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AwardsWilder Medal 

 tothisApple! 



What the U. S. Supreme Court is to American 

 law, the American Pomological Society is to 

 American fruit. 



This society (composed of the foremost fruit 

 authorities of the entire United States), at | 

 its 1920 meeting gave totheGolden Delicious , 

 apple the highest award ever given by it to 

 any fruit variety in its 75 years' history — the 

 only Wilder Medal (see cut of medal below), 

 with one exception, ever given to an apple 

 during the last 25 years. 



The Wilder Medal (provided for by a Trust Fund 

 left by the late Marshall P. Wilder, who for 38 

 years was President of the American Pomological 

 Society) is awarded only after exhaustive investiga- 

 tion and only after absolute proof of a fruit's su 

 prenie merit h.TS been produced " '" "-~ "'■''■•—' U'i— ■" 

 the fruit world— the 



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It is the "Nobel Prize 



American Pomological Society's 

 Highest Honor 



And when this authoritative body has thus placed its stamp of approval 'v 



on this apple, it means that this Golden Delicious apple is a truly great X 



fruit achievement. To all who have been waitins to see the Golden Ueli- N, 



cious "prove itself." here is indisputable proof. Here is the evidence of 

 the esteem in which this Queen of all Golden Apples is held by the leadme 

 pomological experts, horticulturists and orchardists in all sections of Amer- 

 ica. It is assurance to you that you will profit by planting this great, glowin 

 golden fruit. 



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Golden Deluiousapples,a( I tall 

 y,ize. and nainral colortii^ — 

 mrivfi 18 f/iotiihs after lop- 

 ^raftzfig. 



Siarks 

 Golden Delicious 



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The Famous $5,000 Golden Apple 



which we discovered years aco flourishing and bearing; bumper crops o 

 finest ipples. on a barren West Virginia mountainside. We immediately boUKh ■ 

 this remarkable tree for S5.000-the highest price ever paid for a single tree- 

 and have for years propagated young Stark's Golden Delicious trees from tl e 

 wood" of this original tree. 



The apples they bear are easily the finest yellow apple we have ever seen or 

 eaten in all our 104 vears of nursery and orcharding history. Superior 

 to even Grimes' Golden in appearance, size, flavor and quality. Vastly 

 superiorin keeping quality — keep fourmonthslonger. Fill the Grimes 

 Golden demand long after that apple is rotted and gone Irom th e 

 ma»-kets One of the leading members of the American Pomological 

 Bociety. Prof. J. C, Whitten (for 'l^ years Dean of Horticulture. 

 Missouri Agricultural College, now Prof, of Horticulture and tor- 

 e&try. University of California) writes: 



' I have never eaten an appie coming out of storage this Inte 

 (Julv 15th* which retained so fully its normal crisp, juicy condition 

 as does Golden Delicious." 

 Orchardists nnd owners of home orchards everywhere are planting Stark'* 

 Golden Delicious this year. 



We're Planting It by the 

 Thousands in Our Own Orchards 



'Wilder Members of our firm 



Medal have carefully watched 



the Stark's Golden Delicious tree and its superb fruit in test 

 orchards all across America. During thia and last season we 

 have made especially big plantings of this tree in cur own 

 personal orchards. In fact, it is the "backbone" of our own 



commercial fruit-raising farms. That shows what wc thmk 

 of it! We are doing this because, like J. L. Web.ster. the well 

 known Wenatchee.rWash.Jgrower.we/cHouf that' V/if Goitten 

 Delicious w n strong grower and heavy bearur. Its apples do 

 not drop. Keeping quality equal to old Winesap. Eating 

 quality equal to Stark Delicious. It will surely excel m 

 world's apple markets." 



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