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H. G. Hastings Co,, Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
HASTINGS’ ^^HOME BEAUTIFUL” FLOWER SEEDS 
Only varieties adapted to planting in Southern States. Make your home a “Home Beautiful” with flowers. 
LIBERAL PREMIUMS—With an order for 50 cents’ worth of Flower Seeds Only, you may select 25 cents’ worth of Flower Seed Extra. 
For .$1.00 you may have 50 cents’ worth extra, and for $3.00 you may have $1.00 worth extra. This offer does NOT include Bulbs, Roots, 
Plants or the Special 25 and 50-cent flower seed collections on page 3. Read carefully and please don’t confuse it with vegetable or Held 
seeds. This Special Offer is for Flower Seeds only. 
HASTINGS’ FLOWER SEEDS 
Have no superiors and few equals. We use just as much care in 
the production of the finest strains of flower seeds as we do in vege¬ 
table seeds. We do this because it pays us. Our business experi¬ 
ence has shown us that our best advertisement is a satisfied cus¬ 
tomer, and our special high-grade strains of seed are bound to make 
every one who plants them satisfied. The increase of our sales of 
flower seed in the past ten ye.irs has been enormous. Our cus¬ 
tomers find that the quality of our seed and the size and brilliancy 
of the bloom from our special strains of flower seeds surpass any¬ 
thing they have ever had. Until recently little flower seed was 
grown in the United States, and we import much of ours direct from 
the largest and best flower seed growers of France, where great 
attention has been paid to the production of the finest strains of 
flowers. AVe spare no trouble or expense to get the very best for 
our customers—the finest varieties of all flowers adapted to pl'ant- 
in the South. Our list of flower seed is small compared with that 
of several Northern seedsmen. The reason for this is that there a a 
comparatively few flowers grown from seed that do well in the 
South, and our list contains nothing but what is adapted to the 
South. You may depend upon the fact that you can pl.int .any va¬ 
riety in this list with the assurance that with proper treatment ..nd 
favorable seasons you will succeed. 
Our packets of flower seeds are larger than those of most seeds¬ 
men. There are enough seeds in Hastings’ packets to give plenty 
of plants of each kind. We have no 1, 2 or 3-cent packets snch as 
are offered occasionally. Our packets contain good seed and plenty 
of it. We do not put in 6 or 7 sweet peas, or 12 or 15 poppy seed, 
as fine as dust, and call it a packet. Our business is not conducted 
on that basis. We charge you a reasonable price, just what the 
goods are worth, and give you value received for every cent you 
send us, and then add to your order the extra seeds allowed in the 
offer at top of this p.ige. 
Flower .seed is now one of the leading features of our business, 
and we lead in that just as we do in vegetable seed. Hastings’ 
Seeds of all varieties are Successful Seeds. 
PLANNING THE FLOWER GARDEN 
Before ordering flower seeds or plants it is best always to make a 
plan for final or lasting results. Y’ou don’t have to be a landscape 
gardener to make a beautiful home place. You can make a log 
cabin home beautiful as well as the grounds around a costly man¬ 
sion. Unsightly places, as back y.ards, fences and house founda¬ 
tions should be screened from view—all other views left unob¬ 
structed except by low-growing plants. Plan to show off the home 
as a pleasing sight. Don’t jump in and patch up your place for im¬ 
mediate results. Plan to add to the beauty of your home each year. 
HOW TO SOW FLOWER SEEDS 
With few exceptions dower seeds are very small, and sowing them 
oy the inexperienced often results in failure, either partial or com¬ 
plete, because a few simple rules are not followed. There is noth¬ 
ing mysterious about success with flowers. It requires care and a 
little common s;nse. .With these failure is almost impossible. It is 
work that can not bS left to a farm hand or laborer. It must re¬ 
ceive your careful pergenal attention. By observing closely the fol¬ 
io wing rules for sowing flower seed you will have little cause for 
compiaint or failure. 
^nil mellow loam^, which is a medium earth between 
“ tue extremes or clay and sand, enriched by a com¬ 
post of rotten manure and lear mold, is adapted to the generality 
of flowering plants. Previous tO planting flower beds or borders 
care must be taken that they are so arranged that the ground is a 
little elevated In the middle, allowing the water to run off, also 
showing off the plants ;o better advantage. 
Dlantincy tliA OaacI Make the surface as fine and smooth 
■ l”**^***® as possible. Cover each sort of seed 
to a depth proportionate to its size; seed like portulaca, petunias, 
etc., should be merely sprinkled on the surface of the ground, and 
tiarely covered with finely-sifted, light mellow soil; press the soil 
down firmly over the seed with a brick or a short piece of board. 
For larger seed the depth should be regulated according to the size 
of the seed, those the size of a pinhead ^ inch deep, and those the 
size of a pea % of an inch or more. Get a bit of lath (it would be 
better if planed smooth) about two feet long, press the edge down 
into the soil evenly, so as to make a groove as deep as the seed is 
to be planted, scatter the seed along this, allowing 4 or 5 of the 
larger to 15 or 20 of the smaller seeds to the space one plant is to 
occupy when grown. Cover the seed by pressing; turn your lath 
flatwise and press the soil down firml.v. On light, sandy soils flower 
seed should be covered twice the depth that they should be in stiff 
or heavy clay soils. 
CAu.gncs' Sti R/kVAC Almost all flowers will stand trans- 
*** DWaCa planting. Many of them grow better 
for having been transplanted. In sections liable to late spring 
frosts or where drought comes in spring, it is advisable to sow 
seed in shallow boxes which can be placed in a warm, sunny win¬ 
dow or on a porch. This is always advisable with' the expensive 
seed, and those of a tropical nature, such as coleus, salvia, etc. 
These need a warm soil to start the seed. Sow the same as in open 
ground, and keep the soil moist, but not soaking wet. If surface of 
soils show tendency to cake or crust, scratch it lightly to break the 
crust. Small seeds cannot force their way through a crusted sur¬ 
face. As soon as plants reach a height of 2 or 3 inches they may 
be transplanted, taking as much earth as possible with each plant, 
so as not to disturb the roots more than necessary. 
