THE KILGORE SEED COMPANY, Florida’s Leading Seedsmen 1 
Suggestions for Matng AQ Florida Flower Garden 
Spread Happiness Everywhere in Florida With Lots of Flowers 
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 fayorable to the production of the finest lawns 
and flower gardens. Not only does a flower garden 
and lawn enhance the appearance 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.” 
BRED-RITE 
PSE EDS. 
TRADE MARK 
FLORIDA’S FLOWER GARDEN HEADQUARTERS 
PREPARING THE 
FLOWER GARDEN SOIL 
A proper soil condition is absolutely necessary 
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 procedure 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 hammock 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 cheap- 
est way is to spade under a thick layer, two or 
three inches deep, of peat moss. (See page 30.) 
This material is elean 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 fertilizer 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 Verta- 
green (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 gar- 
den. 
BRED-RITE 
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TRADE MAAK 
THE KILGORE SEED COMPANY 
General Offices and Mail Order Department 
PLANT CITY, FLORIDA 
In addition to our large mail order departmment at Plant City, Florida, we maintain fourteen 
Florida stores for your convenience, located at the following points: 
BELLE GLADE OCALA 
FORT MYERS PAHOKEE 
GAINESVILLE PALMETTO 
HOMESTEAD PLANT CITY 
MIAMI—600 N. W. 5th St. 
POMPANO BEACH 
SANFORD 
VERO BEACH 
WAUCHULA 
WEST PALM BEACH— 
1310 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 fungi- 
cides, sprayers and dusters, as well as garden tools and supplies. Everything for the Florida garden. 
