Oldest Nurseries in America—120 Years Old—Largest Nurseries in The World 
True “RECORD-BEARING” Trees Sold ONLY by Us 
We Spent Over $50,000.00 to ASSURE You EXTRA Value 
"You may win $1,000.00 
hy finding a new fruit or 
shrub and selling to us.’ 
The Original 
Golden Delicious Tree 
Now, after years of investigation and at the ex¬ 
pense of more than $50,000,00, we have changed 
ALL our varieties to “Record-Bearing” Strains. ALL 
Stark Trees are propagated from the best known 
Record-Bearing Parent Tree of each variety—or from 
trees scientifically proved to have superior bud varia¬ 
tions and bud sport characteristics—with the ability 
to transmit to their offspring superior higher color 
and earlier color, uniformity of shape and type, 
greater crops, larger fruit. 
Leading horticulturists and most successful orchard- 
ists, in planting their own orchards, prefer to plant 
Stark Trees that they KNOW have been propagated 
from Parent Trees of KNOWN Bearing Records. For 
instance, Prof. Green, for years Chief State Horti¬ 
culturist of Ohio Experiment Station, stated:— 
“If I were planting an orchard myself, I would 
prefer that the nursery stock I used would be 
propagated from trees of known records.” 
Prof. A. D. Shamel, in charge of U. S. Govt. Fruit 
Improvement investigations, says “Of Great Value 
To Fruit Industry!” 
This Absolutely Assures Greater Tree Value 
The Original 
Hal-Berta Giant Tree 
The Original 
Starking Tree 
It preserves Superior Colored Strains, like Starking, 
etc. It perpetuates Heavy Bearing Types, such as 
Golden Delicious. It keeps “drone” trees out of Stark 
Trees. It prevents our best varieties from degenera¬ 
tion—and prevents best varieties from relapsing into 
degenerate, weak strains. 
It preserves the habits of heavier, annual yields of 
better colored fruit, ideal shape, larger size and other 
better characteristics — and, thus, assures better 
fruit, bigger crops and greater profits to those 
who plant Stark Trees. 
It Makes More Certain “True-to-Name” Trees 
Our system of propagating ONLY from Record- 
Bearing Parent Trees of each variety, minimizes errors 
in propagation and, thus, is double assurance that 
EVERY Stark Tree is a True-To-Name tree. 
Furthermore, every farmer and stockman now knows 
that he gains bigger crops from superior seed—gets 
finer stock from thoroughbred or pedigreed parents— 
and, while trees are not the product of two parents, 
theirpropagation from a Stark “Record-Bearing” Strain 
Parent Tree is of vast importance and of GREATER 
VALUE to the man who wants assurance of a reliable 
source of the best fruit trees and the biggest profits. 
7 Branch Nurseries Help Us Give Greater Value 
A Century and More of experience has PROVEN 
to us that there ARE a few, selected sections where 
specially adapted soil and conditions produce finer 
fruit trees of certain varieties—trees with a super¬ 
abundance of vitality. 
A Century of search and experiment have enabled 
us to locate these ideal sections. The Nation’s greatest 
horticulturists have aided us in this work. Today we 
have Seven Tree Growing Plants or Nurseries located 
in New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Missouri, 
Illinois, Oklahoma and Kansas. This makes Stark 
Tree growing more costly to us —but it assures 
FULL OF LIFE, EXTRA VALUE trees for you, 
our customers, at no increase in cost. 
Over a million—4Vi months bid—OLD OAK PROCESS Ozark Mountain Stark Apple Trees 
Prices of ALL Varieties—See Pages 27 to 29 
