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REFRIGERATOR EX 
STARKING DELICIOUS | 
the FINEST CARLOAD OF APPLES j 
I Em SHIPPED FROM WENATCHEE DIST % 
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“Finest Carload of Apples Ever Shipped 
in America—All Starking 
L EO C. ANTLES, Orchard Production Manager, 
^ AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, INC., jubi¬ 
lantly sent us this photograph of the shipment of this, 
the finest carload of apples that ever left the far-famed 
Wenatchee Valley—one of the richest orchard sections 
in all the World! 
He declares:— “Apple Growers and Everyone say 
This Carload of Starking Is Beginning of New 
Epoch in the Apple Industry!” 
These Apples Brought the Growers 
$5.00 Per Bushel F.O.B. Cars! 
—When Delicious were bringing $2.50 to $3.00 per 
bushel. The higher all-over color, firmer texture and 
longer keeping ability make Starking eagerly bought 
at 100 per cent higher prices! 
The ORIGINAL STARKING TREE-—a genuine Delicious with one 
limb all-over-red apples in August when balance of apples on tree 
were still green. This is the limb that caused us to pay $6,000.00 for 
the tree, which is now protected by burglar-proof cage. 
The $6,000.00 STARKING Limb above, bearing the red apples, will 
carry a boy through College. Mr. Mood, in whose orchard we dis¬ 
covered STARKING, has set aside the $6,000.00 to send his young 
son to College. 
“Starking Apples Well Colored—All 
Other Apples on Tree Green!” 
Value of Early Coloring • 
to All Growers 
Starking Wins the World’s 
Highest Award 
declared Prof. Jos. Oskamp, N. Y. State 
Ext. Professor Pomology. “Starking ex¬ 
ceeded my most optimistic expectations. 
To see the original Sport Limb of this 
tree laden with well-colored apples long 
before picking time when the rest of 
the apples on the tree were still entirely 
green was a sight worth coming many miles 
to see! There is no question about STARK¬ 
ING retaining this all-over-red color when 
propagated, because the fruit on the young 
STARKING trees in the same orchard was 
even deeper red than apples on Starking 
sport limb.” 
A. J. Heinicke, Professor Pomology, New 
York, wrote: “I am in entire accord with 
Prof. Oskamp regarding STARKING!” 
BECAUSE they DO color a beautiful, 
solid, all-over-red, STARKING apples 
can be picked early —To get the Highest 
“First-Delicious-on-Market” Prices. They 
can be picked while still hard, crisp, full 
of juice —and yet a Beautiful Blood Red 
and Will Keep until Late Spring and 
never get dry or mealy—retaining full 
juice and crispness. 
Prof. Potter, New Hampshire State 
Horticulturist, states: “Beyond all doubt a 
TRUE BUD SPORT. I think that the 
change has been of such a nature that the 
STARKING carries twice as many 
hereditary factors (red) as Delicious 
carries. This increased color will make 
it possible to pick earlier, which 
MAKES THE APPLES KEEP LONGER.” 
Representatives from N. Y. Exp. Station and N. Y. Agric. College, Cornell, under 
Original Limb of Starking Tree—Profs. Hedrick and Tukey, Geneva; Profs. Heinicke, 
Oskamp, Carrick and McDaniel, Cornell. 
Prof. C. P. Close, U. S. Gov’t. Po- 
mologist and other Committee 
members of the American Pomo- 
Jogical Society voted to confer 
the Highest Honor of The 
Horticultural World — the 
famous WILDER MEDAL, 
on the Starking apple. 
Prof. Close said: — “The par¬ 
ticular VALUE of Starking is in 
the early red color which makes 
it possible to pick and place the 
fruit in storage as soon as ‘hard 
ripe’.This will not only lengthen 
its commercial life but the 
fruit will NOTGET 
MEALY!” 
Prof. C. P. Close. 
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