TOMATO 
Sow Vi pound in seed-bed to plant an acre, or plant Vi pound per ocre in field 
Prices quoted are postpaid. 
Write for prices on larger quantities. 
Tomato seed has been one of our specialties for many years, 
and our stocks have been bred and developed especially for 
Florida conditions. We maintain that our tomato seed can¬ 
not be surpassed for Florida growing conditions and the 
reputation we enjoy is ample evidence of that fact. 
The Kilgore Seed Company has had over twenty-five years 
•of experience in Florida—studying the particular require¬ 
ments of Florida tomato growers. Our tomato breeding and 
seed growing fields in disease free territory in the middle 
west are inspected under our personal supervision, and se¬ 
lections are made each season for earliness, high yield, uni¬ 
formity, and trueness to type and size, shape and color. 
“Good breeding” is as important as good weather when it 
•comes to raising tomatoes. 
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 4 to 5 feet apart, open a furrow, and 
drill in 1200 pounds per acre of a high-grade fertilizer such as 
a 4-7-5 and mix thoroughly with the soil. It is good policy to 
let this stand for 7 to 10 days, and then plant the seed or set 
the plants. Seed may be planted direct in the field or prefer¬ 
ably in a cloth-covered seed-bed. Plants started in a seed-bed 
should be 6 to 8 inches high and put in the ground nearly up 
to the bud, IV 2 to 3 feet apart in the row, or 12 to 18 inches in 
the row if staked. For a fall crop in South Florida and the 
West Indies, plantings are made in Julj% August, and Sep¬ 
tember. Frequent spraying with Pyrox, starting in the seed 
bed, is desirable to prevent blight and other diseases. If aphids 
give trouble add Black Leaf 40 to the Pyrox. (See page 28.) 
Where applications of arsenicals are not desirable to spray 
or dust to control fruit worms on tomatoes use Pyrocide dust. 
(See page 28.) 
KILGORE'S BRED-RITE MARGLOBE. (98 days.) This strain 
has been developed for freedom from cat-faces and large 
blossom-end scars; the ridging at the stem end is practically 
eliminated, and special selections have been made for deeper 
globe-shaped fruits with thick walls and better shipping qual¬ 
ity. The fruits ripen to a beautiful deep scarlet-red color. 
(See illustration inside front cover page.) 
Pkt. 5e; V 2 oz. 25e; oz. 40c; V 4 lb. $1.15; 1 lb. $4.00. 
KILGORE'S SPECIAL CUBAN MARGLOBE. (95 days.) After 
having made special individual plant selections for a number 
of years we have developed a strain of Marglobe tomato seed 
especially adapted for Cuba and the West Indies. The out¬ 
standing features of this special Cuban Marglobe are smaller 
vine growth, permitting better means for spraying and dust¬ 
ing, and easier harvesting of the fruit; earlier maturity, heav¬ 
ier yield of exceedingly deep globe-shaped fruits, with smooth 
stem ends and freedom from cracking. 
Pkt. 5c; ’/2 oz. 25c; oz. 40c; 14 lb. $1.25; 1 lb. $4.50. 
KILGORE'S CROWN-SELECTED MARGLOBE. (90 days.) This 
large crown-selected seed will not only produce enormous 
yields of perfect-shaped, large, fancy fruits, but will produce 
tlie major portion of the crop earlier than will other stocks of 
this variety. This seed is the best that most modern scientific 
methods of seed production can possibly develop. 
Pkt. 5c; 1/2 oz. 30c; oz. 50c; 14 lb. $1.65; 1 lb. $6.00. 
KILGORE'S EXTRA-SELECTED GLOBE. (92 days.) Tins strain 
has been especially developed for Florida growing conditions. 
Its smooth, perfectly globe-shaped fruits do not crack, and 
ripen to a beautiful deep pink color. Being a strong, vigorous, 
uniform grower, it is one of the heaviest producers of fancy 
fruit that will bring top prices. Especially well-suited for 
staking. 
Pkt. 5c; 1/2 oz. 25c; oz. 40c; ’/a lb. $1.15; 1 lb. $4.00. 
