Scarlet Button except in the white
shading at base of the root. It is one of our earliest varieties. Globe-shaped with rich,
deep scarlet top, shading to pure white at the bottom. Very tender and crisp, never be¬
coming hollow or pithy until very old. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 20
cents; pound, 65 cents; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $4.75.

Scarlet Button AirS-.,?'"

round form and
deep scarlet skin.

Very mild in flavor, crisp and tender. Short
narrow leaves, making a very small top.

Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound,

20 cents; pound, 65 cents; postpaid.

Crimson Giant “",‘J ?”!>;

/ 11a 07Q\ radish of large size. It is a
^IIV. uioy little longer in shape than
the Scarlet Button, a brighter color, and
twice the size. It will take the lead in tur¬
nip radishes. It grows quickly and even
when it attains large size it remains crisp,
tender and of fine flavor to the last. It is a
money-maker for the market gardener, as
its bright crimson color makes it a seller on
sight. Equally valuable for the home gar¬
den. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44
pound, 25 cents ; pound, 75 cents.

Earliest Carmine (No. 374)

One of the most popular half -long or olive shaped varieties. Color bright carmine; rad¬
ishes crisp and tender. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; 44 pound, 25c; pound, JOc; postpaid.

Philadelphia White Box (No. 39 1 )

Button except” that the skin is a
clear, white color. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 25 cents; pound, 70 cents; postpaid.

Radish (No. 381)

Scarlet Button Radish

WINTER RADISHES FOR SUMMER AND FALL SOWING AND WINTER USE

California Mammoth White u is 8 to 12 incbes

! long and from 2 to 3

(No. 390) inches in diameter. Packet, 5 cents ; ounce, 10 cents ;

44 pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents.

White Spanish Winter (No. 380)

ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents.

Mild in flavor.
Packet, 5 cents ;

Black Spanish Winter (No. 386) ® Vue

Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; % pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cts.

China Rose Winter (No. 37T)

and best winter variety. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound,
25 cents; pound, 75 cents.

Hastings’ Mixed Radishes — One Planting for the Entire Season — Packet, 5 cts; ounce, 10 cts; 44 pound, 25 cts; pound, 75 cts.

Uaetimrel M i Vorf Darlichae (tin 3ft7\ Our splendid mixture of radishes has become deservedly popular
ItIIacU naaisllcs \ 1*0. wO I ) jn t ii<? past few years, giving, as it does, a succession of radishes
all through the season. This mixture contains some of all varieties listed— early, medium, late, round, half long and long.
In one sowing you get a continuous, all season’s supply in family gardens. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; 44 pound, 25c; pound, 75c.

Plant a Good Fall Garden and Save Yourself Money

That’s an exact fact. Every farm and back yard garden in town is a money saver. Every mess of vegeta¬
bles from the garden cuts down the store bill just that much. Plant a real fall garden this year. It can save
you almost as much as a good spring garden. Give the fall garden a square deal and it wili surprise you by
its money-saving capacity. See page 20.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hastings’ Mammoth White Bush Squash

markets and home gardens it is especially desirable,
double the yield from the same area that you do with the other
sorts. We recommend it without reserve to our customers. Pack¬
et, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 14 pound, 25 cents; pound, 65 cents.

Early Yellow Bush Squash wim^B^^eS

/uA in color, which is a bright golden yellow. Packet,

) 5c; ounce, 10c; 44 pound, 20c; pound, 60 cents.

Golden Custard (No. 422) scalloped varieties, be¬
ing nothing unusual to have them reach a size of 2 feet in diam¬
eter when planted on a rich, moist soil. In color, a rich, dark
golden vellow. This variety has smooth skin, is very evenly scal¬
loped and uniform in growth. Of the regular bush form, im¬
mensely productive and of fine quality. Packet, 5 cents; ounce,
10 cents; 44 pound, 20 cents; pound, 65 cents; postpaid.

EARLY BUSH SQUASHES

Every year the planting of the Summer or Bush Squashes in the Central
South during July and August for September and October use becomes more
prevalent. Every year the planting of these squashes in Florida and along
the Gulf Coast, for fall and early winter shipment, becomes larger. Our
people are just learning that these squashes grow and bear from summer
planted seed just about as well as from the spring planted. These squashes
can be planted in the Central South as late as August loth. South Florida
plantings can be continued as late as October 1st, either for home use or
shipment.

Early White Bush Squash 5S,“!Sdf

/ Un /S C \ It is one of the earliest to mature, very productive and of light
le.'JJ cream color. Very popular variety for shipment to Northern
markets from Florida, as well as being a general favorite for home garden¬
ers everywhere. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 20 cents; pound,
60 cents. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $4.50. _

Hastings’ Mammoth White Bush ™r„lemaentecodver

CflElsaell /Mn the Early White Bush, being double the size and

JtJUaSII more regular in shape. It is very early, uniform

in growth and prolific. Has a beautiful white skin and flesh, and grows 10
to 12 inches across. Fine for family gardens and nearby markets, but too
large to grow for shipment. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 20
cents; pound, 60 cents; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $4.50.

Yellow Summer Crookneck gUS;

^flliaeh fNn A9|\ and market gardens. Fruits small, of bright
« l|Ua9ll orange yellow color, and covered with warty

excrescences. Flavor very rich and buttery. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cts;
44 pound, 25 cts; pound, 65 cts; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $5.00.

Giant Summer Crookneck I“veouar variety c"g X!

Cmiaeh /Un of the good qualities of the Crookneck class, and

^IgUasll yilU. *9*0^ at thg same time giving double the size of the
Old Yellow' Summer Crookneck. For market gardeners growing for nearby
Like the Mammoth White Bush, it is too large to ship. With this variety you get

A Mississippi customer writes: “I wish to call your attention
to your garden seed ; they were certainly fine in 1914. I had
peo'ple far and near to come and see my garden. Everybody
said I had the premium on it; every seed came up that I plant¬
ed, and you bet it wms fine, and I was so well pleased that I
want you to print it. I am talking about your seed every day.
They are w'orth talking about to anybody. Everything is true
that you say and I want all to know it. F. C. WRIGHT.’’

OUR GIANT SUMMER

CROOKNECK SQUASH

Hastings’ Aragon Spinach

WHY NOT A FALL GARDEN?

It's a fair question. Why not have vegetables right up
to and through the winter months? Most everybody is
willing to start a garden in the spring. Why does your
interest in gardens fade away in summer? It’s just as
important for the health of yourself and family to have
a good supply of vegetables in fall as in spring. You
have the ground, why not keep it busy all the year
round? You need the vegetables. Time to send for seed
for summer and fall planting now. Send today.

BEST SPINACH SEED

Our specially grown Spinach is much superior to the ordinary imported
feed in every particular. The germination is stronger and better, the growth
larger and more vigorous and hardier. There is no better vegetable to fur¬
nish an early supply of “greens” than Spinach. It requires rich soil, the
richer the better, and can be sown during October, November and Decem¬
ber, any time when the ground is not frozen. It germinates freely in cold
weather and is a rapid grower. As “greens” its quality is unsurpassed.

Hastings’ Aragon Spinach g0uurthb e J^&r&'sS?

[l|« A | l\ producing a large, thick, green leaf, well crumpled or sa-
ynw. *ti I J voyed, and stands a long time before running to seed. The
hardiest of all varieties, standing an ordinary cold winter without damage
in this latitude. At the same time it is one of the best heat-resisting sorts
for late spring use. This variety has been thoroughly tested, and pleases
all market gardeners who use it. Ounce, 5 cents; 44 pound, 15 cents;
pound, 40 cents; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $2.50.

Broad Leaved Flanders (No. 414) g°t°yd ffhte use

and market. Ounce, 5 cents; 44 pound, 15 cents; pound, 40 cents. Ten
pounds, not prepaid, $2.25.

Long Standing ( No. 4 1 3 )

readily. Ounce, 5c; 44 lb., 15c; lb„ 40c. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $2.25.
Dlnnmcrjaln /Ua ,1 A valuable variety which is extensive-
DlvIUfllhlidllf ynO. *9 1 £ ) jy grown, producing large crops of
thick-leaved spinach. Ounce, 5 cents; 44 pound, 15 cents; pound, 40 cents.
Ten pounds, not prepaid, $2.25.

