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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
Hastings’ ^^Home Beautiful” Flower Seed 
Only varieties adapted to planting in Southern States. Make yours a **Home Beautiful” with flowers. 
lilBBRAL PREMIUMS—AVith an order for 50 cents* worth of !■ lower Seeds Only, you may select 25 cents’ wortli of Flower Seed Ex¬ 
tra. For $1.00 you may have 50 jsents* worth extra, and for $2.00 you may have $1.00 worth extra. Tliis offer does NOT include Bulbs, 
Roots or Plants. Read carefully and don’t confuse it with vegetable or field seeds. This Special Offer is for Flower Seeds only. 
HASTINGS’ FLOWER SEEDS 
Have no superiors and few equals. We use just as much care in 
the production of the finest strains of flower seeds as we do in 
vegetable seeds. We do this because it pays us. Our business ex¬ 
perience has shown us that our best advertisement is a satisfied 
customer, and our special high grade strains of seed are bound to 
make every one who plants them satisfied. The increase in our 
sales of flower seed in the past ten years has been enormous. Our 
customers find that the quantity of our seed and the size and bril¬ 
liancy of the bloom from our special strains of flower seeds surpass 
anything they have ever had. I'ntil recently little flower seed was 
grown in the United States, and we import much of ours direct 
from the largest and best flower seed growers of France, where 
great attention has been paid to the production of the finest strains 
of flowers. We spare no trouble or expense to get the very best for 
our customers—the finest varieties of all flowers adapted to plant 
ing in the South. Our list of flower seed is small compared with 
that of several Northern seedsmen. The reason for this is that 
there are comparatively few flowers grown from seed that do well 
in the South, and our list contains nothing but what is adapted to 
the South. You may depend upon the fact that you can plant any 
variety in this list with the assurance that with proper treatment 
and favorable seasons you will succeed. 
Our packets of flower seeds are larger than those of most seeds¬ 
men. There are enough seeds in Hastings’ packets to give plenty 
of plants of each kind. We have no 1, 2 or 3-cent packets such as 
are offered occasionally. Our packets contain good seed and plenty 
of it. We do not put in 6 or 7 sweet peas, or 12 or 15 poppy seed, 
as flne as dust, and call it a packet. Our business is not conducted 
on that basis. We charge you a reasonable price, just what the 
goods are worth, and give you value received for every cent you 
send us, and then add to your order the extra seeds allowed in the 
offer at the top of this page. 
Flower seed is now one of the leading features of our business, 
and we lead in that just as we do in vegetable seed. Hastings 
Seeds of all varieties are Successful Seeds. 
There are a number of flower seeds which should be sown in the 
fall for best results, as the length of time to hot weather from 
spring sowings is too short to allow for best development. To this 
class belong Pansies, Violets and Daisies. Other varieties such as 
Sweet Peas, need an early start, especially in Florida and Gulf 
Coast section, October to December sowing being best. In the 
lower half of Florida and extreme Southwest Texas, such kinds as 
Dianthus or Pinks, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Petunias, Poppies, 
Verbeuas, can be sown almost any time during the fall months, 
adding brightness to home surroundings during the winter months. 
HOW TO SOW FLOWER SEEDS 
With few exceptions flower seeds are very small, and sowing 
them by the inexperienced often results in failure, either partial 
or complete, because a few simple rules are not followed. There is 
nothing mysterious about success with flowers. It requires care 
and a little common sense. With these failure is almost impossi¬ 
ble. It is work that can not be left to a farm hand or laborer. It 
must receive your careful personal attention. By observing close¬ 
ly the following rules for sowing flower seed you will have little 
cause for complaint or failure. 
CnSI ^ mellow loam, which is a medium earth between 
■ ttie extreme of clay and sand, enriched by a com¬ 
post of rotten manure and leaf mold, is adapted to the generality 
of flowering plants. Previous to planting flower beds or borders 
care must be taken that they are so arranged that the ground is a 
little elevated in the middle, allowing the water to run off, also 
showing off the plants to better advantage. 
