2 THE KILGORE SEED COMPANY, Florida’s Leading Seedsmen 
Suggestions for Making A FLORIDA FLOWER GARDEN 
Spread Happiness Everywhere With Lots of Flowers 
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In Florida, unlike many other parts of 
the United States, beautiful flowers and 
lawns can be grown every month in the 
year, since the climate and soils are favor- 
able to the production of the finest lawns 
and flower gardens. Not only does a 
flower garden and lawn enhance the ap- 
pearance and attractiveness of a home, it 
also makes it a much more inviting place 
to live. 
For further information on growing flowers 
in Florida write to the Florida Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Mailing Department, 
Gainesville, Florida, for a free copy of Florida 
Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin No. 133, 
entitled “Annual Flowers.” 
KIL GORE'S 
BRED-RITE FLORIDA’S FLOWER GARDEN HEADQUARTERS 
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TRABE MARK 
PREPARING THE FLOWER GARDEN 
SOIL 
A proper soil condition is absolutely neces- 
sary for a good flower garden. The soil must 
be put in the proper condition or the flower 
garden will never be satisfactory. It is much 
easier to make the condition of the soil right 
at the beginning than to attempt to do the 
improving as you go along after the flower 
garden is planted. 
In many places the size of the garden is 
limited and the soil often very poor. The pro- 
cedure of improving and preparing the flower 
garden soil is really quite simple whether the 
soil is hard clay or light sand. Well rotted 
manure and leaf mold or black muck or ham- 
mock soil are ideal materials to work into the 
flower garden soil. If you cannot get well rotted 
manure and leaf mold or muck or hammock soil, 
the easiest and cheapest way is to spade under 
a thick layer, two or three inches deep, of peat 
moss. (See page 30.) This material is clean 
and easy to handle, and a wonderfully effective 
material for breaking up hard soil and making 
it mellow, or for adding humus to sandy soil, 
making it more retentive of moisture and fer- 
tilizer materials, After the first layer of peat 
moss has been spaded into the ground, again 
cover the surface with an inch or two of peat 
moss, or better, pulverized sheep manure (see 
page 31), and a liberal application of good 
garden fertilizer such as Vigoro or Vertagreen 
(see page 31), applying it at the rate of about 
4 to 6 pounds per 100 square feet. If these 
materials are raked into the surface soil 7 to 
10 days before sowing seed or setting plants, 
you have the foundation for an excellent 
flower garden. 
KILGORE'S 
BRED-RITE 
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TRADE WARK 
THE KILGORE SEED COMPANY 
General Offices and Mail Order Department 
PLANT CITY, FLORIDA 
In addition to our large mail order department at Plant City, Florida, we maintain fourteen 
Florida stores for your convenience, located at the following pvints: 
BELLE GLADE OCALA SANFORD 
Fort Myers PAHOKEE Vero BEACH 
GAINESVILLE PALMETTO WAUCHULA 
HOMESTEAD Puant Ciry West Patm Beaco— 
Mrami—600 N. W. 5th St. Pompano BEACH 910 Belvedere Road 
Each of these stores carries a full supply of all flower seeds listed and described in this Flower 
Guide, and also a complete supply of lawn grass and vegetable seeds, fertilizers, insecticides and 
fungicides, sprayers and dusters, as well as garden tools and supplies. Everything for the Florida 
garden. 