METIA# 7ITAI AMn /UA A I£\ An entirely distinct all summer
NtW (N0.4IOJ variety growing steadily all

through summer and fall. A regular cut-and-come-again variety. Sow in
August and September. Packet, 5c; oz., 10c; 44 lb., 30c; pound, $1.00.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Tomatoes For Your Summer and Fall Plantings

Hastings' Extra Early Prolific Tomato

Hastings' Dwarf Champion Tomato (No. 452)

Our special strain of Dwarf Champion is the only first-class tomato of
sufficiently stiff growth to stand up clear of the ground without staking,
thus keeping fruit off the ground. Growth stiff, upright and compact:
fruits large; of bright red color: regular in size and shape and very
smooth skin; one of our most popular and desirable varieties. Packet, 10
cents; Vi ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c; Vi pound, 65c; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Spark’s Earliana (No. 457) £S.,TfiV,'/S,S"SS

rather slender open branches; moderate growth, well set with fruits, all
of which ripen early. Deep scarlet color, growing in clusters of 5 to 8, of
medium size, average 2% inches in diameter. Packet, 10 cents; % ounce,
15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; Vi pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Hastings' Improved Purple Acme (No. 441)

One of the finest varieties on our list. A big improvement over the old
Acme, which was so popular everywhere. One of the very earliest, is al¬
most round and has a thin but very tough skin. Our Improved Acme is a
very heavy bearer, ripening evenly all over. Has a lovely purplish shade
of color, making it especially desirable as a market and shipping variety.
Has few seeds; is thick, meaty and solid. It makes a desirable sort for
either market or home use with its fine color and flavor. Packet, 5 cents ;
ounce, 20 cents; Vi pound, 60 cents; pound, $1.75; postpaid.

Hastings’ Dwarf Champion Tomato

About the time this
catalogue comes in¬
to the hands of the
majority of its read-
e r s the tomatoes
from the spring
plantings will have
begun to die out. It
is easily possible for
the people of the
Central South to
have tomatoes for
table use for a
month or six weeks
after killing frost.
Planted in August,
most varieties bear
in 75 to 80 days.
Summer planted to¬
matoes will be in
their prime during
October and Novem¬
ber and can be pick¬
ed green before the
plants are killed and
kept in the house
and ripened gradu¬
ally for weeks after¬
wards. If you never tried planting toma¬
toes in summer, do so now. In Florida
and along the Gulf Coast it is a regular
crop for fall and early winter shipment.

Hastings’ Extra Early
Prolific Tomato (No. 444)

For quick maturity from late plantings
this has no equal. It’s a wonder for ex¬
tra earliness, smoothness and heavy bearing; immensely prolific,
combined with vigorous growing qualities. Begins to “set” fruit
from the first blooms and as the foliage is rather light and open it
lets the sun in to color and ripen the fruit quickly. Our illustration
from a photograph shows its extremely heavy bearing qualities. Be¬
gins with the earliest and keeps right along bearing. Fruits are from
2% to 3 inches in diameter ; rich red color and ripen evenly. It is a
splendid shipper and of very good eating quality for home garden
use. Its smoothness of skin and regularity are exceptional for an
extra early variety. If you are a truck grower you cannot afford to
miss planting it; if you are a home gardener you need it for earliest
use. We have seen as many as 34 good sized, smooth, ripe tomatoes
on a single plant in our seed crops at one time. Immensely prolific
and beyond question the most desirable extra early tomato offered
for sale. It represents years of closest and most careful work in seed
selection and plant breeding. Packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 20 cents;
ounce, 35 cents; Vi pound, $1.00; pound, $3.50; postpaid.

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HASTINGS’ REDFIELD BEAUTY (No. 445)iSJK£SS2

Hastings’ Matchless Tomato

/No 4471] Present time it lias bad no equal as a large, second-
\,,w' ■ / early, for home use, nearby markets or canning. Vigor¬

ous grower, very productive and continues to produce large sized fruits
until frost. Fruit large to extra large; very meaty and solid, with few
seeds. Its color is brilliant shade of red and one of the most beautiful
tomatoes we have ever seen. Packet, JO cents; y2 ounce, 15 cents; ounce,
25 cents; % pound, 70 cents; pound, $2.25; postpaid.

Dorl /No 455\ A great big red, meaty tomato, the best

neu nOCH V"0, of the late maturing varieties. Extra¬

ordinarily solid, hence the name of “Red Rock.” Perfectly smooth,
has no superior in texture and flavor and is red as a tomato can be all
the way through. Meat is solid without being hard and the finest of
flavor. Matures in from 110 to 115 days. Packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 20
cents; ounce, 30 cents; % pound, 85 cents; pound, $3.00.

Duke of York, the Blight Proof (No. 456)

Not of first-class eating quality but a first-class shipper and will grow
and fruit successfully where all other varieties die of the tomato blight
which is so prevalent in many parts of the South. Packet, 10 cents;
l/z ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c; % pound, 70c; pound, $2.25; postpaid.

The Stone /Nil 44Q^ A first-class main crop, extra large,
. smooth variety of bright red color,

l.sed m some parts for winter shipment and a standard sort for those
who grow for canning. A large, smooth, solid, meaty tomato for all
purposes and a splendid variety to furnish late tomatoes everywhere.
Packet, 5 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; XA pound, 65 cents;
pound, $2.00; postpaid.

Hastings’ Redfield Beauty, the AIi Right Tomato For You All Times of the Year

Livingston’s Globe Tomato (No. 446)Arl"!f. SKS.

seed this fall is limited. AVe find it a desirable variety for shipment. One of the earliest;
fruits smooth and of good size; fine flesh and few seeds. Very productive of fruit, being
short jointed and fruit forms in clusters at each joint. Of right size and shape to pack for
shipment. Color of skin purplish red, almost the exact shape of our Redfield Beauty. Our
experience with this variety both in our own crops and by observation of market gardens in
several states is that about one-half the fruits come true globe shape, balance are rather
flattened but much thicker than most varieties. Packet, 10 cents; y> ounce, 20 cents; ounce,
30 cents; % pound, 85 cents; pound, $3.00.

Our Redfield Beauty is of the right size,
the right earliness, the right shape, the
right color, the right bearing qualities,
the right shipping and eating qualities;
in fact, it’s an all right tomato in every
respect. It has been planted for the last
21 years in Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and in
all tests it has proven its superiority over
all the other famous varieties. Its vigor¬
ous growth, heavy and long bearing qual¬
ities and its comparative freedom from
rotting under the most trying conditions
of growth, make it a favorite everywhere.
Of glossy crimson color with a slight tinge
of purple. Grows in clusters of three to
five fruits and is the most regular in size
and shape of fruit of any variety known.
Retains its large size until all are picked.
Of perfect shape and is unexcelled for
toughness of skin and solidity. Especially
valuable for market gardeners who have
to ship long distance or carry in wagons
over rough roads. The skin does not break
easily. In competitive tests it has excelled
all the noted varieties put out by North¬
ern houses in recent years; not one of
them was equal to it. For the shipper
and market gardener it is the best; for
the home garden it is none the less valu¬
able, combining, as Redfield Beauty does,
every desirable quality. Large packet, 10
cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents;
y4 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; 5-pound
lots or over at $1.75 per pound, postpaid.

Chalk’s Early Jewel t<£en*er°yf

/No 45 1 \ best °f the second early
yiiwi x o 1 / class of tomatoes following
closely in maturity varieties like Extra
Early Prolific. Fruits uniformly larger,
thicker through, more solid and much
finer quality than most extra early varie¬
ties. Fruits very deep through from stem
!o blossom end, being almost round or ball
shaped; about 3 inches in diameter; the
inner part is very solid and fleshy, with
very few seeds, the seed cells being very
small and fruits nearly all solid flesh.
Quality exceptionally sweet and free from
acid. Packet, 10 cents; yz ounce, 15 cents;
ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 65 cents; pound,
$2.00; postpaid.

