Celery Is an Expensive Crop to Grow. Therefore It Is Extremely Important to Use Only the Best Celery Seed 
A field of Schneck's Florida Golden No. 15 celery at Sanford, Florida, with three single plant selections from this 
field to produce pure line stock seed in cloth covered cages. 
Important Information About 
The above illustration shows a typical field of Schneck’s Im¬ 
proved Florida Golden No. 15 celery at Sanford, Florida. From 
fields such as this, a few of the very best and most ideal plants, 
similar to the three illustrated above, are selected for stock seed 
development. These selected stock seed plants are expressed to 
our celery breeding grounds in the west where they are planted. 
Each individually selected plant is enclosed before blossoming 
in a muslin covered cage, illustrated above, in order to prevent the . 
blossoms from being pollinated by those from another plant. A 
little seed from each of these individual progenies is then tested 
in Florida, and the best progenies are planted in succeeding 
seasons in the west for the production of celery seed for Florida 
growers. This laborious and expensive method of maintaining 
and improving our celery seed stocks is repeated year after year, 
and explains why Kilgore’s celery seed is being used so exten¬ 
sively by Florida celery growers. 
Our celery trials are conducted on one of the celery farms in 
Manatee County, Florida, where we test our stocks in compari¬ 
son with many others in order to make certain that our stocks 
are at least as good as the best when grown under Florida con¬ 
ditions. 
All our Celery seed-growing fields are under controlled irri¬ 
gation in the West, where experience has proved that the climate 
is better adapted for the production of strong-germinating Celery 
seed than anywhere else in the United States. Our western- 
grown seed is always larger and of higher vitality than Celery 
seed grown in other sections, because the climate under which 
western-grown Celery seed ripens and cures is uniformly dry. 
Kilgore’s Celery Seed Stocks 
Furthermore, we do not force the growth of our seed plants, 
making them produce in a year’s time by starting the seed plants 
in Florida during the winter, then shipping them North where 
they are forced into seeding in order to harvest the crop before 
frost. Our experience has indicated that this method of pro¬ 
ducing Celery seed, which is quite common, results in small, 
weak-germinating seed, producing plants of low vitality with a 
tendency toward hollow-stemming and the production of early 
seeders. Our seed plants grown in the West are made to pro¬ 
duce seed the second year. This is done by holding the plants 
with very little water for several months after they have made 
their growth but have not started to develop seed stalks. This is 
the natural way Celery plants should develop seed and accounts 
for the lack of weak plants, early seeders, and hollow-stemming 
in plants produced from our western-grown Celery seed. 
Our seed-growing fields are carefully inspected several times 
each season to eliminate all green sports, green heart, early 
seeders, and plants which are not true to type. Short ribbed 
plants and those developing poor hearts are destroyed, and seed 
is saved from only the most desirable plants. You owe it to 
yourself to plant these improved stocks. Why take a chance 
on such an expensive crop as Celery, when you can get seed 
which has been tested and proved under Florida conditions 
and with which you are taking no risk? During the past ten 
years, we have specialized in celery seed, each year making our 
own selections of stock seed plants in Florida, selecting a few 
of the very best plants out of thousands in the growing fields. 
It costs a great deal to produce this kind of seed, but it is 
worth more to plant. 
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