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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hardy or Perennial Phlox 
PRICES OF 
HARDY PHLOX 
By mail, postpaid, 20 cents 
each; per dozen, $2.00, post- 
paid. Listed below we have 
twelve separate and distinct 
varieties especially adapted to 
the South. As a special offer, 
we will send you one of each 
of these twelve varieties of 
Hardy Perennial Plilox for 
$1.75; postpaid. See full color 
illustration, page 67. 
ATHIS — Deep, clear salmon. 
Showiest of all. 
B. COaiPTE — Brilliant French 
purple, with crimson-car- 
mine shading. 
BEAUTY — Delicate silvery 
pink ; a beautiful sort. 
CREPUSCUUE — Clear rosy- 
lilac, deeper eye; extra. 
EULAIREUR — Clear rosy-ma- 
genta, with large lighter 
halo ; large florets and mag- 
niflcent bedder. 
HENRY MERGER — Enor- 
mous pure white flowers 
with deep carmine eye ; ex- 
tra fine. 
INDEPENDENCE — Large 
flowering, early pure white. 
PANTHEON — Large, clear, deep bright pink with faint halo. 
R. P. STRUTHERS— In our estimation the best Phlox grown to- 
day — it has no faults; clear cherry-red, salmon shades, with deep 
red eye; fine large trusses. 
A Bed of Hardy or Perennial Phlox — Most Beautiful and Pleasing 
ROSENBERG — Bright reddish violet with blood red eye. Extra 
large trusses and individual florets. 
RUBUS — A parti-colored variety. Rosy-red, shading to Avhite. 
RYNSTROM — Of a Paul Neyron pink color; excellent. 
(Lady Washington Geraniums). Grandest 
■ of all flowering plants; do not resemble 
the common geraniums in any particular, neither in foliage nor in 
flower; more beautiful in every way. We here offer the everbloom- 
ing set of Pelargoniums, every one entirely different in color and 
every one a beauty. The Lady Washington Geraniums are the 
handsomest of all flowers — once seen, never forgotten. Separate 
named varieties. 40c each ; the six for $2.00 — a wonderful selection. 
EASTER GREETING — Earliest and very large fiery amaranth-red 
florets; only kind that blooms in beds as well as in pots all 
summer long. 
GARDENER’S JOY — Ground color of apple-blossom pink, the two 
upper petals having blotches of carbon-brown ; florets inches 
across in enormous clusters. 
GLORY — Robust grower and splendid novelty. Florets and cluster 
very large ; ground color, Cattleya-blue, like the Cattleya Orchid ; 
the upper petals with two large purple magenta-red spots, dis- 
tinctly veined. Beautiful new color in Pelargoniums. 
LIBERTY — Glorious salmon-red, with large velvety blotches bor- 
dered with scarlet. Gigantic trusses and all good qualities of 
Easter Greeting, its parent. 
LADY BECKER — A sport from Easter Greeting and like it in 
everything but color, which is rosy pink. 
PRINCE — Immense crimped flowers with j6 to 10 petals of rich 
purple color with velvety black blotches. 
PhiladelphusorSyringa 
beautiful variety of this most beauti- 
wrailgv ful, ever-blooming species. It is excep- 
tionally vigorous, a tall grower with very large, double-crested 
flowers with round petals. The flowers are pure white, sweetly 
scented and are borne in magnificent clusters of five to seven. Vir- 
ginal is a new variety but already leads all' the older kinds and you 
will be delighted with this hardy deciduous shrub in your own 
yard. Good strong plants, 75 cents each; three for $2.00; postpaid. 
Dliamhao-A This flower is a great favorite in 
nUlflDagO the Atlanta section and is eas- 
ily grown in open ground almost everywhere in the South. No col- 
lection of flowers should be without one or more plants of Plum- 
bago Capensis, giving as it does an abundance of lovely sky blue 
flowers. 25 cents each. 
^ A| W| A beautiful illustration in natural color on page 
67. No plant is more popular in the South than the 
Salvia for bedding. In late summer and fall up to the time frost 
comes it is a mass of blooms, and in the case of the scarlet varie- 
ties it makes a mass of fiery I’ed unequaled by any other flower on 
our list. Some of our Atlanta customers buy them by the hun- 
dreds for bedding purposes. Prices of all varieties, prepaid, 10 
cents each; $1.00 per dozen. (See next column for varieties ) 
SALVIA SPLENDENS — Standard bedding, fiery scarlet. 
LE PRESIDENT — New dwarf scarlet salvia; indispensable. 
MRS. PAIGE — A perfect sheet of scarlet. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS ALBA— Pure white variety. 
Sanseveria Zeylanica or Zebra Plant 
A very odd but beautiful plant especially adapted to house culture 
during winter and for porches during summer. Leaves are beauti- 
fully striped crosswise with white variegations on a green ground. 
Can be grown either in sunlight or in dark parts of the room and 
stands dust and drying out without damage. It can be placed in 
any position in any room and do well. For vases and baskets it is 
fine. In all, a beautiful decorative plant requiring scarcely any 
water. Fine plants, 25 cents each. 
Qhaei'a noiei/ (Burbank’s). One of the most marvelous 
^llaafccf I^Ctlay productions in the flower line. Extremely 
hardy perennial with large, free-blooming flowers Avhich last two 
weeks after being cut. 20 cents each; two kinds, 35 cents. 
Cnit*Aa— Rrirlal WvAaf h the very finest shrubs 
apirea— Driaai wreain for the south and of the eas- 
iest culture; perfectly hardy and grows to enormous size. One in 
Mr. H. G. Hastings’ yard is over twenty feet in diameter and one 
round solid m.iss of white while in bloom. Very hardy and earliest 
flowering. See illustration on opposite page. We also have Anthony 
Waterer, the Crimson Spirea. It is of compact bush form, covered 
nearly the whole growing season with large umbels of flowers 
measuring nearly a foot across. Either kind; one-year plants, 25 
cents; strong two-year plants, 50 cents; postpaid. 
VMMflACAAntia (Wandering Jew). This fine trailing plant 
■ ■ mIJCawCIII A lw is very popular for baskets and window 
boxes. You will be pleased with the two distinct kinds. 15c each. 
Viburnum-Snowball 
white flowers. A well-known favorite shrub of old-time fame and 
popularity. One-year plants, 35 cents; two-year plants, 60 cents. 
WinlAte (New Imperial or Parma). Without question, the 
WIVIVA9 largest, richest colored and most highly perfumed 
of all Violets. Blooms freely and longer than others. Lovely blue 
flowers of largest size. 25 cents eachj $2.50 per dozen. 
lAISetoviia Splendid climber for porch shade. 
YTlSiaria— wninese when in full bloom truly magnif- 
icent with its masses of flowers in long drooping racemes like 
bunches of grapes. See illustration of this most attractive hardy 
climber on opposite page. 25 cents; large plants; 50 cents each. 
Yiiaaa Filamonfrnest (Spanish Dagger). A most strik- 
I ucca r liamenwsa Jng and attractive yard orna- 
ment. The Yucca blooms every year, bearing long, straight stalks 
surmounted with large umbels or heads of white flow^ers. 25c each. 