Earlv Detl'nift /Nn 454 \ A new, early, very productive va-
1 Ult V™01 ‘*03; riety for either shipping or home
use. Especially well adapted for growth in Florida. Color purplish
pink. Packet, 5 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound,
85 cents; pound, $2.75; postpaid.

Chalk’s Early Jewel Tomato

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Late Summer and Early Fall Is Turnip Planting Time

HASTINGS' TURNIP SEED IS RIGHT— ORDER NOW

The South as a whole plants a great deal of rutabaga and
turnip seed every fall. This is right. It is an important and
useful crop. But — the average man who plants turnips don’t
get the results he is due to have from his plantings. Why?
Simply because he is careless and thinks it hardly worth while
being particular and sending off to some reliable house for
rutabaga and turnip seed.

Next time he goes to town he drops in at supply merchant's
or drug store and gets some of the cheap stock that is on sale
and usually more or less of a failure is the result.

Friends, the turnip is a mighty common vegetable, yet if you
want right results in either home or market crops of them it
will well repay you to take just as much care about turnip seed
as any other kind of seed.

The turnip, rutabaga and other kinds of seed for fall sowing
at merchant’s or druggist’s may be all right or it may not. In
buying it you are the chance-taker.

It’s not necessary to take chances. When you have seed from
Hastings’ you feel sure and that feeling of sureness before
planting is well worth the trouble of sending, even if you only
want a dime’s worth. Further, your small orders are just as
welcome at Hastings’ as larger ones.

Early White Flat Dutch — Early Red or Purple Top

Earlv Whitp Flat Diitrh /Nn Afi7\ An oltl Standby, and one of the most popu-
Eidriy Vtrniie rial UUlCll ^ NO. 4-0 1; lar early varieties in the South for either
spring or fall planting. Of medium size and a quick grower. Is flat as shown by the illustration,
with very small, fine tap root. Flesh and skin pure white; fine grained and sweet. Ounce, 5 cents;
44 pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $4.00.

Early Red or Purple Top (No. 466) “K

the Flat Dutch, except for the deep red or purple color of the skin at the top of the bulb. Known
in many sections as the Purple Top Flat Dutch. It’s a quick grower with very fine-grained,
sweet-flavored flesh. The red top of the bulb extending down to where it rests in the soil, adds
very much to the attractive appearance of this popular variety. Ounce, 5 cents; 44 pound, 15 cents;
pound, 50 cents; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $4.00.

Forlu Qimuzhall (Un A10\ Extra early variety. Perfectly round, pure white, solid,
L-C9 1 I Jr tfllUWIIdll ‘t I C J gweet, with short top. Ounce, 5 cents; 44 pound, 15

cents; pound, 50 cents; postpaid.

Yellow Aber¬

deen (No. 478)

One of the popular varie¬
ties for planting in the
South in late summer and
fall. It is a purple top,
rather flattened variety
that resists both heat and
cold exceedingly well. Of
good size and a splendid
keeper during the winter and spring months. Ounce, 5 cents;
44 pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents; postpaid.

Finest flavored of all early
turnips, and with favora-
( Ua £7g\ able seasons is ready for use in 0 weeks. Skin and
ynw. flesh a pure, snow white; solid, fine-grained, sweet

and a good seller. Looks very attractive bunched for sale, and
gardeners with this variety have no difficulty in selling at top
prices. Ounce, 5c; 44 pound, 15c; pound, 50 cents; postpaid.

Earliest of all turnips. A flat, pur¬
ple-topped variety, resembling the
/Un 4CC \ Early Red or Purple Top, but is one to two weeks
V,,Wl earlier. Perfect in shape and color; sweet and fine

grained. Seed Supply very short. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10
cents; 44 pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Purple or Red Top Globe ,“?« pES:

/Ua ing. Is medium early, globe shaped, handsome ap-

\n»l * *»/ pearance and a heavy cropper in all parts of the
South. You cannot plant too many of them either for home use or
market. Always of good quality, a good keeper and seller in the
market. Ounce, 5 cents; 44 pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents; post¬
paid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $4.00.

Yellow Aberdeen Turnip

Extra Early White Egg

Extra Early Milan

A Louisiana customer writes: “I have used your seeds for
the last two years and find them better in every respect than
seed that are bought at stores, also a larger quantity in pack¬
ets than we get here for the same money. You may he sure of
my orders in the future, and wishing you the best of success,
I am Very truly yours, .T. M. IRWIN.”

Hastings’ Purple Top Globe Turnip

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

HASTINGS’ BIG 7

TURNIP COLLECTION 25c

The most popular of all Turnip collections. Hastings’ “Big 7” gives every family in the South a full supply of early,
medium and late turnips. No other seed house offers you such a bargain in good turnip seed as this. For 25 cents we
will send you, postpaid, one ounce each of Extra Early White Egg, Purple or Red Top Strap Leaf, Early White Flat
Dutch, Purple or Red Top Globe, Yellow or Amber Globe, Improved American Rutabaga and Seven Top Turnip. Seven
ounces of Turnips, all different, of the very best grade seed, for 25 cents, delivered at your postoffice. No other varie¬
ties will be sold at this price and no changes will be allowed in this collection. If you do not want to plant all this seed
this fall, what you hold over is perfectly good for next spring’s sowings. This superb turnip collection is now a stand¬
ard for fall turnip planting in every Southern State. This collection will give all the turnips any ordinary family can
use and more.

7 Ounces, 7 Varieties, 25 Cents, Postpaid

Hastings' Improved
American Rutabaga

THE FINEST RUTABAGA IN
THE WORLD (No. 468)

Our special strain of Improved American
leaves nothing to be desired. It is the best and
heaviest cropper of all rutabagas for the South.
This variety has been grown and improved for
years to meet the wants and trade of the most
critical gardeners. It is of fine form, with a
rich purple top and yellow flesh of very pleas¬
ing appearance. Flesh is tender and sweet and
exceptionally free from stringy, hard flesh. It
has a comparatively small top, small and fine
roots, and is a sure and heavy cropper. If you
grow rutabagas you need Hastings’ “Improved
American.”

Ounce, 5 cents; 1-4 pound, 15 cents; pound,
50c; postpaid. 10 pounds, not prepaid, $4.00.

Why Don’t Your Cotton

Dollars Stick To You?

We might ask also as to the orange and
peach and vegetable dollars. In a few
months it will be “settling up” time in the
Cotton Belt. The cotton crop is being
turned into dollars, but how many of them
stick in the growers’ hands? Isn’t it a
fact that most of them are spent paying
up the supply merchants for meat and
grain, etc., that you could just as well
grow at home and at one-third to one-half
the cost you paid Mr. Merchant? This fall
is a good time to take another step toward
financial freedom, towards keeping the
cotton, fruit and vegetable growers’ dol¬
lars at home. Oats, rye, wheat, barley,
etc., sown this fall will help keep those
dollars at home either in your> pocket or
to your credit in your nearest bank.

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II. G. Hustings Co., Seedsmen , Atlanta, Georgia.

HASTINGS' MIXED TURNIPS

(No. 479)

(No. 469)

A splendid mixture of our own containing some of
_ each variety of turnips and rutabagas catalogued by
us. This mixture is made up to supply the demand of the thousands
of planters who wish to make only one sowing and at the same time
have a succession of turnips to supply them all through the season.

This mixture contains all the early, medium and late varieties and
“salad” variety for “greens.” Ounce, 5c; % pound, 15c; pound, 50c.

Yellow or Amber Globe

most handsome of the yellow sorts. Grows to a large
size, flesh very firm, fine grained and keeps splendid¬
ly, well into spring. Ounce, 5 cts; *4 pound, 15 cts; pound, 50 cents.

Long White or Cowhorn ^eV tTonl

/U« half of which is formed above ground. It roots deep-

^HU. ly , resisting drought well. Flesh pure white, fine¬

grained, sweet and of excellent table quality. It is very hardy and
resistant to cold. Frequently planted together with Dwarf Essex
Rape for winter stock food. Ounce, 5c; 14 pound, 15c; pound, 50c.

Pomeranian White Globe

size and quantity rather than quality is wanted.

