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H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ LETTUCE SEED FOR MARKET CROPS 
Lettuce seed is one of our ^reat specialties and in addition to supplying nearly one hundred and fifty thousand family i^ardens 
each year we sell thousands of pounds of highest grade lettuce to shippers and market gardeners. Our four great market yarieties. 
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, hardiness of heads and slowness to run to 
seed. Our lettuce seed is all grown in California by the most careful lettuce seed grower in the world and the crops are personally in¬ 
spected by Mr. Hastings almost every year during the growing season so as to insure the quality being kept up to tbe 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 ? 
A Field of Our Big Boston Lettuce Ready for Shipping. Note the Regularity of Growth 
Hastings* Drumhead White Cabbage Lettueo 
^ m ^ . The Illustration above shows a 
-w-a of our Big Boston. It is 
■ ■ I I ■■ fl B I I perfection in that variety and 
you can’t buy any Big Boston at 
any price that is superior to our strain. So firm and solid are the heads of our 
strain of Big Boston that almost every head has to be cut open belore seed 
stalks can grow. It is the staiulard market garden and shipping variety, 
grown almost exclusively in many sections for shipment and for market. 
Extra large, round, lirm heading variety, and makes a good appearance in 
market. Our seed of this variety is grown for us by the best lettuce seed 
grower in the world and is the purest stock obtainable. Packet, 5cents; ounce, 
15 cents; pound, 35 cents; pound, S1.25; 5 pounds, S5.00. 
Drumhead White Cahhage Lettuce 
This is one of our earliest introductions and no variety that we have car¬ 
ried has ever had a steadier sale. It is not a shipping lettuce but belongs to 
the “crisp” leaved class, superb for home gardens and nearby markets. When 
properly grown it reaches large size, one gardener near Gainesville, Florida, 
producing a single head weighing nearly 4 pounds. It is always large with 
outer leaves clear light green, the inside of the head being almost white. 
Leaves are large, extra cri.sp and tender and entirely free from bitterness. Es¬ 
pecially good for fall plantings in Florida and along the Gulf Coast during fall 
and early winter. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 54 pound, 30 cents; pound, 
81.00; postpaid. 
Iceberg Lettuce 
Very ornamental ns well as being an 
exceedingly crisp, tender variety, 
^ growing a long time before running to 
seed. Known as a “crisp” leaved variety, andis a hard header. Splendid for 
open ground planting or for forcing, heads of conical shape and uniform size. 
Heads tightly folded and blanched to a beautiful white. Outer leaves light 
green, growing closely up around the head. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 
% pound, 30 cents; pound, 81.00; postpaid. 
