Make Your Home Surroundings 
More Beautiful 
DO IT WITH FLOWERS 
The kiss of the sun for pardon 
The song of the birds for mirth, 
You are nearer God’s heart in a garden 
Than anywhere else on earth. 
The Kilgore Seed Company, with general offices and a large mail order 
department in Plant City, Florida, and with twelve stores serving Florida, and 
six agencies in the West Indies, has devoted a great deal of time, effort, and ex¬ 
pense in developing, improving and testing types and varieties of flowers espe¬ 
cially suited to Florida and Southern growing conditions. This Planting Guide, 
the only publication of its kind ever published, it being adapted especially to 
Florida and Southern growing conditions, gives knowledge gained as the result 
of trials and experiments conducted in Florida by The Kilgore Seed Company 
over a series of years. It contains a complete list of Flowers adapted to Florida 
and the South, and gives detailed cultural directions for winter and summer 
growing of flowers in Florida and the South. 
Make your home surroundings more beautiful. Do it with Kilgore’s Bred- 
Rite Flower Seeds. Nowhere on the face of the earth can flowers be grown in 
such profusion as in Florida and the West Indies at a time of the year when most 
of the country is covered with ice and snow. Different kinds of flowers can be 
grown in Florida every month of the year, certain kinds being adapted for winter 
blooming, others do best in spring and summer. 
One of the most important things to consider with reference to growing 
Flowers in Florida and the South is the proper time for planting flower seeds of 
different kinds. Some flowers are tender, and are killed by light frosts, while 
others are hardy and will grow and bloom through the coldest winters in Florida. 
In Florida, the tender kinds must be planted during early fall so as to bloom 
before danger of winter frosts, or in the spring after danger of frost is past. 
Hardy kinds may be planted in Florida at any time from September to March. 
All the different kinds of flowers listed in this book are labeled indicating wheth¬ 
er they are hardy or tender, the proper time for planting the seeds, and also indi¬ 
cating the approximate time from seed sowing to first blossoms under Florida 
growing conditions. 
To make certain that all flower seeds sent out by us will give entire satisfac¬ 
tion, we maintain an up-to-date seed testing laboratory where samples of all our 
flower seeds are tested for germination at frequent intervals. 
We are confident there are no flower seeds of better quality obtainable any¬ 
where than those we offer in this book. Cost has been a secondary consideration 
in making our selections; high quality and adaptability to southern growing 
conditions have been our first and major considerations. 
