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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
BERMUDA ONIONS 
A Money Making Vegetable Crop For the South 
Hastini:s’ Crystal Wax Bermuda Onion—Pure Waxy White—The Most Attractive Onion in the World—See Kext Page 
$100:^ to $600:^ Per Acre Clear Profit 
Send For Our Valuable Special Pamphlet On Bermuda Onion Culture 
Every year we have hundreds of letters asking for Information 
about this crop, and we have prepared a new and up-to-date pam¬ 
phlet on Bermuda Onion Culture. It gives the methods of the most 
successful growers, both with and without irrigation. It takes up 
fully the subjects of preparation of soil, fertilizing, cultivation, 
seed-beds, transplanting, harvesting, and packing. It takes up the 
whole subject and gives all the information necessary to enable the 
careful grower to make a successful crop. 
No seed firm in this country has been in such close contact with 
the Bermuda Onion industry as we have or is in better position to 
give you information covering the growth of this crop under the 
different conditions existing in the various Southern States. This 
crop is being grown successfully and profitably in every Gulf State 
and there is plenty of room for thousands of acres more in these 
States, both for home markets and shipment. 
Onions cannot be grown with the same careless cultivation as cot¬ 
ton or melons or beans, but for the grower who is willing to give 
ill onion crop the care it needs, no more profitable vegetable crop 
can be found. Enormous yields can be made, Florida reporting 700 
bushels per acre, with Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi not far 
behind that. This pamphlet is free. It shows how growers have 
cleared $100.00 to $600.00 per acre net profit. You can do likewise. 
THE MILLION DOLUR CROP FROM HASTINGS' SEEDS 
We Started Bermuda Onions as a Crop 
Some 29 years ago we began talking Bermuda Onions as a com¬ 
mercial crop. We knew the Bermuda Onion and had full confidence 
that, once it became known, there would be a market for it that 
would put hundreds of thousands of dollars in Southern truck 
growers’ pockets. The development of this great industry in Texas, 
Florida and other states has justified our judgment fully. It is 
now one of the great Southern vegetable crops, the safest, surest 
vegetable crop a man can plant right on jear after year. It has 
reached its greatest development in Southwest Texas where, dur¬ 
ing the shipping season, solid train loads of Bermuda Onions leave 
daily for Northern and Eastern markets. 
While Texas is the most important Bermuda onion growing 
state, this crop is assuming larger proportions each year in Flor¬ 
ida, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. 
This development of a new and great industry has been possible 
through genuine, good, unmixed seed obtained from Hastings. If 
it hadn’t been for Hastings there would probably be no Bermuda 
Onion industry in Texas now. 
The Bermuda Onion is the safest vegetable crop that you can 
grow. It’s adapted to the Southern third of Texas, the coast sec¬ 
tions of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, all of Florida, 
and the valley lands of Southern California. The Bermuda Onion 
grower has a sure and steady market for his product. North, South, 
East and West, and it seldom nets him less than IV 2 cents per 
pound, and often .1 and 4 cents. Its importance as a money crop 
can hardly be over-estirnated. Let the consumer once get a taste 
of genuine Bermuda Onion and he will buy no other so long as a 
Bermuda is on the market. No gardener should fall to grow them 
either for market or home use. 
You Can Always Tell Hastings’ Onions 
Over a thousand cars of Bermuda Onions grown from Hastings’ 
Seeds marketed in 1920. Their superior quality and freedom from 
Reds, Pinks, Doubles and Splits enabled our customers to realize 
many thousands of dollars extra profits above the returns secured 
by other growers, who did not use Hastings’ Seeds. 
The onions are usually sold by the growers f. o. b. tracks, the 
buyers inspecting the cars and paying according to quality. Fre¬ 
quently, buyers will pay a good premium on a car of onions from 
one of our customers, when other growers cannot get the market 
price. Why is this? Simply because quality counts always. 
Hastings’ Bermuda Onion Seed will always be the best quality for 
that is the first consideration in our business. No other house has 
ever been able to equal the quality of our seed and experienced 
growers know it. That is why they will not take chances with any 
other seed as long as they can buy from Hastings’. 
One of the largest growers in Texas told us a couple weeks ago 
that his crop this year from Hastings’ Seeds has given him $11,000 
more than he would have gotten from the same amount of Bermu¬ 
da Onions grown from any other seeds. 
Any onion grower or one accustomed to handling shipments of 
Bermuda Onions can tell a car from Hastings’ Seeds as soon as 
he sees it. The reason is, besides being better shaped and more 
uniform onions there is the great freedom from Reds, Pinks, 
Doubles and Splits in Hastings’ White or Yellow Bermuda Onions, 
the big variety for market and shipment. 
These seeds have to be grown with the utmost care and it takes 
two years to produce a crop of seeds. They are grown on one is¬ 
land in the Canaries, off the coast of Africa, and our man stays on 
j the ground all the time, carefully selecting the bulbs for each of 
the seed growers who work under him, watching the cultivation, 
harvest, saving of seeds, and the many other duties necessary In 
I producing the highest quality seeds. 
