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H. G. Hastings Co,, Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
Hastings’ Frost Proof Cabbage Plants 
These cabbage plants will stand frost with little or no damage and will generally stand light freezes, but when a hard freeze comes, 
as it did in lyii-lillS, we lose all our plants and have none to sell. However, we don’t e.xpect any such winter this year and we do ex¬ 
pect to provide our customers with a plenty of these hardy plants in 1920. 
In 1919 we only sold these plants in small postpaid quantities, not believing that we had enough growing to sell in express lots. 
Nevertheless, it took 16,808.700 cabbage plants to fill these small orders. Nearly 17,000,000 is quite a few but this year we expect to 
sell at least 25,000,000. The Hastings’ reputation is behind tliese 
“making good.’’ We advise as early an order lor cabbage plants as 
To the Market Gardener wlio grows cabbage either for shipment 
or nearby markets, earliness or quick maturity of the crop is a prime 
necessity if largest profits from a market are to be secured. 
To the Home Gardener who wants earliness in maturity together 
with avoiding all the trouble of cabbage seed sowing and necessary 
protection of early sown seed and plants, our practically frost and 
Ireeze proof cabbage plants are both a convenience and a necessity. 
Along the South Carolina coast are a number of welt protected 
islands that never feel the cold spells of winter as we do here in the 
Central South. In that locality the cabbage seed is sown in the fall 
and makes a slow and vigorous, hardy growth all during the win¬ 
ter in the open ground and can be taken from there and planted 
anywhere in the Central South between January 15th and March 
15th with perfect safety, a thing that is impossible with hot bed 
or green house grown cabbage plants or even those grown in the 
open air in Florida and South Georgia. 
The use of these open air, practically frost-proof plants often en¬ 
ables the gardener to put full-grown heads of cabbage on the mar¬ 
ket two or three weeks ahead, and naturally he gets the early sea¬ 
son top prices for his crop. 
cabbage plants the same as oiir seeds and you can depend on their 
.you consider safe in your particular locality. 
In the 30 years of our business experience we have never sold 
anything that has given such generally satisfactory results as has 
our frost proof cabbage plants from the South Carolina coast. Not 
all of these island-grown plants are suital)le for you to plant. The 
plants must be at the right stage of growth when shipped to you 
to practically insure your success, and therein is one more of the 
j)ecullarities of plant life or rather cabbage plant life. 
To mature good heads the plant must not be too old when ship¬ 
ped. Over on the Carolina Coast Islands are a number of cabbage 
growers who plant for a surplus of cabbage plants so as to insure 
having enough plants for their own use in setting out their fields 
and if everything goes right they have more plants than they need, 
and offer them for sale to you and others. What they get out of 
these surplus plants is so much clear money. 
Here is the real important point, however. Once a cabbage plant 
gets too old before it is transplanted it is very apt to run to seed 
instead of producing salable or usable heads of cabbage. 
You can’t afford to take chances on such things and you take no 
chance with our cabbage plants. 
Hastings’ Open Ground Grown, Practically Frost Pro®! Plants. They are Hardy. 
Varieties, Early Jersey and Large Charleston Wakefield and Early Flat Dutch 
By Parcel Post Prepaid To Your Postoffice. No Express Shipments This Season 
Under e.xlsting congested eondition of shipping and slow deliveries as well as the comparatively limited supply of plants available we 
decline to aecept orders for express shipment of cabbage plants. Offers below are only for Parcel Post prepaid shipment. 
TO GEORGIA, NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA—500 Cabbage 
Plants of same variety, $1.35; 1000 or more of same variety, post¬ 
paid, at $2.40 per 1000. 
TO ALABASIA, MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE—500 Cabbage 
Plants of same variety, postpaid, $1.50; 1000 or more of same vari¬ 
ety, postpaid, at $2.70 per 1000. 
TO FLORIDA—No orders for cabbage plants will be accepted 
from Florida because of restrictions of the Plant Quarantine law 
causing delays in plants reaching destination. 
TO LOUISIANA, ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA—500 Cabbage 
Plants of same variety, postpaid, $1.65; 1000 of same variety or 
more, $2.95 per 1000; postpaid. 
TO TEXAS—500 Cabbage Plants of same variety, postpaid, $1.80; 
1000 of same variety or more, $3.25 per 1000; postpaid. 
OTHER STATES—To other States than the one named herewith 
we shall be pleased to quote cabbage plant prices per 500 or per 
1000 on request. 
Dah Cimo'Ia UunrlKArl On small shipments we will furnish lOO plants of any one variety for 45 cents, postpaid. No order for 
nUllUreU legg than 100 plants of any one variety will be filled. Orders are filled by the hundred—not 250 or 
350—but 200, 300, or 400. Also, orders for less than 500 of the same variety take the 100 rate—200 of one variety and 300 of another take 
the 100 rate. At 45 cents per 100 we will send, postpaid, to any State except Florida. 
