
A 25-acre field of Kilgore’s New Improved Pride Celery grown by Mr. Tom Bell on the Palmer Farms, Sarasota, Florida. 
Important Information About Kilgore’s Celery Seed Stocks 
The above illustration shows a typical field of Kilgore’s 
New Improved Pride Celery at Sarasota, Florida. From fields 
such as this, a few of the very best and most ideal plants are 
selected for stock seed development each year. 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, 
in order to prevent the blossoms from being pollinated by 
those from another plant. A little seed from each of these in- 
dividual progenies is then tested in Florida, and the best pro- 
genies 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 cel- 
ery seed stocks is repeated year after year, and explains 
why Kilgore’s celery seed is being used so extensively 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 com- 
parison with many others in order to make certain that our 
stocks are at least as good as the best when grown under Flor- 
ida conditions. 
All our celery seed-growing fields are under controlled ir- 
rigation 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 vital- 
ity 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 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 producing celery seed, which is quite common, re- 
sults 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 produce seed the second vear. 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 de- 
velop 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. 
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? 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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For Best Results Plant Kilgore’s ‘’Bred-Rite’’ Seeds 