KILGORE'S CROWN SELECTED GLOBE. (90 days.) The seed 
plants of this strain are selected with great care as to perfect 
development, taking seed from only the crown fruits from a 
few of the most perfect and most productive plants. This re¬ 
sults in greater vitality, quicker and more uniform germina¬ 
tion of seed, luxuriant plant-growth, and abundant produc¬ 
tion of fancy fruit of unsurpassed quality. 
Pkt. 5c; V 2 oz. 30c; oz. 50c; 'A lb. $1.65; 1 lb. $6.00. 
KILGORE'S IMPROVED GROTHEN RED GLOBE. (87 days.) 
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. 
Especially well-.suited for fall and winter production in South 
Florida. Fruits mature from 10 to 14 days earlier than Mar¬ 
globe, ripening to a beautiful red color. A very heavy pro¬ 
ducer of smooth, deep globe-shaped, large fruits, sizing up 
good clear to the top of the plants and producing a very high 
percentage of fancies. 
(See illustration outside back cover page.) 
Pkt. 5c; Vz oz. 25c; oz. 40c; 14 lb. $1.15; 1 lb. $4.00. 
KILGORE'S IMPROVED RUTGERS. (98 days.) Our improved 
strain of this important variety is exceedingly uniform in 
plant growth and produces more uniform, smoother, thick 
walled, firmer, deeper globe-shaped fruits than other strains 
of this variety. The plant is a very vigorous grower, hardy, 
and heavy producer of firm green tomatoes which ripen to a 
bright red, producing an enormous yield of large, deep globe- 
shaped fruits over a long season. The large fruits are very 
firm, free of puff’s, with thick outer and inner walls. The fruits 
of our improved strain size up well clear out to the end of 
the vine, and are smoother and freer of cracks at the stem 
end than other strains. This variety is especially well suited 
for light sandy soils and also for shallow dry pine land on 
the lower east coast of Florida. Not suitable for deep wet 
glade lands where it makes too much vegetative growth. This 
variety stands more rain as well as more drought than other 
varieties. Many growers have told us that our Improved 
Rutgers makes the smoothest as well as the fanciest fruits 
of any strain of seed of this variety on the market today. 
Pkt. 5c; Vz oz. 25c; oz. 40c; 14 lb. $1.15; 1 lb. $4.00. 
KILGORE'S NEW "X" TOMATO. (New) (92 days.) This 
variety originated by crossing Rutgers on Webb’s Special 
(Kilgore’s Special) and has intermediate characters between 
Rutgers and Grothen Red Globe which accounts for many 
people thinking it a cross between these two varieties. The 
vines are of heavier vegetative growth than Grothen, but not 
as heavy as Rutgers. They open up more than Rutgers and 
produce uniformly large deep globe-shape fruits, free of 
cracks. This new variety is showing much promise on the 
lower east coast of Florida where it has been grown to some 
extent during the past few seasons. Seed supply extremely 
limited. Available in September. 
Pkt. 5c; V 2 oz. 30c; oz. 50c; Vi lb. $1.65; 1 lb. $6.00. 
CLEO (Clark's Early X Oxheart). (New) (90 days.) This new 
Kilgore variety in trials in different sections of Florida dur¬ 
ing the last two years has shown much promise. It is a cross 
between Clark’s Early and Oxheart, and posseses the earli¬ 
ness and the red color when ripe of Clark’s Early, along 
with the deep globe shape and thick walls and large size of 
Oxheart. The plant is medium vigorous in growth, the vines 
opening up and developing an immense yield of smooth, uni¬ 
formly deep globe-shaped fruits of large size, clear to the 
end of the vine. This new variety should be grown by every 
tomato grower in Florida. It is destined to become one of 
Florida’s leading varieties. Seed supply extremely limited. 
Available in September. 
Pkt. 5c; 1/2 oz. 30c; oz. 50c; V4 lb. $1.65; 1 lb. $6.00. 
Kilgore Agencies in The West Indies: Havana, Cuba; Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines; Kingston, Jamaica; 
Nassou, Bahamas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic; Port au Prince, Haiti 
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