H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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HASTINGS' EDEN GEM CANTALOUPES 
Plant these in your Garden They Resist InsectAttacks 
Rockyford, Colorado, and its surrounding country has a world- gathered. Our representative sees every melon cut and no melon 
wide fame as a producer of the finest cantaloupes. Our personal is allowed to be cut that does not come up to the Hastings’ stand- 
experience and investigation on the ground leads us to believe ard of quality. Our representative is on the ground and stays 
that the fame of Rockyford is fully deserved and that of all the there until all the seed is washed, dried, sacked and on the cars 
varieties grown there our Eden Gem Cantaloupe leads them all. headed for Atlanta. 
Mr. H. G. Hastings went to Rockyford years ago and made a Eden Gem is a sure money-maker for the cantaloupe grower for 
thorough investigation of all the varieties and the Rockyford shipment. For the home gardener or the grower for nearby mar- 
growers. He selected the Eden Gem as the best type of cantaloupe. kets it is unexcelled in appearance and eating quality. Eden Gem 
He arranged for special acreage of Eden Gem to be grown ex- has a vigor of growth that keeps the vines green from two to 
clusively for us and this has continued ever since. three weeks longer than any other variety. It is most resistant to 
We have absolutely no connection with any other seed house or ; ‘•rust” and other plant diseases, while the density of its perfect 
any other seed grower on our own acreage. It’s entirely an exclu- netting makes it especially resistant to insect attacks, 
sive acreage for H. G. Hastings Co. It costs more than double to produce seed quality like our Eden 
About the time the crop matures our representative goes to Gem, but it's money well spent by the cantaloupe grower that 
Rockyford and carefully inspects the crop and the cantaloupes as | wants to be sure of high quality cantaloupes in his crop. 
See this delicious canta- 
loupe in its natural col- 
ors on Front Cover. 
Don’t you 'want a slice? 
Hastings’ Eden Gem Cantaloupe (No. 231) 
The illustration above shows the average size and perfect netting 
of our Eden Gem Cantaloupe (green fleshed), the real true money- 
making variety for the shipper and market gardener as well as 
the most satisfactory of all for home use. It gives perfect satis- 
faction to all who grow it. Its dense netting helps greatly in re- 
sistance to insect attacks. You will make no mistake planting Eden 
Gem in the South. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; % lb., 50c; 
lb., ?1.75 ; postpaid. Ten pounds or over, not prepaid, $1.50 per lb. 
Hastings’ Salmon Flesh Eden Gem 
(No. 243) Meat. Since our introduction of Eden Gem there has 
been a big demand for the same type of melon with pink or sal- 
mon flesh. Our Salmon Flesh Eden Gem is the same hardy, pro- 
lific, finely netted fruit as the Eden Gem and 90% are with pink 
meat — the finest pink meated melon on the market for home use 
or market. Packet, 10c; ounce, 20c; % lb., 50e; lb., $1.75; post- 
paid. Ten pounds or over, not prepaid, $1.50 per pound. 
