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The above }>hoto'shows 
part of a photo of an 
la-motiths-old top graft of 
Stark's Golden Delicious- 
bearing in 1916 in Central West. 
jlrt extra heavy crop of big, golden, super-guality 
apples—much larger and finer flavored than Grimes 
Golden. It bore again in 1917.191Savd 1919. .1 bsolutely 
a oral s Kecord for youngland heavy bearing. 
“The Supreme Court 
of the Fruit World” 
Awards Wilder Medal 
to This Stark Bro’s Apple 
Photo above 
shows S tar k’s 
Golden Delicious, act¬ 
ual size. Prof. Cooper, 
State Horticulturist, ^1 r- 
kansas. who was present at 
the mseting of the American Pomologica! Society, said that 
the 14 Stark's Golden Delicious apples that his tree bore last 
year (second year after planting) were about as large as 
those big beauties shown above. 
What the Supreme Court is to American law, 
the American Pomological Society is to Ameri¬ 
can fruit and horticulture. For 75 years it 
has been the unquestioned authority on all 
questions pertaining to fruit and horticulture 
on the western hemisphere. 
At its 1920 meeting this Society gave to the 
Golden Delicious the highest tribute ever 
bestowed upon an apple—the only Wilder Sil¬ 
ver Medal (see cut of same below) that has 
ever, with one exception, been granted to an 
apple during the last 35 years. The Silver 
Medal is the greatest medal given 
by the Society. This means that 
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Stark's 
Golden Delicious 
the American Pomological Society gives its highest award to our 
Golden Delicious. And, when this authoritative body has thus 
placed it9 official stamp of approval on this apple, it assures you that 
this golden apple is a truly great fruit achievement—one worthy of 
your confidence—your purchase—your planting for profitand pleasure. 
The Wilder Medal is the Nobel prize of the 
fruit world. It was provided for by a Trust 
Fund left in 1886 by the late Marshall P. 
Wilder, Scientist and Pomologist, who was 
President of the American Pomological Society 
for 38 years—with instructions that it was to 
be awarded to a fruit only after exhaustative 
investigation had produced proof 
of that fruit’s supreme merit. 
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We discovered the original Stark’s Golden Delicious tree 
rears ago flourishing and bearing bumper crops of finest apples, on a 
barren West Virginia mountainside. We immediately bought this 
remarkable tree for $5.000.00—the highest price ever paid for a 
single tree—and have for years propagated young Stark’s Golden 
Delicious trees from “the wood” of this original tree. 
The apples they bear arc easily the finest yellow apples we 
have ever seen or eaten in all our 104 years of nursery and or¬ 
charding history. Superior to even Grimes Golden in appear¬ 
ance, size, flavor and quality. Keeps 4 mon'hs longer. Fills the 
Grimes Golden demand long after that apple has rotted and gone 
from the markets. Shrewd fruit raisers all across America hare 
watched it in the years of its orchard testing—and, noting its re¬ 
markable tree and fruit superiorities, are now planting these trees 
by the thousands. You will profit by doing likewise. 
STARK BRO’S 
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We’re Planting Thousands 
of Stark’s Golden Delicious trees in our own personal orchards. 
That shows what we think of it! 
We are doing this because, like J. L. Webster, the well-known Wenatchee 
tWash.) grower, we know that "Stark's Golden Delicious is a strong 
grower and heavy bearer. Us apples do not drop orf. Keeping ' * ± 
quality equal to old Winesap. Eating quality equal to Stark + S?.'** 
Delicious. It will surely excel in the world's apple markets.” f <&' S? -^V 
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