Make a Freedom Garden This Year 
Join the patriotic move to grow more vegetables during 1948. 
The government has asked for twenty million Freedom Gar- 
dens to meet the urgent need for more food. Plan to do your 
part. Growing vegetables is interesting and healthful, too, 
besides supplying nourishing fresh food at little cost. But most 
important these days, perhaps, is the security you'll derive 
from having an. important part of your food supply right in 
your own garden. That may be worth a great deal 


eeds for Best Seeds 
The year 1948 marks half a century of Forbes Seed Service. 
From a small beginning in 1898 our reputation for dependable 
seeds has grown so that today Forbes Seeds are used by par- 
ticular home gardeners in every state of the Union. 
Through all these 50 years our ideal has remained unchanged 
—to supply at fair prices only seeds of those strains proved to 
be the best. This sound, conservative policy has, im large 
measure, insured your garden success year after year. 
We feel honored that some few of our present customers 
have used Forbes Seeds through all of these fifty years. But 
we are really happy that hundreds of others have depended 
on Forbes Seeds through more than thirty years. And most of 
these, in turn, have influenced thousands of others to place 
their confidence in us. 
For this good-will we are truly grateful. It encourages us 
to start the second half of the century with firm determination 
to uphold our high standard of quality. It is our aim at all 
times to fully deserve your continued confidence through the 
coming years. 
Sincerely yours 
ALEXANDER FORBES & CO. 
Qipoudirn Divs 
President 

See helpful Charts 
inside back cover 

Do you like Giant Pansies? These, the huge richly hued 
varieties, bloom successively right through to fall. See our 
nice assortment of Engelmann’s Giants, de luxe Super 
Swiss Giants, and Maple Leaved Giants m the spring. 

INDEX 
Page 
Flower Plants Annual 
(in flats and pots) 42-43 
Flower Plants, Peren- 
nial (in pots) .....47-52 
Asparagus Roots 
Bulbs, Summer-fig. 38-40 
Chrysanthemums i 40 
Perennial Plants. . .47—52 
Rhubarb Roots 
Roses (in pots) 
Strawberry Plants 
Flower Seed, Annual 8-27 
Flower Seed, Peren. 28-35 
Gladiolus 40 
Grasses, Individual... .37 
Insecticides BY) 
Delivery Area 
Display Finding List... 
(Tulips, Daffodils) 54,55 
Fertilizers 56 
Vegetable Plants 
Vegetable Seeds 
Vines, Hardy (in pots).46_ 
Stop at... FORBES SALES GARDEN 
on Route 10, Hanover, N. J. 
(one mile west of the Livingston Traffic Circle) 
There our field store, pictured below, is open from March 
1 to December 1. With one stop you will find the best in 
Vegetable Seeds, Vegetable Plants, 
Flower Seeds, Annual Flower Plants, 
Perennial Flower Plants (in pots), 
Roses and Hardy Vines (im pots), 
Garden Chrysanthemums (in pots), 
Strawberry Plants, Asparagus Roots, 
Summer-flowering Bulbs, Lawn Seeds, 
Fertilizers, Humus and Peat Moss, 
Insecticides, Weed Killers, Tools, 
and many other Garden Needs 
Our displays of Daffodils (40 varieties) are worth seeing 
during April and our Tulips (131 kinds) in April and May. 
You are welcome whenever you may be passing. - 

