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LOUISIANA, MO. 
For 102 Years the Home of 
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Stark Bro’s Nurseries and 
Orchards Co. 
T his is a corking ^ood town. It has more ^ood-lookin^ ^irls, more 
avenues of shade trees, more happy homes and more really good people than any 
other town of its size that we have ever seen or ever heard of. 
Our pioneer forefathers made a good seleetion when they picked out 
this place for a trading post way hack there before Missouri became a state. The beautiful 
hills and the broad, fertile valleys gave promise of a future that even in those pioneering days 
could not be overlooked—and so, Louisiana, Mo., named in honor of and soon after President 
Jefferson’s great Louisiana Purchase, became a very small dot on a mighty big map. 
The Old-rimer’s dream of miles and miles of fields of grain has become 
a reality, and the trading post of over a century ago has been the home of great and good men 
and women who have helped to make national history. 
but one thing happened that was not on the program: A man named 
Stark, fresh from the war of 1812, rode his big Kentucky thoroughbred into the promised land, 
and hitched. And it wasn’t long until the people of the hamlet began to hear things about 
growing trees—for he was a man with a mission. 
This was our great, great-grandfather, judge James Stark, and that 
tree hobby of his made possible “I'he Town ITat’s Known Wherever Trees x'Yre Grown,” all 
over America. And the ideas and ideals of this man and of those of his family who followed 
him have made the name Louisiana, Mo., stand for something else besides just trees. Tt 
stands for trees, it stands for tree honesty, for square methods, for golden-rule nursery 
ideas, and the Starks of the present generation are doing their best to live up to the ideals and 
improve the methods that have made this organization what it is today. 
As we said at the beginning, Louisiana, Mo., is a mighty good, live 
town. Some of you have stopped here, and the members of the Stark Pro’s Organization have 
pleasant memories of these visits, and they hope that you’ll come again. To the others we will 
give a hearty welcome when they come our way. The latch-string always hangs on the out¬ 
side. We are proud of our good town, and our great big nursery just on the outskirts. 
Louisiana is conveniently located up in Northeast Missouri, not far 
from the Iowa line, on two main-trunk-line railroads. Stop off and see us on you way to or 
from Philadelphia. 
