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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ LETTUCE SEED FOR MARKET CROPS. 
Lettuce seed is one of our great specialties and in addition to supplying nearly one hundred and fifty 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 Bos- 
ton, Florida Header, California Cream Butter and Dixie Hard Head have no equals. The high quality of HASTINGS’ LETTUCE SEED 
is known everywhere in the South where lettuce is grown, for purity, hardness of beads and slowness to run to seed. Our lettuce seed is 
all grown in California by the most careful lettuce seed grrower in the world and the crops are personally inspected by Mr. Hastings al- 
most 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 ot the house or even an employe will travel over 6.000 miles each year to see that every possible care is 
taken to have the lettuce seed just right? 
A Field of Hastings’ Big Boston Lettuce Ready for Shipping. Note the Regularity of Growth 
Hastings’ Drumhead White Cabbage Lettuce, 
BIG BOSTON 
The illustration above shows a market gar- 
dener’s field of our Big Boston. It is per- 
fection in that variety and you cannot buy any Big Boston at any 
price that is superior to ours. Heads are so firm and solid that al- 
most every head has to be cut open before seed stalks can grow in 
our seed crops. It is the standard market garden and shipping va- 
riety, grown almost exclusively in many sections for shipment and 
for market. It is an extra large, round, firm-heading variety and 
makes a good appearance in market. If you plant Big Boston for a 
market crop you will be pleased with our strain of this seed. It is 
the purest and best stock obtainable. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 
cents ; % pound, 35 cents ; pound, $1.25 ; postpaid. 5 poui^ds, not pre- 
paid, $5.00. 
Drumhead White Cabbage Lettuce 
One of our earliest introductions and no variety that we have cata- 
logued has ever had a steadier sale. It is not a shipping lettuce, but 
belongs to the “crisp” leaved class. Superb for home gardens and 
nearby markets. When properly grown it -reaj^hes very large size, 
one gardener near Gainesville, Florida, producing a single head that 
weighed nearly 4 pounds. It is always large with outer leaves clear, 
light green, the insides of the heads being almost white. Leaves are 
large, extra crisp and tender and entirely free from bitterness; an es- 
pecially desirable variety for early spring plantings in the Middle 
South or fall plantings in Florida and along the Gulf Coast during 
the fall or early winter months. Packet. 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 
14 pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid. 
I Very ornamental as well as being ex- 
ICdJCl g ceedingly crisp and tender, growing a 
long time before running to seed in the spring. A crisp leaved vari- 
etv and a very hard header. Splendid for open-ground planting or 
for forcing in frames. Heads of conical shape very uniform in size. 
Heads tightly folded and blanched to a beautiful white. Outer leaves- 
light green, growing closelv up around the head. Packet, 5 cents^ 
ounce, 15 cents; % pound, 30 cents; pound. $1.00; postpaid. 
