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H, G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
HASTINGS’ “HOME BEAUTIFUL” FLOWER SEEDS 
Only varieties adapted to planting: in Southern States are here catalogrued. 3Iake your home a “Home Beautiful” with flowers. 
LiIBERAL PREMIUMS — With an order for One Dollar’s worth of Flower Seeds, you may select 25 cents’ worth of Flower Seeds 
Extra. For .^2.00 you may have 50 cents’ worth extra, and for $4.00 you may have $1.00 worth extra. This offer does NOT include 
Bulbs, Roots, Plants or the special seed collections on pag:e 3. Read carefully and please don’t confuse it with fleld seeds, plants 
and bulbs. This Special Offer is for Flower Seeds and Vegetable Seeds in packets only. 
HASTINGS’ FLOWER SEEDS 
HOW TO SOW FLOWER SEEDS 
Have no superiors and few equals. We use just as much care in 
the production of the finest strains of flower seeds as we do in 
vegetable seeds. We do this because it pays us. Our i)usiness ex- i 
perience has shown us that our best advertisement is a satisfied | 
customer, and our special high-grade strains of seeds are bound i 
to make every one who plants them satisfied. The increase in our I 
sales of flower seed in the past ten years has been enormous. Our ^ 
customers find that the quality of our seed and the size and bril- 
liancy of the bloom from our special strains of flower seeds sur- 
pass anything they have ever had. Until recently little flower seed 
was grown in the United States, and we import much of ours 
direct from the largest and best flower seed growers of France, 
where great attention has been paid to the production of the finest 
strains of flowers. We spare no trouble or expense to get the very 
best for our customers — the finest varieties of all flowers adapted 
to planting in the South. Our list of flower seed is small com- 
pared with that of several Northern seedsmen. The reason for this 
is that there are comparatively feAv flowers grown from seed that 
do well in the South. You may depend upon the fact that you can 
plant any variety in this list with the assurance that with proper 
treatment and favorable seasons you will succeed. 
Our packets of flower seeds are larger than those of most seeds- 
men. There are enough seeds in Hastings’ packets to give plenty 
of plants of each kind. We have no 1, 2 or 3-cent packets such as 
are offered occasionally. Our packets contain good seeds and 
plenty of them. We do not put in 6 or 7 sweet peas, or 12 or 15 
poppy seed, as fine as dust, and call it a packet. Our business is 
not conducted on that basis. We charge you a reasonable price, 
just what the goods are worth, and give you value received for 
every cent you send us. and then add to your order the extra 
seeds allowed in the offer at the top of this page. 
Flower seed is one of the leading features of our business, and 
we lead in that just as v/e do in vegetable seed. Hastings’ Seeds 
of all varieties are Successful Seeds. 
PLANNING THE FLOWER GARDEN 
Before ordering flower seeds or plants it is best always to make 
a plan for final or lasting results. You don’t have to be a landscape 
gardener to make a beautiful home place. You can make a log 
cabin home beautiful as well as the grounds around a costly man- 
sion. Unsightly places, as back yards, fences and house founda- 
tions should be screened from view — all other views left unob- 
structed except by low-growing plants. Plan to show off the home 
as a pleasing sight. Don’t jump in and patch up your place for im- 
mediate results. Plan to add to the beauty of your home each year. 
With few exceptions flower seeds are very small, and sowing 
them by the inexperienced often results in failure, either partial 
or complete, because a few simple rules are not followed. There 
is nothing mysterious about success with flowers. They require 
care and a little common sense. With these failure is almost im- 
possible. It is work that can not be left to a farm hand or la- 
borer. It must receive your careful personal attention. By observ- 
ing closely the following rules for sowing flower seed you will 
have little cause for complaint or failure. 
TI.a Coil ^ mellow loam, which is a medium earth between 
B IHC 9VII ttje extremes of clay and sand, enriched by a com- 
post of rotten manure and leaf mold, is adapted to the generality 
of flowering plants. Previous to planting flower beds or borders 
care must be taken that they are so arranged that the ground is 
a little elevated in the middle, allowing the water to run off, this 
also showing off the plants to better advantage. 
Dianihino' tliA Make the surface as fine and smooth 
l^lallClllg EIIV? 9WIJ as possible. Cover each sort of seed 
to a depth proportionate to its size; seeds like portulaca, petunias, 
etc., should be merely sprinkled on the surface of the ground, and 
barely covered with finely-sifted, light mellow soil ; press the soil 
down firmly over the seeds Avith' a brick or a short piece of board. 
For larger seeds the depth should be regulated according to the 
size of the seeds, those the size of a pinhead, % inch deep, and 
those the size of a pea, % of an inch ©r more. Get a piece of lath 
(it would be better if planed smooth) about two feet long, press 
the edge down into the soil evenly, so as to make a groove as deep 
as the seed is to be planted, scatter the seed along this, allowing 
4 or 5 of the larger to 15 or 20 of the smaller seeds to the space 
one plant is to occupy when grown. Cover the seeds by pressing; 
turn your lath flatwise and press the soil doAvn firmly. On light, 
sandy soils flower seeds should be covered twice the depth that 
they should be in stiff or heavy clay soils. 
CAUfina- Sn Ravacs Almost all flowers will stand trans- 
SOWing in planting. Many of them grow better 
for having been transplanted. In sections liable to late spring 
frosts or where drought comes in spring, it is advisable to sow 
seeds in shallow boxes which can be placed in a warm, sunny win- 
dow or on a porch. This is always advisable with the expensive 
seeds and those of a tropical nature, such as coleus, salvia, etc. 
These need a warm soil to start the seeds. Sow the same as in 
open ground, and keep the soil moist, but not soaking Avet. If sur- 
face of soils show tendency to cake or crust, scratch it lightly to 
break the crust. Small seeds cannot force their Avay through a 
crusted surface. As soon as plants reach a height of 2 or 3 inches 
they may be transplanted, taking as much earth as possible with 
each plant, so as not to disturb the roots more than necessary. 