Very large white globe-shaped variety. Ounce, 5
cents; *4 pound, 15 cents; pound, 50 cents.

ftnilthpcn Qfinu/.Whito Color pure white, shape
SOUinern ailOW-WIUie round, size large, solid, quick
(linkn (Un £71 \ in growth for a large turnip, producing
w \l*w. *rl 1.J great weight to the acre. Rapidly growing
in popular favor, more especially as a late winter and spring va¬
riety. In the autumn and early winter it is apt to be hard, but mellows like an apple in keeping. It is produc¬
tive, hardy and closely resembles in size and shape the popular Purple Top Globe. Ounce, 5 cents; % pound,
15 cents; pound, 50 cents.

Seven Top or “Salad Turnip” (No. 477)

The most popular variety for winter and early spring “greens” in
the South. Very hardy, growing all through the winter. Can be
cut at all times, giving a supply of fresh vegetable matter at times
when nothing else is available. Can be sown from August till De¬
cember and in early spring. Ounce, 5c; *4 lb., 15c; pound, 50c.

Rail f No A7A\ A splendid and distinct yellow variety. Fine grained, me-
wiuci i uaii vl,Ul i ■» / dium sized variety, as round as a ball, with a clear, deep,
orange color. Bulbs of medium size, a rapid grower, maturing early. Has small tap roots.

This is the finest flavored of all the yellow varieties for table use. Ounce, 5 cents; *4 pound,

15 cents; pound, 50 cents.

(No. 480)

Pomeranian White Globe

Long: White or Cowhorn

HASTINGS BREAKS SPEED LAWS

“I wish to compliment you on the promptness with which you serve your customers in
filling: their orders — you certainly must be violating: the speed laws.*'

— W. H. GREENSLIT, Bentonia, Miss.

Seven Top or “Salad Turnip”

A Fall Garden Is Worth Money to You

Right here at the end of our vegetable seed list we want to again urge you to make full use of the late summer and fall garden op¬
portunities. We do this, not especially because we have seed to sell, but because we want you and every other person in the South to
be prosperous; to have what is due you in the way of the comforts and simple luxuries of life.

On page 20 we give a list of plantable vegetables at this season. It’s a worth while list, a list that if growing in your garden will
everlastingly cut down store bills and fill your table with healthful food that will leave you and your family far better off in the way
of health than ever before.

The South is comparatively poor as compared with the states farther north. The individual farmer on the average farm in Georgia
or Mississippi or Texas is far from being as well off as his brother farmer in Missouri or Kansas or Ohio. Yet in the natural advan¬
tages of crops, climate, rainfall, long growing seasons, soil, etc., we of the South have an advantage over the man in the North.

There is a reason for this and it’s a simple one. That Kansas farmer who rides around in an automobile “lives at home and boards
at the same place.” His store bill is confined to such small items as coffee, sugar, salt and a few minor items like them. He buys
nothing that he can raise on his own acres.

He pays no man a profit, no railroad a transportation charge on what he, his family and his live stock consume. The average South¬
ern farmer pays a list of profits, transportation and interest charges that w?ould bankrupt any mercantile or manufacturing business
in the city in a year.

The place to get a large part of your table supplies from during the growing season is from your own garden plot; the place to get
canned vegetables and fruits from in winter is from your own shelves and not the supply merchant’s.

Yrour flour, meal, corn, oats, etc., must come from your own acres, and not the merchant’s or grain dealer’s.

Let this be done and the South will accumulate farm wealth in a manner that will discount all gold mining operations the world
ever saw. The summer and fall garden is a starter in this direction; followed in October and November by oats, wheat, rye, barley,
etc. These things regularly followed spell wealth for you in time, and not a very long time either.

II. G. Hastings C'o., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia,

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FLOWER SEED FOR FALL SOWINGS

There are a number of flower seeds which should be sown in the fall for
best result s. as the length of time to hot weather from spring sowings is too
short to allow for best development. To this class belong Pansies, Violets and
Daisies. Other varieties, such as Sweet Peas, need an early start, especially in
Florida and Gulf Coast section, October to December sowings being best. In
I he lower half of Florida and extreme Southwest Texas, such kinds as Dian-
thus or Pinks, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Petunias, Poppies, Verbenas, can be
sown almost any time during the fall months, adding brightness to home
surroundings during the winter months.

Hastings’ Superb Mixed Pansies ^liT.wef seeK

/un 0£7\ pansy should he sown in October, in all parts of the South. In
yllUa O'* I f Florida plants can be left out in the open all winter; in the Cen¬
tral South they should be protected during the severe weather of January and
February. Our mixture well deserves the name of “Superb,” being made up
from the best of large flowering strains of the French and German pansy spe¬
cialists: Giant Trimardeau, Odier, Cassier, Bugnot, Large Parisian Stained,
Masterpiece, and many others of the highest type. Flowers from this mixture
are frequently larger than a silver dollar. Packet, 25c; 3 for 50c; 7 for $1.00.

Large Flowering English “Face” Pansies

/|JA OAQ\ Our mixture of the best English varieties of “Face” Pansies.
\ O'tOy Packet, 15 cents; 3 packets, 35 cents.

French Mixed Pansy (No.

for fall plantings in Florida and along the Gulf. Packet, 10c; 3 packets, 25c.

nnnhlo filtrlSch flaaev The true Enslish Daisy, perfectly hardy
"OMUie C.Ilglli»I) lU’diay and suited to cool, rather moist loca-

(Beilis Perennis) (No. 130) 5'i,Sr S^TSS^S

boxes or shallow drills, then transplant to permanent location. Treat the
same as violets. They can be flowered through the winter if placed in boxes
in pits or planted out in cold frames. Flowers very double. Plants spread
rapidly in rich soil. Finest Mixed. Packet, 10 cents.

Cii.aa* If success is to be had with Sweet Peas in Florida and

along the Gulf Coast seed must be planted In October or
November. Plant in trenches about six inches deep, covering seed 2 inches.
As thev grow keep filling in trench until level with surface.

Hastings’ Finest Mixed Sweet Peas (No. 883) °purfr°™ ^T^Test

leading varieties. No undesirable colors or varieties in this. It's the cream of over 450 named va¬
rieties know to seedsmen. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; Vi pound, 30c; pound, $1.00; postpaid.

Spencer Type Sweet Peas (No. 896)

edged petals. Of exceptional size and beauty. All colors, mixed: Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 ets;

Vi pound, 70 cents; pound, $2.50.

Poppies-Superb Mixed (No. 863) gsoi m5SL,S m 0“.™^

poppies in full bloom. It’s always best to plant poppy seed in the fall or early winter for spring
blooming. In the cooler sections the seed lays dormant in the ground all winter, hut makes far
better growth than from spring planted seed. Our mixture contains all the popular kinds of dou¬
ble, semi-double and single varieties in all colors and shades. Packet, 5c; ounce, 30c; postpaid.
nSanthne «»* DSnlre One of the easiest grown flowers in all of the South. Planted
vldlllllUSl wl > lima during the early fall months they get a start that puts them in
bloom early in the_spring.

"A splendid mixture of all

Hastings’ Superb Mixed Pansies

Hastings’ Superb Mixed Dianthus (No. 778) the best double and sin.

gle Japanese and Chinese varieties. A splendid
range of color and form that will please you.

Packet, 10 eents ; 3 packets, 25 cents.

Nasturtiums Wben this catalogue

Hastings’ Superb Mixed Poppies

reaches you the Nastur¬
tiums from the spring planted seed will be pretty
well “played out.” Nasturtium seed planted dur¬
ing August and September in all the Lower South
will give an abundance of bloom until frost.

Nasturtium Dwarf gJKSSS
Mixed (No. 842)

ers. Packet, 5c; ounce, 15c; *4 pound, 45 cents.

Nactlirtium Tall Carries the same
IldSlUrilUIII I dll splendid range of

MiYtkff fNn color that our Dwarf

irlixea ^no. OHO) Mixed does. Fine for
training up on porches or for porch or window
boxes. Packet, 5c; ounce, 15c; Vi pound, 45c.

PotlinSac Suitable for fall planting in
1 ciuiliaa Florida only, unless you are
able to protect from frost during the winter far¬
ther north.

Petunias— Finest Mixed (No. 853) and variations' Packet, 5 cents.

