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II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastings’ ^^Home Beautiful” Flower Seed 
Only varieties adapted to fall plantingr in Southern States. Make yours a “Home Beautiful” with flowers. 
LiIBERAli PREMIUMS — With an order for 50 cents’ worth of Flower Seeds Only, you may select 25 cents’ worth of Flower Seed 
Extra. For .^1.00 you may have 50 cents’ worth extra, and for S2.00 you may have $1.00 worth extra. This offer does NOT include 
Bulbs, Roots or Plants. Read carefully and don’t confuse it with vegetable or field seeds. This Special Offer is for Flower Seeds only. 
HASTINGS’ FLOWER SEEDS 
Have no superiors and few equals. We use just as much care in 
the production of the finest strains of flower seeds as we do in 
vegetable seeds. We do this because it pays us. Our business ex- 
perience has shown us that our best advertisement is a satisfied 
customer, and our special high grade strains of seed are bound to 
make every one who plants them satisfied. The increase in our 
sales of flower seed in the past ten years has been enormous. Our 
customers find that the quantity of our seed and the size and bril- 
liancy of the bloom from our special strains of flower seeds sur- 
pass anything they have ever had. You may depend upon the fact 
that you can plant any variety in this list with the assurance that 
with proper treatment and favorable seasons you will succeed. 
Our packets of flower seeds are larger than those of most seeds- 
men. There are enough seeds in Hastings’ packets to give plenty 
of plants of each kind. We have no 1, 2 or 3-cent packets such as 
nre offered occasionally. Our packets contain good seed and plenty 
of it. We do not put in 6 or 7 sweet peas, or 12 or 15 poppy seed, 
as flne-as dust, and call it a packet. Our business is not conducted 
on that basis. We charge you a reasonable price, just what the 
goods are worth, and give you value received for every cent you 
send us, and then add to your order the extra seeds' allowed in 
the offer at the top of this page. 
Flower seed is now one of the leading features of our business, 
and we lead in that just as we do in vegetable seed. Hastings’ 
.Seeds of all varieties are Successful Seeds. 
There are a number of flower seeds which should be sown in 
the fall for best results, as the length of time to hot weather from 
spring sowings, is too short to allow for best development. To this 
<-lass belong Pansies, Violets and Daisies. Other varieties such as 
Sweet Peas, need an early start, especially in Florida and Gulf 
Coast section, October to December sowing being best. In the 
lower half of Florida and extreme Southwest Texas, such kinds as 
Dianthus or Pinks, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Petunias, Poppies, 
Verbenas, can be sown almost any time during the fall months, 
adding brightness to home surroundings during the winter months. 
Calendulas (Pot Marigold) L"nrairrre'"'or/eS 
easy culture out of doors and are profuse and continuous bloom- 
ers, doing especially well in Florida, and along the Gulf Coast 
where slightly protected in fall and winter months. Our improved 
varieties form bushy plants about a foot tall, literally covering 
themselves with large, double showy flowers. • 
lyiAf'AAK f M a TOCX Bright yellow, striped with orange 
IviCEtfUr ^ nUi tQvj through the middle of each petal. 
Hastings’ Mixed (No. 736) all Calendula colors of the finest named 
varieties. Each: Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
HOW TO SOW FLOWER SEEDS 
"With few exceptions flower seeds are very small, and sowing 
them by the inexperienced often results in failure, either partial 
or complete, because a few simple rules are not followed. There is 
nothing mysterious about success with flowers. It requires care 
and a little common sense. With these, failure is almost impossi- 
ble. It is work that can not be left to a farm hand or laborer. It 
must receive your careful personal attention. By observing close- 
ly the following rules for sowing flower seed you will have little 
cause for complaint or failure. 
