H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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EGGPLANT 
While this is a crop mostly grown from 
winter and spring sown seed in most locali¬ 
ties it has been found a most satisfactory and 
profitable crop for late fall and winter ship¬ 
ment from South Florida. For October to 
January shipment seed should be sown dur¬ 
ing July and August. The result from an 
acre or two of eggplant planted in Florida at 
that season is often surprisingly satisfactory. 
It is usually customary to plant one-half 
pound of seed to furnish plants for an acre. 
Hastings’ Improved Large 
Purple Thornless t T ^ e s ^af/arl 
Eggplant (No. 190) excellence f o r 
Eggplant in all the market gardening sec¬ 
tions of the South. It has been grown for 19 
years by market gardeners with profitable 
results and in the home gardens with entire 
satisfaction. Our seed is pure and the plants 
thornless. There is no crop we exercise more 
care in and in which our constant and con¬ 
tinued selections show better results. In a 
properly cultivated crop streaked or off-col¬ 
ored fruit is almost unknown. Plants are 
large, strong and vigorous, each plant pro¬ 
ducing from 5 to 8 large fruits of dark, rich 
purple color. The earliest of all large fruited 
varieties and always gives satisfaction with 
proper cultivation, and the vigor and strength 
of this variety makes it less subject to the 
effect of “blight” and “dieback,” which is so 
disastrous to this crop in so many sections. 
Packet, 10 cents; 14 ounce, 20 cents; ounce, 35 
cents; 14 pound, $1.10; pound, $4.00. 
Florida High Bush (No. 189) 
Desirable for home gardens and nearby mar¬ 
kets. Packet, 10 cents; 14 ounce, 15 cents; 
ounce, 25 cents; 14 pound, 85 cents; pound, 
$3.00; postpaid. 
I ooLr I artra Leeks are very similar 
uccri) 1.C1I gc to onions except that 
Carenten (No. 203) 
The stems grow quite large and are cut up 
and used in soups or else boiled like onions. 
The culture is the same as for onions. Sow 
at same time. 
The Large Carenten is the best variety for 
the South. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 
14 pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.25. 
ICnilG .DARI A vegetable largely 
nmai grown by the German 
gardeners. Has a very delicate flavor. 
Early White Vienna Kohi- 
Rabi (No. 202)SS‘Sfi;»7 c *;.£ 
ready for use, and are of a pale whitish green 
color. They have a delicate cabbage-like fla¬ 
vor. Per packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 cents; 14 
pound, 50 cents; pound, $1.75. 
Hastings’ Improved Large Purple Thornless Eggplant 
BORECOLE OR KALE FOR WINTER GREENS 
We sincerely wish we could get our friends to grow Kale more extensively, as it is so 
much superior in eating qualities to the collard. Kale is more hardy than cabbage and 
will stand through the entire winter in any ordinary season in the Central and Lower 
South. It is much improved in quality by being touched by frost. Of all the 
cabbage tribe this is the most finely flavored, and it would be more generally 
grown were its good qualities more widely known. The tall varieties should 
be sown thinly in drills in August and September, the dwarf sorts one month 
later. It is a favorite vegetable to furnish “greens” in the South during win¬ 
ter and spring, and for that use there is nothing better. 
f q m I my P /*B Also variously known as Dwarf Geiman. 
*y wiccll l/UrlcQ “Dw r arf Curled Scotch,” and “Siberian.” 
/II. OAri\ This is the variety usually sown in the fall for spring use. It 
^HUa tUUj j s rather low growing, with fine curled leaves of deep green 
color. The young leaves are tender and delicate in flavor. Packet, 5c; ounce, 
10c; ^4 pound, 25c; pound, 70c;. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $5.00. 
Tall Green Curled Scotch (No. 201) ormuueXi ln flud e Y y 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; pound, 25 cents; pound, 70 cents. 
Early Green Curled Kale or Borecole 
Plant Hastings’ “100-Bushel” Oats This Fall 
on a few acres of fairly well prepared land and you won’t have to run to 
the supply merchant when your corn gives out in the spring. 
