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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
HASTINGS’ CANNAS 
Hastings’ Large Flowering Cannas. 
HASTINGS’ HYBRID COLEUS. The seed is small and 
shouldn't be covered over % inch. Keep moist but not 
wet. When plants are 3 or 4 inches high set in open 
ground. There is no superior in plants for beds, edging 
or borders. Our seed mixtureof colors is saved from the 
finest exhibition plants and contains all the best fancy 
striped and blotched sorts. Packet, 15c; 2 packets, 25c. 
CANTERBURY 7 BELLS (Campanula). Sown early in 
spring, these will bloom the first season. Sow in rather 
shaded location as soon as ground can be worked in the 
spring. This strain grows about 18 inches high. Finest 
Double and Single Mixed, all colors of beautiful bell¬ 
shaped flowers. Packet, 5 cents. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS (Chinese and Japanese). Sow 
seed in shallow boxes, barely covering the seed with 
finely sifted soil. Keep moist and place box in a warm, 
sunny room. When young plants are 3 inches high trans¬ 
plant to open ground. The bloom you get will sur¬ 
prise you with the odd and beautiful forms of flowers 
and abundance of the bloom during the fall months. Packet, 25 cents; 2 pack¬ 
ets, 45 cents. 
COSMOS. Do not plant in soil too rich, as it makes too tall a growth. 
Sandy or light clay soils are best. Sow as soon as danger from 
frost is past in open ground. They grow 4 to 6 feet tall and are covered pro¬ 
fusely with flowers from August until frost. White, pink and crimson mixed. 
Cosmos, Finest Mixed (see illustration), packet, 5 cents. Giant of California. A 
large flowering strain, the flowers being more than double the size of the origin¬ 
al strain. Flowers pink, white and crimson mixed. Packet, 10 cents. 
CYCLAMEN—PERSICUM. Popular, free blooming, bulbous plants for home 
culture. Seeds produce the bulbs which flower the following spring. These 
should be grown entirely in boxes and pots, never in the open ground. Colors 
range from pure white to deep crimson. Finest mixed colors. Packet, 15 cents. 
CYPRESS VINE. For a neat trellis or ornamenting the trunks of trees 
it is unexcelled. It has a profusion of scarlet and white star-shaped blossoms 
and its finely cut foliage is particularly adapted to ornamental work. Grows 
10 to 12 feet high and if planted thick in good soil will make a dense growth. 
We can supply the colors, scarlet and white, separately or mixed. Each, packet, 
5 cents. 
Few plants have shown so great improvement in recent 
years as the Canna. It retains its tropical foliage and our 
new varieties have a bloom in many instances equal to the 
costly orchids. They are easily grown from seed. File or 
cut through the hard outer seed covering so moisture can 
reach the germ and start in protected shallow boxes filled 
with fine, rich garden soil. When young plants show 4 or 
5 leaves transplant to open ground made very rich. Set 
plants 1% feet apart each way. Seed from finest introduc¬ 
tions with green and bronze foliage and brilliant colors. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents. For Canna Roots see 
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CANDYTUFT OR IBERIS—Favorite for beds, borders 
and edging. Sow seed as soon as soil can be worked in 
spring. When well up. thin out to 4 or 5 inches apart; es¬ 
pecially desirable for early summer beds. EMPRESS has 
extra large spikes, with pure white flowers; fine for cut¬ 
ting. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents. PURE WHITE is 
the common white Candytuft; DARK CRIMSON is the 
darkest shade of crimson ; and MIXED CANDYTUFT is a 
mixture of all shades and colors of the annual sorts. Prices 
—Each; Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents. 
CALLIOPSIS OR COREOPSIS — Bright showy plants, 
growing with great profusion in any good garden soil. 
Plants 1% to 2 feet high, covered with brilliant, showy flow¬ 
ers, both single and double. Sow in early spring where 
plants are to stand. Assorted varieties: Packet, 5 cents. 
CENTAUREA—DUSTY 7 MILLER—Height about One foot; 
largely used for borders and edgings. Packet, 10 cents. 
CENTAUREA—BACHELOR’S BUTTON — Attractive and 
graceful flowers of easiest culture; blooms entire summer; 
finest assorted colors. Packet, 5 cents. 
CENTAUREA IMPERIALIS—SYVEET SULTAN — Superb 
new strain with long-stemmed blossoms 3 to 4 inches across 
aand very fragrant. Strong bushy form and of easiest cul¬ 
ture. Colors from white through shades of red, blue, lilac, 
roval purple, etc. Packet. 10 cents. 
CELOSIA OR COCKSCOMB—Sow seed thinly in drills and 
transplant after April 1st one foot apart; they develop ab¬ 
normally large flower heads or combs, are showy and of 
easiest culture. CELOSIA CRISTATA, the large, close¬ 
headed form, mixed colors; and CELOSIA PLUMOSA, heads 
loose and feathery, borne on long stems, mixed colors. Each 
—Packet, 5 cents. 
CARNATIONS—One of the most popular flowers and easi¬ 
ly grown from seed. The DOUBLE GERMAN, seed saved 
from only the choicest double flowers, mixed colors, and 
GRENADIN, the brilliant scarlet carnation, are not in their 
full development until the second year; the CHAUBAUD, of 
finest colors blooms in 5 months from seed; the GIANT 
MARGUERITE is an extra large strain with flowers 2% to 
3 inches in diameter and blooms in about 5 months from 
seed; and the MARGUERITE is an ever-blooming carna¬ 
tion, blooming in 4 months from seed, their smaller size be¬ 
ing made up for by earliness and abundance of bloom. 
PRICES for all except Marguerite; Packet, 15 cents; 2 pack¬ 
ets, 25 cents. MARGUERITE, packet, 10 cents. 
CLARKIA—Very popular annual; stands considerable cold 
and of easiest culture. Sow early in good garden soil; rapid 
growers and bloom from May to September. Single Mixed, 
all colors; Double Mixed, all colors. Each, packet, 5 cents. 
CLEOME OR SPIDER PLANT—Free flowering hardy 
annual of branching habit, 4 to 6 feet high, each plant ter¬ 
minating in a large spike of rosy-pink flowers. Sow seed in 
open ground after April 1st and they grow until frost kills 
them in the fall. The flowers are succeeded by long seed 
pods on slender stems, resembling a giant centipede or spi¬ 
der. Packet. 10 cents. 
COBEA SCANDENS — A splendid tropical climber from 
Mexico, entirely adapted to the Atlanta section; a rapid 
grower, quickly attaining a height of 15 to 20 feet, covered 
profusely with' deep reddish violet purple bell shaped flow¬ 
ers. Vines cling closely to strings, wires or trellises. Plant 
in April and May, place seeds on edge, as they are very thin, 
and cover not over half an inch. Packet, 10 cents. 
CASTOR BEAN—RICIX’US (Ornamental Mixed). Large tropical plants 
grown for highly ornamental foliage. Plant in open ground for backgrounds or 
screen effect a f ter April 1st. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents. 
Hastings’ Giant Cosmos. 
