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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
February, 1917 
How to Grow Good Fruit 
for Your Table or Market 
The farsighted, thoughtful man plans ahead and finds out 
what are the best varieties for his locality; how to choose 
a good tree to start with; how, when and where to plant; 
how to prune, care for and cultivate. All these facts are 
told clearly and concisely in our reliable books. 
Wm. P. Stark’s 1917 
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It cells you how to choose the best varieties for 
your section, how to know good trees; the right 
age and size to plant; what distance apart, number 
to acre, ripening dates, etc.; why the best invest- 
ment is in healthy, vigorous trees with heavy roots 
and trained tops; why we can and do grow such 
first-class trees which bear younger and thrive 
everywhere any of its kind will grow. 
“Inside Facts of Profitable 
Fruit Growing” 
It tells how to plant, prune, spray, cultivate, dyna- 
mite, fertilize; how to pay for the orchard with 
fillers, etc. 88 pages. Many pictures, drawings, 
diagrams. Contains no advertising. Sent free 
with orders of $2.00 or more. Price 10c. Money 
refunded, if not satisfied. Worth its weight in 
gold.” ‘‘I saved those two trees just from reading 
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Choice Apples for Wisconsin Growers 
Our Ozark Mountain grown hardy trees have unusually heavy, wide-spreading roots. We grow one 
and two year apple trees only. We offer such tested, dependable varieties as Delicious, Duchess, Dudley, 
Gravenstein, Livland, Raspberry, McIntosh, Red Astrachan, Wealthy, Yellow Transparent. 
“The trees purchased from you arrived in first- 
class condition, and were all fine trees.”- — O. E. 
Westerfield. Port Atkinson, Wisconsin. 
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To Wm. P. Stark Nurseries, Box Stark City, Mo. 
Please send me your new catalog free. I enclose 10c 
for your "Inside Facts of Profitable Fruit Growing."’ I 
am interested in the following number of trees and 
plants 
Name 
(Write address, giving County an 1 Street or R. F. D. No. 
on margin below.) 
□ Delicious 
Apple 
□ Dudley 
Apple 
| | Appl es 
J Cherries 
Plums 
J Pears 
| | Crap es 
I Cush Fruits 
□ Roses and 
Shrubs 
