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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia, 
MUSTARD FOR SPRING SALAD 
Culture Sow in any good garden soil thickly in drills 14 to 1C inches apart. Give 
^ clean culture, keeping free from grass and weeds. Leaves are large enough 
to use as a salad in from four to six weeks from sow’ing, and can be cut all through 
the winter. Sow from January to April. Use one ounce of seed to 200 feet of row 
Giant Southern Curled IVIustard(No. 278) rs%SeVwfth“ 
out a patch of mustard for early salad. Our Giant Southern Curled is the very best 
of the finely curled leaf strains, realiy beautiful enough to grace a flower garden. It 
is slightly pungent, crisp and tender and can be eaten like lettuce or boOed for 
“greens.” The Hastings’ strain of Southern Curled is the same as offered by one or 
more leading northern houses as “Ostrich Plume.” If you like mustard for either 
spring or fall planting you will be pleased with this variety. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 
10 cents; ^ pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid. 
R/lijetaKfl ^ Nn 977 \ entirely distinct, yet thoroughly good 
^ y iiwi £11/ variety of mustard of which we have sold 
thousands of pounds during recent years. It is of much larger growth than the 
Curled, about the same quality for salads 
or boiling and remains in condition for 
use a long time. The quick almost rank 
growth of the Chinese, insures tenderness, 
mildness and freedom from bitter flavor. 
The engraving on the left from a photo¬ 
graph shows the general appearance of 
the leaves. Packet, 5 cents; oz., 10 cents; 
Hastings’ True Stock of Chinese Mustard % lb., 30 cents; lb., $1.00; postpaid. 
^ Nn 97Q^ This is the variety the seeds of which are used in pic- 
"* **'^*'*****®^*** *’* \'"** ^ * “ / kllng for family use, and the seeds when ground up, 
compose what is known as “mustard” in the stores. Packet, 6 cents; ounce, 10 cents; % 
pound, 30 cents; pound, $1.00; postpaid. 
GEORGIA GROWN OKRA 
Okra is a close relative of the cotton plant and grows 
splendidly anywhere and everywhere in the Cotton Belt. 
After considerable experimenting we found a place up near 
the northern line of possible cotton production in Georgia 
that develops okra and okra seed to perfection and at the 
same time insures an earliness of maturity not found in 
okra seed grown further south. Every pound of okra seed 
sold by us is produced in this north Georgia locality. 
Okra or gumbo is a most healthful vegetable and ought to 
be plentiful in every Southern garden. In our seed growing 
work here in Georgia we have developed two splendid strains 
of the White Velvet and Perkins’ Mammoth, both being far 
superior to what is offered under these names by other 
houses, and wm are sure that seed of either of these two va¬ 
rieties will please you. Plant one ounce of seed to 50 feet 
of row; about 8 pounds per acre. 
Hastings’ White Velvet 
throughout the South 
for home use and local shipment, 
V ^”''7 ready to use in 55 to 60 days. We have 
specially fine, early, very round, smooth-podded strain of 
medium size, the pods being almost altogether free from 
ridges and is not prickly to the touch. This strain of the 
White Velvet we find to be the very best of all the White 
varieties. See illustration just to the left. Packet, 5c; oz., 
10c; % lb., 25c; lb., 75c; postpaid. Ten lbs., not prepaid, $5.00. 
Perkins’ Mammoth Long SS. poaSed 
PoddedOkra(No.306) "Si 
shipping purposes, ready to use in 50 to 55 days and being 
used by many Southern truckers exclusively for this pur¬ 
pose. The original strain as originally introduced has been 
greatly improved by us, and its productiveness is simply 
wonderful, the pods starting to shoot out within 3 or 4 inches 
from the bottom of the stalk and the whole plant is covered 
with them to the height of a man’s head (5 to 6 feet). Pods 
of an intensely dark green color, of unusual length, fre- 
wiiifo nir o quently 9 to 10 inches long. Pods are very slim and do not 
ttuire veivec uura harden up as is usually the case with other varieties. Packet, 
5c; oun ce, 10c; % pound, 25 cents; pound, 73c; prepaid. Ten pounds, not prepaid, $5.00. 
■ ^ very hardy onion-like plant that does not make a bulb. It 
B B* 1% has a long, well-thickened neck somewhat resembling the growth of young 
onions in spring but much longer and thicker. The leek thrives under 
same general conditions as onions and should be cultivated in the same general manner ex¬ 
cept that when the plants begin to get some size the earth should gradually be drawn up 
around the neck so as to blanch the stems or necks white and increase the tenderness and 
fine flavor. Sow seed as early in spring as ground can be worked. 
Laro-A Parotl'fon I 901 ^ Grows to large size, the stems being propor- 
Large \#arenien l.eeH^nili £UO/ tlonately large and thick. In rich soil, well 
earthed up, the edible portion is from 6 to 8 inches long by 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Packet, 
10 cents; % ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 75 cents; postpaid. 
PLANT A BIG HOME GARDEN IN 1920 
Money-saving: and health-saving are both worth while and the right kind of a good home 
garden with a dozen or more kinds of vegetables in it is both a money and health saver. 
(live the 1920 garden a square deal and see what it will do for you in both money and 
health saving. 
You will find the home garden the most valuable land on your place. 
Perkins* Mammoth Long Pod Okra 