PETUNIAS— Striped and Blotched (No. 854)— The finest strain of single petunias. Flow¬
ers beautifully striped and blotched. Packet, 5 cents.

Vorhonae From fall planted seed these will live through the winter with slight
" protection in Florida and along the Gulf and bloom freely during the

spring months. You will be pleased.

VERBENA — Mammoth Mixed (No. 912) — The largest strain of Verbena known. Indi¬
vidual florets, almost as large as phlox, and in the finest shades of color well mixed.
Packet, 15 cents.

VERBENA— Best Mixed Hybrids (No. 911) — Our extra fine strain containing all the
best colors and in entirely distinct clear shades. Fine. Packet, 10 cents.

Marigold-Large African (No. 830) different sshadJs

of yellow. Packet, 5 cents.

Sweet Peas

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

OPEN GROUND GROWN ROSES

25 Cents Each; $2.50 Per Dozen, Postpaid

The Parcel Post, with its increased weight limits and decreased rates, is
working a revolution in plant and seed distribution. We can now make
postpaid prices on these large, two-year-old, open ground rose plants and
send them postpaid to any postoffice or on any R. F. D. Route in the coun¬
try. These prices, however, do not include postage paid to Cuba, Mexico,
Porto Rico or any of the Central American countries.

To meet the demand for strong, two-year-old open ground roses, we have
grown for us each year several thousand of the plants here in the open,
ground in a soil that brings roses to a perfection found nowhere else in
this country.

We haven't a word to say against the small pot-grown roses which are
planted each spring. We sell tens of thousands of them ourselves, and some
of the finest rose collections in the South have been grown from small pot-
grown plants. There are, however, a great many people who want quick
results. These open ground roses are just wliat they need. Planted out in
November and December, they begin to bloom in earliest rose-blooming
weather, and furnish an abundance of bloom the first summer. None of the
petting and nursing necessary to bring up a small rose to the satisfactory
blooming stage. Our open ground roses have got the strength and vigor
and growth necessary to give you the large size bloom the first season. You
save from a year and a half to two years in getting satisfactory flowers by
planting out these open ground grown plants.

We will ship none of these large plants until sometime between October
15th and November 1st. We want them thoroughly dormant before ship¬
ping, so that they will carry in the very best of condition and be sure to
live when planted in your rose garden.

PriPDC Except where noted, prices are 25 cents, each; $2.50 per dozen;
■ I IvCa postpaid by Pareel Post.

Kai«AI*in Vif*tAI*l£l ^ne the finest, large double

naiserm HUgUSia Victoria white roses. Elegant buds and

very large, full, double flowers. Color, creamy white, and very fragrant.
Plants extra strong, healthy growers; free bloomers. A most satisfactory
white rose for all purposes.

IWImA Jpnnv Gillpmnt Buds extra lonS an<1 pointed; opens
mine, jenny Ullieinui light canary color, shading to darker
yellow. Flowers large with enormous petals. A fine upright grower of free
branching habit ; one of the most satisfactory of recent introductions.
DlriC Msiman This is our choice of all pink roses. For

l-nm ITIdllldn WUUICI vig01. of growth, long life, freedom of
bloom and large size of buds and flowers, it has no equal. A hardy rose in
all parts of the South; profuse and constant bloomer. Our illustration
shows the extra large size globular shape of the flowers, which stay in
perfect condition for days after being cut. Color clear pink.

Pink Jlaman Cochet, Well Opened — A Superb Pink Rose

Kaiserin Augusta Victoria — A Splendid White Rose

White Maman Cochet JJrS

or, which is a pure white. Has a most delicate tea scent. On some of
the older bushes in our grounds we have frequently seen buds as
large as tea cups. One of the most satisfactory white, ever-blooming
roses on our list.

finilo fi _ „ The only perfectly hardy, ever-bearing, yel-
tlOIIC Q© LyOn i0w rose. In size and shape the flower much
resembles the Perle des Jardins but is a much stronger grower, some¬
what more double and deeper shade of golden yellow.
Dj^|ln.nrlr| One of the favorite red roses of the day and so far
niuilliuiiu ag pllre rich scarlet buds are concerned it is one
of the most superb of all scarlet roses.

Ant-skinn DiuniraA strong, healthy grower always in bloom.
P'IIL”III*» HlVUirc Flowers exquisite in form, large double
and fragrant. In color rosy flesh with yellow ground shaded with
border of carmine.

UaUn The price paid for the original plant of this va-

■■'-Icll UVUU riety was $1,000.00. It is a Cochet rose in every
respect as to the vigor of growth and freedom of bloom. Color a deli¬
cate yellow suffused with light pink.

WoIIpcIpV Flowers extra large and full. A splendid rose of
bright, clear rose pink coloring; reverse of petals
being silver rose. A very vigorous grower.

AlirAra Coloring clear bright pink, full and double to the cen-
MUruia ter Qne 0f jj,e most fragrant varieties.

nurllACC rlfi Rrahant Also known as Countess le Bar-
UUCDC39 uc DraDdlll the, a magnificent rose for bed¬
ding or planting alone in the yard. We have seen splendid specimens
of this variety as high as a man’s head and 15 feet in circumference
and literally ioaded with hundreds of beautiful salmon pink flower?.
Yvnnno V/arhornt This is a superb, clear porcelain white
■ Willie ui rose, strongly marked with pure pink;

long pointed buds of splendid form carried on a stiff stem and open¬
ing to very large flowers. Awarded the gold medal at Liege. Habit
of plant strong and vigorous.

H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

54.

RaCCIA Rrnivn One Hie largest and totally distinct; color pure
DV99IV »l vnu white, sometimes faintly flushed with pink. Petals
are enormous and shell shaped.

UojpH Gamhier Very fragrant and penetrating. Deep orange yel-
wmiiMiei low, shading to coppery yellow and then to al¬
most a white on outside row of petals.

GAVfkniAncic A magnificent pure white rose sometimes called “The
Magnolia Rose of the South,” because of its magno¬
lia-like scent.

RIlimAncrHmidf- The Pest pure citron yellow rose. A splendid
Biumciisuiimui bedding variety for the South. Fine shaded
buds and flowers and one of the finest of recent introductions.

Mile. Francisca Km?pr A strong, vigorous grower; one of

Ivlllt?. rrall(>19l>cl r%rugt$r tqle easiest to grow, and you will

get quick results in the way of size of bush and an abundance of large, deep,
coppery yellow flowers.

UaIoii Gnulrl Head and shoulders above all other red roses in vigor,
wvuiu freedom of bloom and beauty in the South. Among
florists this rose is frequently called “Red Kaiserin.” Does equally well on
both red clay and sandy soils of the South. It’s simply one of those red
roses that you can not afford to be without.

M ptpnp A velvety red ever-blooming rose of deepest glowing crimson.
Has healthy, bright foliage of deepest green.

Ha Franrp The gold medal red rose of France; large and
riflllVB borne on long, stiff stems. Color of clearest
crimson red ; very fragrant and keeps well after being cut. Vigorous grow¬
er, free bloomer, finest of coloring and a thoroughly satisfactory rose.

Madame A. Chatenav Good. rose for the south. ' in color a

llifiitiamc «■ wild icilay carmine rose, shaded deep salmon
Long pointed buds.

Mai*ie VanHouHe Large, full and fine form, a free and continu-
■ticii ic faiinvuilB ous bloomer. Color a light canary yellow,
border of petals touched with rose.

Rink la PranrA H there is one variety that has done more to
nun ba r i dllbc name the rose “The Queen of Flowers,” it is the
Pink La France. Large, full flowers, beautiful silvery pink color. Not ex¬
celled by roses of its class.

Madame l_eon Pain An entirely distinct rose in color, which is
ITlcauoilie LCUII rdlll a silvel.y saimon with deeper orange yel¬
low shaded center; the reverse of the petals being a salmon pink Flowers
are large, full and well formed.

