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“Golden Delicious is the finest flavored apple in all the world.” A \ - 
remarkably Large, Late Winter, Waxen Golden Apple with a rich, alluring y 
beauty that tempts the buyer and commands Record-Breaking High 
Prices. A great commercial and family apple “ONCE TASTED, ALWAYS 
WANTED.” 
It is supreme as an eating apple—perfection for cooking for every apple F es ae eed aN 
dish—and unsurpassed for canning and cider. ous s aes 
Golden Delicious averages as large as Red Stark Delicious. A FAR P 
SUPERIOR KEEPER to Grimes. It is a big, glossy, Golden Yellow Apple, i 
slightly conical in shape (somewhat like Stark Delicious) has a Rich, f 
Creamy Yellow Flesh, suffused with a slight hint of Oranges—Crisp, Firm, - | 
with a Sparkling, Tangful Flavor much like that of a perfect Bartlett Pear. | 
No apple ever known or grown has so instantly caught the public’s favor— jf 
BECAUSE OF MARVELOUS FLAVOR! | 
The largest Orchardists in America, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, 
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“A GENUINE 
Golden Delicious 
Actual Size 

Pa., say: 
“We have closely observed Stark’s Golden Delicious for many years. It is The Heaviest 
Bearing of All Commercial Varieties—even heavier than Rome Beauty, Black Ben or 
Ben Davis. The trees are strong and healthy, quite frost-resistant and they bear a 
commercial load of high quality fruit on one-year wood, being the only variety that 1 
does this. The apples never get mealy. We gathered 1220 bu. off 130treesandthe crop | 
was 71-8.10 per ce nt. Extra pees 46-4.10 per cent. of the apples ran 64 apples to the bushel 1 


The Original 
Golden 




Delicious Tree Beware 
jee + a cage ona of BOGUS 
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teinside is the ORIGINAL GOLDEN 
Stark’s Golden Delicious. DELICIOUS 
Thisisthe PARENT TREE 
of all Genuine Golden De- 
licious trees. A. H. Mullins, 
in whose orchard the tree 
was found, is standing be- 
side the cage. “It has 
broken all records for quick 
popularity as one of Amer- 
ica’s top quality favorites.” 
amazed him. These apples looked like Grimes apples of Gold—but they 
tasted like Stark Delicious! And they were in perfect condition in 
April! Most apples would have been rotted and gone months before. Our 
fruit experts all pronounced it the long-looked-for golden apple. 
The first “‘clue’”’ came to us one April day some years ago. Three wonderful 
yellow apples reached us from a West Virginia mountaineer-orchardist—who 
wrote that they were a new, heretofore unknown, variety. The second “‘clue”’ 
came when our Mr. Stark bit into one of the Golden apples. The flavor 
That tree’s boughs were bending to the ground beneatha 
One apple was sent to Col. Brackett, U. S. Pomologist at 
Washington,D.C. Friends present told us how the Colonel 
came hurrying into the office, a little slab of this wonderful 
yellow apple perched on his knife blade, exclaiming, “‘Taste 
this! Here’s an apple with a far better flavor than Grimes 
Golden.” 
That fall the writer started on ‘‘The Quest of the Golden 
Apple.” 
A 1,000-mile railroad trip, plus a 20-mile horse-back ride 
The Wilder Silver Medal is the Nobel Prize of the 
fruit world. It was provided for by a Trust Fund left in 
1886 by the late Marshall P. Wilder, Scientist and 
Pomologist, who was President of "the American 
Pomological Society for 38 years—with instructions 
thatit was to be awarded toa fruit only after exhaus- 
tive investigation had produced proof of that fruit’s 
supreme merit. This medal made by U.S. Mint. 

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through West Virginia mountain wilds, brought me to the 
farm of Mr. A. H. Mullins. 
Back of the house I saw an orchard. But—here came the 
dismal disappointment! Every tree I could see was nothing 
but a wild seedling—miserable runts. 
Dejected and sick at heart, I turned around to leave— 
when I SAWIT! 
There, looming forth in the midst of many small, leafless, 
barren trees, was a tree with rich green foliage that looked 
as if it had been transported from the Garden of Eden. 
Awards WILDER MEDAL to This Apple 
What the Supreme Court is to United States law, the American Pomological 
Society is to American fruit and horticulture—the Final, Highest Authority. This 
Society has occupied this eminent position for more than 92 years. 
great body of scientists and horticulturists has given to Stark’s Golden Delicious 
the highest tribute ever granted to an apple—the only Wilder Medal ever awarded 
“struck off’’ on the massive presses of the 
United States Mint, by special order, and is now in our possession. (See medal 
to a yellow apple. This medal was 
tremendous crop of great, glorious, glowing, slam 
apples. 
I started for it on the run. A fear bothered me, “Suppose 
it’s just a Grimes Golden after all.’’ I came closer and saw 
the apples were 50 per cent. larger and shaped more like Red 
Delicious. I plucked one and bit into its crisp, tender, juice- 
laden flesh. Eureka! I had found it. The long-sought-for 
perfect yellow apple had been discovered. The ‘‘Quest of 
the Golden Apple had finally reached a successful end.”’ ; 

Now—this 
Prof. C. P. Close 

at left.) 
To YOU who have seen Genuine 
Golden Delicious ‘prove itself’ in 
every state—here is the evidence of the 
esteem in which this superb fruit, and 
the tree that bears it, is held by the 
Foremost Pomological Experts, 
Horticulturists and Orchardists. 
They watched the development, test- 
ing and success of this Great, Big Glow- 
ing Golden apple for years before giving 
it this—the Supreme Honor. 
On the Committee on the Wilder 
Medal Award were such eminently 
conservative authorities as 
© Stark Bro’s Nurseries, Louisiana, Mo. 
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Prof. C. P. Close, Official Pomologist, 
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 
Prof. W. J. Green, State Horticulturist, 
Ohio Exper. Station, Wooster, Ohio. 
Prof. E. N. Hansen, State Horticulturist, 
South Dak. Exper. Sta., Brookings, S. De 
(See photographs at right) 
Gathered with these men and concurring in 
their unanimous verdict in favor of Stark’s 
Golden Delicious were such noted authorities as 
Dr. Liberty H. Bailey, Dean of New York 
College of Agriculture, Cornell University, and 
Author of the world-famous Standard Ency- 
clopedia of American Horticulture—and horti- 
culturists and fruit experts from practically 
every Horticultural College and Experiment 
Station, 



Prof. N.E. Hansen. 

Prof. W..J. Green | 
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