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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastings’ Lettuce Seed For Home and Market Crops 
Liettuce seed is one of our great specialties, and in addition to supplying over two hundred thousand family gardens each year we 
sell thousands of pounds of highest grade lettuce seed to shippers and market gardeners. Our four great market varieties, BIG BOS- 
TON, 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 slowness to run 
to seed. Our lettuce seed is all growm in California by the most careful lettuce seed grower in the world, and the growing crops are 
personally inspected by our Mr. Hastings or Mr. Freeborn so as to insure the quality being kept up to the HASTINGS’ standard. Do 
you know of any seed firm Avhere the head of the house, or CA^en 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? Remember — Hastings’ Lettuce Seed is the finest in the world! 
One End of a Field of BIG BOSTON Lettuce Ready for Shipment — Note the Regularity of Growth — Right Seed Does It 
Hastings’ Drumhead White Cabbage Lettuce 
BIG BOSTON (No. 210). 
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 be 
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 head- 
ing variety, and makes a good appearance in market. Our seed of this 
variety is grown for us by a lettuce seed specialist whom Ave consider 
the best in the world. Our seed of Big Boston is the purest and hardest 
heading stock that you can obtain. Packet, 10c; oz., 20c; % lb,, 50c; 
lb., $1.25; postpaid. 5-lb. lots or over, $1.00 per lb., not prepaid. 
HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD 
Wonderful. One of our 
WHITECABBAGE LETTUCE t,“d nf vt? 
/Un 91 I \ ety that we have ever carried has had a steadier sale. 
& I I y This splendid variety belongs to the crisp leaA^ed class. 
Superb for home gardens and nearby markets. When properly, grown 
it reaches large size. One gardener near Gainesville, Florida, produced 
a single head weighing nearly 4 pounds. It is always large, with outer 
leaves a clear, light green color, inside of the head almost pure white. 
Leaves are large, extra crisp and tender and entirely free from all 
bitter taste. Packet, 10c; ounce, 20c; % pound, 65c; pound, $?.00; post- 
paid. 5-pound lots or over, not prepaid, $1.75 per pound. 
HASTINGS’ ICEBERG LETTUCE (No. 216) 
A beautiful as vrell as useful variety. Exceedingly crisp and tender, 
growing a long time before running to seed. Known as a “crisp leaA'ed’’ 
hard header. Splendid for either open ground planting or for forc- 
ing under glass. Heads of conical shape and medium size. Heads 
tightly fold and blanch to a beautiful white. Outer leaves crinkled 
and light green, growing closely up around the head. Pkt., 10c; oz., 
20c; ^ lb., 65c; lb., $2.00; postpaid. 5-lb. lots or over, not prepaid, 
$1.75 per pound. 
