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It was only natural that such a great measure of 
apple success—a success that puts a higher fruit-stand 
price on the Stark Delicious apple than on any other- 
should have tempted other nurserymen to the un¬ 
authorized use of the name. This fact, as it always 
does, constitutes the highest compliment that could be 
paid. 
But the Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Company 
—secure in its rights, secure in its discovery, adoption 
and propagation-—has expended a quarter of a million 
dollars in telling fruit growers about the unsurpassed 
merits of Delicious; and although Delicious trees now 
grow in every clime, it is Stark Bros, foster parentage 
only that gives them the stamp of genuineness. 
And as spring water is purest at its source—as the 
knowledge of an invention is clearest in the inventor’s 
mind as one who produces an article is best qualified 
to perpetuate it so the home of Stark Delicious is the 
place towards which tree buyers naturally turn when in 
search of this amazing apple success. 
Nearly a Century 
Of Orchard Success 
Stark Delicious is one great incident in a successful 
career covering nearly a hundred years. 
Almost a century ago Judge James Stark came to 
Louisiana, Mo., from Kentucky. He chose this part 
of Missouri because he believed it was good fruit coun¬ 
try. So it has proved to be. 
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But there are other good fruit sections—adapted to 
particular varieties and having certain soil and climatic 
conditions that justify the propagation in such places 
of certain fruit varieties. 
Leading fruit growers throughout the coun 
try insist that fruit interests everywhere owe 
their chief debt of gratitude to the Stark Bros. 
Nurseries & Orchards Company because of the 
preservation and propagation of the apple 
masterpiece —Stark Delicious. 
A brief history of this now nationally favorite var¬ 
iety will be of interest to every man who has seen the 
sturdy, graceful outlines of a Stark Delicious tree— 
who has noted the glorious bloom that announces the 
coming of its incomparable product—who has plunged 
his teeth into the juicy meat of this triumph of apple 
excellence. 
History of 
Stark Delicious 
Stark Delicious originated at Peru, Madison coun¬ 
ty, Iowa, on the farm of the late Jesse Hiatt, who 
found it to be beyond all his previous conception of 
apple perfection. Of course the first Delicious tree 
(shown at the bottom of this advertisement) was pure¬ 
ly a work of Nature one of those mysterious combina¬ 
tions of seed, air, sunshine and soil that only the Mother 
of us all could explain. 
From somewhere—from a place unknown and in a 
manner unsolved—the original Delicious came. Jesse 
Hiatt discovered it, and when he wrote to the Stark 
Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. about it many years 
ago, he said : “If it is not a better apple than any on 
your large list, it will cost you nothing.” 
Becomes the Property 
Of Stark Bros. 
So the Delicious sent its scions from its 
birthplace straight to the home of its adop¬ 
tion at Louisiana, Mo. 
Clarence M. Stark, who at that time was 
president of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Or¬ 
chards Co., knew that Mr. Hiatt was right 
when he said Delicious was a better apple 
than any on the large Stark Bros, list at 
that time. And he saved Delicious to hor¬ 
ticulture, bought the original tree for the 
Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., with 
the exclusive right of introduction and 
propagation, named it Stark Delicious, 
registered the trade-mark name “Delicious” 
in the U. S. Patent Office, and began to re¬ 
produce Stark Delicious from scions cut 
from that wonderful Iowa tree. 
. Truly the 
Nation’s Apple 
Surely and steadily Stark Delicious has 
grown In the favor of consumers who know 
apple quality and of growers who work 
apple profits, until now Stark Delicious 
stands for yood apples throughout America. 
Amazing reports come from those who grow 
and sell Stark Delicious. These reports 
are made possible by an ever-increasing 
demand. And the demand is the result of 
that quality that led Luther 'Burbank to 
say that Stark Delicious was “the finest 
apple in all the world!” 
For this reason Stark Bros, have established br; 
nurseries in many parts of the country. Stark Delicili 
trees are grown in the Ozark Mountains, where the ro 
system produced by us makes them superior in vi 
thrift, appearance and producing power. 
Other varieties, different kinds of fruits—are grJw 
in other places. Wherever you find the best condi 10 
for producing nursery stock, there you will find a Stpi: 
Bros, branch nui'sery. 
Stark Bros.” Means True 
Insurance 
Stark Quality- 
Stark Service 
line Stark Bros, trees unless the box or package 
is this seal. 
Ivery Stark Bros, tree is not only properly pro- 
sd and grown, but is properly inspected, packed 
delivered. 
he lock seal on every order insures per feet con- 
m when delivered, and permission is given the 
er to open his order and examine it before accept- 
it. 
