Tomatoes Are One of Florida’s Most Profitable Crops 
TOMATO 
Sow !/4 pound of seed in seed-bed to plant an acre, or plant pound of seed per acre in field 
Prices quoted are postpaid. Write for prices on 
larger quantities. 
Tomato seed has been one of our specialties for many 
years, and our stocks, which are grown for us up North, 
are especially developed and selected for Florida and 
southern conditions. We maintain that our Tomato seed 
is not surpassed for southern conditions by that of any 
other seedman in this country, and the reputation we 
enjoy is ample evidence of that fact. 
The Kilgore Seed Company has had 25 years of ex¬ 
perience in Florida studying the particular require¬ 
ments of Florida Tomato growers. Our Tomato seed¬ 
growing fields in the Middle West and West are 
inspected under our personal supervision, and selec¬ 
tions are made for earliness, high yield, and uniformity 
in size, shape, and color. 
Culture. Tomatoes will do well on almost all kinds 
of soil, from a sand-bed to a muck-pond. To start 
with, the land should be put in good condition, and, 
after thoroughly turning it, the addition of one-half to 
a ton of hardwood ashes, broadcast and harrowed in, 
will give fine returns. Then lay off rows 4 to 5 feet 
apart, open a furrow, and drill in 1,200 pounds of high- 
grade fertilizer and mix thoroughly with the soil. It is 
good policy to let this stand for three to four days, and 
then you are ready to put in your seed or set the plants. 
The seed should not be covered more than an inch deep. 
Plants should be 6 to 8 inches high and put in the 
ground nearly up to the bud, 1 Yz feet apart in the row, 
or 12 inches in the row if staked. 
Along the East Coast, first plantings are begun 
during July and continue until in December. North and 
Central Florida begin planting the latter part of De¬ 
cember and continue to middle of February. For a fall 
crop, plantings are made in July, August, and Septem¬ 
ber. Frequent spraying with.Pyrox, starting in the seed¬ 
bed, is desirable to prevent blight and other diseases. 
If aphids give trouble, add Black-Leaf “40” to the 
Pyrox. 
Kilgore’s Crown-Selected Marglobe. (^5 days.) 
eral years of very expensive pedigree 
BRED-RITE an< ^ selection work, the Kilgore Seed 
■ ■ ■ ■ — Company is now in a position to offer 
this superior stock of Marglobe seed. 
Special pains are taken by our plant-breeder to select 
fruits from the most ideal plants of this specially de¬ 
veloped stock. Seed is saved from only those plants 
which show the greatest vigor and trueness to type, and 
which develop an abundance of large-sized, globe- 
shaped fruits of early maturity. Where all of these fac¬ 
tors measure up to the standard of Kilgore’s Crown- 
Selected Marglobe, fruit from only the crown setting 
is saved from a small percentage of the plants which 
produce only smooth fruits, absolutely free of ridges, 
growth-cracks, and large blossom-scars or navels. The 
seeds of this stock are not only larger, but are put 
through a special warehousing and screening opera¬ 
tion to make the sample of absolutely uniform large 
size, which means quick, uniform, high germination 
and rapid, vigorous growth. This large crown-selected 
seed will not only produce enormous yields of perfect¬ 
shaped, large, fancy fruits, but will produce the major 
portion of the crop earlier than will other stocks of 
this variety. 
When a crop is grown from Kilgore’s Crown-Selected 
Marglobe seed there can be no question about the re¬ 
sult. Pkt. 10c; / 2 oz. 40c; oz. 70c; }£lb. $2.50; lb. $9.00. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Marglobe Tomato 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Marglobe. (98 days.) By 
^• neia-tests 
nnmaaa throughout the East Coast, Manatee 
BRED-RITE County, and all Tomato-growing sec- 
tions of the State, Kilgore’s Bred-Rite 
“• Marglobe has proved to be the best and 
most desirable type for Florida growers. This is due, 
apparently, to several reasons; namely, it is more free 
of navel and large blossom-end scars; the ridging at the 
stem end is practically eliminated, which means smooth¬ 
er and more fancy fruit, as this ridging usually pro¬ 
duces growth-cracks and ill-shaped fruit. The fruits 
ripen to a beautiful deep scarlet-red color. 
Another desirable feature of Kilgore’s Bred-Rite 
Marglobe is the open character of plant-growth. We 
have practically eliminated the bunching habit which 
is so prevalent in some other stocks, and which makes 
it difficult to harvest fruit and to spray for control of 
insects and diseases. Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Marglobe de¬ 
velops plants with fruit-clusters close together, making 
for more fruit for a given length of plant and thus for 
higher yields. Our seed-growing fields in the Middle 
West produced over 20 tons per acre this season. It 
pays to plant high yielding strains. 
Growers all over Florida claim Kilgore’s Bred-Rite 
Marglobe is the smoothest, prettiest Marglobe of any. 
This means fancy fruit which results in fancy prices. 
Our Marglobe seed stock came originally from the 
late Dr. F. J. Pritchard, of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. The outstanding claim of merit 
for Marglobe is resistance to nail-head rust and fusar- 
ium wilt disease. Pkt. 10c; V^ox. 25c; oz. 45c; Y\ lb. 
$1.40; lb. $5.00. 
KILGORE’S “BRED-RITE” SEEDS 
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