II. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia, 
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Hastings’ Lettuce Seed For Home and Market Crops 
liCttuce seed is one of our great specialties, and in addition to supplying over two hundred tliousand family gardens each year we sell 
thousands of pounds of highest grade lettuce seed to shippers and market gardeners. Our four great market varieties, BIG BOSTON, 
FLORIDA HEADER, DIXIE HARD HEAD and CALIFORNIA CREAM BUTTER, have no euuals. The high quality of HASTINGS’ 
Lettuce Seed is Known everywhere in the South where lettuce is grown, for purity, hardness 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 growing crops are personally in¬ 
spected by our Mr. Hastings or Mr. Freeborn so as to insure the quality being kept up to the HASTINGS standard. Do you know of any 
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? 
One End of a Field of BIG BOSTON Lettuce Ready for Shipment—Note the Regularity of Growth—Right Seed Does It 
The illustration shows a field of 
® I” D I WlM ^ nili £ l\3 f lettuce from our Big Boston Seed. 
It is perfection in that variety, and you cannot buy any Big Boston 
Lettuce at any price that is superior to our strain. The heads of this 
strain are so firm and solid that almost every head has to be cut open 
before the seed stalks can grow. It is a standard market garden and 
shipping variety, being grown almost exclusively in many sections for 
shipment and for market. Extra large, round, firm heading variety, 
and makes a good appearance in market. Our seed of this variety is 
grown for us by a lettuce seed specialist whom we consider the best 
in the world. Our seed of Big Boston is the surest and hardest head¬ 
ing stock that you can obtain. Packet, 5c; ounce, 15c; % pound, 40c; 
pound, $1.35; postpaid. 5-pound lots or over, $1.00 per lb., not prepaid. 
HASTINGS’ DRUMHEAD, 
One of our earliest intro- 
'ductions, and no variety 
WHITE CABBAGE LETTUCE ^a^^ierh 
/U|l 51 I \ steadier sale. It is not a shipping variety, but belongs 
V""' “ * ’ / to the crisp-leaved class. Superb for honie gardens and 
nearby markets. When properly growm it reaches large size. One 
gardener near Gainesville, Florida, produced a single head weighing 
nearly 4 pounds. It is always large, with outer leaves a clear, light 
green color, inside of the head almost pure white. Leaves are large, 
extra crisp and tender and entirely free from all bitter taste. Fine 
for spring planting in all parts of the South. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 
20 cents; M pound. 65 cents; pound, $3.00; postpaid. 
HASTINGS^ ICEBERG LETTUCE (No. 216) 
A beautiful as well as useful variety. Exceedingly crisp and tender, 
growing a long time before running to seed. Known as a “crisp- 
leaved” hard-header. Splendid for either open ground planting or for 
forcing under glass. Heads of conical shape and medium size. Heads 
tightly folded and blanched to a beautiful white. Outer leaves crin¬ 
kled and light green, growing closely up around the head. Packet, 5 
cents; ounce, 30 cents; % pound, 65 cents; pound, $3.00; postpaid. 
Hastings’ Drumhead White Cabbage I.ettuce 
