Stark Bro's Have 9 Branch Nurseries in 8 Different States 
Red McIntosh 
The Great Hardy Red Apple 
So Largely Planted Where Tree Hardiness Is Required 
Stark Delicious 
Trade-Mark 
ORIGINAL TREE Strain 
Trees obtainable ONLY from Stark Bro’s 
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Original Tree Strain 
“The Dessert Apple Supreme” 
“The finest red apple in all the world” said 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. Admittedly, the 
Delicious IS “The Dessert Apple Supreme!’’ The Genuine ORIG¬ 
INAL 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 dis¬ 
covered 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. 
STARKING 
“ Double-Red’’ 
DELICIOUS 
Stark Delicious, after 40 years of popularity, has only one com¬ 
mercial fault—lack of sufficient color. The discovery and intro¬ 
duction of Starking (Solid-Red Delicious) which occured as a bud 
sport on a Stark Delicious 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 for 
commercial markets. 
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 
Apple 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. 
Our McIntosh is from a Stark Record-Bearing Strain, being grown 
from a true red strain, selected from a famous McIntosh orchard. 
Growers should be careful in selecting McIntosh trees, for ONLY 
the true RED McIntosh with the solid red color (not striped) 
should be grown. This superior improved Stark Strain adds tre¬ 
mendously to the value of this popular and profitable variety. 
Stark Red McIntosh is a.beautiful apple, uniform in size, beautiful 
crimson color, with crisp delicate aromatic flesh that is almost snow 
white. The tree is long lived, extremely hardy, is a strong grower 
and bears reasonably young. In all northern orchards where hardi¬ 
ness is considered, this improved strain of McIntosh should be 
largely planted because it is a proven money maker. 
STARK “DOUBLE-RED’’ STRAINS 
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: 
Starking (“Dbl.-Red” Delicious) “Double-Red” Rome Beauty- 
Scarlet Staymared—U. S. Pat. Triple-Red Gravenstein (a red- 
Staymared (Dark Red Stayman) der sport from a red bud sport) 
Jonared (“Double-Red” Jona- “Double-Red” Northern Spy 
than) U. S. Pat. “Double-Red” Willow Twig 
“Double-Red” Baldwin “Double-Red” Duchess 
Others are now under observation or under 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 yield of fancy apples per tree. 
Bud sports in fruit trees are of rather rare occurrence in 
nature, but are thoroughly understood—and have proven to 
be a tremendous influence in the improvement of American 
orchards. The introduction of these vastly improved Stark 
“Double-Red” (Trade Mark) Strains is only a fore-runner of 
what fruit lovers may expect from the Stark Nurseries in the 
future. 
Prices Are in Back of Book—All Stark Trees Are Now RECORD-BEARING Strain 
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