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The climate of middle and southern Florida has been aptly describedby one horticulturist as that of a great out-of-door greenhouse,climate is such that many of the flowering annuals so familiar togardens of the north prove failures when grown in the Florida gardSuch plants as the annual larkspur, snapdragon, China aster.William, and baby's breath, producing such an abundance of cut flowwhen grown in the north, are grown with little success in Florida Nasturtiums, annual phlox, gaillardia, zinnias, and marigolds pro-duce quantities of flowers. In the north such annuals are seeded in the latter part of April.Flowers are then produced early in July. In the Florida garden, ifflowers are desired early in January, the nasturtium seeds are sownduring the first week of September, alyssum seeds not later than No-vember tenth, sweet peas in early September, and the other annuals,such as annual phlox, gaillardia, verbenas, annual carnation, andcalendulas, are seeded not later than the first week in October. Ifflowers are wanted at an earlier date seeds should be sown proportion-ately earlier. |
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