Rhea Reid A new red rose of American origin that has been grown
long enough to demonstrate its adaptability to the South
Flowers large and double, very free blooming and exquisitely fragrant In

Mile. Francisca Kruger

Also known under the name of Jonkbeer .T. L.
Mock. A hybrid tea rose, the most magnificent
of its class. Introduced in 1910 in Europe and has created a sensa¬
tion. Our rose growers have found this to be a superb rose for the
South with its vigorous growth and freedom of bloom. Flowers are
carried on stiff, erect stems and of largest size, perfectly formed and
highly perfumed. In color it is a clear imperial pink.
Cnnhiipct A sensational French ever-blooming rose intro-
tfUIIIIUrsI duced in 1912 that will in the future lead all ever-
blooming yellow roses. Has long pointed buds of orange-copper or
golden-orange and golden-yellow, edge of petals lighter. Certainly
a brilliant and pleasing rose, the yellowest rose we have ever seen.
Two years growth in the South shows its perfect adaptability to this
section in vigor of growth and freedom of bloom. If you like yellow
roses you will appreciate Sunburst, the best of all yellows to date.

Viscountess Folkstone xmsefeverlnHodS

and still the very best of its color, which is a creamy pink, shading
deeper at the center. A good grower, large full form and a very
free bloomer.

lAlm P A superb pink rose for the South. The

Will. ^rnisfcll soft blending of the salmon pink and the
rose pink and beautiful flesh tints in this rose give it a singular re¬
semblance to the entrancing flush on a maiden’s cheek. As a bed¬
ding rose for open ground planting it is next to Helen Good.

Madame Jos. Schwartz &m|;gre°vern-gbiofomeing

rose. In color is light salmon, changing to creamy white.
Qafraretn An old favorite and always good; easy to grow and
one 0f the freest bloomers. Its long pointed saffron
colored buds always please.

Pana RAntior One of the older varieties but the prince of
Hr <m§Ja UUIIllCI roses for the production of long crimson
rosy buds of exquisite beauty. Foliage also is entirely distinct, be¬
ing a rich bronze green. A rose we have grown for years and splen¬
didly adapted to the entire South. No rose collection should be
without at least one plant of this variety.

FUnn Marcrh^ll Another superb dark crimson, free-
■ wwli lwl«I 9WIIC1II growing and blooming rose for the
South. Buds long and pointed, flowers full and of imbricated form.
One of the best of the ever-blooming red Tea Roses.
ftCillavnAV An especially beautiful deep shell pink rose with
I Idl llcjr extra large buds and petals. A famous rose.

. looming and exquisitely fragrant. In

color a rich dark velvety red, making a fine dark red garden rose, either for
cut flowers or for bedding. We prefer Rhea Reid to many of the more fa¬
mous red varieties.

Madame Fernet Ducher A spJ?n(\id ye,low rose that has

■ "" „ n"1*, V , recently been reintroduced under
the name of Yellow President Carnot. In color it is a solid, per¬
fectly clear waxy yellow, free from all apricot tints. Really a'valu-
able member of the comparatively small list of really good vellow
roses.

Isabella Sonint 9n,e of th® older varieties, but a splen-

did rose f01. au parts of tlle sjouth. A
vigorous grower and a profuse and steady producer of long pointed
light canary colored buds.

Ladv Hillingdon A new’ distinct and beautiful golden

rT " , ' “ .yellow rose. Unlike other yellow roses

that turn lighter after opening, this rose is golden vellow on open¬
ing, gradually turning to a deeper and more intense yellow with
age. At the Detroit rose show in 1912 this rose was awarded sweep-
stakes prize over all other yellow varieties.

White La France Als0 known under the name of Augus-
" , lT , .rrdl;''e tlne Guinoisseau. This splendid rose
is almost identical m form and fullness with Pink La France but
in color it is a beautiful light fawn color, almost white

Mile. Blanche Martignat £ hw\sybthiS

has not become more generally known. It is a very vigorous grower
with distinct and beautiful foliage. Buds are extra long and point¬
ed. Flowers are a beautiful peach pink with tints of yellow and
crimson.

Plant Our “Sunny Italy” Grass Mixture On
Your Bermuda Lawn This Fall and
Keep It Green All Winter.

A special mixture of quick winter growing grasses that will
keep your Bermuda lawn green all winter. Sow on Bermuda sod
at rate of one pound to every 25 feet square in October or No¬
vember, scratch in with rake and your lawn will be green all
winter. For fuller description see page 15. Pound, postpaid, 35
cents; 3 pounds, $1.00. Bushel, by express or freight not pre¬
paid (14 pounds), $2.50.

EVERGREEN LAWN GRASS

Do yon want to make a really satisfactory lawn anywhere in the Central South where
there are clay or loamy soils? If so, this is the best of all lawn grass mixtures for
you, just the right blend of r-ight varieties for both summer and winter growth. See
page 15 for description. Prices: Pound, postpaid, 35 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00. Not prepaid, bushel (14 pounds), $3.00.

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Paul Neyron

Always a favorite in the South and the best of all pink
Hybrid Perpetual roses for this section. Best and
freest bloomers of all the hybrids in the South; in fact, almost as free in
blooming as the teas and hybrid teas. Flowers are immense and borne on
long stiff stems that are fine for cutting. This is said to be the largest flow¬
ered of all roses.

ftanaral larnnaminnt A rose with a world wide reputation
Ucllcrdl Jdl>(|UcllllllUl and fame with its very full double flow¬
ers of the deepest shade of velvety crimson. While not the freest of bloom¬
ers the superb flowers well repay one for having a plant of it in their col¬
lection of roses.

U Kl . cmU|/i Also known under the name of White
ridU radii l/rU9Clini American Beauty. A grand white Hybrid
Perpetual rose — the best snow white rose of its class ever introduced. An
extraordinary hardy grower with magnificent white flowers that are noth¬
ing less than glorious. Color is a marvelous pure white without a shade or
tinge of any other color. A true paper white, the standard by which all
white roses are judged.

Uauu/avr) Ranks right up with Frau Druschki except in
vd)lldlll ndyndru color, which is a bright glowing crimson. Of
the largest size, color rich and glowing. We know of no red Hybrid rose that
in any way compares with it in color or freedom of bloom and vigor.

Prinro ramillo Ho Rohan Tbe last on our list of hybrids
rlinCc Vdlulllc Uts nuildll and in some respects our best.

A fine vigorous grower with large double flowers of fine form and of deep
velvet maroon color. Perhaps the best of all the dark colored hardy roses,
with the possible exception of General Jacqueminot.

M..e rn|ou Mnhhc A rose first introduced in 1010 and it is really

■ wltSjr I1UUU3 a SUperb variety and a giant among the Tea
roses. Its huge, thick shell shaped petals create a bloom of exceptional mer¬
it ; in color a most delicate ivory white, faintly tinged with pink on the edge
of the petals. Has a delicious perfume. Really this new rose stands with¬
out a rival in its class.

T— f J. You may or may not like our ex-president and his
r rcsIUclll laic policies, but if you grow this rose named in his
honor you will certainly agree that it is a rose well worth while. Originating
in President Taft’s old home in Ohio it is beyond question one of the most
remarkable and beautiful of the free blooming pink roses. It has a deep,
shining pink color that is possessed by no other rose. A fine grower, free
bloomer, of good size, form and fragrance, and so far as pink color is con¬
cerned it is really in a class by itself.

Another superb scarlet bedding rose. While it produces only
tCdlldlc medium sized flowers, it is of such a brilliant scarlet in color
and such an incessant and constant bloomer that we consider it one of the
best of our scarlet bedding roses.

I arlu Uatheifina DaCa A splendid new hybrid tea rose first m-
LdQj rvainerme nose trodueed in 1911. Of French origin and
of the most distinct and delicate pink color imaginable. Petals are distinct
and has a most delicious tea fragrance. This variety at once caught the at¬
tention of expert rose growers and we feel sure that you will be
pleased with it when it finds a place in your collection.

UKe A9>nn lA/arH A real joy to the lover of fine roses,
nmrs. Maron ward nn(j absolutely distinct. One of the
most delightful roses of recent years in color. Coppery orange in
the open bud, golden orange when partly developed, pinkish fawn
of lovely shade when fully open, when it looks like a full fluffy-silk
rosette. Color effect of the whole flower is Indian yellow. One of
the most beautiful roses in existence.

■U, Another splendid new pink rose.

