PLANTS FOR FLORIDA : Page 911


The winter months are better for the growth of flowers. Very fewpersons in Florida attempt to grow annuals during the hot and usuallydry months of summer.

It seems at first, to the garden lover from the north, that any ofthe northern garden flowers should grow vigorously in the Florida cli-mate. Many keen disappointments await these persons. Those whohave tried growing many kinds in an effort to obtain garden flowereffects and flowers for table use have finally accepted, as the reliabletypes, the few that are starred in the following group:

*Acalypha hispida *Dianthus caryophyllus

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