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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1919 



"The Finest Apple In All the World" 



"OTARK Delicious trees from your nurseries have been 

 O growing en my place for years and never failed to produce a crop. 

 "As they grow older they bear more, larger, better fruit. 



"Many apples have rather a spicy fragrance and flavor — but none has such a delicious combination as 

 Stark Delicious! Stark Delicious is a gem— the finest apple in all the world." 



STARK DELICIOUS 



—Luther Bur bank 



The "Wizard of Horticulture" said this about 

 the apple tree that Stark Bro's developed for 

 the world of fruit lovers and fruit growers. 



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STARK BRO'S 



Every home — every market accords it 



first place. "The Money Maker of the 



Orchard." $3.50 to $5.00 per bushel 



are paid every day for this apple. 



Thousands of people I plant Stark 



Delicious and other Stark Apple. 



Peach, Pear, Plum, Cherry and Berry 



Trees, Bushes and Vines, for both 



home and market fruit — and grow 



corn and vegetable crops between tree 



Most Famous 

 Fruit Discovery- 

 rows. Make your spare land grow 

 double crops— yield double profit also. 



Wonderfully hardy, thrifty, quick growers 

 and young^ heavy and annual bearers every- 

 where. Regarding their hardiness, for 

 instance, Harold Simmons, Minnesota horti- 

 culturist, declares: "This season in Minne- 

 sota showed the superior quality of Stark 

 Delicious Apple and your trees' big bearing 

 ability, as lasP winter proved its hardiness. 

 It stood 50 degrees below zero without injury 

 and bore a good crop. 



AStark Delicious Tree— only fouryears 

 old. The pride of the home lot and 

 commercial orchard everywhere. 



THIS YOUNG 

 STARK BROTHER" 

 RECOMMENDS 



THEM, TOO! 



He started 



eating them at 



eight months 



old. You can see 



that they agreed 



with him. Better 



grow your own 



fruit for YOUR 



kiddies, too, 



don't you 



think? 



Stark Trees Make $60 Land Worth $600 



Judge Adam Thompson of De Kalb Co., Mo., reports: — "7 have always received top prices for all 



my apples because my Stark Delicious trees (from your nurseries) sold the crop. Always refused to sell t=m ^ — 



my Stark Delicious apples by themselves. Let them go only when crop of whole orchard was taken, f 



When I planted this orchard, had I planted three-fourths of it Stark Delicious it would be worth / STARK 



three times as much as it is. This land was ordinary De Kalb County land worth probably $60 an f BRO'S 



acre. Yet I have refused $600 per acre for my Stark Orchard. Why should I sell at that figure / NURSERIES 



Since it nets me 6 per cent on $1200 per acre valuation every year?" '. . f Box 191 



There's fruit profit facts for you! Want more? / Louisiana, Mo. 



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