H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
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Plant Summer Flowering Bulbs 
Some of our most attractive and widely ^rown flowers come from what are 
known as summer flowering bulbs or roots. In the middle and lower South the 
double Pearl Tuberose* Gladioli* Dahlias aud Cannas ^row luxuriantly* furnish 
an abundance of beautiful flowers and last for years in the open ground with only 
slight protection* Our prices on these flowers are so low that they really do not 
pay us a profit but we are willing to handle them without profit for the sake of in¬ 
ducing every owner of a farm home to plant more flowers* to beautify the home and 
its surroundini^s. Where home surroundings are both beautiful and comfortable 
there is content—the call to leave the farm for town or city is seldom beard. 
Double Excelsior Pearl Tuberoses it'^hesout®h®snuabie 
for culture anywhere, either in pots, boxes or open ground. In many parts of the South It 
is a favorite summer flowering bulb, a single flower scenting the entire room. It grows vig¬ 
orously In all parts of the South, Is free from insect pests; and our first size bulbs are always 
sure bloomers the first season. Price, postpaid, 5 cents each; 6 for 20 cents; 12 for 35 cents; 
50 for $1.25; 100 for $2.25. You will enjoy the delightful fragrance. 
J?_|J Our finest mixed Gladioli are a source of greatest satisfaction to every one 
VllclUiUll who plants them in the South, Hastings' finest mixed giving the very best 
of results: the mixture being made up from a fine selection of the very best of colors, all of 
the cheap and Inferior grades and colors having been thrown out. The fine spikes of bloom 
with their richness and brilliancy of coloring, are out of all proportion to the trifling cost 
ofthe bulbs. Don’t fail to plant a dozen or more of them in your flower garden this year. 
6 for 15 cents; 12 for 25 cents; 60 for 95 cents; 100 for $1.80; postpaid. 
^ J? Or “Elephant Ears." Splendid decorative plants with immense 
Vj<lltlUlUlU» leaves. First size bulbs, 10 cents each; $1.00 per dozen. Second size 
15 cents; $1.50 per dozen; prepaid. Extra large, 25 to 40 cents each; prepaid. 
Well developed roots for quick results in blooming. We can supply In 
named varleiies. Chas. Henderson, crimson; Florence Vanghan, golden 
yellow spotted with red; Mad. Crozy, scarlet with golden edge; Queen Charlotte crim¬ 
son scarlet edged with yellow; Italia, red center with outer half yellow; Burbank, rich 
canary yellow; spotted with crimson; Austria, golden yellow with faint markings. Each, 
10 cents; $1.00 per dozen; postpaid. See Illustration of fine Cannas on page 83. 
Mixed Canna Roots, 6 for 40 cents; 76 cents per dozen; postpaid. 
Very popular now. Large field grown roots of white, yellow, pink, purple, 
dark red and variegated, 25 cents each; 3 for 65 cents; 6 for $1.00; postpaid. 
Bloom the first season and with very slight protection by being covered with trash, leaves 
or stable manure will last many seasons in any part of the South. Cover enough to keep 
them from freezing. The Dahlia is now one of the most popular of all flowers and our new 
decorative and Cactus flowering varieties will surprise you in beauty of flower aud rich 
coloring. Plant Dahlias this year; you won’t regret it. 
PRICES POSTPAID 
FLOWERS ABOUT YOUR HOME 
Have Yon Plenty of Flowers About Yonr Home? If Not Why Not? 
We don’t want to criticise any one but as we travel over the South year after year the 
most depressing thing to us is the almost entire absence of flowers and grass plots around 
tens of thousands of farm and smalltown homes. In the old days of the South’s poverty 
there may have been an excuse for this condition, but not now. Hardly a family exists 
that can’t afford to spend the small amount necessary for flower seed and plants to beautify 
the home surroundings and you and your family will be well repaid in pleasure and satis¬ 
faction for the small expenditure of money and labor in planting and caring for them. 
PLANT FLOWERS IN 1912. 
From Hastiugs’ Mixed Gladioli 
Hastings’ Plant Collections 
This page finishes up the purely 
seed part of our catalogue. What fol¬ 
lows are devoted strictly to flower¬ 
ing and ornamental plants, the 
beautifiers of homes and home sur¬ 
roundings. Every mother and 
daughter in every farm and town 
home has the right to have flowers 
and plenty of them. It is not only 
her right but her duty to have them 
for there Is nothing that will do 
more to make home attractive than 
flowers. 
It was ouralm and purpose when 
we began selling Roses, Geraniums 
and Ch rysanthemums in these popu¬ 
lar priced collections by mail, post¬ 
paid, to make It easy and cheap for 
you to haveplenty of flowersaround 
the farm homes and the purchase of 
them by thousands show a growing 
appreciation of flowers. 
Prices are as low as good healthy 
plants can be grown for. 
Caladium or Elephant Ears 
