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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
NO CABBAGE PLANTS 
Just as this part of the catalogue was being printed we 
were notified by our cabbage plant grower over on the 
Carolina coast islands that the cabbage plant crop was a 
failure and that no orders could be filled during this winter 
and spring. This necessitates the cutting out of our cata- 
logue of all offers of cabbage plants for the 1918 season. 
Our grower planted the cabbage seed at the usual time 
in October and November, but sowing was followed by a 
long period of very dry and then cold weather which ruined 
the seed in the ground before it had a chance to germinate. 
Now, it is too late to sow seed, were it available (which 
it is not) and have hardy plants ready for the early plant- 
ings, so we are simply out of the cabbage plant business 
for this year. The only remedy for this condition is for you 
to buy cabbage seed and be very careful in planting it. 
Cabbage seed is scarcer and higher priced than we have 
ever known it. You must be very careful of it. Do not 
buy more cabbage seed than you actually need, and then be 
very, very careful In planting it so as to make it go just as 
far as you possibly can. There is a cabbage seed famine as 
well as a condition of exceedingly short supply in many 
other sorts. 
Please read carefully the statement below. 
We Reserve the Right to 
Change Prices Without Notice 
Since a large part of this catalogue has been printed, 
really alarming shortages have developed in many lines of 
seed. In the cleaning up of many of the seed crops it has 
been found that the yields are far below what was esti- 
mated at time of harvest. 
Under these circumstances, we reserve not only the right 
to change prices without notice, but also to refuse to fill 
orders in the larger quantities when in our judgment such 
refusal to fill quantity orders is justified. 
Home Gardens 
We do not anticipate at this 
time the necessity of any 
changes in the prices of what are generally termed “garden 
seeds,” including beans, corn and peas, in such quantities 
as are usually bought and planted in home or family gar- 
dens. You can send In your “home garden” orders with 
every assurance that they will be filled in full and at prices 
named in this catalogue. 
What we are really in doubt of is our ability to fill 
“quantity” orders from truckers and market-gardeners such 
as we have always been able to do in the past. Please note 
carefully what is said below. 
We will not fill orders for cabbage seed in 
waUUagC ariy larger quantities than noted on pages 
14, 15, 16 and 17. One-quarter pound of any one variety to 
any one person is absolutely our limit on all varieties ex- 
cept the Chinese. We reserve the right to refuse to sell 
quarter-pounds of cabbage seed if conditions justify later 
in the season. 
We cannot fill orders for onion seed in larg- 
er quantities than one pound to any person 
except on Bermuda White. On varieties of onions listed 
OB pages 34 and 35 we reserve the right to withdraw prices 
on orders of one-quarter pound and over without notice. 
short in the cleaning up of the crop. 
■ V|J|JN7r9 This is one item showing up especially 
Further, that part of the catalogue was printed some time 
before the extreme shortage became apparent. On Ruby 
King, Ruby Giant and Large Bell, we positively can not and 
will not fill orders for more than one-quarter pound. We 
can fill single pound orders that come in very early on 
Royal King Pepper. 
Radish, Turnip and Rutabaga 
These are all in very short supply and no order for more 
than one pound of any one variety will be filled for any 
one customer. 
Fieid Seeds, Sorghums, Etc. 
It is in this line of seeds that we anticipate our greatest 
price troubles. The markets on them have been changing 
so rapidly that it’s very hard to know just where one 
stands. We do not expect to have to make any changes 
in the postpaid prices on one- and four-pound offers of 
Seeded Ribbon Cane, Chicken Corn, Feterita, Kaffir Corn, 
etc., but we do reserve the right to withdraw the ten- 
pound or quantity prices on any items listed on pages 66 
to 75 inclusive, without notice. When ready to buy any 
of these items in quantity, write for prices, using the 
“Special Quotation Sheet” in the back of this catalogue. 
SEND YOUR ORDERS EARLY 
There are two good and distinct reasons. One is the very 
great shortage in almost all kinds of seeds and the very 
“late comers” must necessarily do without. The second 
is that with the congestion and crowded-to-the-limit con- 
dition of all the railroads of the United States, due to the 
war, neither mail, express nor freight moves as promptly 
and quickly as In times past. The only safe way is to 
start your orders a little earlier so as to give plenty of 
time for them to reach you before you are ready to plant. 
Send In your order just as early as you can get it made 
up and be safe. There will be a great many people who 
delay ordering that will find themselves without seed to 
plant. 
H. G. HASTINGS CO. 
