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H. G. Hastings Co.y Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastings’ Lettuce Seed For Home and Market Crops 
Liettuce seed is one of onr 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. Onr great market varieties, BIG BOSTON, 
HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD, FEORIDA HEADER, DIXIE HARD HEAD and CAEIFORNIA CREAM BUTTER are supreme. The high 
quality of HASTINGS’ Eettuce Seed is known everywhere in the South where lettuce is grown, for purity, hardness of heads and 
slowness to run to seed. Our lettuce seed is all grown in California by our grower, 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 Eettuce Ready for Shipment — Note the Regularity of Growth — Right Seed Does It 
BIG BOSTON (No. 2 10) Head type. Ours is perfection 
in this variety, and you cannot buy any Big Boston Eettuce 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 
ever carried has had a steadier sale. Superb for 
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 is 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., 25c; % lb., 75c; lb., $2.50; post- 
paid. Not prepaid: 5 pounds or over, $2.00 per pound. 
(No.211) 
HASTINGS’ ICEBERG LETTUCE (No. 216) 
CRISP EEAF TYPE — For forcing or home gardens. A beautiful as 
well as useful variety. Exceedingly crisp and tender, growing a long 
time before running to seed. Known as a “crisp-leaved” hard-header. 
Splendid for open ground planting or for forcing. Heads of conical 
shape and medium size. Heads tightly fold and blanch to a beautiful 
white. Outer leaves are crinkled and light green, growing closely up 
around the head. Packet, 10c; oz., 25c; % lb., 75c; lb., $2.50; postpaid. 
Hastings’ Drumhead White Cabbage Eettuce 