Soil mellow loam, which is a medium earth between 
I lie «9l#ll extreme of clay and sand, enriched by a com- 
post or rotten manure and leaf mold, is adapted to the generality 
of flowering plants. Previous to planting flower beds or borders 
care must be taken that they are so arranged that the ground is a 
little elevated in the middle, allowing the water to run off, also 
showing off the plants to better advantage. 
tllA SaaH ^la^e the surface as fine and smooth 
r^iailAlllg AIIC ag possible. Cover each sort of seed 
to a depth proportionate to its size; seed like portulaca, petunias, 
etc., should be merely sprinkled on the surface of the ground, and 
barelj’ covered with finely sifted, light mellow soil ; press the soil 
down firmly over the seed with a brick or a short piece of board. 
For larger seed the depth should be regulated according to the size 
of the seed, those the size of a pinhead i/o inch deep, and those the 
size of a pea % of an inch or more. Get a bit of lath (it would be 
better if planed smooth) about two feet long, press the edge down 
into the soil evenly, so as to make a groove as deep as the seed is 
to be planted, scatter the seed along this, allowing 4 to 5 of the 
larger to 15 or 20 of the smaller seeds to the space one plant is to- 
occupy when grown. Cover the seed by pressing ; turn your lath, 
flatwise and press the soil down firmly. On light, sandy soils, 
flower seed should be covered twice the depth that they should 
be in stiff or heavy clay soils. 
Double English Daisy 
(Beilis Perennis) (No. 730) tionL Blooms in late 
fall and earliest spring. Sow seed early in boxes or shallow drills, 
then transplant to permanent location. Treat the same as violets. 
They can be flowered through the winter if placed in boxes, in 
pits, or planted in cold frames. Flowers very double. Plants 
spread rapidly in rich soil. Finest Mixed. Packet, 10 cents. 
Hastings’ Superb Mixed Dianthus (No. 778), or Garden Pinks— Packet, 10 cents; 3 Packets, 25 Cents 
Hastings’ Superb Mixed Dianthus (778) I 
Our famous garden pink! add delight to any home. They are j 
extremely popular all over the South and we are offering you the : 
very finest varieties that can be grown. 
Most of *our friends prefer a few plants of many varieties of 
pinks and do not wish to buy each variety separately. To meet 
this demand we have made up a magnificent riiixture of all the 
Chinese and Japanese Pinks, having the widest range of form, 
color and markings imaginable. Earge packet, 10 cents; 3 for 25c. 
Dianthus — Chinensis (No. 779) — Double China Pink. Free 
bloomer. All shades and colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
D. — Chinensis Alba (No. 780) — Double China, identical with Chi- 
nensis except that the bloom is pure white. Finest selected. Pkt., 10c. 
D. — Heddewiggii (Japanese) (No. 782)^ — Finest double mixed, 
large flowers, often 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Packet, 10 cents. 
D. — Heddewiggii Single (No. 781) — Select mixed. Packet, 10c. i 
D. — Heddewiggii Atrosanguinea (783) — Double Crimson. Pkt., 10c. 1 
D. — Mourning Pink (No. 784) — Extra double flowers with body 
covering of very dark velvet mahogany, almost black, in striking, 
contrast to the finely fringed edges of pure white. Packet, 10c. 
D. — Double Diadem Pink (No. 785) — Very large double flowers, 
finely marked. Magnificent in both coloring and varieties. Mixed 
colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
D. — Crimson Belle ((No. 786) — Single. Large flowers of deepest 
glowing crimson, beautifully fringed. Packet, 10 cents. 
D. — Eastern Queen (No. 787) — Large single flowers, 2 to 4 inches; 
across. Finely fringed, beautifully stained in rich shadings of sil- 
very white, each flower having crimson center. Packet, 10 cents.. 
D. — The Bride (No. 788) — Large handsome flowers of silvery 
white with rich purplish red eye surrounded by a still darker 
crimson ring. Packet, 10 cents. 
D. — Eacinatus (No. 789) — Large single and double fringed flow- 
ers in many distinct colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
D. — Salmon Queen (No. 790) — Single flowers of beautifully rosy 
salmon color, a rare shade of pinks. Packet, 10 cents. 