Mrs. uCOi 2lliaW^y©r extra strong grower and flow¬
ers are borne on long stiff stems. In color it is a bright peach pink.

From the point of quality and production of bloom it is easily the
peer of any pink rose in existence. You certainly don t want to
miss having this variety in your rose garden if you appreciate qual¬
ity in the pink rose class.

I »rlu nnuina A splendid bedding rose with large handsome
Lady UvWIIC flowers on stiff stems. Of very peculiar color,
being a rare and beautiful shade of buff. When fully open the cen¬
ter is deep yellow, maturing later into a pleasing light yellow shade.

I klAUino A rose deserving of much greater planting
W III. Rolling than it has had. A first-class rose, and as a
budding sort it has few if any equals. Flowers are large and full;

1 bright rosy cerise color, with center of deeper shade. Sweetly per¬
fumed. You will like it.

MOSS ROSES — Red, Pink and White

While the generality of Moss Roses do not do so well in the South,
*ve have found one of each color that has done well and can he plant¬
ed with reasonable assurance of success almost anywhere in the
South. Moss roses are beautiful, peculiar in foliage and appearance
and distinct. One or more of them should be found in every collec¬
tion. In ordering please specify color of bloom wanted.

Climbing or Pillar Roses

the climbing or pillar roses are more beautiful and useful than in
the South. Porches need shading, unsightly fences need covering and
arbors and passage ways need shading from summer sun. In addi¬
tion to needed shade comes abundance of beautiful fragrant bloom.

UosAAlial MiaI When the last word has been said for all
marecndl IvICI t jle other roses, we believe that every true
lover of roses in the South will agree that there is no rose grown

Climbing Roses on a Southern Home

that will compare with this world-famous rose with its profusion
of large, yellow globular flowers of sweetest fragrance. Perfectly
hardy in the Gulf Coast sections. In the central and northern parts
of the Cotton States it had best be planted in sheltered spots on the
south side of buildings or arbors, where it can be protected from
cold winter winds.

A rose of the Marechal Niel class ; a more
vigorous grower with rather large sul-
f'l-lL ni /*A|r| phur yellow, deep center flowers. A great
UwlU favorite in Florida and Gulf Coast sections.

Chromatella or

Reine Marie Henrietta ^seav<Noteaspofree a°biopomlr

as some, but the beauty of its large, double, cherry-red flowers more
than make up in quality what it lacks in quantity.

Climbing Clothilde Soupert fST,;

close dense dark green foliage, and in season stems and foliage are
almost covered over with the enormous clusters of medium sized,
full white flowers with pale pink or flesh colored center. For porch¬
es, pillars, etc., Climbing Soupert is superb.

THE BEST OF THE RAMBLER ROSES

A distinct class of climbing roses that have become almost uni¬
versal favorites in recent years. We list below the five. Rambler
varieties that we consider best for the South.

The original Rambler rose and
when in bloom the plants are a per¬
fect mass of brightest crimson color.

nnvnlku Packing The favorite Rambler in this section
l/DrUlllj rCI Hills with its immense clusters of sweetly
scented pink flowers.

d|„a DamhlaK Also known as the “Blue Rose” and “Viel-
Biue nainuier chenblau.” A true Rambler Rose. Re¬
markably healthy and has flowers of a shade of violet blue.
T-mcAnrlerhAail °r “Thousand Beauties.” All colors of
I all3CllUS4«IIUCII tender and bright rose and white, yel¬
low and other tints. A splendid rose.

White Dorothy Perkins and Crimson Rambler in

growth and freedom of bloom. Color white. The three colors of
Ramblers make a splendid collection.

Crimson Rambler

Why Not Have Plenty of Roses and a Good Green Lawn?

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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia.

Dutch and French Bulbs for Fall Planting

Do you want flowers in your home during the winter? Do you want
beautiful flowers in the open ground long before roses and the other
flowers come? If so, plant bulbs this fall.

White Roman Hyacinths

FLORISTS7 QUALITY BULBS

Every bulb sold by us is what is termed in the bulb trade as “Florists’ Qual¬
ity,” which is a recognized higher quality, higher priced line of bulbs than what
is generally known in the trade as “Seedsmen’s Quality.” The usual “Seeds¬
men’s Quality” is grown to sell at lower prices. We handle “Florists’ Quality”
only, and if you buy from ns you get the best in bulbs as in everything else.

Dutch Hvacinths Th® Dutc? Hyacinths are very popular and in early
VUlVll njavmuia spring a bed of them presents a showy and beauti¬
ful sight long before other flowers appear. For pot culture (single bulbs in a four-

inch pot) they are superb and last for two or three weeks. You will make no mis¬
take, if you are a lover of flowers, in planting a few Dutch Hyacinths this fall.

Single Dutch Hvacinths FiFst size bulbs> purchaser’s selection of

njablllllis colors. Pure White, Rose Pink, Eight
Blue, Dark Blue, Dark Red and Yellow. Price, jiostpaid, each, 6 cents; dozen, 60
cents; $4.00 per 100 by express, not prepaid.

Double Dutch Hvacinths F*rst size bulbs, purchaser’s selection

■SUUUIC VUItll nyd(,mins of colors. Pure White, Rose Pink,
Eight Blue, Dark Blue, Dark Red and Yellow. Price, postpaid, each, 6 cents; 60
cents dozen ; $4.25 per 100 by express, not prepaid.

NARCISSUS GRANDIFLORA

popular and easiest grown of all bulbous plants. Good for either open ground
planting, for pot culture during winter in the house or can be grown in water like
Chinese Lilies as shown in the illustration at the bottom of this page. Our bulbs
are of largest size, imported direct from the South of France. Price, 5 cents each;
% dozen, 25 cents; dozen, 45c; postpaid. Not prepaid by express, $1.75 per 100.

WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS

grown indoors in pots or planted in the open ground. Bulbs of largest size, strong
and healthy. By mail, postpaid, 6 cents each; 60 cents dozen. By express, not pre¬
paid, $4.00 per 100.

SINGLE AND DOUBLE TULIPS

For the northern half of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, all of
Oklahoma and Arkansas and the higher lands of the Carolinas, tulips will be found
very desirable. In the southern half of the states named, also Florida, they are
seldom found satisfactory.

Tulips make the most brilliant and gorgeous display on the lawn of any of the
spring flowering bulbs. Nothing will attract greater attention than beds of these
in full bloom.

Single CARDINAL’S HAT — Fine, bright red, single; 3 cents each; 25 cents
per dozen; $1.50 per 100. If by mail, postpaid, 4 cents each; 30 cents
per dozen ; $1.75 per 100.

CHRYSOEORA — Large, pure yellow, single; 3 cents each; 25- cents per dozen;
$1.50 per 100. If by mail, postpaid, 4 cents each; 30 cents per dozen; $2.00 per 100.

LYMMACULEE — Large, pure white, single; 3 cents each; 20 cents per dozen;
$1.25 per 100. If by mail, postpaid, 4 cents each; 25 cents per dozen; $1.50 per 100.
DUCHESS OF PARMA — Large, orange red, single; 3 cents each; 20 cents per
dozen; $1.25 per 100. If by mail, postpaid, 4 cents each; 25 cents per dozen; $1.50
per 100.

COTTAGE MAID — Beautiful Bose, shaded with white, a very attractive variety;
3 cents each; 20 cents per dozen; $1.25 per 100. If by mail, postpaid, 4 cents each;
25 cents per dozen ; $1.50 per 100.

MIXED SINGLE — All shades and colors of single tulips. This will make a gor¬
geous display of bright colors; 20 cents per dozen; $1.00 per 100. If by mail, post¬
paid, 25 cents per dozen; $1.25 per 100.

Dfftllhlfk DUKE OF YORK — Very double; carmine rose: edged broadly with
UUUUIC white, suffused rose, showy and extra fine; 3 eents each; 20 cents per
dozen; $1.25 per 100. If by mail, postpaid, 4c each; 25c per dozen; $1.50 per 100.

LA CANDEUI1 — Large, double, pure white. Fine for cemetery bedding; 3 cents
each; 25 cents per dozen; $1.50 per 100. If by mail, postpaid, 4 cents each; 30 cents
per dozen; $1.75 per 100.

