Send orders for Genuine Delicious 
now, direct to 
illiam P. Stark Nurseries 
Stark City, Missouri 
Address. 
Our exclusive contract with owner of original tree your protection 
A twenty-year contract with S. L. Hiatt, son of Jesse Hiatt, gives us 
the sole right and control of all buds, scions and grafts cut from the original 
Delicious apple tree. This is your best guarantee of the genuine Deli¬ 
cious trees of unquestionable purity. Read the contract/ 
The J.H. Hale peach—another triumph 
This is the “Peach King’s” masterpiece—a peach 
H to Yi larger than Elberta; higher colored: a bet¬ 
ter keeper and shipper; with practically fuzzless 
skin; ripens five days ahead of Elberta: hangs 
longer on the tree; perfect free-stone; brings 25% 
to 50% higher prices than best Elberta. An ideal 
peach for largest commercial plantings or the 
smallest home garden. 
Our trees are propagated from buds cut from 
the most vigorous bearing trees in Mr. Hale’s 
William P. Stark Nurseries 
Box 632, Stark City, Mo. 
William P. Stark Nurseries 
Box 632, Stark City, Missouri 
Please mail me your 1914 catalog. I am in¬ 
terested in 
□ Delicious apple I I J. H. Hale peach 
I I Apples □ Plums □ Shade trees 
I I Peaches HI Cherries □ Roses 
□ Pears HI Bush fruits □ Ornamentals 
_Approximate number or trees desired 
Name_—. 
How we grow 2-year-old Delicious trees 
We individually train our two-year-old trees 
as if intended for our own orchards. Note how 
branches are distributed over upper 14 to 16 
inches of the trunk. This makes it possible for 
you to have either medium or low headed trees with¬ 
out weak crotches. Most old-style two-year-old 
trees are headed high with a few branches, all 
starting near the top; such trees will split under 
heavy crops. William P. Stark trees are grown 
so they may be shaped into perfect, open, spread¬ 
ing, vase-shaped heads, to carry heavy loads of 
fruit without breaking. 
William P. Stark 
Nearly 20 years 
ago Mr. Stark rec¬ 
ognized the fruit 
and tree qualities 
destined to make 
Delicious the lead¬ 
er among apples 
and to liisefforts is 
largely due 
present nation 
wide popularity. 
Selected trees 
at 30^ J to 50^ 
saving 
Since Jesse Hiatt 
first gave the Deli¬ 
cious apple to the 
world, William P. 
.Stark has been inti¬ 
mately identifiedwith 
its development, suc¬ 
cess and nation-wide 
distribution. 
We vow offer read¬ 
ers of the Rural New 
Yorker genuine guar- 
enteed Delicious apple trees, propagated and 
grown under Mr. William P. Stark’s personal 
supervision, at lowest grower’s prices—at 30 % to 
50i? less than you usually pay. We have no agents, 
no salesmen, no plate-book men. By cutting out 
all middlemen, and selling direct to the planter, 
we can quote you low grower’s prices and 
deliver better trees. Why not take the saving ? 
William P. Stark trees are grown at Stark City, 
Missouri, in the heart of the finest nursery soil in 
the Ozark Mountains. They are propagated by 
experts; each tree is individually trained; they have 
tops which balance with the roots; and the root- 
system is the wonder of all who know good tree 
roots. Every tree has the genuine William P. 
Stark quality. 
You who have wattled genuine Delicious trees 
can now gel them direct from the grower and at 
grower's lowest prices. Write for new 120-page 
catalog. 
orchards. There has 
been such a tremen¬ 
dous demand for The 
J. H. Hale peach that 
it will be simply im- 
possibe to supply all 
those who want 
trees this season. 
Write us at once to 
be stire of your 
spring planting. In 
a few weeks our stock 
will be entirely ex¬ 
hausted. 
Choicest varieties 
at grower’s prices 
William P. Stark quality is a yard-stick among fruit 
growers who know. It covers strain, size, vigor, pro¬ 
ductiveness. root-system and all-'round merit. In ap¬ 
ples we list most profitable varieties; as McIntosh, 
Wealthy, Baldwin. Rhode Island Greening, Yellow 
Transparent, Black Ben. Jonathan, Stayman Winesap, 
Duchess, Liveland Raspberry, Gravenstein, etc. 
Peaches: Elberta, Early Elberta, etc., at low grow¬ 
er’s prices. Every profitable variety of apple, peach, 
pear, plum, cherry, quince, apricot, grape, current, 
blackberry, raspberry, gooseberry, roses, shrubs and 
ornamentals. All trees and plants doubly guaranteed to 
be true to name. 
Send for 120-page book now! 
All prices printed in plain figures. Careful arrange¬ 
ment and common-sense descriptions make intelligent 
selection easy. Compare the prices and note the big 
saving. This catalog is our only salesman. Write for 
it today and get William P. Stark quality and William 
P. Stark’s money-saving prices. 
Extract from 
William P. Stark’s Contract 
with S. L. Hiatt 
“S. L. Hiatt hereby agrees to furnish Wil¬ 
liam P. Stark exclusively all buds, scions, 
grafts and wood that may in any way be 
cut from the original Delicious tree, as Wil¬ 
liam P. Stark may direct, and gives William 
P. Stark the exclusive right to control all of 
the scions, buds, grafts and wood for a term 
of twenty (20) years.” 