J. S. Huey, Chicago: “I asked in one of the high 
grade fruit houses of Chicago if they handled Stark 
Delicious. They said they did and that they paid $9 
per bushel box for them and would be glad to pay $12 
per bushel box for them at that time.” 
J. S. Coleman, a North Carolina grower, writes: 
“Stark Delicious brought $7.50 per barrel. I have ten 
trees of this variety, bought seven years ago, which bore 
heavily this year. In fact, they produce more fruit than 
any twenty trees of other varieties planted at the same 
time.” 
Jas. ,T. Fleming. Putnam county, Tenn., writes: 
“Stark Delicious is by far the best winter apple I ever 
tasted. Had I planted a commercial orchard in 1903 
and made Stark Delicious the greater part of it, it 
would have been a fine investment.” 
In Chicago, in November last, extra fancy Stark 
Delicious apples were selling at 10, 15 and 20 cents per 
apple on the fruit stands. 
There’s big money in fruit growing. There’s con¬ 
stant satisfaction in Stark Delicious, whether you plant 
only a few trees for home use or an entire orchard for 
the profit there is in fruit growing. 
Stark Bros. 
Great Selective List 
We are the world's foremost tree growers. Besides 
Stark Delicious, we grow all good apple varieties— 
Stark King David, Stayman Winesap, Black Ben, Jon¬ 
athan. Grimes Golden, Liveland Raspberry, Wilson Red 
June, Rome Beauty, Wealthy, York Imperial, Winesap, 
Baldwin, Northern Spy, Duchess, McIntosh, Winter 
Banana, Paragon Winesap, Albemarle Pippin, New¬ 
town Pippin Champion, Senator, Spitzenberg, Yellow 
Transparent, etc. 
Also all good varieties of peach, pear, plum, cherry, 
apricot, quince, nectarine, grape vines, blackberry, 
raspberry, gooseberry, dewberry, currant—everything 
the fruit grower wants. Shade and ornamental trees, 
ornamental shrubs, climbers, hedges, roses. 
FREE 
STARK YEAR BOOK 
FOR 1914 
Also Stark Orchard and Spray Book 
The new Year Book is the finest we have ever pub¬ 
lished—and it is absolutely free. Contains many valu¬ 
able hints and helps, besides showing the many proved 
varieties that have insured Stark Bros, leadership since 
1810. Write for your copy of the Year Book today . 
Ask us also for the Stark Orchard & Spray Book— 
a complete horticultural work covering all phases of the 
orchard business—everything the practical orchardist 
should know, down to details—the selection of the best 
varieties, how to plant and care for your orchard, giving 
in detail the modern methods of picking, packing and 
marketing in the most profitable manner, how and when 
to pick and handle different varieties, how to spray 
and what to spray for, what to spray with and how to 
make the spray yourself. The most practical and best 
orchard and spray book ever published. 
Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co. 
Box 123 
Louisiana, Mo. 
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The progress of propagating trees from proved str 
of bearing trees applies not only to Stark Delieiji 
but to all other Stark orchard varieties. This 
a more expensive plan, for us, than indiscriminate 
ting, but the trees are vastly superior. The recoil 
Stark Bros, has been too high—its years of eontiiiipi 
business service for the fruit growers of this cou 
have been too many—to permit any but the best >la 
even though a greater producing expense be iuvoli 
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Stark Delicious Profits 
Stark Bros, trees are always true to name. Ilb 
are propagated only from whole-root stock, made ro , 
the best seedlings. You get the genuine Stark Deliefci 
when you buy here, for this is the home of the D 
licious and although so-called “Delicious” trees 
be offered by others, it is done without authority, artark Delicious is the fruit grower’s biggest money 
some orebardists have been imposed upon by tojker. 
offering bogus “Delicious.” Again we say, thil 
Stark Delicious headquarters because it is home. A 
solute protection for you lies in buying here. Bacfl 
every sale we make, whether of Delicious or any ofl 
kind of fruit, there is the record of nearly a cou lirr|• 8. Burgess, Chelan county, Wash., realized a net 
and the absolute safeguard that the seal shown inof $882.93 from 36 ten-year-old Stark Delicious 
top of this advertisement means to you. No trees Min • occupying only a third of an acre of ground. 
Ivory shipment is examined and approved by 
ihorities before it leaves Louisiana—where all 
. packing and shipping is done. 
perfect system of packing completes Stark 
ice and makes it as near perfect as human 
be. 
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e Stark Bros, seal is a guarantee of quality 
it guarantee means that anything not entirely 
be made right. 
state 
Stark 
Bros. 
work 
—and 
right 
Ills. E. A. Johnson, Hamilton, Mont., says: “We 
received as high as $10 per box for Stark Delicious, 
e $5 is readily obtained.” 
by Stark Bros, from Jesse Hiatt, the originator, in 1895 
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