H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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HASTINGS’ EGGPLANT 
While this is a crop mostly grown from winter and spring sown 
seed in most localities, it has been found a most satisfactory and 
profitable crop for late fall and winter shipment from South Florida. 
For October to January shipment seed should be sown from July to 
September. The results from an acre or two of eggplant planted in 
Florida at that season is often surprisingly satisfactory. It is us- 
ually customary to plant pound of seed to furnish plants for 1 acre. 
Hastings’ Improved Large Purple Thorn- 
less Eggplant (No. 190) 
for purity and excellence for 
Eggplant in all the market gardening sections of the South. It has 
been grown since 1896 by market gardeners with profitable results 
and in the home gardens with entire satisfaction. Our seed is pure 
and the plants over 90% thornless. There is no crop we exercise more 
care in and in which our constant and continued selections show 
better results. In a properly cultivated crop streaked or off-colored 
fruit is almost unknown. Plants are large, strong and vigorous, each 
plant producing from 5 to 8 large fruits of dark, rich purple color. 
The earliest of all large fruited varieties and aPvays gives satisfac- 
tion with proper cultivation, and the vigor and strength of this va- 
riety makes it less subject to the effect of “blight” and “dieback” 
which is disastrous to this crop in so many sections. Notice the il- i 
lustration from an actual photograph of this best of all eggplants. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20c; ounce 35c; % lb., $1.25; lb., $4.00. 
KALE OR BORECOLE FOR WINTER 
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. Sow the seed thinly in drills in Sep- 
tember and October and you should have no trouble in gathering 
the finest flavored “greens” you have ever eaten. 
Early Green Curled (No. 200 ) 
Hastings’ Improved Large Purple Thornless Eggplant — The 
Finest Ego-plant in the World For All Purposes 
GOOD GARDENS CUT STORE BILLS 
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KOHL-RABI 
‘Dwarf Curled Scotch” and “Siberian.” This is the variety usually 
sown in the fall for spring use. It is rather low growing, with fine curled leaves 
of deep green color. The young leaves are tender and delicate in flavor. Packet, 
^cen^; ouji^, 10 cen ts; ^ p ound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents; postpaid. 
“ This splendid vegetable should be better known in 
the South, for it is a most desirable one. It’s sort of 
halfway between a cabbage and a turnip. While it 
has many of the characteristics of the cabbage family the edible part is the bulb (as 
shown in our illustration) that forms above the ground. In the lower South and 
Florida it can be easily grown wdth August to October sowings. Seed can be sown 
thinly in rows where plants are to stand and thinned to six inches apart or sown in 
beds and transplanted like cabbage. The bulbs which grow to the size of a medium 
sized apple have a delicate cabbage-like flavor. 
Early White Vienna Kohl-RabI ( No. 202 ) 
ready for use, and are of a pale, whitish green color. They are hardy and you can 
have nice, tender bulbs all through the fall. When well started, set out as cabbage 
plants, and for table use, gather bulbs while skin is tender, slice, and cut off the 
hard lower portion. Bulbs are of very mild, delicate, cabbage-like flavor, most deli- 
cious. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 30 cents; ^ pound, 90 cents; pound, $3.00; postpaid,. 
The leek is a very hardy 
onion-like plant that does 
not make a bulb. It has 
a long, well thickened neck somewhat re- 
sembling the growth of young onions in 
spring but much longer and thicker. The 
leek thrives under same general conditions 
as onions and should be cultivated in the 
same general manner except that when the 
plants begin to get some size the earth 
should gradually be drawn up around the 
neck so as to blanch the stems or necks 
white and increase the tenderness and fine 
flavor. 
LEEKS 
Grows to large 
the stems 
Early Vienna Kohl-Babi 
Large Carenten 
LckAlc^No 903 proportionately 
large and thick. In 
rich soil, well earthed up, the edible por- 
tion is from 6 to 8 inches long by 2 to 3 
inches in diameter. Packet, 10 cents; % 
ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; ^ lb., 75c. 
Early Green Curled Kale or Borecole 
FAMILY GARDEN VEGETABLES 
So-called hard times, whether true or not, compels us to plant 
real big home gardens this fall. We need the great money sav- 
ing and we want more and better foods. Besides the regular 
vegetables, try a few new ones. Eggplant, Kohl Rabi, Endive, 
Fetticus, Carrots, Cress, Kale, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Chi- 
nese Cabbage, etc., are delicious. 
Make your fall garden take care of you throughout the winter. 
Home canned and dried vegetables are far better than any you 
buy in the stores. Plant a real fall garden. 
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