-Crowned King of ALL Red Apples 
Starking AGAIN Wins Highest Award 
In 1927, Prof. C. P. Close and other judges, 
enthusiastically voted to confer the Wilder 
Medal, highest honor award in the Horticultural 
World on STARKING Double-Red Delicious 
apple. This coveted Wilder Medal is awarded to 
fruit only after exhaustive tests have proved its 
superior merits. Only four apples (including 
Golden Delicious) received this coveted recog¬ 
nition in 40 years. 
Starking Double-Red Delicious Wins 
Sweepstakes at Central States 
Fruit Show 
AGAIN, at the 1937 Meeting of the American 
Pomological Society and Central States Fruit 
Show, STARKING Double-Red Delicious won 
highest honors—Grand Sweepstakes Prize for the 
BEST of all the apples exhibited. 
These Grand Sweepstakes Winning Starking 
Apples were grown by Mr. George Schurch of 
Ft. Madison, Iowa. 
Bore 2Vo Bushels per.Tree! 
‘TLeading orChardists are more enthusiastic than 
ever over Starking, not only because of its WON¬ 
DERFUL COLOR AND SIZE of the apple, but the 
tree’s ability to BEAR MUCH YOUNGER THAN 
DELICIOUS ” 
“STARKING apples SELL AT A GOOD PRE¬ 
MIUM OVER DELICIOUS —and the Delicious has 
heretofore been the highest selling and most popular 
red apple ever planted! 
“Compared to other strains of Delicious, I 
consider STARKING Far Superior to All Others.” 
$J.OO per Bu. in N. Y. 
Geo. T: Skiff, who hus 250 young 
Starking trees in his fine orchards 
in Onondaga Co., New York, en¬ 
thusiastically reports:— 
“My 250 Starking trees bore 
much younger than Delicious 
begins to bear, as a rule. All the 
apples are highly colored—No. 
1 Extra Fancy for color and my 
customers are just crazy about 
them. Have sold these apples 
Far Younger Bearer 
Than Delicious 
AVhen \vc fiist introduced Stark¬ 
ing over a decade ago, we did not 
claim that it would bear younger 
than old Delicious. But fruit grow-, 
ers who planted Starking trees soon 
discovered that Starking trees 
came into bearing much younger 
than Old Delicious. 
for $3.50 a bushel. I And the 
Starking a good keeper and 
the tree is surely a young and 
heavy annual bearer.” 
I gathered 900 bushels of fine, big, bcauti" 
fully colored Starking apples from niy 700 
young trees this year. All of them began 
to bear 2 to 3 years younger than old 
Delicious. —L. A. Gather, Marion Co., 
W. Va. 
Bore 50 at 2 Years 
From Alabama, H. A. Norris, 
Marshall Co. orchardist, sends this 
report:— 
“TheStarking trees I planted 
2 years ago bore 50 apples this 
year.” 
As the trees grow older the yield 
increases with startling speed. For 
instance, look at this report from 
A. S. Phleger, Giles Co., Virginia:— 
“I harvested 110 bushels of 
big, superbly colored Starkings 
from 144 young 3 to 4 year old 
StarKing trees this year. They 
make a wonderful pack and the 
quality is unexcelled.” 
Picked my first crop from my 120 Stark¬ 
ing trees when they were only 3 years old. 
All of thern graded No. 1 Extra Fancy for 
color. This earlier, All-Over-Red Coloring 
makes them highly desirable in the eyes of 
the public and they always sell for high 
prices.—T. Hi Miller, Yell Co., Ark. 
I find that my Starking trees begin bear¬ 
ing 2 years younger than old Delicious. My 
000 Starking began bearing at 4 years. The 
apple has higher quality and juicier 
flavor than old Delicious.— G. C. Hilch- 
ings, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
I have about 100 Starking trees that 
began bearing when 3 years old —about 
2 years younger than Delicious usually 
bears. It is very much more desirable’than 
old Delicious. The apples always sell very 
much higher than Delicious because of the 
more attractive coloring.—J. A. Keyscr, 
Rappahannock Co., Va. 
Proved Best From Virginia To Oregon 
T HOS. j. HARWELL, King William Co., Va., noted 
orchanfist, writes: *“My Starking began bearing 
at 4 years. Last year (their 6th year) they had a 
good crop—size large, color perfect, brought $2.75 per 
bushel. They came back with another full crop this year, 
and I have already shipped two cars to New York. Apple 
men tell me there are no more beautiful apples in that 
city. I have found Starking a very vigorous, hardy tree 
—and it eliminates the faults of old Delicious, especially 
poor color.” 
A rthur foreman, Ex-Pres. 
^ Miss. Valley Apple Growers 
Asa’n., wrote: ‘‘Starking came 
through with 100% bright red color, 
reaching excellent size—in spite of the 
worst growing season in the memory of 
the oldest settlers. I can’t conceive of 
anyone planting old Delicious when 
they can get such wonderful result* 
with STARKING. What amazes me 
is the fact that apples in the densest 
shade are j ust as bright red as out¬ 
side apples. Anyone growing Starking 
need never worry about selling— they 
sell themselves.” 
