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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastings’ Lettuce Seed For Home and Market Crops 
Lettuce seed is one of our great specialties, and in addition to supplying over two hundred thousand family gardens each year we sell 
tliousands of pounds of highest grade lettuce seed to shippers and market gardeners. Our four great market varieties, BIG BOSTON, 
FLOBIDA HEAOEK, DIXIE HARD HEAD and CALIFORNIA CREAM BUTTER, have no equals. The high quality of H.4STINGS’ 
Lettuce 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 the most careful lettuce seed groiver in the world, and the growing crops are personally in¬ 
spected 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? Remember—Hastings’ Lettuce Seed is the finest in the world! 
One End of a Field of BIG BOSTON Lettuce Beady for Shipment—Note the Regularity of Growth—Right Seed Does It 
Hastings’ Drumbcad Wbife Cabbage I.ettiice 
RIGBOSTON^No 910^ illustration shows a field of 
DIU DV9 I 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 be 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 purest and hardest head¬ 
ing stock that you can obtain. Packet, 5c; ounce, 15c; % pound, 40c- 
pound, $1.25; postpaid. 5-lb. lots or over, $1.00 per lb., not prepaid 
HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD 
WHITE CABBAGE LETTUCE 
^NO. 211^ steadier sale. It is not a shipping variety, but belongs 
V 1 1 / fo tijg crigp leaved class. Superb for home gardens and 
nearby markets. When properly grow-n it reaches large size. One 
gardener near Gainesville. Florida, produced a single head weighing 
nearly 4 pounds. It is always large, ivith 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. Fine 
for summer and fail planting in all parts of the South. Packet, 5 
cents; ounce, 20 cents; % pound, 65 cents; pound $2.00; postpaid. 
HASTINGS’ ICEBERG LETTUCE (No. 216) 
A beautiful as well as useful variety. Exceedingly crisp and tender, 
Sowing a long time before running to seed. Known as a “crisp leav 
ed hard header. Splendid for either open ground planting or for forc¬ 
ing under glass. Heads of conical shape and medium size. Heads 
tightly fold and blanch to a beautiful w'hite. Outer leaves crinkled 
and light green, growing closely up around the head. Packet, 5 cents; 
ounce, 20 cents; 14 pound, 65 cents; pound, .$ 2 . 00 ; postpaid, 
