GENUINE Golden Delicious Trees Sold ONLY by Stark - BEWARE of Imitation **Yellow’' Delicious 
A GENUINE 
Golden Delicious 
Actual Size 
Apple 
Sold ONLY 
by Stark Bro’s 
<,. the $5,000 Tree in a Cage 
This tree in a cage on a rocky West Virginia 
mountainside is the ORIGINAL Stark’s Golden, 
Delicious tree. We paid $5,000.00 for this tree and 
the ground on which it stands. This is the PARENT 
TREE of all Genuine Golden Delicious trees. 
A. H. Mullins, in whose orchard the tree was 
found, is shown standing beside the cage. 
Original Golden Delicious Tree—The $5000 Tree in a Burglar Proof Cage 
Beware of Bogus Golden Delicious 
Some people offer “Yellow Delicious’’ trees which they claim 
are “same as Stark’s Golden Delicious.’’ Here is one such case. 
Judge Julian Shackleford, Buchanan Co., Mo., states: 
“I was told that another nursery could supply me Golden Delicious trees 
under a similar name. When these trees bore, I found them ordinary yellow 
apples far inferior to Golden Delicious both in flavor and appearance.” 
The Quest of the Golden Apple 
By Paul Stark 
The first “clue” came to us one That fall the writer started on 
April day some years ago. Three 
wonderful yellow apples reached us 
from a West Virginia mountaineer- 
orchard ist—who wrote that they 
were a new, heretofore unknown, 
v'ariety. 
The second “clue” came when my 
brother. Major Lloyd Stark, bit in¬ 
to one of the Golden apples. The 
flavor amazed him. These apples 
looked like Grimes Golden—but 
tasted like Stark Delicious! They 
were shaped like Stark Delicious. 
And they were in perfect condi¬ 
tion in April! Grimes Golden 
would have been rotted and gone 
months before. 
One apple was sent to Col. 
Brackett, U. S. Pomologist at 
Washington, D. C. Friends present 
at the time told us how the Colonel 
came hurrying into the office, a 
little slab of this wonderful yellow 
apple perched on his knife blade, 
exclaiming, “Taste this! Here’s 
an apple with a far better flavor 
than Grimes Golden.” 
“The Quest of the Golden Apple.” 
A 1,000-mile railroad trip, plus a 
20-mile horse-back ride through 
West Virginia mountain wilds, 
brought me to the farm of Mr. A. 
H. Mullins. 
Back of the house I saw an 
orchard. But—here came the dismal 
disappointment! Every tree I could 
see was nothing but a wild seedling 
—miserable runts. 
Dejected and sick at heart, I 
turned around to leave—when—I 
SAW IT! 
There, looming forth in the midst 
of many small, leafless, barren trees, 
was a tree with rich green foliage 
that looked as if it had been trans¬ 
ported from the Garden of Eden. 
That tree’s boughs were bending 
to the ground beneath a tremen¬ 
dous crop of great, glorious, 
glowing, golden apples, 
I started for it on the run. A fear 
bothered me, “Suppose it’s just a 
Grimes Golden treeafterall.” I came 
closer anG I saw the app es were 50 
per cent larger than Grimes Golden, 
I plucked one and bit into its crisp, 
tender, juice-laden flesh. Eureka! I had 
found it. The long sought for perfect yellow 
apple had been discovered. The “Quest of 
the Golden Apple’’ had finally reached a 
successful end. 
‘‘Finest Flavored Apple 
in ALL the WORLD!’’ 
“Golden Delicious is the finest 
flavored apple in all the world.” 
It is a remarkably Large, Late 
Winter, Waxen-Golden Apple with 
a rich, alluring beauty that tempts 
the buyer and commands Record- 
Breaking High Prices on every 
market every year. A great com¬ 
mercial and family apple “ONCE 
TASTED, ALWAYS WANTED!” 
It is supreme as an eating apple—and 
perfection for cooking, canning and cider. 
Golden Delicious averages as large as Red 
Stark Delicious. A FAR SUPERIOR 
KEEPER to Grimes. It is a big, glossy. 
Golden Yellow apple, slightly conical in 
shape (somewhat like Stark Delicious), is 
blessed with a Rich, Creamy Yellow Flesh, 
suffused with a slight hint of Oranges — 
Crisp, Firm, with a Sparkling, Tangful 
Flavor much like that of a crisp, perfect 
Bartlett Pear. No apple ever known or 
grown has so instantly caught the public’s 
favor—BECAUSE OF FLAVOR! 
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