DlaritiMcy Mnke the surface as fine and smooth 
■ ***^^l**5 possible. Cover each sort of seed 
to a depth proportionate to its size; seed like portulaca, petunias, 
etc., should be merely sprinkled on the surface of the ground, and 
barely covered with finely sifted, light mellow soil; press the soil 
down firmly over the seed with a brick or a short piece of board. 
For larger seed the depth should be regulated according to the size 
of the seed, those the size of a pinhead % inch deep, and those the 
size of a pea % of an inch or more. Get a bit of lath (it would be 
better if planed smooth) about two feet long, press the edge down 
into the soil evenly, so as to make a groove as deep as the seed is 
to be planted, scatter the seed along this, allowing 4 to 5 of the 
larger to 15 or 20 of the smaller seeds to the space one plant is to 
occupy when grown. Cover the seed by pressing; turn your lath 
flatwise and press the soil down firmly. On light, sandy soils 
flower seed should be covered twice (h- depth that they should be 
in stiff or heavy clay soils. 
Double English Daisy 
The true English Daisy, per¬ 
fectly hardy and suited to 
(Beilis Perennis) (ftio. 730) tions. Blooms in late 
fall and earliest spring. Sow seed early in boxes or shallow drills, 
then transplant to permanent location. Treat the same as violets. 
They can be flowered through the winter if placed in boxes, in 
pits, or planted in cold frames. Flowers very double. Plants 
spread rapidly in rich soil. Finest Mixed. Packet, 10 cents. 
Hastings’ Superb Mixed Dianthus (No. 778), or Garden pinks—Packet, 10 Cents: 3 Packets, 25 Cents 
Hastings’ Superb Mixed Dianthus (778) 
Most of our friends prefer a few plants of many varieties of 
pinks and do not wish to buy each variety separately. To meet 
this demand we have made up a magnificent mixture of all Chinese 
and .Japanese Pinks, having the widest range of form, color and 
markings imaginable. Large packet, 10 cents; 3 for 25 cents. 
Dianthus — Chinensls (No. 779)—Double China Pink. Free 
bloomer. All shades and colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
D.—Chinensis Alba (No. 780)—Double China, identical with Chi 
nensis except that the bloom is pure white. Finest selected. Pkt., 10c. 
D.—Heddewiggi (Japanese) (No. 782) — Finest double mixed, 
targe flowers, often 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Packet, 10 cents. 
D.—Heddewiggi Single (No. 781)—Select mixed. Pkt., 10 cents. 
D. —Heddewiggi Atrosanguinea (783)—Double crimson. Pkt., 10c. 
D.—Mourning Pink (No. 784)—Extra double flowers with body 
covering of very dark velvet mahogany, almost black, in striking 
contrast to the finely fringed edges of pure white. Pkt., 10 cents. 
D.—Double Diadem Pink (No. 785)—Very large double flowers, 
finel.v marked. Magnificent in both coloring and varieties. Mixed 
colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
D.—Crimson Belle (No. 786)—Single. Barge flowers of deepest 
glowing crimson, beautifully fringed. Packet, 10 cents. 
D.—Eastern Queen (No. 787)—Large single flowers, 2 to 4 inches 
across. Finely fringed, beautifully stained in rich shadings of sil¬ 
very white, each flower having crimson center. Packet, 10 cents. 
D.—Tlie Bride (No. 788)—Large, handsome flowers of silvery 
white with rich purplish red eye surrounded by a still darker 
crimson ring. Packet. 10 cents. 
D.—Lacinatus (No. 789)—Large single and double fringed flow¬ 
ers in many distinct colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
D.—Salmon Queen (No. 790)—Single flowers of beautifully rosy 
salmon color, a rare shade of pinks. Packet, 10 cents. 
D.—Imperialis (No. 791)—Double Imperial Pink. Double full 
centered flowers, large and showy. Fine range of colors and mark¬ 
ings, and oue of the most popular varieties. Packet, 10 cents. 
