FORBES FINE FLOWER SEEDS 
A full offering of the best, brought together from all quarters of the globe 
In any gardening effort, the results are really based on the quality of the seeds used. 
The greatest care and the longest experience are useless if the seeds are not good. 
It has been our pleasurable task since 1898 to currently determine the relative worth 
of all available seed strains. Our constant aim is to offer only the finest, and through 
the years Forbes Flower Seeds have earned an enviable record for consistent high 
quality. Commendable reports reach us in ever-increasing numbers. We feel that 
your use of Forbes Seeds will greatly add to your gardening pleasure and satisfaction. 
Seeds of Annual Flowers 
With a delicate beauty all their own, annuals sprout from seed, grow, flower, fruit, 
and die all within the garden year. They are easily grown from seed. 
ACROCLINIUM 
Popular Everlasting Flowers easily grown in any soil, blooming six weeks after seeding. Sow early 
indoors and set out in May for bloom from June until frost; or sow direct in the garden bed in May. 
Giant Double Hybrids. Pkt. 15c; lgoz. 30c; oz. 85c; Y%{Ib. $2.50 
Fine, large flowers in shades of salmon, apricot, pink, rose, and cerise, and in white and cream, on 20-inch plants. 
AGATHEA 
This half-hardy perennial blue daisy is beautiful in the garden border. For cut-flowers, be sure to cut 
stems at bottom to cause plants to branch more freely. Likes rich, porous soil and full sun. A very 
excellent 45-degree greenhouse pot-plant and, if started in January and benched in July, the 18-inch 
plants will bloom from December to May. Repot plants each year. 
Ccoelestis. Pkt. 15c; #;0z. 25c; oz. 70c; oz. $2 
Blue Marguerite. Exquisite single sky-blue rayed flowers, 114 inches across, with yellow discs in June. Invaluable 
for dwarf borders. Seed is of trregular germination. 
AGERATUM 
Floss Flower. One of the very finest dwarf bedding plants, as it flowers continuously all summer up 
to frost. Flat-grown plants, ready from seed sown in January and February, sell very readily, 
particularly when showing color in the flat. Blue Boy sown in November or December makes fine 
pot-plants for Easter sale. Also sow in the garden in May. Thrives in full sun or half shade. 
Blue Ball Improved. Pkt. 20c; #;0z. 50c; Yioz. $1.50; oz. $4.50 
The broad green foliage of the dwarf, symmetrical 5-inch plants when in full bloom is almost covered with small 
deep azure-blue flowers. They are very uniform and even in growth. 
Blue Boy. Pkt. 20c; #s0z. 50c; oz. $1.50; oz. $4.50 
This extra-dwarf strain is the result of many years of careful selection. The plants are compact and 
very uniform, growing about 4 inches high. Its rich deep blue flowers of good size are very freely 
produced, almost obscuring the neat deep green foliage. Fine for borders and rock-gardens. 
Blue Perfection. Pkt. 15c; oz. 40c; oz. $1.25; Ib. $3.75 
Large flower-heads of deep amethyst-blue on 9 to 10-inch plants. Excellent for large beds and for cutting. 
Little Blue Star. ‘ Pkt. 15; ~g0z. 30c; 1f0z. 85c; oz. $2.50 
The perfectly compact plants, about 4 to 5 inches high, are literally covered with small mauve-blue flowers. 
Midget Blue Pkt. 202; 3:0z. 65c; loz. $2; oz. $6 
All-America Winner. This delightful little edging plant, is the dwarfest of all—3 inches high—with 
fine foliage literally covered with small, true ageratum-blue flowers. It comes uniformly dwarf. 
Forbes Fine Flower Seeds are nationally known for their high quality, purity and germination 
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Ageratum, 
Midget Blue 


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Ageratum, Blue Boy 


Acroclinium, 
Giant Double Hybrids 
Agathea 
coelestis 




