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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastings’ Frost Proof Cabbage Plants 
These cabbage plants will stand frost with little or no damage and will generally stand light freezes, but when a hard freeze comes, or 
when we have a fall drought followed by continued winter rains as in 1919-20 we lose all our plants and have none to sell. However, we 
don’t expect any such winter this year and w'e do expect to provide our customers with a plenty of these hardy plants this year. 
In 1919 we only sold these plants in small postpaid quantities, not believing that we had enough growing to sell in express lots. 
Nevertheless, it took 16,868,700 cabbage plants to fill these small orders. In 1920 we received orders for over 40,000,000 and for this sea- 
son we have prepared for 100,000,000. The Hastings’ reputation is behind these cabbage plants the same as our seeds and you can de- 
pend on their “making good’’. We advise as early an order for cabbage plants as you consider safe in your particular locality. 
To the Market Gardener who grows cabbage for shipment or 
nearby markets, earliness or quick maturity of the crop is a prime 
necessity if largest profits from the market are to be secured. 
To the Home Gardener who wants earliness in maturity together 
with avoiding all the trouble of cabbage seed sowing and necessary 
protection of early sown seed and plants, our practically frost and 
freeze-proof cabbage plants are both a convenience and a necessity. 
Along the South Carolina coast are a number of well protected 
islands that never feel the cold spells of winter as we do here in 
the Central South. In that locality the cabbage seed is sown in 
the fall and makes a slow and vigorous, hardy growth all during 
the Avinter in the open ground. They can be taken from there 
and planted anyAvhere in the Central South between January 15th 
and March 15th with perfect safety, a thing that is impossible 
with hot bed or greenhouse grown cabbage plants or even those 
grown in the open air in Florida and South Georgia. 
The use of these open air, practically frost-proof plants often 
enables the gardener to put full-grown heads of cabbage on the 
market two or three weeks ahead, and naturally he gets the early 
season top prices for his crop. 
To mature good heads the plant must not be too old when 
shipped. Over on the Carolina Coast Islands are a number of cab- 
bage growers who plant for a surplus of cabbage plants so as to 
insure having enough plants for their own use in setting out their 
fields. If everything goes right they haA’e more plants then they 
need and offer them for sale to you and others. What they get 
out of these surplus plants is so much clear money. 
Here is the real important point, however. Once a cabbage plant 
gets too old before it is transplanted it is very apt to run to seed 
instead of producing salable or usable heads of cabbage. 
You can’t afford to take chances and you don’t with Hastings’. 
Hastings’ Open Ground Grown, Practically Frost Proof Plants. They Are Hardy 
SATISFACTION NOTICE 
Once in awhile there comes an exceptional drought through the late fall months on the 
Carolina Islands and seeds fail to germinate. A second planting is made to supply 
plants in February and March provided we get some rain. Continued heavy rains in January and February, however, would make 
the plants too soft to dig and ship. Such was the case in the winter of 1919-20 and many customers were disappointed in not receiv- 
ing their plants or in shipping delays caused by the heavy rains. All growers suffered alike that wunter and no one could buy 
plants. We have Avorked out a system to eliminate all unnecessary delays this year and as this is written, we expect to have one 
hundred million fine frost-proof plants for this season. However, get your order in as early as possible. 
Varieties, Eariy Jersey and Large Charieston Wakefieid and Eariy Fiat Dutch 
By Parcei Post Prepaid To Your Postoffice. No Express Shipments This Season 
Under existing congested condition of shipping and slow deliveries as well as the comparatively limited supply of plants available we 
decline to accept orders for express shipment of cabbage plants. Offers below are only for Parcel Post prepaid sliipment. 
500 Cabbage Plants, all of the same variety, postpaid, $1.75; 1,000 or more of the same variety, postpaid, at $3.25 per 1,000. 
m I I will mail these to any address in the United States except in Florida, postpaid by us. No orders from Florida will be 
accepted because of the Florida Plant Quarantine L.aw, causing delay in plants reaching destination. 
PAKQincrlo Himrlrorl small shipments we will furnish 100 plants of any one variety for 50 cents, postpaid. No order 
■ for less than 100 plants of any one variety Avill be filled. Orders are filled by the hundred — not 250 
or 350 — but 200, 300, or 400. Also, orders for less than 500 of the same variety take the 100 rate — 200 of one variety and 300 of another 
take the 100 rate. At 50 cents per 100 we will send any of the above varieties, postpaid, to any State except Florida. 
