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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
250,000 PLANT HASTINGS’ CABBAGE 
A quarter of a million is a large number of people, yet a few thousand more than that plant Hastings’ Cabbage Seed of different varie¬ 
ties every year. Ever since we started in business 20 years ago we have made a specialty of the very highest grade of American grown 
cabbage seed, and the illustrations on this and the following pages from Mississippi and other states show just how good cabbage Hast¬ 
ings’ seed makes. We know that we can't be too particular about the quality of our cabbage seed, and you can’t be too particular about 
what you buy and plant. Neither you nor ourselves can afford to take chances. No matter how good your soil, how carefully you cultivate 
or fertilize it, if the cabbage seed quality is not right you make more or less of a failure. 
In our seed crops, every head of cabbage is most carefully inspected before it is allowed to produce seed for us. We know it is right. 
We have only one grade—the very best that can he grown—and the buyer of a 5 or 10 cent packet gets exactly the same quality as does the 
big trucker or market gardener buying in 50 to 100 pound lots. We play no favorites among our customers. We believe that the man 
planting a home garden for his family’s use is entitled to just as good seed quality as is the market gardener who plants for market. If 
you want to be successful in growing cabbage, you must plant right cabbage seed, and the Hastings quality is exactly what will please 
you and pay you, the quality you want to plant in the summer and fall of 1915. 
CABBAGE CULTURE f' or , h ° me p r, l e “ s the seed 
f or faii anc i winter cabbage 
can be sown in shaded spots and covered from hot sun. Later 
plantings may be made in open ground in September and October. 
Work soil in seed beds down as fine as possible. Beds should be 
slightly raised for drainage. Do not fertilize soil in seed beds at 
least to the extent of making it much richer than the open ground 
in which the crop is to be grown. 
Sow seed in drills 6 inches apart across the bed, dropping the 
seed 5 or 6 to the inch. Thicker sowing than this means spindling, 
unhealthy plants. Cover seed about inch in heavy soils, % inch 
in light sandy soils ; firm the soil after covering and then water the 
bed thoroughly. Keep beds moist but not soaking wet. Seed ger¬ 
minates in 3 to 8 days, according to weather. The young plants 
should be kept growing steadily from the start. A check in the 
growth of cabbage is injurious. When plants have made the fourth 
or fifth pair of leaves transplant to open ground. 
Cabbage can be grown on almost any soil from light sand to heavy 
clay or muck. Naturally the light soils will require more fertilizer 
or manure than the heavier ones. Most of the fertilizer or manure 
should be worked into the soil before transplanting. The best all- 
around commercial fertilizer for cabbage should contain: Available 
phosphoric acid 7 per cent, potash 8 per cent, nitrogen 5 per cent. 
Most of the cultivation should be before the crop is planted. This 
means two to three deep plowings and then work the soil as fine as 
possible, l’ou can’t overfeed cabbage, so you need not be afraid of 
putting too much manure or fertilizer on the crop. 
Transplanting should be done, so far as possible, on cloudy days 
and just before a rain. In small gardens this can be done late in 
the afternoon. Set plants upright with only the leaves above the 
surface. Firm the soil around the plants. Cultivate frequently 
and very shallow, as roots come near the surface. Keep out abso¬ 
lutely all weeds and grass. Seed required: In late summer plant¬ 
ings one ounce of seed will usually produce about 1,200 plants; 10 to 
12 ounces per acre. After cooler weather sets in about half those 
quantities of seed is needed. 
of Corpus Christi, Texas, 
re six heads weighing 9714 
pounds, in a previous cat¬ 
alogue, it so interested 
Mr. D. D. Cowan, of 
Hancock County, Miss., 
that he sent us a photo¬ 
graph of what he did in 
Mississippi with Hast¬ 
ings’ Cabbage Seed. Mr. 
Cowan wrote us that his 
crop of cabbage went 
through two months of 
severe drought and then 
made cabbage like this. 
Mr. Cowan and Mr. 
Noakes are both good 
truck farmers, and Texas 
and Mississippi are both 
good states, but getting 
right down to bottom 
facts, all their work and 
intelligent efforts would 
have been lost if they 
had not had the right 
seed. 
Hastings’ Cabbage Seed 
never fails to make good, 
solid heads of cabbage to 
every plant when treated 
right. It’s not a question 
of having “good luck” 
with your cabbage; it’s a 
question of right seed, 
and right seed is not on 
sale at country stores or 
in commission boxes. 
Most of the failures on 
cabbage in the South 
come where seed is 
bought from merchants 
and small stores. 
Every year a great 
many people write after 
planting time, saying 
they expected to find our 
seed at their store. Hast¬ 
ings’ Seeds are never on 
sale in boxes in the 
stores. Order direct 
William Murdock Cowan and Four Heads of Hastings’ Centennial Flat Dutch Cabbage Grown at Caesar, Han- from us here in Atlanta 
cock County, Miss.—Weight of Cabbage 50 Pounds, After Enduring a Two Months’ Drought and be safe. 
Mississippi Grows Some Cabbage 
After we first printed an illustration of Mr. Noakes 
and six heads of Centennial Flat Dutch Cabbage, tl 
HASTINGS’ CENTENNIAL FLAT DUTCH CABBAGE (No. NO) 
Just above on this page is shown an illustration from a photograph of four heads of Centennial Flat Dutch grown in Mississippi after 
enduring a two months’ drought. This was taken without our knowledge and sent to us unsolicited. Mr. Cowan planted Hastings’ Cen¬ 
tennial Flat Dutch Cabbage, the best main crop, heavy producing strain of Flat Dutch Cabbage now being sold. While we do not recom¬ 
mend it for an early cabbage, for main crop and late it is about the best you ean plant. The only objection we ever heard is that on very 
rich ground it grows too large. This can be controlled by planting rather close in the row. Good for either fall or spring planting, being 
remarkably hardy, vigorous and resistant to both heat and eold. We sell more of this to cabbage growers for shipment in Gulf Coast sec¬ 
tions than all other varieties combined. For home gardens Centennial is unexcelled for later use after early varieties are gone. Its vigor 
makes it especially valuable to grow under unfavorable conditions. If you have planted it before you know this; if not, plant some this 
fall and see just how good it is. Packet, 10 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; Y4 pound, 65 cents; pound, $2.00; postpaid. 
