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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastings’ Lettuce Seed For Home and Market Crops 
Lettuce seed is one of our great specialties, and in addition to supplying over two hundred thousand family gardens each year we 
sell thousands of pounds of highest grade lettuce seed to shippers and market gardeners. Our great market varieties, BIG BOSTON, 
HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD, FLORIDA HEADER, DIXIE HARD HEAD and CALIFORNIA CREAM BUTTER are supreme. The high 
quality of HASTINGS’ Lettuce Seed is known everywhere in the South Avhere lettuce is grown, for purity, hardness of heads and 
slowness to run to seed. Our lettuce seed is all grown in California by our groAver, whom we consider the most careful lettuce seed 
grower in the world, and the growing crops are personally inspected by our Mr. Hastings or Mr. Freeborn so as to Insure the quality 
being kept up to the HASTINGS’ standard. Do you know of any seed firm where the head of the house, or even an employee, will 
travel over 6,000 miles each year to see that every possible care is taken to have the lettuce seed just right. 
One End of a Field of BIG BOSTON Lettuce Ready for Shipment — Note the Regularity of Growth — Right Seed Does It 
BIfi BOSTON ^Na 9in^ Boston is of the Butter 
DIU I ^ lu; Head type. Ours is perfection 
in this variety, and you cannot buy any Big Boston Lettuce at any 
price that is superior to our strain. The heads of this strain are so 
firm and solid that almost every head has to be cut open before the 
seeds stalks can grow. It is a standard market garden and shipping 
variety, being grown almost exclusively in many sections for shipment 
and for market. Extra large, round, firm heading variety, and makes 
a good appearance in market. Our seed of this variety is grown for 
us by a lettuce seed specialist whom we consider the best in the world. 
Our seed of Big Boston is the surest and hardest heading stock that 
you can obtain. Packet, 10c; ounce, 20c; % pound, 50c; pound, $1.25; 
postpaid. Five-pound lots or over, $1.00 per pound, not prepaid. 
HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD 
WHITE CABBAGE. LETTUCE SJJieTh-arhari 
/Mfl 01 I \ steadier sale. -It is a crisp-leaved lettuce. Superb for 
£11/ home gardens and for market. When properly grown 
it reaches large size. One gardener near Gainesville, Florida, pro- 
duced a single head weighing nearly 4 pounds. It i,S always large, 
with outer leaves a clear, light green color ; inside of the head almost 
pure white. Leaves are large, extra crisp and tender and entirely free 
from all bitter taste. Packet, 10c; oz., 20c; lb., 65c; lb., $2.00; 
postpaid. Not prepaid: 5 pounds or over, $1.75 per pound. 
HASTINGS’ ICEBERG LETTUCE (Ho. 216) 
See Iceberg in full color on page 33. A beatitiful as well as useful va- 
riety. Exceedingly crisp and tender, growing a long time before run- 
ning to seed. Known as a “crisp-leaved” hard-header. Splendid for 
either open ground planting or for forcing under glass. Heads of 
conical shape and medium size. Heads tightly folded and blanched 
to a beautiful white. Outer leaves are crinkled and light green, grow- 
ing closely up around the head. Packet, 10c; oz., 20c; i/4 lb., 65c; 
lb., $2.00; postpaid. Not prepaid: 5 pounds or over, $1.75 per pound. 
Hastings’ Drumhead White Cabbage Lettuce 
