Our Tomato Seed List includes Only Those Varieties Best Adapted to Florida and the South 
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Improved Glovel 
An Outstanding New Tomato Variety Developed Especially for Florida 
FLETCHER’S SPECIAL. (New) (90 days.) Awarded spe¬ 
cial mention All-America Selections in 1935. 
A variety certainly must be outstanding to be awarded the 
honor of “Special Mention” in the All-America trials of new 
varieties, which contain hundreds of new vegetable varieties 
each year, which are thoroughly tested in ten different sections 
of the United States by some of the most critical members of 
the seed trade. 
Fletcher’s Special was first discovered by us in 1931 as an 
individual sport plant in a field of globe tomatoes grown on 
the farm of two of Florida’s pioneer tomato growers, Clarence 
and George Fletcher at Brighton, Florida. Every globe plant in 
the field was destroyed by nail head rust disease, whereas this 
individual plant did not show a trace of nail head rust or any 
other disease. Seed taken from this individual plant was planted 
in the Kilgore Seed Company trial grounds at Plant City, Florida, 
where for several generations selections were made from a few 
of the very best individual plants, until 1935 when we felt we 
had the strain developed and fixed, we entered a composite 
sample of the seed produced the previous season in the All- 
America trials. This past season we had this strain tested and 
tried in different sections of Florida where it showed phenom¬ 
enal promise. It having been awarded special mention in the 
All-America trials, is concrete evidence that this tomato is not 
only adapted to Florida and Southern conditions, but to a wide 
variety of conditions and that it is an outstanding development. 
The vine growth is vigorous, with a tendency to spread out. 
It makes a more open growth with smaller leaves than Mar- 
globe. The fruit is a very deep globe shape, having a tendency 
toward elongation. It produces large sized fruits throughout 
the season. The fruit is much smoother and larger than Mar- 
globe, and of a deeper globe shape, ripening uniformly to a 
beautiful deep red. It is very heavy and meaty with small seed 
cavities, which makes it resistant to puffiness and an ideal long 
distance shipper. In our comparative trials we have found this 
variety is practically immune to nail head rust and is an ex¬ 
ceedingly heavy producer of large, fancy, globe-shaped fruits, 
outyielding Marglobe and other varieties. 
This newest and most outstanding development in Tomato 
varieties is worthy of an extensive trial by every Florida and 
Southern tomato grower. 
Limited supply of seed available. 
Pkt. 15c; V6oz. 60c; oz. $1.00; ^lb. $3.25; 1 lb. $12.00. 
KILGORE’S IMPROVED GLOVEL. (New.) (92 days.) 
Seed supply very limited. This new variety of shipping tomato 
was developed by the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture and the Florida 
Agricultural Experiment Station co-operating. It is the result 
of a cross between Globe and Marvel, having the same parent¬ 
age as Marglobe, but it is not a selection from Marglobe. It is 
a few days earlier than Marglobe. The vine growth is vigorous 
and decidedly more open than Marglobe, making it easy to 
spray and to pick the fruit. The fruit is of deep globe shape, 
firm, smooth, and notably free from growth cracks, and ripens 
to a pink color. In the green-wrap stage Glovel is slightly 
darker green than globe, but somewhat lighter than Marglobe. 
Tested at the Homestead, Fla., Experiment station during the 
last four seasons, Glovel has consistently outyielded other stand¬ 
ard commercial varieties and maintains its large size in suc¬ 
cessive pickings. It is highly resistant to Fusarium wilt and to 
nailhead rust. Because of its adaptability to Florida where it 
was originated, and because of its splendid showing in com¬ 
mercial test plantings on the lower east coast of Florida during 
the past four years, this variety should be given a trial by every 
Florida Tomato Grower. 
Pkt. 5c; Yt oz. 35c; oz. 60c; *41b. $1.90; 1 lb. $7.00. 
KILGORE’S IMPROVED GROTHEN RED GLOBE. 
(87 days.) This is a very early maturing, high yielding variety 
well adapted to old tomato land. The plants are of open growth, 
with rather small foliage requiring rich, deep, moist land for 
best results, maturing fruits about 10 days earlier than Mar¬ 
globe, and ripening to a beautiful red color. A very heavy pro¬ 
ducer of smooth, deep globe-shaped, large fruits, sizing up well 
clear to the top of the plants, producing a very high percentage 
of fancies. The fruits are firm and solid, and the interior ripens 
up slowly, making this variety an exceptionally good shipper. 
Exceedingly high yields of large fruits, of excellent shipping 
quality, are the main factors recommending this variety. 
Pkt. 5c; Ytoz. 30c; oz. 50c; *4 lb. $1.50; 1 lb. $5.50. 
KILGORE’S BRED-RITE COOPER’S SPECIAL SELF- 
TOPPER. (92 days.) This is a very heavy producer of ex¬ 
tremely early globe-shaped fruits. We have made special selec¬ 
tions to increase the size and the percentage of fancy fruits. The 
plants are hardy, and are loaded with fine, solid, smooth fruits 
which ripen to a beautiful pink color. This variety requires low, 
moist land with heavy applications of fertilizer to make large 
size, fancy fruits. 
Pkt. 5c; V 20 z. 25c; oz. 40c; ^41b. $1.15; 1 lb. $4.00. 
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