
FORBES NEW STRAINS FOR 1947 
Here are some worth-while strains you should try this year. They are fine 
specialties of extremely high quality and will well repay you. All are easy to 
grow and we believe will please you better than the strains you have been using. 
1947 ALL-AMERICA WINNERS 
Petunia, All Double Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Very delightful double flowers, 234 inches 
across, with outer petals of soft mid-salmon and the smaller ruffled center ones lightly veined a 
deeper salmon shade. The plants grow 16 inches high. Packet (100 Seeds) $2 each. 
Petunia, All Double Rose Marie. A fine new, early blooming variety with double flowers, 3 inches 
or more across, of a clear rose-pink color on plants 18 inches high. Try this attractive novelty. 
Packet (100 Seeds) $1.50 each. 
Marigold, Dwarf Single French, Naughty Marietta. Fine single, golden yellow flowers * 
blotched with maroon at the center, often 2144 inches across. The one-foot plants bear a 
profusion of sunny cheerful flowers right up to frost. Pkt. 25c. 

Marigold, Extra-Dwarf Double French Mixed. A de luxe new strain with extra-dwarf 
compact bushy plants unexcelled for pots and for edging beds. They bear a profusion of 
early double flowers. Pkt. 15c.; Moz. 50c. 
Petunia, Dwarf Howard’s Star. A very excellent new strain with nice dwarf, compact 
plants bearing blue-purple flowers with white stars at the center. These make pot-plants 
with much appeal. Pkt. 20c.; ;;0z. 65c.; Woz. $1.15. 
Snapdragon, Miniature, Magic Carpet Mixed. The finest of all very dwarf Snaps, 
these are unexcelled for carpet plantings and rock gardens. They grow only 6 inches 
high in a very attractive variety of colors. Pkt. 15c.; j50z. 50c.; Y4oz. $1.50. 

Beans, Dwarf Green, Longreen. Be sure to try this new one. It is identical with 
Tendergreen but with pods one inch longer. They are round, straight, dark green, over 
7 inches long, ready to pick i in 56 days, stringless and of good quality. The vines are 
very productive. Pkt. 10c.; 4Ib. 25c.; Ib. 40c.; 5 Ibs. $1.70. 
Sweet Corn, Golden vie On stalks 2% to 3 feet tall, this dwarf sweet corn in 60 
days bears 4 to 5-inch ears which are extremely sweet and tender. More plants can be 
grown In limited space and the low stalks do not shade other rows in the small garden. 
Many stalks bear two or more ears. Big pkt. 35c. 
Lettuce, Bronze Beauty. The earliest, most heat resistant and most tender of all. 
Forms a loose rosette of bronze tinged ‘‘oak leaves’”’ in 40 days. Pkt. 20c.; Y4oz. 55c. 
Tomato, Early Jersey. This new strain combines the early, uniform ripening character 
of Victor with enough Rutgers blood to increase the vine growth to 25 per cent larger 
than Victor. The Tomatoes themselves are slightly deeper, smoother and 25 per cent 

larger than Victor, of a deeper red color and mature about 5 days later than Victor and All Double Bendis All Double Petunia 
6 days after Valiant. Try it out this year. Pkt. 35c.; Woz. $1.10. Rose Marie Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower 


Early 
Jersey 
Longreen Beans Tomato 

Marigold, Naughty Marietta ae 
