Celery Is an Expensive Crop to Grow. Therefore It Is Extremely Important to Use Only the Best Celery Seed 
A 25-acre field of Kilgore’s Pride Celery. This field averaged over 800 packed crates per acre. 
Important Information About Kilgore’s Celery Seed Stocks 
No vegetable requires more careful handling in seed 
production than celery. Kilgore’s celery seed is not just 
grown, it is bred, selected and rogued with the best of 
care and attention under our personal supervision. 
The Kilgore Seed Company has spent a great deal of time, 
effort, and expense in an endeavor to develop and improve its 
different stocks of Celery seed, and we are now in position to 
tell Florida Celery growers with assurance that they cannot se¬ 
cure better Celery seed anywhere, regardless of price. In order 
to safe-guard our customers against planting poor stocks, our 
Celery seed is tested, not only by ourselves but by Florida Cel¬ 
ery growers in different sections, a season in advance of selling 
it, so that we know what it will do under Florida conditions be¬ 
fore you plant it. In order to have an additional check, each 
season we send samples of our Celery seed up North where we 
personally inspect the plantings during the summer months. 
Our Celery trials are conducted in our proving grounds at 
Plant City, Fla., as well as on one of the Celery farms at San¬ 
ford, Fla., where we test our stocks in comparison with many 
others in order to make certain that they are at least as good 
as the best when grown under Florida conditions. 
All our American Celery seed-growing fields are under con¬ 
trolled irrigation in the West, where experience has proved that 
the climate is better adapted for the production of strong-ger¬ 
minating 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. 
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 the South 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 stocks. This 
is the natural way Celery plants should develop seed and ac¬ 
counts for the lack of weak plants, early seeders, and hollow- 
stemming in plants produced from our western-grown Celery 
seed. Our Celery seed stocks are especially developed and se¬ 
lected for resistance to premature seeding. 
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 give these improved stocks at least a trial. 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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