Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Tomato Seed Cannot Be Surpassed, as Thousands of Satisfied Customers Will Testify 
TOMATO 
Sotv ^ pound in seed-bed to plant an acre, or plant Y 2 pound per acre in field. 
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 cannot be surpassed for 
southern conditions, and the reputation we enjoy is ample evi¬ 
dence of that fact. 
The Kilgore Seed Company has had over 25 years of experi¬ 
ence in Florida studying the particular requirements of Florida 
and Southern Tomato growers. Our Tomato seed-growing fields 
in the Middle West and West are inspected under our personal 
supervision, and selections 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 light sand to a muck. The land should be put in good 
condition. Lay off rows four to five feet apart, open a furrow, 
and drill in 1200 lbs. per acre of high grade fertilizer such as 
a 4-7-5 and mix thoroughly with the soil. It is good policy to 
let this stand for seven to ten days and then plant the seed or 
set the plants. Seed may be planted direct in the field or pre¬ 
ferably in a cloth-covered seed-bed. Plants started in a seed-bed 
should be 6 to 8 inches high when ready to transplant to the 
field, 1% to 3 feet apart in the row, or 12 to 18 inches in the 
row-if staked. 
On the east coast of Florida, first plantings are begun during 
July and continue until in January. North and Central Florida 
begin planting for a spring crop the middle to the latter part 
of December and continue to the middle of February. For a 
fall crop, plantings are made in July, August and September. 
Frequent spraying with Pyrox, starting in the seed bed, is de¬ 
sirable to prevent blight and other diseases. If aphids give 
trouble add Black Leaf 40 to the Pyrox. 
All prices quoted are postpaid. 
Write for prices on larger quantities. 
KILGORE’S CROWN-SELECTED MARGLOBE. (95 days.) 
After many years of very expensive pedigree and selection 
work, the Kilgore Seed Company offers this superior stock of 
Marglobe tomato seed. Special pains are taken by our plant- 
breeder to select fruits from the most ideal plants of this spe¬ 
cially developed 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 factors 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 operation to make the sample of ab¬ 
solutely 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 Mar¬ 
globe seed, there can be no question about the result because 
this seed is the best that most modern scientific methods of seed 
breeding have yet developed. 
Pkt. 5c; Yioz. 35c; oz. 60c; ^41b. $2.00; 1 lb. $7.50. 
KILGORE’S EXTRA-SELECTED GLOBE. (92 days.) This 
is one of the strongest and most vigorous growers, and because 
of this vigor the plant stays green and in bearing condition, 
producing marketable fruits longer than many other strains of 
the Globe variety. Its smooth, perfectly globe-shaped fruits do 
not crack, and ripen to a beautiful deep pink color. This extra- 
selected strain produces a very high percentage of large, fancy 
fruits, even on the top hands. 
Pkt. 5c; ^oz. 25c; oz. 40c; Mlb. $1.25; 1 lb. $4.50. 
KILGORE’S CROWN - SELECTED GLOBE. (90 days.) 
The seed stock from which this seed is reproduced has required 
many years of careful breeding and selecting. When the fruits 
are fully ripe in the seed growing fields, our plant breeder se¬ 
lects only those plants showing early maturity, productiveness, 
and vigorous, true to type plant growth. Seed is saved only from 
these specially selected plants which produce all large size and 
perfect, smooth, deep globe-shaped fruits, and then only from 
fruits on the crown set or first hand. This is a very expensive, 
tedious and laborious task, but it results in quicker and more 
uniform germination of seed, more luxuriant plant growth, and 
abundant production of fancy fruit. If you want the very best, 
plant Kilgore’s Crown-Selected Globe Tomato seed. 
Pkt. 5c; ^oz. 35c; oz. 60c; Mlb. $2.00; 1 lb. $7.50. 
KILGORE’S BRED - RITE MARGLOBE. (98 days.) By 
field-tests throughout the East Coast of Florida, and other To¬ 
mato growing sections of the State, Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Mar¬ 
globe has proved to be one of the best and most desirable types 
for Florida growers. This is due, apparently, to several reasons: 
it is more free of navel and large blossom-end scars; the ridging 
at the stem end is practically eliminated, which means smoother 
and more fancy fruit, as this ridging usually produces growth- 
cracks and ill-shaped fruit. The fruit ripens 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 elim¬ 
inated 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 develops plants with fruit-clusters close together, 
making for more fruit for a given length of plant and thus for 
higher yields. 
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 Bred-Rite Marglobe seed stock came originally from the 
United States Department of Agriculture. The outstanding 
claim of merit for Marglobe is resistance to nail-head rust and 
fusarium wilt disease. 
Pkt. 5c; y^oz. 25c; oz. 40c; ^Ib. $1.25; I lb. $4.50. 
Kilgore’s Bred-Rite Marglobe 
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