IFe Strongly Recommend Our Florida Giant Pepper as a Most Satisfactory Market Type 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Florida Giant 
A Kilgore Introduction 
PEPPER 
Sow *4 to 1 pound of seed in seed-bed to plant an acre 
We have specialized in pepper seed for many years, and we challenge 
any one to furnish better pepper seed for Florida and the South. 
Peppers are among the best-paying Florida truck crops, and the har¬ 
vest season is so long that even though the crop comes in on a poor 
market, the chances are that the market will have time to strengthen 
before they are nearly through fruiting, which certainly gives them 
more latitude for a paying crop than almost any other vegetable. 
Hammock or muck land, or rather moist soil, is best suited for this 
crop, although any medium-good soil, properly fertilized, will grow 
Peppers. 
Culture. Plants are started in seed-beds. In Manatee County and other sections 
of Florida, peppers, like eggplants, are started in cloth-covered beds. For a fall 
crop, sow the seed in June, July, and August; for a long-season winter crop on 
the East Coast, plant in September and October. For an early spring crop in Man¬ 
atee County sow in November. 
Peppers are much more hardy than eggplants. However, it takes a very high 
temperature to germinate either seed, and it is usually very difficult to get a 
stand when the ground is wet or cold. Make rows 3 feet apart and set plants 
20 inches apart in the row. Inasmuch as this crop is in bearing so long, it is 
most profitable to make several applications of fertilizer, using 400 pounds to an 
acre every twenty days until at least a ton has been used. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Pepper seed has given the best results for many years in 
Florida. Our stocks are selected for early maturity, high yield, and trueness to 
type, and are thoroughly tested in our Plant City, Fla., proving grounds. 
Pyrox is the very best spray for pepper plants, as 
it will stick perfectly to the smooth foliage. We recom¬ 
mend its use regularly to control rust and other dis¬ 
eases. It is desirable to treat pepper seed with Semesan 
or some other good disinfectant before planting. 
Prices quoted are postpaid. 
Write for prices on larger quantities. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Florida Giant. (i?° days.) 
- This variety 
<1 produces an abundant yield of large 
BRED-RITE heavy fruits over a long period. The 
plants are resistant to disease and, like 
the fruits, are dark green in color, 
compact but vigorous and upright in growth. Although 
slightly later than World Beater and Colossal Ruby 
King, they are extremely heavy producers, often bear¬ 
ing six to eight large fruits at one time. They produce 
over a much longer season than does World Beater, and 
stand adverse conditions better than other varieties. 
Florida Giant bears its young fruit upright, not pen¬ 
dant like World Beater and most other peppers. It 
makes much heavier pods than other sorts, averaging 
over 60 pounds per crate in weight compared to other 
varieties which range from 42 to 44 pounds per crate. 
The fruits are longer than California Wonder and oth¬ 
er thick-meated peppers, usually 5 to 5 Y 2 inches long 
and 4 inches in diameter. 
This pepper is exactly the type which produce deal¬ 
ers have sought for years. The thick, fleshy walls, large 
size, heavy weight, dark green color, and smoothness 
of the fruit will sell it at a premium on any market. 
The fruits are much heavier than other varieties, and 
because of the thickness and firmness of the wall, it is 
the best shipping sort ever introduced. The fruits pack 
well and do not wilt in long-distance shipment, but hold 
their smooth, glossy, dark green appearance for a long 
time. We highly recommend this pepper as one es¬ 
pecially suited to Florida and southern growing con¬ 
ditions. Pkt. 5c; oz. 55c; *4 lb. $1.65; lb. $6.00. 
Kilgore’s Colossal Ruby King. < 1 0 days.) 
* ■ strain of the Ruby King variety which 
BRED-RITE we have developed and introduced re- 
— i ■ ■ ■ — places our Bred-Rite Ruby King, and 
possesses all of the good characteristics 
of that standard variety, but produces much larger size 
and somewhat thicker meated fruits. We have proved 
this to be the most uniformly true to type Ruby King 
grown in Florida, and it is rapidly gaining in popu¬ 
larity in the large pepper growing sections of the east 
coast of Florida, where the Ruby King variety has 
been grown for many years. It is a long season pepper, 
and when planted in the fall, will bear throughout 
the winter and spring in south Florida. We have not 
only selected for uniformity and trueness to type, 
but have developed in this stock one of the highest 
yielding and longest producing Ruby Kings available. 
The plants are very early, productive, and of compact, 
upright growth. The fruits are pendant, averaging 
five or six inches in length, and three to four inches 
in width, with very broad shoulders and tapering to 
three points. Flesh is exceptionally thick, sweet and 
mild. This is one of the most profitable varieties to 
grow for market, it being an extremely heavy yielder 
of large size, fancy fruits, which pack and ship ex¬ 
ceedingly well. Pkt. 5c; oz. 40c; 14 lb. $1.15; lb. $4.00. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite World-Beater. ( 115 days.) 
-—- This is the 
■.hi-i-i . i genuine World Beater and is not like 
BRED-RITE stocks generally sold under that name, 
■oaasm It is a cross between Ruby King and 
Chinese Giant, having the longer form 
and earliness of Ruby King with the size of Chinese 
Giant. A great deal of breeding and selection has been 
done to bring this superior stock to its present high 
standard of perfection, as to uniformity, trueness to 
type and high yield. Our stock is very productive, the 
strong, vigorous plants often producing twenty-four 
marketable peppers, which are pendant but held well 
above the soil. It matures a big crop very early, the 
fruits being 5 inches long by 3% inches in diameter, 
broad at the blossom end, slightly elongated, with four 
lobes. The fruits are large, meaty, of very attractive 
market appearance, and of excellent shipping quality. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 40c; }41b. $1.25; lb. $4.50. 
FOR BEST RESULTS PLANT KILGORE’S “BRED-RITE” SEEDS 
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