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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
FLOWERING BE60NIAS-10 CENTS EACH, POSTPAID 
Alba Picta — Lovely pink flowers. Decorus — Fine white flowering begonia. Hybrida 
Multiflora — Exceedingly free bloomer. Flowers bright rosy pink. President Carnot — 
Beautiful coral red. Bobusta — Beautiful coral red flowers. Sandersoni — One of the best. 
Flowers are a scarlet shade of crimson. Blooms for months at a time. Mrs. Townsend 
— Broad metallic leaves with underside bronze red. Beautiful pink flowers. Vernon — 
A deep rose flowering variety, suitable for pot culture or outdoor bedding. 
CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS-Umbrella Plant 
the easiest culture, and a large specimen is as handsome as a palm for decoration. It 
makes a handsome pot plant, or can be used in baskets or vases, making a charming 
effect. It will grow luxuriantly in water, and is therefore indispensable for aquariums 
or fountains. 10 cents each. 
Carnations « fS" 
~ . ■ ■■ . - Our Selection of Best Varieties 
Carnations are now among the most popular of flowers and are easily grown. Small 
plants started this spring in the open ground will furnish good bloom during late sum- 
mer and fall, and then if lifted just before frost and brought into the house, will furnish 
a supply of.fragraiit flowers all during the winter months. Send us 75 cents and we 
will send you postpaid, our own selection, twelve of the best varieties. 
PIJC Aptly termed the “gardener’s paint box.” We have a superb assort- 
meiit of brilliantly colored varieties, fine for bedding. 5 cents each; 
60 cents per dozen; $3.50 per 100, postpaid. 
There are very few ladies that don’t want to grow fuchsias and 
they are easily grown in almost all parts of the South if the right 
varieties are planted. The failures come from trying to grow varieties not adapted. 
The following list of fuchsias is made up exclusively of right varieties for the South ; 
Boston Fern (Nephrolepsis Bostoniensis) 
Cyperus Alternifolius 
Fern Baby’s Breath 
Blacic Princa finest variety for the amateur grower. Of robust growth, making a 
finely shaped bush, a very free bloomer and free from disease and insects. 
Buds of beautiful, waxy carmine color. 15 cents each. 
Maw PiiAheia R/Bssi*!# long and pointed and of bronzy green color. Flowers dif- 
iwBcai jf ferent from any other fuchsias, being 21/2 to 3 inches long and of 
richest scarlet color, and produced in large clusters. 20 cents each. 
Of erect and compact habit. Plants begin to flower when quite young. Flowers 
star-shaped and 2 to 3 inches long, the tube and sepals of bright rose color, 
corolla brilliant carmine. 
Every house ought to have one or more of these splendid decorative plants for the 
r porches ill Rummer or indoors in winter. Easily grown and will repay one for the little 
care necessary to grow most beautiful specimens. 
kiArkl«»iAlAnsi«K We have some beautiful specimens of this in our own 
nepnroiepsis The fronds freciueutly attain a length of five 
to six feet. Many call it the “fountain fern,” on account of its graceful drooping habits. We use 
it as a house plant in wdnter and under our shade trees in summer. Young plants 15 cents each; 
extra strong plants, 50 cents each. Extra size, $1.00. 
We have one specimen of this variety in our home that 
WCpUr OI®pSIS r ECb not take $50.00 for. This shows you how we 
value it. In general growth very much like the Boston Fern but much finer foliage and more 
beautiful appearance. Strong plants 20 cents each; extra strong plants, 60 cents each. 
Tall (Nephrolepsis Davalloides F’urcans.) An especially fine fern for the 
I 116 ■ ISli i Oil ■ Cl ■■ «;,>nth. The ends of the pinnae are so formed as to resemble a fish 
tail giving the fronds an especially effective crested appearance. A most shapely fern. Fine 
Plants, 25 cents; strong plants, 50 cents. 
We have now grown this for four years and we are greatly pleased with it. In many respects it is a 
far better and more ornamental variety than any of the others. It looks to us like the finest of all, and 
you will make no mistake if you order it this year. Fine plants, 35 cents each ; extra strong plants, 75 cents each, postpaid 
Roosevelt Fern 
Rooseveltl. There is no fern that 
Heliotrope, tbe Queeo 
variety. In general form like the Boston Fern, but produces m.any more 
fronds, making it a bushier and more handsome plaut. The pinnae are 
beautifully undulated, giving a wavy effect found in no other fern. You 
will prize this fern if you grow it. Small plants, 25 cents each; strong 
plants, 60 cents. 
UpllATDApP The most delicately fragrant flower of all for a 
" porch or pot plant or for bedding in partly 
shaded locations. Each of the four varieties below 10 cents each. 
Cmaia# lA/rAatk Superb large clusters of deliciously fragrant 
WW ■ call! flg^gj.g gf pure white. 10 cents. 
TIia iisat, dwarf habit, profusion of bloom and rich- 
I lie VEUCCII nggg of odor. The Queen has no equal. Its vivid royal 
purple color with distinct white center gives something entirely new in 
color for either summer decoration or winter flowering. By far the best 
of Heliotropes. 10 cents each. 
Florence Nightingale lavender. 
Ohlof f aSffl Color deepest violet purple, large white eye ; very fragrant ; 
^llldAdBll ffjg plant is of vigorous habit; very floriferous. 10c each. 
Bouganvillea Sanderiana 
for house culture and for an open ground climber in comparatively frost- 
less regions. A full-grown plant will often contain tens of thousands of 
the odd-looking purplish pink flowers, and seen in full bloom in warmer 
climates it is a sight never to be forgotten. Good plants, 20 cents each. 
MEXICAN FIRE PLANT or POINSETTA 
A tropical plant adapted to all parts of the South as a porch or home 
plant. A beautiful sight with the bright, scarlet bracts surrouodiug the 
flowers from Tbaoksgiving to March, Each 30 centSt ' 
