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H. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
ONIONS 
Hastings’ Prizetaker Onion. 
Atlanta spends thousands of dollars for onions every 
year just because our own people don't grow enough 
onions for their own use—thousands of dollars sent North 
every year for onions which can better he grown at home. 
Plant plenty this spring for home use at least. 
Plant in any good garden soil just as early as you can 
work the ground to advantage. Work the ground tine, re¬ 
moving all trash, clods and grass roots; fertilize or ma¬ 
nure. Plant sets for earliness, but the seeds make better 
onions, using one pound of sets for about 100 feet of row, 
or one ounce of seed for 200 feet of row. Cultivate lightly 
every week or ten days. 
HASTINGS’ PRIZE TAKER is the very best onion you 
can plant from seed. It is very large, with light straw 
colored skin and pure white flesh, very fine grained, mild 
flavor, and will keep a long time. It is the finest onion 
grown in America, with the possible exception of the 
Bermuda onions, which don’t do well in this section. 
Packet, 5 eents; ounce, 20 cents; 14 pound, 60 cents. 
HASTINGS’ THREE GLOBE ONIONS; WHITE, YEL¬ 
LOW AND RED, are the best late globe onions, the only 
material difference being in the color of the skin. They 
all are of fine appearance, tender grained and good keep¬ 
ers. A packet of each, 25 eents. Each, packet, 10 cents; 
% ounce, 15 cents; ounce, 25 cents; % pound, 75 cents. 
AUSTRALIAN BROWN, MAMMOTH SILVER KING, 
LARGE RED WETHERSFIELD, EXTRA EARLY RED, 
YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS, GIANT WHITE TRIPOLI, 
EXTRA EARLY BARLETTA AND SILVER SKIN are 
all fine onions and adapted to our climate and conditions. 
Space forbids our descriptions of them here, but our 
regular catalogue describes them in detail, and our local 
salesmen will be glad to advise you on their qualities and 
culture. Prices for Mammoth Silver King and Silver Skin 
are: Each, packet, 10c; ounce, 25c; 14 pound, 75c. The 
others not already priced are: Each, packet, 5c; ounce, 
15c; 14 pound, 45c; pound, $1.40. 
ONION SETS are largely planted in home gardens for 
pulling green. Many prefer the small, tender, young on¬ 
ions for eating raw, and there is a large demand for them 
every spring. The onion seed crops this past year were 
very short all over the United States and also the crops 
of sets. However, we do our best to supply you with 
both seeds and sets. SILVER SKIN SETS are sets of 
White Portugal or Silver Skin Onion raised from our 
quality seed. Large, silvery white onion when matured 
and of the very finest eating quality. YELLOW DAN¬ 
VERS SETS form globe shaped onions of extra fine qual¬ 
ity. With the short crops price is changing almost daily. 
Price on application. 
HASTINGS VEGETABLE PLANTS 
There is necessarily great care needed in the starting 
of the more tender vegetable plants, such as tomatoes, 
peppers, eggplants and cabbages in early spring. To get 
the quickest and best results from these garden necessi¬ 
ties it is essential that they be transplanted into the open 
ground as soon as the ground warms up in the spring, 
that is, in latitude of Atlanta. These plants should be set 
out here during the months of April and May. Frost 
proof cabbage plants can be set out as early as the middle 
of February, but after the middle of March it is advisa¬ 
ble to use the hot-bed plants. The seeds of these tender 
plants must be planted in hot-beds or greenhouses and 
given the best of care; they must have an even, warm 
temperature; they must be given the correct amount of 
moisture and air regularly and several other controlled 
conditions so they will be in good, healthy condition and 
in unchecked growth when the time comes to transplant 
them to the open ground. All this care is too much for 
the most of our Atlanta patrons, and to help them as 
much as possible we are growing the most popular varie¬ 
ties from our own special seed, and are giving them the 
very best greenhouse attention so they will come to you 
in first, class condition; so that every plant will grow and 
give you the best results. These plants come to us fresh 
every day, and we keep them in the boxes where they 
are grown until you get them or order them delivered, so 
you can depend on their being fresh and unchecked in 
growth. We will have them at our local store, 16 West 
Mitchell Street, as soon as it is advisable to set them out, 
and will keep them coming in daily as long as it is ad¬ 
visable to plant them—until after May 15th. 
TOMATO PLANTS 
No house in the country has a tomato seed reputation 
surpassing or equal to Hastings, and the tomato plants 
we sell are grown from Hastings’ Seeds in our green¬ 
houses here near Atlanta. They are always fresh and 
unchecked in growth, free from disease and mildew and 
really are the best plants you can buy. They not only 
are the best of plants to start with, but will make good 
tomatoes and a plenty of them for you all season. The 
varieties most popular for Atlanta territory and that give 
the best results are: REDFIELD BEAUTY, PONDER- 
OSA, MATCHLESS, DWARF CHAMPION, THE STONE, 
IMPROVED PURPLE ACME, CHALKS’ EARLY JEWEL 
AND SPARKS’ EARLIANA. See Page 13 for description 
of these varieties. You do not wish to spend your time 
planting and hoeing poor plants or fine looking plants that 
will not bear you a good supply of good tomatoes. 
You don’t know what you are getting until the harvest. 
That is why we have to snend more in growing and test¬ 
ing our seeds and plants—to live up to our reputation and 
our name, “The South’s Foremost Seedsmen.” to enable 
you to depend on getting plants and seeds of better 
strains—true to type and name. 
CABBAGE PLANTS 
The varieties that do best here we grow for early use 
in frost proof or outdoor growth for planting up to the 
middle of March, and then the same varieties are ready 
from the greenhouses to plant out after the middle of 
March. 
HASTINGS’ GENUINE SUREHEAD, EARLY JERSEY 
WAKEFIELD AND EARLY DWARF FLAT DUTCH are 
the varieties we will have for you to set out this spring 
from March 15th to May 1st. See Page 7 for descriptions of 
varieties. Prices of Cabbage Plants, all varieties: 100 
plants for 20 eents; $1.50 per thousand. 
PEPPER PLANTS 
Pepper plants will be ready for setting out about April 
1st to 15th, when they should be transplanted to the open 
ground. Set out 14 to 16 inches apart in rows three feet 
apart. RUBY KING,.the leading variety of sweet pepper; 
CHINESE GIANT, the largest of all peppers; LARGE 
BELL OR BULL NOSE, the standard large sized sweet 
pepper; PIMIENTO, the sweetest and mildest pepper in 
existence, and LONG CAYENNE, that burning hot pep¬ 
per, are the varieties with which we can furnish you 
plants. See Page 10 for variety descriptions. Price, 25 
cents per dozen. 
EGGPLANT PLANTS 
The very best variety of Eggplants is HASTINGS’ IM¬ 
PROVED LARGE PURPLE THORNLESS. It gives the 
best results, is the best looking, has the finest grained 
flesh, with most regular deep purple color and sweetest 
flavor of all varieties. See Page 10 for description. These 
plants will be ready about April 1st. as soon as they 
should be planted out of doors. Price, 25 eents per dozen. 