C HAS. RUMBOLZ, famous orchard- 
i8t_ of Okanogan Co.,_ Wash., 
writes: ‘‘From 200 Starking trees 
only 8 years old, we packed 2,436 boxes 
—12.18 bushels per tree—THE MOST 
REMARKABLE YIELD I HAVE 
EVER RECEIVED FROM ANY 8- 
YEAR-OLD TREES." When J. C. 
Norris, Inspector and widely known 
authority, saw Mr. Rumbolz's fruit, ho 
wrote: *‘1 could have stayed there 
forever—I can’t tell you—can’t de¬ 
scribe the scene—3600 bushels of 
THESE IMMENSE SOLID RED 
STARRING-^ It is destined to make a 
complete revision of orchard planting 
in America.” 
Will be Great Money-Maker for Growers 
That was predicted a decade ago by the State Horticulturists, Govern¬ 
ment Pomologists and Orchardists who inspected the Original Starking 
Tree years before we ever introduced this variety to the world. The.sc 
predictions are being more emphatically proved every year—especially 
during the year of the Greatest Drouth in the History of America. 
Starking is far ahead of old Delicious in 
every way. My Starking trees bore 3 
years younger than Delicious. In my 
opinion, the old Delicious will be mighty 
hard to sell when there is enough Starking 
on the market to supply the demand.— 
W. R. Wessel, Lafayette Co., Mo. 
My 400 young Starking trees bore from 5 
to 7 bushels each and sold for $3.50 per 
bushel. They always bring the top price on 
every market.—R. L. Wallace, Harriman 
Co., Tenn. , 
Growers who plant Starking now will 
reap more than double the profits to be 
made raising old Delicious.—J. R. Perkins, 
Big Warrior Orchard, Walker Co., Ala. 
The earlier 100 per cent ALL-OVER- 
RED color of Starking makes ft a very much 
more desirable apple for growers than old 
Delicious. It is superior to any other 
apple and I wish that my 500 Delieiou.s 
trees were all Starking I have 200 Starking 
trees that began to bear 3 years younger 
than old Delicious. —James Sharpe, Mor¬ 
ris Co., Kansas. 
Every Apple on the Trees EXTRA FANCY 
The fact that ALL the apples on Starking trees become a uniform, 
deep crimson-red ALL OVER amazes experienced apple men. Even the 
fruit on the inside, shaded limbs becomes solid red when Delicious is 
still half green. “The color of the Starking apples even from the 
most shaded portion SHOWED MORE COLOR THAN IS NECES¬ 
SARY FOR EXTRA FANCY GRADE!” declared Prof. Roy E. Marshall, 
Assoc. Prof, in Horticulture, Michigan State College. 
The color of all my Starking apples is 
wonderful. People just MARVEL at their 
uniform all-over-red color. Many of my 125 
Starking trees were LOADED EVEN 
AFTER THE TERRIBLE DROUTH 
SUMMER!—W. W. Kercher, Prop. Sun¬ 
rise Orchards, Ellkhart Co., Indiana. 
My 300 young Starking trees bore 200 
bushels of big, uniformly ALL-OVER-RED 
apples last year, despite the drouth! 
They began bearing 2 years younger than 
Delicious.—W. B. Barrow, Wake Co., 
N. Car. 
All apple buyers arc delighted with the 
uniform higher color of Starking apples. 
Furthermore, Starking trees are better 
shaped, with stronger, wider crotches and 
of better spreading habit than old Delicious. 
—B. R. Williams, Washtenaw Co., Michi- 
gan. 
The CRE.AT majority of my Starkings 
always grade No. 1 Extra Fancy for color 
I picked 500 bushels from my young 
Starking trees this year.—A. F. Johnson, 
Cami)bcll Co., W. Va. 
Hardy in North — Succeeds in South 
Starking thrives, grows fast, bears young, yields big (Top.s annually 
in practically every section of the United States. It is rapidly superseding 
other red apples in orchards everywhere. 
Tlicre is no comparison between old De¬ 
licious and Starking trees here in New Eng¬ 
land. Last year we had a very severe winter 
but there was no winter injury on my 
young Starking trees, while thousands 
Baldwins were ABSOLUTELY KILLED. 
All my 450 Starking trees bore fine 
crops this year. —K. Y. Taylor, F'ranklin 
Co., Mass. 
My Starking trees began to bear 3 years 
younger than old Delicious. The earlier 
and all-over-red coloring of Starking makes 
it a far more profitable apple for the grower. 
—R. D. Kohne, Lucas Co., Ohio. 
Dc.spitc the drouth, many of my young 
Starking trees bore 2 barrels (6 bushels) 
each this year of fine Extra Fancy No. 1 
apples. The entire crop was 100 per cent 
all-over-red the first week in September. 
The crop was remarkable because these 
Starking trees withstood a 20 degrees 
below zero spell last winter!—D. Gold 
Miller, Berkeley Co., W. Va. 
All my Starking trees began bearing at 
least one year younger than Delicious. All 
of them withstood the terrible drouth 
splendidly and bore good crops.—C. Alc- 
Curdy, Oakland Co., Michigan. 
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