FLORIDA NURSERY GARDEN NEWS 
Plant your home to make Florida more beautiful 
VOL. I 
JUNE 1954 
There Is No Substitute For 
—And we really offer EXPERIENCED landscape service 
to our friends and patrons here in Central Florida. Our 
Landscape Architects ALONE, have a combined practical 
experience (not counting their schooling) of 96 YEARS! 
This, translated into its benefits to YOU, means that folks 
who are thoroughly trained and thoroughly experienced are 
available to help you pick out the right trees, shrubs and 
other plants for the right spot. Our landscape people are 
familiar with the plants that do best here in our Central 
Florida climate and soils, they know the growth habits of 
the various plant materials, their requirements of sun, shade 
and moisture, they know too, which plants may be placed 
in locations which are most apt to be cold in the winter and 
They know all of 
these things and many more because they have been work- 
which will stand our summer's heat. 
ing with Florida plants in Florida soils, and in Florida’s 
climate, for many years. 
The experience of our Landscape Department is backed 
up by an equally impressive record of experience in other 
departments of our nursery. The people who propogate 
and grow our plants have long years of experience working 
with plant materials and 
endeavoring to bring out 
the best possible varie- 
ties for our particular 
location and our particu- 
lar soils. Constant ex- 
perimentation has de- 
veloped many new va- 
rieties of plants which 
have added much to the 
plant beauty of our part 
of the State. 
Less spectacular, per- 
haps, but just as impor- 
tant in many, 
ways, is the actual plant- 
many 
ing of trees, shrubs, etc. 
Here 
too, experience counts, 
Harris H. Johnson, Landscape Archi- 
tect, Leesburg Office. Mr. Johnson 
has been with us since September, 
1948. 
in your garden. 
for the men who make 
Experience 
Landscape Architects William H. Butler (Left) and Al M. Smith 
(Right) confer with Lloyd Hoover Galiher, Head of our Design 
and Planning Department. Mr. Butler and Mr. Galiher are 
located in Leesburg and Mr. Smith in our Ocala office. 
up our planting crews know from many years of experience 
how plants should be put into the ground so as to cause no 
set-back to the plants and so as to get the utmost in growth 
from them. 
Our Service Department too, shows the benefit of ex- 
perience. Experience with the fertlizers best for our Cen- 
tral Florida soils, knowledge gained from actual practical 
work with insecticides and fungicides so as to keep your 
plants and shrubs healthy and happy. 
Yes, it is an old, but true statement that there is no substi- 
tute for experience, and when you add all the experience 
together and then add the proper equipment to this experi- 
ence, it only stands to reason that Florida Nursery & Land- 
scape Co. can and will give you a GOOD landscape job. 
One that you will be proud of now and through the years 
to come. 
Drop us a card or phone our office and we will be glad to 
send one of our experienced Landscape Architects to see 
you to advise with you and to give you an estimate on the 
cost of your landscaping. 
