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II. G. Hustings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
REAL HOME GARDENS 
ARE REAL LIFE SAVERS 
A very eouunon saying in use is one used to express thanks and 
appreciation when some one has rendered a service or favor In an 
emergency. That saying is “You saved my life.” Of course it over¬ 
states in most cases where it is used but it is intended to express 
as strongly as possible the appreciation for the service or favor. 
I’nder pressure of the war and food shortage the home garden for 
the first time in many years was treated seriously as a source of 
cheap and abundant food. In tens of thousands of cases tlie food 
produced in a real home garden was enough for half the living or 
more of the family. The garden was a “life-saver.” 
In the districts newly Invaded with boll weevil and when every¬ 
thing looked dark, the first advice given to the almost straving peo¬ 
ple was “Plant a good-sized home garden,” and the vegetatdes from 
those home gardens furnished plenty for the table and largely did 
away with the store bills based on cotton credit. It put those good 
people on the road to a greater prosperity than they had ever 
known under the “buy all food, grow all cotton” system. Again 
did the real home garden prove a “life-saver” in time of need. 
A lot of new cotton territory has been invaded by the boll weevil 
in 1!)19. Some of this new weevil ground was hard hit, some of it 
did not suffer much actual loss this time but there is plenty of “wee¬ 
vil seed” that will grow into a disaster next summer If the same 
methods are followed as before the weevil came. This is where the 
■home garden comes in as a “life-saver” if you will give it a chance 
by planning, planting, tending and keeping it replanted and busy 
all the season. 
Many who planted large gardens as a war necessity may feel in¬ 
clined" to let up on gardening because most of tlie figliting lias 
stopped and they look for food prices to come down. We rather 
expected to see that ourselves but prices for most food and grain 
items have been going up instead of down and it now looks as if 
they would go still higher. . There is just as much need for using 
that home garden as a “life-saver” against higher food prices as at 
any time during the fighting period of the war. 
You will notice in the beading that we say “Real Home Gardens 
Are Real Life-Savers.” When we say “Real Home Gardens” we 
don’t mean the sickly fifteen or twenty cabbage plants, a sliort row 
or two of tiunch beans, maybe a few lintter or [lole snap liean vines 
and enougli corn to furnish a half dozen messes of roasting ears, 
that some folks call a garden. You know this sort of a spring gar¬ 
den. You can liardly travel a mile or more along any country road 
in tlie cotton section witliout seeing them and they are liy no means 
limited to negro renters’ places either. Such poor, sickly excuses 
for a garden will never do any “life-saving” for the owner. 
A “Real Home Garden” ought to be on the best land on the place 
and it ouglit to get the very first work in the spring, the best fer¬ 
tilizing, plowing and cultivation of any half-acre or acre on the 
■place instead of the so common “lick and a promise” that tens of 
thousands of gardens get. This “real garden” ought to be care¬ 
fully planned for in .lanuary or February, the varieties selected and 
seeds ordered so as to have them in hand well before planting time. 
We are not trying to lay down any hard and fast rules about the 
garden as to size or how many kinds of vegetables should go in it. 
This depends entirely on the number of mouths there are to feed 
and the kinds of vegetables that are liked by those who are to eat 
them. These are (luestions for each family to work out for them¬ 
selves. The important part is to plan, plant and tend right plenty 
of those vegetal)les that the family likes to eat. It should be large 
enough not only to furnish the table through the growing .season 
but to furnish an abundance for canning, so that instead of a store 
l>ill at the merchants for canned goods they can be had from home 
shelves. 
Y'es, the garden is a “life-saver” if it is prepared right and then 
planted with seeds that you can depend on, seeds that will not only 
grow, l)Ut grow what you want them to grow. In thousands of 
cases garden planning and seed ordering is put off until planting 
time is here, then buying any seeds that may be handy and trust 
to luck. 
