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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
Hastings Lettuce Seed For Market Crops 
Lettuce seed is one of our greatest specialties, and in addition to supplying over three hundred thousand family gardens each year we 
sell thousands of pounds of highest grade lettuce to shippers and market gardeners. Our four great market varieties, BIG BOSTON, 
FLORIDA HEADER, DIXIE HARD HEAD and CALIFORNIA CREAM BUTTER have no equals. The high quality of HASTINGS’ 
Lettuce Seed is known everywhere in the South where Lettuce is grown, for purity, hardness of heads, and a slowness to run to seed. 
Our lettuce seed is ail grown in California by the most careful lettuce seed grower in the world, and the crops are personally inspected 
by Mr. Hastings almost every year during the growing season so as to insure the quality being kept up to the HASTINGS standard. Do 
you know of any other 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? 
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A Field of Our BIG BOSTON Lettuce Beady for Shipment—Note the Regularity of Growth — HASTINGS’ Seed Does It 
BIG BOSTON /N« The illustration show’s a field 
“waivirs INO. Cl Uj of lettuce from our Big Boston 
Seed. It is perfection in that variety and you cannot buy any Big 
Boston lettuce 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 lie 
cut open before the seed 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 pur¬ 
est and hardest heading stock that you can obtain. Packet, 5 cents; 
ounce, 15 cents; % pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.35; postpaid; 5 pounds 
or over at $1.00 per pound. 
HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD „”, r “5"™ K: 
^S/HiTF riety that W’e have ever carried has 
®* B B bi E. p. u i a steadier sale. It is not a ship- 
1 BTTTII^F /Mm O f I \ ping variety, but belongs to the 
““ i B AJ? Bn ^ilUi Cl l J or j s p leaved class. Superb for home 
gardens and nearby markets. When properly grown it reaches ex¬ 
tra large size. One gardener near Gainesville, Florida, produced a 
single head weighing nearly four pounds. It is always large, with 
outer leaves a clear, light green color, inside of the head bbing almost 
pure white. Leaves are large, extra crisp and tender and entirely 
free from all bitter taste. Especially good for fall and winter plant¬ 
ings in Florida and the Guif Coast. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 
>4 pound 30 cents; pound. $1.00; postpaid. 
SUjACTIMtfitt* It"DITR?A beautiful as w'ell as useful 
EsP’A.aS I IDCDluiiD variety, being exceedingly 
crisp and tender, growing a long 
time before running to seed. Known 
Is a hard header. Splendid for either 
open ground planting or for forcing under glass. Heads of conical 
shape and medium size. Heads tightly folded and blanched to a 
beautiful white. Outer leaves light green, growing closely up around 
the head. Packet, 5c; oz., 15c; % pound, 40c; pound, $1.25; postpaid. 
LETTUCE (No. 216) 
as a “crisp leaved” variety. 
