CUBIT (42 days.) Cubit is a very popular variety of cucum- 
ber because of its outstanding good qualities. The plants are 
very prolific, earlier than A and C and Colorado varieties. The 
smooth fruits are of dark green color, and average about 8% 
inches in length, are cylindrical in shape with blunt ends. 
without any taper, and with a very small seed cavity making 
them ideally adapted for slicing. They hold their color, crisp 
texture and fresh quality well in shipping and on the market. 
This variety makes the most uniformly beautiful shape cucumber 
of any variety. This uniformly attractive appearing, high quality, 
early maturing, and good shipping and keeping variety is 
rapidly gaining favor as it becomes better known among 
commercial cucumber growers of Florida. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 25e; 4 lb. 75c; 1 Ib. $2.50 
5 to 25 lbs. $2.40 per Ib. 
A & C (KILGORE’S IMPROVED). (50 days.) We are 
offering seed of this popular variety which was produced by us 
from seed secured from the originator, and on which we have 
made spécial selections in an endeavor to improve this splen- 
did strain still further. The vigorous growing vines produce an 
abundance of uniform, dark green cucumbers, averaging 10 
inches long. The fruits are of uniform diameter from stem 
to blossom end, are rather slim, averaging 144 to 1% inches 
in diameter, without any bulge in the center, and with a slight 
taper at the ends. This is one of the best bred and most popular 
strains of cucumbers in existence. A heavy yielder of fancy 
fruits. An ideal variety to grow for mid-western markets where 
they want a long cucumber. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; 4 Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $2.00 
5 to 25 Ibs. $1.90 per Ib. 

Kilgore’s Improved A & C Cucumbers 
COLORADO. (50 days.) This outstanding variety is filling 
a most important place in the growth of cucumbers in Florida 
for shipment to northern markets. It holds its intense dark 
green color and firmness for a long time in transit and on the 
markets. The fruits are of medium length, averaging from 9 
to 10 inches, and are slender, averaging about 1°4 inches in 
diameter, and are well filled at both ends, of exceedingly dark 
green color. Very attractive and handsome in appearance and 
an enormous yielder of extra fancy fruits. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $2.00 
5 to 25 lbs. $1.90 per Ib. 
STRAIGHT-8. (47 days.) This plant is vigorous in growth, 
very prolific and produces symmetrical, almost cylindrical 
fruits. As indicated by the name, the fruits are perfectly 
straight, averaging about eight inches long, well filled at the 
ends and when ready for harvest are smooth and dark green 
in color. Our improved strain is darker green in color than 
other strains and uniform in size, shape and color, making it 
an ideal packing and shipping type. Recommended for fall 
planting in Florida, but should not be planted for a late spring 
crop because the fruits have a tenedency to be too light in 
color late in the season. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; % Ib. 75c; 1 Ib. $2.50 
5 to 25 lbs. $2.40 per Ib. 
Kilgore Agencies in The West Indies; Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, Cuba; Kingston, 
ait 
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Cubit 
The most uniformly beautiful, 
attractive appearing cucumber 
ever developed 


/ PUERTO RICO NO. 39 (Mildew Resistant). (42 days.) 
This variety was developed by the Puerto Rico Agricultural 
Experiment station for resistance to downy ‘mildew or blight. 
In cool, rainy weather, especially in fall, when other varieties 
go down with mildew disease, this variety continues to grow 
and produce an abundance of fruits, making it especially val- 
uable as a home garden variety. Although this variety is highly 
resistant to downy mildew it is not immune, and should be 
sprayed or dusted regularly with a good fungicide like Dithane. 
The vines are rather compact in growth, hardy and very pro- 
ductive. The fruits are’rather short, averaging about 7 to 744 
inches in length, dark green in color, and fairly smooth or 
free of spines. Recommended for the Florida home garden and 
for local markets and for shipment to northern markets that 
will take a cucumber varying in length from 7 to 8 inches. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; 4% Ib. 75e; 1 Ib. $2.50 
5 to 25 Ibs. $2.40 per Ib. 
WAUCHULA STAYS GREEN (Special Long Strain). 
(40 days.) Plants are exceedingly prolific, producing an 
enormous crop of fancy fruits, and are extremely early. Fruits 
average 8 inches in length and are smooth, perfectly cylindrical 
in shape, well filled at the ends, medium green in color, and 
very uniform in size, shape and color. This strain is especially 
well suited for fall and early spring planting in Florida, but is 
not desirable for late spring. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; %4 Ib. 60c; 1 Ib. $2.00 
5 to 25 Ibs. $1.90 per Ib. 
“PALMETTO (Mildew Resistant) (mew). (50 days.) This 
new variety was developed by Dr. W. C. Barnes of the Clemson 
College Truck Experiment Station, Charleston, S. C., from a 
cross of Puerto Rico 40 mildew resistant variety and Cubit in 
order to develop a good market type cucumber possessing the 
downy mildew resistance of the Puerto Rico 40. This variety 
produces vigorous vine growth, and is not only highly resistant 
to downy mildew, the most serious cucumber disease of the 
south, but also develops a high yield of attractiye, dark green, 
long, slim fruits averaging about 8 inches in length and of 
cylindrical shape but slightly pointed toward the ends. Pal- 
metto will survive and produce a good crop, whereas other 
varieties may go down with mildew under cool, wet weather 
conditions. Recommended as a fine mildew resistant variety 
to grow for northern markets. 
Crop Failure 
No Seed Supply Until November 1949 
Since seed of the new “Palmetto” downy mildew resistant 
variety will not be available until about November 1949, 
we strongly advise our customers to use “Puerto Rico No. 
39” downy mildew resistant variety, especially for their 
fall plantings in 1949, when they want a mildew resistant 
variety. This variety is practically as resistant to downy 
mildew as is the new Palmetto. It is earlier and much 
more prolific than Palmetto, although the fruits average 
a little shorter. However, we have selected for greater 
length with this variety, and under good growing condi- 
tions the Kilgore strain of Puerto Rico No. 39 will aver- 
age about 714 inches in length. 
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Jamaica; Nassau, Bahamas; Port au Prince, Haiti; San Juan, Puerto Rico. 