Right seeds in quality and breeding is the only sure foundation 
lor a “life-saving” home garden. You can’t afford to take seed 
chances. Hastings’ Seeds are right and dependable—a sure founda¬ 
tion for the “life-saving” garden. 
U. S. Food Admlnistratioii License No. G-00270. 
Alphabetical Index Showing Page 
Flower seeds are listed on pages 74-84. 
Summer Flowering Bulbs are listed on 
pages 94 and 95. 
Plants for the “Home Beautiful” are listed 
on pages 85 to 93. 
So far as possible, in making up this cata¬ 
logue, we have arranged the vegetables, 
flowers, bulbs, and plants in alphabetical 
order. 
Alfalfa .Page 70 
Artichokes . 69 
Asparagus . 5 
Bacteria, Soil Inoculation. 62 
Beans, Garden .5-9 
Beans, Soy or Soja . 64 
Beans, 'Velvet . 61 
Beets .10-11 
Beggarweed . 65 
Bene . 65 
Broccoli . 17 
Brussels Sprouts . 17 
Buckwheat.-. 66 
Bug Death .!. 96 
Bulbs .94-95 
Cabbage, Seed and Plants.12-16 
Cane, Orange, Amber, Syrup. 67 
Cantaloupe .25-27 
Carrots . 18 
Cauliflower .16 
Celeriac . 18 
Celery . 18 
Chard, Swiss (Sea Kale). 
Chufas (Earth Almonds) . 
Citron, Green Giant . 
Clovers . 
Collards . 
Collections, General . 
Corn, Broom, Kaffir, .Terusalem 
Corn, Chicken ... 
Corn, Field . 
Corn, Pop, Roasting Ear. Sweet 
Cos Lettuce, White Paris . 
Cotton . 
Cress . 
Cucumbers . 
Eggplant . 
Endive . 
Ferns . 
Feterita. 
Fetticus (Corn Salad) . 
Flowers, Seeds, Plants, Bulbs.. 
Flowers, Live Plants . 
Fungicides . 
Gherkins . 
Gourds . 
Grasses . 
Herbs—all kinds . 
Honey Dew Melon . 
Horseradish Roots . 
Insecticides . 
Kale (Borecole) . 
Kohl Rabi . 
Leeks . 
Lespedeza (Japan Clover) . 
For Catalogue Reference 
.. 11 
.. 68 
.. 31 
.. 70 
.. 17 
.. 3 
.. 64 
.. 66 
.54-57 
.. 19 
.. 24 
58-60 
.. 17 
” 0-22 
.. 17 
.. 87 
.. 64 
.. 17 
.74-95 
85-93 
.. 96 
.. 20 
22 
71-73 
.. 44 
.. 27 
.. 40 
.. 96 
.. 17 
22 
. ’. 32 
.. 70 
Lettuce .23-24 
Mangels, Stock and Sugar Beets. 11 
Millet (Golden and Pearl) . 65 
Mustard . 32 
Okra . 32 
Onion, Seed and Sets .33-35 
Parsley . 44 
Parsnips . 44 
Peanuts . 69 
Peas, Garden or English.36-37 
Peas, P’ield or Cow . 63 
Peppers .38-.39 
Pe Tsai (Chinese Cabbage). 16 
Plants, Summer PTowering .85-93 
Potatoes, Irish . 40 
Pumpkins . 41 
Radish .42-43 
Rape. 68 
Rice, Upland . 65 
Rhubarb (Pie Plant). 40 
Rutabaga . 51 
Salsify . 44 
Seeder, or Hand Sower. 96 
Sorghum (Cane) . 67 
Southern Ruralist .G2-.53 
Spinach . 45 
Squash . 46 
Sunflower . 65 
Teosinte . 65 
Tobacco . 63 
Tomato . 47-49 
Turnips .50-51 
Vines (See Plants) .85-93 
Watermelons .28-31 
This complete Catalog—all Reading 
Matter and Illustrations—Copyrighted, 1919, by H. G. Hastings Co., Atlanta, Ga. 
