H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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Plant Summer Flowering Bulbs 
FLOWERS ABOUT YOUR HOME 
Have You Plenty of Flowers About Your Home? If Not Why Not? 
We don’t want to criticise any one but as we travel over the South year after year 
the most depressing: thing: to us is the almost entire absence of flowers and g:rass plots 
around tens of thousands of farm and small town homes. In the old days of the South’s 
poverty there may have been an excuse for this condition, but not now. Hardly a 
family exists that can’t afford to spend the small amount necessary for flower seed and 
plants to beautify the home surrounding:s and you and your family will be well repaid 
in pleasure and satisfaction for the small expenditure of money and' labor in planting: 
and caring: for them. PLANT FLOWERS IN 1913. 
Some of our most attractive and widely g:rown flowers come from what are known 
as summer flowering: bulbs or roots. In the middle and lower South the double Pearl 
Tuberose, Oladioli, Dahlias and Cannas g:row luxuriantly, furnish an abundance of 
beautiful flowers and last for years in the open ground with only slight protection. 
Our prices on these flowers are so low that they really do not pay us a profit but we 
are willing to handle them without profit for the sake of inducing every owner of a 
farm home to plant more flowers, to beautify the home and its surroundings. Where 
home surroundings are both beautiful and comfortable there is content — the call to 
leave the farm for town or city is seldom heard. 
Double Excelsior Pearl Tuberoses -^be“sou\‘h.'''IXbfe^i? 
culture anywhere, either in pots, boxes or open ground. In many parts of the South 
it is a favorite summer flowering bulb, a single flower scenting the entire room. It 
grows vigorously in all parts of the South, is free from insect pests; and our first 
size bulbs are alwavs sure bloomers the first season. Price, postpaid, 5 cents each; 
6 for 20 cents; 12 for 30 cents; 50 for $1.25; 100 for $2.25. You will enjoy the delight- 
ful fragrance. 
ftlarlinli finest mixed Gladioli are a source of greatest satisfaction to every 
^XiaUIVII oije ^ 1,0 plants them in the South, Hastings’ finest mixed giving the 
very best of results; the mixture being made up from a fine selection of the very best 
of colors, all of the cheap and inferior grades and colors haAung been thrown out. The 
fine spikes of bloom with their richness and brilliancy of coloring are out of all 
proportion to the trifling cost of the bulbs. Don’t fail to plant a dozen or more of 
them in your flower garden this year. 6 for ‘20 cents; 12 for 30 cents; 50 for $1.00; 
100 for $1.90; postpaid. 
Gr “Elephant Ears.” Splendid decorative plants with immense 
leaves. First size bulbs, 10 cents each; $1.00 per dozen. Second 
size, 15 cents; $1.50 per dozen; prepaid. Extra large, 25 to 40 cents each; prepaid. 
These make a most beautiful tropical effect with the large .green and 
Vannaa bronze leaves and orchid-like flowers. See page 83 for illustration. 
Prices of strong roots for quick results in hloomins', 10 cents each; $1.00 per dozen; 
postpaid. We can supply Allemania, green foliage, scarlet and yellow flowers; 
Austria, green foliage, golden yellow flowers; Jean Tissot, green with scarlet bloom; 
Shenandoah, bronze foliage, rose pink; Pennsylvania, green, large scarlet flowers; 
Louisiana, green, vivid scarlet bloom. ^ i. 
Very popular now. Large field-grown roots of white, yellow, pink. 
VallllClS purple dark red and variegated. 25 cents each; 3 for 65 cents; 5 for 
$1.00; postpaid. Bloom the first season and with very slight protection by being cov- 
GTGd with tviish iGnvGS or stnblo munuro will last maiiy seasons in any part of the 
South. Cover enough to keep them from freezing. The Dahlia is now one of the most 
popular of all flowers and our new decorative and cactus flovvering varieties will 
surprise you in beauty of flower and neb coloring. Plant Dahlias this year, you 
won’t regret it. 
PRICES POSTPAID 
From Hastings’ Mixed Gladioli 
Hastings’ Plant 
Collections 
This page finishes up the purely 
seed and bulb part of our catalogue. 
What follows is devoted strictly to 
flowering and ornamental plants, 
the beautiflers of homes and home 
surroundings. Every mother and 
daughter in every farm and town 
home has the right to have flowers 
and plenty of them. It is not only 
her right but her duty to have them 
for there is nothing that will do 
more to make home attractive than 
flowers. 
It was our aim and purpose when 
we began selling Roses, Geraniums 
and Chrysanthemums in these popu- 
lar priced collections by mail, post- 
paid, to make it easy and cheap for 
you to have plenty of flowers around 
the farm homes and the purchase of 
them by thousands show a growing 
appreciation of flowers. 
Prices are as low as good healthy 
plants can be grown for. 
or Elephant Ears 
