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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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Hastings’ Finest Mixed 
Sweet Peas (No. 883) 
Our Sweet Pea Grower, who also grows some other 
flower seeds for us, carried away more medals, 
prizes and awards than any other man, company 
or corporation at the San Francisco World’s Fair— 
the Panama-Pacific Exposition. 
Every year this splendid mixture of sweet peas be- 
comes more popular and rightfully so. It’s usually the case that sweet pea 
mixtures are made up from the inferior sorts, dull colors, or anv kinds that 
the seedsman might have plenty of. Not so with our mixture. It is mad: 
up from 60 of the best varieties in existence, these being selected after care- 
ful observation of some 500 named sorts. Every one of these 60 varieties 
are grown separately under name. When these reach our warehouse the 
mixture is made, just the right quantity of each color and shade going in 
to give the finest blending of colors to give you a most pleasing assortment 
of shade, color and resistance to hot sun. Sweet peas can be sown in Janu- 
ary, February and March in rows where they can be brushed or run on 
wires. If long flowering period is desired dig trenches about 12 inches deep, 
fill in about 6 inches with well-rotted manure and top soil well mixed ; plant seed on this 
and cover 2 to 3 inches. After seed comes up keep drawing in earth until trench is filled 
level with the ground. Packet, 6c; ounce, 15c; pound, 45c; pound, $1.25; postpaid. 
CwAAf Colors ^ Many prefer to plant the colors sepa- 
rately. We can supply you the best 
varieties for the South in the following colors: Pure White (No. 884), Pink (No. 885), 
Favender (No. 886), Navy Blue (No. 887), Red (No. 888), and Striped or Variegated (No. 
Each, packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; % pound, 45 cents; pound, $1.25; postpaid. 
T%#riA QiAioof ^ ^^ce or type of sweet peas with extra 
I yp“ r^t;a9 large flowers, fully double the size of the 
older forms under good cultivation. Many of the Spencers have wavy and fiute-edged 
petals, which with their rich coloring, give an almost orchid-like appearance. The Spen- 
cer type will not stand careless cultivation, but if you give them careful cultivation they 
will fully repay you for the extra trouble by their exceptional size and beauty. We have 
these wonderful sweet peas, the kind that attracted so much attention at the Panama- 
Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, where our grower took practically all the medals 
and other awards offered for sweet peas and other plants grown by him. Such recog- 
nized growers are the ones who grow seeds for Hastings’, and you get exactly that same 
quality of seed when you buy a packet of any kind of seed from Hastings’. In separate 
colors, and also we have a splendid mixture of these and many other colors. Separate 
colors: Pure White (No. 897), Pink (No. 898), Eavender (No. 899), Blue (No. 893), Red 
(No. 894), Striped and Variegated (No. 895), and many colors Mixed (No. 896). Prices of 
each: Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; % pound, 70 cents; pound, .$2.50; postpaid. 
Hastings’ Superb Mixed Pansies faX'f 
Hastings’ Unexcelled Sweet Peas 
(No. 847) spring out doors in 
partially shaded loca- 
tion will produce flowering plants by 
fall. With slight protection the plants 
usually stand the winter perfectly. Our own mixture of the finest large flowering 
strains, from the greatest pansy specialists of France and England. This includes 
such strains as Giant Trimardeau, Odier, Gassier, Bugnot, Large Parisian Stained, 
and many others of the very highest types. Packet, 25 cents; 3 packets, 50 cents. 
Large Flowering English “Face” Pansies (No. 848) — Our mixture of the best Eng- 
lish varieties of “Face” Pansies. Packet, 15 cents ; 2 packets, 25 cents. 
French Mixed Pansy (No. 849) — A fine mixture of best French varieties. Very sat- 
isfactory for early spring plantings. Packet, 10 cents ; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
Fine Mixed Pansy (No. 850) — Our own mixture of the more common varieties. This 
contains a wide range of colors and markings. Packet, 6 cents. 
pFT|JM| AC Petunias are very popular in the South: easily grown, and make 
most beautiful flower beds of showy colors. No garden is com- 
plete without them. They are hardy annuals ; heat, rain, drought do not affect them. 
They bloom in a very short time and continue blooming from early summer to late 
fall. Sow thinly in open beds when trees are starting to leaf. Scatter thinly and 
cover lightly. Can also be started earlier, in boxes in the house, and transplanted. 
Finest Mixed (No. 853) — Solid colors, without variation in markings. Packet, 5c. 
Hastings’ Striped and Blotched (No. 854) — A splendid mixture of finest striped, 
blotched and variegated sorts. Packet, 5 cents. 
Giant Single Fringed, Mixed (No. 855) — Immense single fringed flowers of finest 
shades and colors. Surpass anything ever offered in petunias. Packet, 20 cents. 
Double Mixed Petunias (No. 856) — Seed saved from finest large flowered collection. 
About 50 per cent come double. Those that come single are most highly colored and 
blotched. Sow seed of these and Giant Single Fringed in boxes, in the house, trans- 
planting afterwards to open ground. Packet, 25 cents. 
AN* Rttan (Ornamental Mixed) — Large tropical plants, 
■«IWIIIU9 Ul wcl9tiVl DVdll ^rown for the highly ornamental foliage. A 
YNn plentiful supply of these, grown near houses, is said to keep away mos- 
quitoes. Also known as Palma Christi. Plant in open ground, after 
ground gets warm, three to four feet apart each way. This is the bean from which 
castor oil is made, but do not eat the raw beans. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
Hastings’ Flowering Plant Collections For The South 
To make your place look more home-like, the place you will be happy to live in, 
there is nothing to take the place of Powering Plants. Knowing this, we have 
prepared several plant collections of the best varieties, known to do well in the 
South. We offer them at very reasonable prices and we are sure you will be 
pleased with them. Our “Sunny South Rose Collection” on page 87, our Geranium 
Collection on page 88, and our Chrysanthemum Collection on page 89 are splendid 
selections. Also notice our other plant collections and offers. 
Hastings’ Superb Pansy 
