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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
MUSTARD FOR SPRING SALAD 
thickly in any good garden soil in drills 14 to 16 inches apart. Give 
« clean culture, keeping free from grass and weeds. Leaves are large enough 
to use as a salad in from four to six weeks from sowing, and can be cut all through 
the spring. Sow from January to April. Use one ounce of seed to 200 feet of row. 
Giant Southern Curled Mustard(No. 278) £°e^L'piftfwUh“ 
out a patch of mustard for early salad. Our Giant Southern Curled is the very best 
of the finely curled leaf strains, really beautiful enough to grace a flower garden. It 
is slightly pungent, crisp and tender and can be eaten like lettuce or boiled for 
“greens”. The Hastings’ strain of Southern Curled is the same as offered by one or 
more of the northern seedsmen as “Ostrich Plume”. If you like mustard for either 
spring or fall planting you will be pleased with this variety. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 
10 cents; % pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents; postpaid. 
Mustard ^ No. 277 ^ entirely distinct, 5’et thoroughly good 
vninese musxaru ^ noi < l l ; variety of mustard of which we have sold 
thousands of pounds during recent years. It is of much larger growth than the 
Curled, about the same quality for salads 
or boiling and remains in condition for 
use a long time. The quick, almost rank 
growth of the Chinese, insures tenderness, 
mildness and freedom from bitter flavor. 
The engraving on the left from a photo- 
graph shows the general appearance of 
„ „ 04. 1 n 4. , the leaves. Packet, 5 cents; oz., 10 cents; 
Hastings’ True Stock of Chinese Mustard 25 cents; lb., 75 cents; postpaid. 
lA/hito MiECtsird / N a 97Q\ "^^tis is the variety the seeds of which are used in 
iwiMafcCtl u^llUi ClUj pickling for family use, and the seeds when ground 
up compose what is known as “mustard” in the stores. Packet, 5 cents; ounce 10 cents; 
Va pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents; postpaid. 
GEORGIA GROWN OKRA 
Okra is a close relative of the cotton plant and grows 
splendidly anywhere and everywhere in the Cotton Belt. 
After considerable experimenting we found a place up near 
the northern line of possible cotton production in Georgia 
that develops okra and okra seed to perfection and at the 
same time , insures an earliness of maturity not found in 
okra seed grown further south. Every pound of okra seed 
sold by us is produced in this north Georgia locality. 
Okra or gumbo is a most healthful vegetable and ought to 
plentiful in every Southern garden. In our seed growing 
work here in Georgia we have developed two splendid strains 
of the White Velvet and Perkins Mammoth, both being far 
superior to what is offered under these names by other 
houses, and we are sure that seed of either of these two va- 
rieties will please you. Plant one ounce of seed to 50 feet 
of row; about 8 pounds per acre. 
Hastings’ White Velvet throughout the South 
home use and local shipment; 
V / ready to use in 55 to 60 days. We have 
a specially fine, early, very round, smooth-podded strain of 
medium size, the pods being almost altogether free from 
ridges and are not prickly to touch. This strain of White 
Velvet we find to be the very best of all the White varieties. 
See illustration just to the left. Packet, 5c; ounce, 10c; ^ 
pound, 25c; pound, 75c; postpaid. 10 lbs., not prepaid, $5.00. 
Perkins Mammoth Long g?eltpoadVd oVra 
Podded Okra (No. 306 ) Tn’i; 
shipping purposes, ready to use in 50 to 55 days and is being 
used by many Southern truckers exclusively for this pur- 
pose. The original strain as originally introduced has been 
greatly improved by us, and its productiveness is simply 
wonderful, the pods starting to shoot out within 3 or 4 inches 
from the bottom of the stalk and the whole plant is covered 
with them to the height of a man’s head (5 to 6 feet). Pods 
of an intensely dark green color, of unusual length, fre- 
nir^e. quently 9 to 10 inches long. Pods are very slim and do not 
Hastings White Velvet Okra harden up as is usually the case with other varieties. Pack- 
et, So; onn ce, 10c; ^4 pound, 25c; pound, 75c; postpaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, 50c per lb. 
■ The leek is a very hardy onion-like plant that does not make a bulb. It 
1 has a long, well-thickened neck somewhat resembling the growth of young 
onions in spring but much longer and thicker. The leek thrives under 
the same general conditions as onions and should be cultivated in the same general manner 
except that when the plants begin to get some size, the earth should be gradually drawn 
up around the neck in order to blanch the stems or necks white and increase the tenderness 
and fine flavor. Sow seed as early in spring as ground can be worked. 
I Oaronf on I oolr^Nn 902 \ Grows to large size, the stems being pro- 
karge L.eeK^nQi £UO; portionately large and thick. In rich soil, 
well earthed up, the edible portion is from 6 to 8 inches long by 2 to 3 inches in diameter. 
Packet, 10 cents ; % ounce, 15 cents ; ounce, 25 cents ; % pound, 75 cents ; postpaid. 
PLANT A BIG HOME GARDEN IN 1922 
Money-saving and health-saving are both worth while and the right kind of a good home 
garden with a dozen or more kinds of vegetables in it is both a money and health saver. 
Give the HOME GARDEN a square deal and see what it will do for you in both money 
and health saving. A Full Home Garden is absolutely necessary this year. 
You will find the home garden the most valuable land on your place. Keep it producing. 
Perkins Mammotli Long Pod Okra 
