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STARKING— 
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DouhlesRad Deliciats 
Sold ONLY by-Stark Bro’s 



Nearly 25 years ago the newspapers, farm 
papers and magazines all over America blazed 
forth with the announcement :— 
“Western Nursery Pays $6,000.00 for 
a Limb of a New Jersey Apple Tree!”’ 
Because we have become known by leading 
Horticulturists and Orchardists as the Nursery 
first to Discover and Introduce New and Better 
Fruits, we were immediately swamped with 
thousands of inquiries. .Even though our Nur- 
sery’s name was not mentioned in the news 
story that flashed across the country, well 
posted fruit lovers and fruit growers immedi- 
ately leaped to the conclusion: 
“Stark Bro’s Is The ONLY Nursery Pro- 
gressive Enough To Do That!’’ 
This limb bore a New DOUBLE-RED Delicious 
apple—a Delicious that is Red All Over when 
regular Delicious is still green, so that this new 
apple can be picked early while still hard, crisp—in | 
perfect condition to keep juicy until late Spring and ; 
never get dry or mealy. (See color comparison photo- 
The Highest Honor in Horticulture graph tovight) We erected a cage around the Original | 

Awarded to Starking. : 
a watchman in charge. 
Because they DO color all over—a beautiful, solid, all-over red (even to 
stem and blossom end) STARKING apples can be picked early—if you 
desire to get the Highest First-Delicious-on-the-market Prices. 
They can be picked while still hard, crisp, full of juice—and yet 
be a Beautiful Blood Red and in perfect condition to Keep until Late 
Spring and never get dry or mealy—retaining full juice and crispness. 
With STARKING you have a great money-making feature that will 
recommend STARKING to commercial growers. Practically every apple 
we have ever seen on a STARKING Tree has been EXTRA FANCY in 
yo : STARKING is an extra large, RED ALL- 
iss | OVER apple, with the five-knob charac- 
¥ teristic of Stark Delicious. Its complete, full-red 
re »» skin attracts buyers in every market. Its crisp, 
4 juice-laden, tender flesh is of wonderfully 
delightful flavor—a flavor that is aromatic— 
spicy—tangful. 
As one fruit connoisseur has stated, “Starking 
apples possess the champagne of all apple 
flavors. No other red apple begins to rival its 
4 rich quality.”’ 
—declared Prof. Jos. Oskamp, N. Y. 
State Ext. Professor Pomology. ‘‘Stark- 
ing exceeded my most optimistic expec- 
tations. To see the original Sport Limb 
of this tree laden with well-colored 
apples long before picking time 
when the rest of the apples on the 
tree were still entirely green was a 
sight worth coming many miles to see! 
There is no question about STARK- 
ING retaining this all-over-red color 
when propagated, because the fruit on 
the young STARKING trees in the 
same orchard was even deeper red than 
apples on Starking Sport Limb!” 
‘‘My Starking trees started bearing 
when 2 years old. The tremendous 
color improvement over Delicious 
surprised all visitors,’’ reports Leo 
Antles, who sent us photo above. 






The photograph to the 
right was sent to us by 
Leo C. Antles, District 
Production Manager 
American Fruit Grow- 
ers, Inc. These apples® 
brought the growers $5. 
a bushel f. o. b. cars 
when Delicious were 
bringing $2.50 to $3.00 
per bushel. 
tree to protect it from bud or scion theft and placed |, 
$6000 Starking Original Limb (Red Apples above)— 
with Delicious still green. 

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color! In every other respect—in strength of tree, hardiness and pollinating 
ability, and qualitv, flavor, aroma and size, it is a true Stark Delicious—one 
with a Double-Red Skin. Here is an Apple that is worth millions to 
American Fruit Growers. This is not our assertion. It is the declaration 
of men who have seen the original STARKING tree and Succeeding Genera- 
tion Trees propagated from scions taken from that Marvelous Bud Sport 
Limb. In their opinion STARKING’S IMPORTANCE in PROFITS TO 
FRUIT GROWERS cannot be over-estimated. Many thousands of growers 
are today PROVING THIS Fact in sensational Money-Making Success 
with STARKING in all parts of the country. 
Furthermore, Starking apples retain their 
crispness and enticing flavor even after long } 
storage. This is because of its unique habit of 
COLORING ALL OVER weeks before Delici- 
ous obtains the right color for picking. It can be 
picked FULL RED weeks before Delicious 
is half red on the tree. Old Delicious must be 
picked half-red before it is fully colored to 
“stand up’’ in storage. 
Starking apples do NOT get mealy because 
they can be picked fully colored when “‘hard 
ripe’’—keep until late Spring. 
6-yr.-old Starking Trees in Wm. 
Grimes Orchards, Pike Co., Mo., bore 
huge, solid-red apples packed 64 to the 
box and were as fine Starking apples ! 
as even the east or west can pro- 
duce. This PROVES that as fine 
Starking can be grown in the Middle- 
west as anywhere else. T. J. Talbert, | 
Missouri State Horticulturist says: 7” 
“Regarding Starking apples grown | 
in Grimes Orchard. ‘Rarely have I | 
ever seen Starking apples more i: 
nearly perfect in every regard than 
these.’ They are ideal in size, color, 
shape, finish and Highest Quality.” 
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Elon J. Gilbert (Richey & Gilbert— 
large growers) standing beside 
loaded 6-yr.-old STARKING tree, 
Note huge size of apples. 







acme, L Bec 
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“Finest carload of Apples Ever Shipped in 
America—ALL STARKING”’ 
