H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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You Must Have The Genuine Seed to Succeed 
No crop, with the possible ex¬ 
ception of cabbage, depends more 
on the genuineness and quality of 
the seed for a successful crop. 
Outside of the Hastings’ importa¬ 
tion there is little Bermuda Onion 
seed that’s safe to plant for the 
man who wants to make success¬ 
ful crops. There is not a seed 
house in the country except our¬ 
selves whose Bermuda Onion seed 
has made good with the growers 
right on year after year. It’s the 
only dependable Bermuda Onion 
seed sold in the United States. 
Others occasionally get hold of a 
small lot of good seed, then fall 
down on quality the next year. 
This experience has been repeated 
over and over again. 
We could fill this entire cata¬ 
logue with letters from onion 
growers who have depended on 
seed from other sources than Hast¬ 
ings’ to their sorrow. Hastings’ 
Bermuda Onion seed (Crystal 
Wax, Bermuda White, and Ber¬ 
muda Bed) always “makes good’’ 
everywhere and every year, in 
good growing seasons and bad. It 
bas stood the test of 24 years con¬ 
tinuous planting without a “fail 
down.” There have been all sorts 
of cut-price propositions put up 
to the growers in years past. 
There are beginners in onion¬ 
growing every year and older 
ones wanting to take chances for 
the sake of saving a few cents per 
pound in seed cost. 
Veteran onion growers like T. 
C. Nye, of Laredo. Texas, are not 
caught by offers of a cut price. 
When they start a crop they want 
to feel sure that the seed is right, 
and when Bermuda Onion seed 
comes from Hastings’ they know 
it’s all right. Mr. Nye has made 
$7,000 clear net profit from his 20 
acres in a year, and it wasn’t a 
specially good year for onions 
either. In Bermuda Onion Seed 
it's a whole lot better to be sure 
at planting time than sorry at 
harvest. 
Wax Bermuda Onion—The Pure Waxy White Variety 
Hastings’ Crystal 
There Is No Seed “Just As Good As Hastings’ ” 
Readers of this catalogue who have been in the Bermuda Onion 
business for years have representatives of other seed houses call on 
them and the talk put out is always “Our seed is just as good as 
Hastings’.” They are not telling the truth, and what’s worse, they 
know that they are not telling the truth. Not a single house has sold 
seed in the Bermuda Onion territory that has made good two years 
in succession. The truth of the statement can be borne out by every 
onion grower in the large onion growing districts. There has never 
been a crop of Bermuda Onions produced from seed from other 
houses that has equaled crops from Hastings’ for purity, shape and 
yield per acre. Every record crop of Bermuda Onions produced in 
this country has been from Hastings’ seed. Practically every seed 
It’s Much Better To 
Harvest time tells the tale and the onion grower who for the sake 
of saving a dollar or so per acre in planting is reasonably sure of 
losing a hundred or more in the crop. 
Mr. T. C. Nye, of Laredo, Texas, pioneer of the Texas Bermuda 
Onion industry, once said in a letter to us: 
“I have always purchased my onion seed from Hastings except on 
two occasions, when I wished to place additional orders with them, 
and found that they had already accepted orders for as much seed 
as their contracts would yield, and so I was compelled to buy part 
of my seed from other parties. I can say that I never got from any 
other source the same pure seed that I got from Hastings. 
“I have bought Bermuda Onion seed from Hastings all the years 
that I have been in the Bermuda Onion business, and I will never 
buy from any other house as long as I can get them from him. 
house in the United States that attempts to do Southern business 
has taken a shot at this Bermuda Onion business during the last 15 
years and none of them have succeeded. Why ? Simply because the 
seed has not “made good.” They have not the right growing ar¬ 
rangements. The seed is not “bred up” properly. This mongrel, 
more or less “scrub” onion seed has occasioned losses of hundreds of 
thousands of dollars to growers in Texas, Florida and other States. 
This seed makes ill-shaped, thick neck, unsatisfactory onions, while 
much of the seed sold is not Bermuda Onion seed but Italian and 
Spanish varieties that are worthless in the South. If there is one 
crop you can’t afford to take chances on the seed, it’s Bermuda 
Onions. If you plant Hastings’ Bermuda Onion Seed you are safe. 
Be Sure Than Sorry 
“The planter who lets every dealer in Bermuda Onion seed catch 
his order is very foolish, and takes a risk that no sensible man 
ought to incur. Any speculation with the business is more than 
likely to land a man in the poorhouse. 
“I am confident that during this season the sensible and reliable 
growers of this section are placing their orders with Hastings’, as 
we have fully satisfied ourselves that their seed is more reliable than 
the seed sent out by other houses. Hastings’ seeds are good enough 
for me, and when I can’t get them, there won’t be any other seed 
planted on my place, even if the land should remain unplanted.” 
There is many a man in Texas and Florida who has_“gone broke” 
as a result of buying cheap and inferior Bermuda Onion Seed. Un¬ 
less the seed is right there is absolutely no chance for success with 
this crop. With right seed it is the safest vegetable crop a man can 
plant in any section that it is adapted to. 
