Stark Delicious 
Trade-Mark 
ORIGINAL TREE Strain 
Trees Obtainable ONLY from Stark Bro’s 
‘*The Dessert Apple Supreme!** 
“'^HE Finest Red Apple In All The World”—said 
J- Luther Burbank, before we discovered Starking. 
This great, big, flashing, LATE WINTER red apple is the 
one so easily recognized because of its beautiful waxen 
skin of deep crimson blending off into golden yellow at the 
blossom end, with its five knob-like protuberances. Have 
you sunk your teeth with joyous relish into the tender, 
crisp, juice-laden flesh of a Delicious apple? If so, you must 
be still smacking your lips over its deliciously DIFFERENT 
flavor. You must still remember its alluring aroma, with 
its faint suggestion of sparkling old wine. Admittedly, the 
Delicious IS ‘‘The Dessert Apple Supreme!” 
The Genuine ORIGINAL TREE Strain Stark Delicious 
Trees are fast growing, hardy, extremely resistant to 
disease, great pollenizers and regular annual bearers. 
And—shrewd orchardists and careful home orchardists 
have always INSISTED on Getting genuine ORIGINAL 
TREE Strain Stark Delicious BECAUSE they know that 
the Original Tree was discovered by C. M. Stark over a 
third of a century ago—that we immediately purchased 
* Exclusive and Perpetual Rights to this tree and we 
were protected by a U. S. Registered Trade-Mark. We 
continuously renew our stock from this Original Tree. 
Of course, NOW, we recommend the Improved, Double- 
Red Delicious—STARKING, instead of Delicious, for 
planting in Commercial Orchards. For home orchards, how¬ 
ever, Delicious still has our heartiest recommendations. 
STARKING TeSToVs" 
Stark Delicious, after 40 years of popularity, has only 
one commercial fault—lack of sufficient color sometimes 
preventing a large percentage of the fruit from going into 
fancy commercial color grade. BUT its popularity has 
been maintained despite this drawback. 
The discovery and introduction of Starking (Solid-Red 
Delicious) which occurred as a bud sport on a Stark Deli¬ 
cious tree in a New Jersey orchard, gave the Orchardists a 
new improved “Double-Red” Delicious that was deep 
solid red all over. Today the Solid Red Starking is planted 
almost exclusively where a tree of the Delicious type is 
wanted. 
Starking has put millions of dollars of extra profit in the pockets of 
fruit growers. Now they can ship to the markets Starking “Double- 
Red” Delicious that are a deep solid blazing red—and EVERY AP¬ 
PLE ON THE TREE TAKES ON THIS GORGEOUS RED COLOR. 
Then there is another tremendous advantage—Starking can be picked 
while they are hard ripe, insuring late keeping—for Starking takes on 
its dazzling red color two or three weeks before the apple is ripe enough 
to pick. Orchardists also report—“Starking Bears Years younger than 
ordinary Delicious.” 
Stark King David 
STARK “Double-Red^’ Strains 
(Trade Mark) 
The improvement of apple varieties by the discovery of bud sports did not stop with Starking. 
Many other varieties are now being propagated from improved “Double-Red” (Trade-Mark) 
high-color strains that originated just as Starking did. 
We are offering to our customers the following solid red variety strains that have practically 
made obsolete the old standard strains: 
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Staymared (“Double-Red” Stayman 
Winesap) 
Jonared (“Double-Red” Jonathan) 
“Double-Red” Baldwin 
“Double-Red” Duchess 
Others are now under observation or un¬ 
der test—and other red strains (bud sports) 
will be added to our list when proved. This 
means improved profits to growers, for this 
extra color will always increase the price 
per bushel—and also increase the 
yield of fancy apples 
per tree. 
Bud sports in fruit 
trees are of 
rather rare 
occurrence 
in nature 
“Double-Red” Rome Beauty 
Triple-Red Gravenstein (a redder sport 
from a red bud sport) 
“Double-Red” Northern Spy 
“Double-Red” Willow Twig 
but are thoroughly understood—and have 
even now been a tremendous influence in the 
improvement of American orchards. The in¬ 
troduction of these vastly improved Stark 
“Double-Red” (Trade-Mark) Strains is only 
a fore-runner of what fruit lovers 
may expect from the Stark Nur¬ 
series in the fu- 
Trade 
Mark 
Obtainable ONLY from Stark Bro’s 
A fine, dark wine-red Winter apple that many consider an im¬ 
proved redder Jonathan. Does not drop or blight. A cross of 
Jonathan and Winesap. Colors earlier. Can be marketed just 
before Jonathan are sufficiently colored. Tops Jonathan market 
at home and abroad. Keeps well in storage untillate spring, when 
it commands extremely high prices. One of the surest croppers 
—escapes late frosts—bore all over the U. S. when many old 
standby apples were killed by frost. Extremely young, heavy, 
annual bearer. 
We introduced Stark King David over 25 years ago, and buds 
cut from Original Tree produced the special high type, heavy 
“Record-Bearing” tree selected from among many thousands as the 
Parent Tree for our future propagation. Jonathan and Stark King 
David are very similar. About the same size, both solid red, but King 
David is much darker red—colors up earlier and hangs three weeks 
longer. Quality even better than Jonathan. Ideal orchard tree—well 
formed, hardy, vigorous, blight-resistant, healthy, long lived. Genuine 
Original Tree Strain trees are obtainable ONLY from Stark. 
Prices in Back of Book 
Stark 
King 
David 