GLORIA SOLIS — A grand double tulip; deep crimson, with broad golden yellow
margin; very large and showy; 3 cents each; 25 cents per dozen; $1.50 per 100. If
by mail, postpaid, 4 cents each; 30 cents per dozen; $1.75 per 100.

Extra large sized bulbs, 20 cents per dozen; postpaid; mammoth
r ICCSIda size, 30 eents per dozen.

Chinese Sacred Lilies I

among the Chinese, who have a very pretty fable concerning its origin. The bulbs
should be placed three to six in a shallow dish, partially filled with pebbles or small
stones as shown in the Illustration at bottom of this page. Bulbs should be placed
in an upright position, partially supported by the stones. The water should not
more than half cover the bulbs. Water should be changed every two days, as they
do not do so well in stagnant water. The bulbs will also thrive if planted in pots of
earth and watered liberally. Under proper conditions the blossoms are produced
abundantly, but care must be taken not to keep the bulbs in an overheated room. A
cool, sunny window suits them best, and the curious oriental appearance of the bulbs
their peculiar but vigorous habits of growth, and the ease with which they are grown
make this beautiful Narcissus one of the most desirable of bulbs for window culture.
Ten cents each, $1.(10 per dozen. By mail, postpaid. 13 cents each; $1.35 per dozen.

Chinse Sacred Lily

Rurallst Press, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia

OATS, RYE, WHEAT, ALFALFA

Barley, Crimson Clover and all the other Clovers and Grasses are all money-saving crops, which should be planted in
the fall by every farmer in the South who wants to get ahead and be independent.

What does it profit a man to grow a fine crop of 12 or even 15-cent cotton, when to do it he has to impoverish his land as
well as spend all or nearly all his cotton dollars for grain, hay and fertilizer?

For nearly fifty years the South has absolutely been drained regularly of the billions of dollars that have come into it in
payment for cotton; been drained of this fabulous sum to pay for food and grain products that should have been grown on the
South’s own acres. This is what keeps the South poor as a section; keeps the States composing it poor; keeps the individual
cotton grower poor when he ought to be the wealthiest farmer on the face of the earth.

Let’s look this matter square in the face. It’s a fact that the farmer in the South who grows enough grain and hay to see
him through the year, is the exception. The farmer who has grain and hay enough to see him through and a surplus to sell in
town has been almost unknown.

We sweat and toil all through the long summers to grow cotton. Suppose we do grow it and sell it for a good price. Where
does that cotton money go? Largely to States like Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, for grain, hay and meat, yet with good seed of good
varieties, intelligent cultivation and fertilizing Georgia and other Cotton States need ask no odds of those States farther north
in grain and hay production. The time to begin stopping this financial drain is now. Begin by planting grain crops, clover
crops, winter forage and cover crops this fall on your farm.

LET US FIGURE ON YOUR WANTS

In addition to sending you seeds that will increase the profits of your farms, we can often save you money in the cost price,
as these farm, clover and grass seeds change price frequently.

This sheet, which is known as our “Special Quotation Sheet,” has a distinct place in our system of business, and a great
many thousands of our customers make use of it every year. This sheet is more largely for your benefit than ours, and we
want you to use it this season. It is for the use of truck gardeners buying vegetable seeds in large quantities and for the buyer
of farm seeds who wants to know exactly what those seeds will cost delivered at his station.

There are three things you actually want to know in seed buying. First, and most important, is that the seed quality is
right; second, what the cost of the seed is in Atlanta; third, just what the freight or express charges will be to your station.
If seed comes from Hastings’, you know the quality is right. On the other two points it is very easy. All you have to do

is to write down the name and quantity of the kinds you want on the other side of this sheet, tear it out and mail to us. W e

will quote you the best price we can make you, estimate the weight, figure out the freight or express charges and send it back
to you by return mail. You will then know exactly what the seed will cost you delivered at your station.

The H. G. Hastings Company is the only seed firm in this country that maintains a

SPECIAL EXPRESS AND FREIGHT RATE DEPARTMENT

This special department is maintained entirely for your benefit. It is the business of this department to figure out correct
freight and express rates for your benefit, and if you order seed from us after a rate has been made, this department
stands right behind those rates and makes the railroad or express company refund to you any overcharge if they should
attempt to overcharge you. Do you know of any other seed firm that stands back of their customers in this way? We be¬
lieve that every seed buyer ought to know exactly what seed is going to cost him delivered. We want to do business with every
one on a satisfactory basis and we know of no better way than to quote you none but the very highest quality of seed and then
tell you what it’s going to cost you from Atlanta to your station. We believe it to be good business policy to co-operate with
you in every way; first, by producing for you the highest grade of seed; second, selling it to you at a fair price; third, pro¬
tecting you from overcharges, made either intentionally or by mistake by the transportation companies.

You may find some of these articles priced lower by other houses than in our catalogue. We want you to remember one
thing, and that is that there is no set standard of seed quality in the world, and if you are offered a low price you can be
sure that the quality is as low as the price, and low quality seeds never made any man a good crop.

Do Not Use This For Family Garden Lists

Please notice that this sheet is not to be used for asking special quotations on family garden orders, such as seeds in packets
or ounces, pints or quarts, or special collections. Prices on packets, ounces, etc., are distinctly stated (these prices including
postage paid by us) in the catalogue, together with special premium offers of extra seed. With this offer standing open to
every seed buyer, we can not and will not make “Special Quotations” on family garden lists.

One last word: Make up your list and send it to us so that we can make you a delivered price. Asking for a Special Quo-
tation puts you under no obligation to buy unless you want to. We have just the right seed and we believe that Hastings
Seeds on your farm will pay both you and us, and this quotation sheet will help us to get together. Use it now.

Hastings* Special Quotation Sheet

H. G. HASTINGS CO., Atlanta, Ga.

Gentlemen: I would like to have you name me your lowest price on the list of seed I give you below. Please
quote your best prices, and also let me know whether in your opinion the seed should be sent by Freight, Express or
Parcel Post, and also about what the cost of delivery will be. It is distinctly understood that in asking for this special
quotation I am under no obligation to purchase same and that this is entirely for my own information as to prices and
freight, express or parcel post rates.

Namp

1 am on the Railroad

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My Express Office is

The Name of the Nearest Freight Station is

County

R. F. D. No__ State

TEAR OFF THIS QUOTATION SHEET ALONG THIS LINE

4 Mme. Jenny Guillemot. 5 Mile. Francisca Kruger. 6 Blumenschmidt.
10 Meteor. 11 Freiherr von Marschall. 12 Ecarlate.

1 White Maman Cochet. 2 Bessie Brown. 3 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria.

7 Pink Maman Cochet. 8 Radiance. 9 W. R. Smith.

12 SUPERB 2-YEAR ROSES, $2, Postpaid

Best Bloomers. Three each
Large Field-Grown Plants. ]

by planting out, during the fall and winter, the two-year-old field-grown plants such as we offer in this catalogue.

The above 12 varieties are the freest of bloomers and are as good a collection as can be selected for planting anywhere in the
South, giving as it does a superb range of shades and colors equally divided. All are strong, healthy growers, and, if planted out
between November 1 and January 1, will start growth and blooming in early spring. Full descriptions on pages 53, 54 and 55.

In this collection the white varieties are White Maman Cochet, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria and Bessie Brown; the yellows are
Mile. Francisca Kruger, Blumenschmidt, and Mme. Jenny Guillemot; the reds. Meteor, Ecarlate, Freiherr von Marschall; the
pinks, Pink Maman Cochet, W. R. Smith, Radiance. Descriptions of these varieties will be found on pages 53, 54 and 55.

These plants are grown in the open and are large, healthy plants, but cannot be shipped until growth has stopped for the season,
usually some time between October 15 and November 1. Orders can be sent in any time and plants will be shipped by parcel post
as soon as it is safe to dig and ship. This price includes delivery to any post office in the United States.

H. G. HASTINGS CO., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia

I Red, White, Pink and Yellow

; are many of our friends who want to plant out Roses and have
tundance of bloom the following summer. This can be done only

Plant Strawberries
for Home Use

ATLANTA, GEORGIA