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Burbank’s July Elberta - 

Burbank’s July Elberta has proved to be the 
long looked-for Very Early Yellow Fleshed Freestone Peach. It is an 
excellent high quality, large Yellow Freestone Peach, for Shipping, Eating 
Fresh and splendid for Canning. 
Burbank’s July Elberta is a beautiful Golden Yellow almost completely 
overspread with Vivid Red, which makes the tree appear aflame with blood 
red fruit. Itisthe most brilliant red of all peaches. Its Golden Yellow flesh 
is rich in flavor, full of sweet juice, with no bitterness and no red at pit. 
Burbank’s July Elberta Peach is creating a sensation throughout the Nation. 
In Commercial Orchards, in Home Orchards, in Local Orchards, on 
Roadside Stands, in Back Yards and on the Fruit Markets, it is the 
outstanding Very Early Yellow Freestone Peach of the Century. A Very 
Heavy Bearer—it often bears when others fail. Very Hardy—thrives in 
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In quality, it is one of the best—far superior to old Elberta. July 
Elberta ripens about half-way between June Elberta and old Elberta— 
at the time that really fine peaches bring highest market prices. The heavy 
crops are well distributed over the trees—a characteristic which is very desir- 
able in a peach for either Commercial or Home Orchards. A very hardy 
peach. Bore after long period of severe sub-zero weather in Stark-Burbank 
Test Orchards and elsewhere. See illustration of this New Peach Sensation 
on Opposite Page. 
Canada and bears crops when many other peaches are killed by low tempera- 
tures or by late frosts. Always a complete Freestone. Superb Quality. 
A Good Shipper. A beautiful, Brilliant Red and Gold Peach—a Sensa- 
tional Quick Money-Maker—often coming into bearing when only 2 
years old. Ripens Very Early—20 days before Elberta. NCS 

_ July Elberta. 
“February freeze while peaches were in bloom killed all 
my peaches except July Elberta. I have 100 July Elberta 
trees which began bearing at 2 years. This year they 
bore from 114 to 214 bushels per tree and I received 
$1.50 a bushel. The quality, color, taste and shipping 
qualities of Burbank’s July Elberta are unexcelled. 
Their early bearing and quick growth are added charac- 
teristics which would cause me to plant more July Elberta 
trees.’—Logan Fain, Morris Co., Texas. 
“T have 15 four-year-old July Elberta trees. They 
stood 3 years of bad drouth and heat and the cold of 
Nebraska winters and still came through with a big 
money crop. If I set more peach I will set July Elberta.’’— 
N. White, Otoe Co., Nebraska. 
“T have 100 July Elberta Peach trees 4 years old which 
bore their first crop when 2 years old, when other 
varieties were failures. All my customers say July Elberta 
is as fine a peach as they ever tasted, and I sold mine for 
$2.40 a bushel.’’—Kenneth Clark, Snyder Co., Pa. 
“My 10 July Elberta Peach Trees began bearing when 
3 years old and they are always loaded. It ripens 22 days 
before Elberta. I get $1.95 per bushel for my surplus 
July Elbertas.’’—Peter Bohland, Clark Co., Ohio. 
J. Carl Ward, addressing N. Y. Hort. Society on “What 
Varieties of Peaches Shall I Plant”’ said: 
““& peach which looks to me like a winner is Burbank’s 
We have a planting of 400 trees. It has 
excellent size, wonderful scarlet coloring, so brilliant 
. that fruit on young trees can be seen a great distance. It 
"has very firm meat, a small pit and isa perfect freestone. 
‘Its flavor is very unusual—to me it tastes like a blending 
of Early Crawford and J. H. Hale. I picked as many as 
20 peaches from trees which were l-year old the pre- 
ceding Spring.’’ 
“With us July Elberta ripens ten days to 2 weeks before 
Stark Early Elberta and both years since it started to 
bear (when only 3 years old) has fruited when other 
varieties failed. This year July Elberta bore a heavy 
crop after 24 below zero. 
“July Elberta is the best peach the West has ever 
put on the market and we have the first ones planted in 
this section. The fruit brings from 5c to 7c per pound 
($3.00 to $4.50 a bushel) and are making us more 
money than any other peach variety. The stores call 
us for them and pay more for them than for any other 
peach.’’—C. M. Blazey, Asotin Co., Washington. 
‘July Elberta is a very fine peach with us. The trees 
have borne heavily every year since their second season. 
The tree is a very good grower. The fruit itself is of good 
quality and size.’’—A. Grant Fox, Ont., Camada. 
“T attended the big peach meeting at Michigan Experi- 
mental Station. July Elberta and Hale-Haven were the 
two outstanding peaches. July Elberta has a brilliant red 
color, high quality and is satisfactory in every way. This 
year the orchardists from all over the state had a fine oppor- 
tunity to see the variety ripening. July Elberta is recom- 
mended by Michigan Station at this time.’’-—Ward Lock- 
wood. Later—‘‘Again this year July Elberta made a_sen- 
sational record at the Mich. Exp. Station—magnificent 
quality—tipened 6 days ahead of Hale-Haven.”’ 
“In 1933,’’ says Louis Christ of Mo., ‘I decided to try a 
small planting of Burbank July Elberta and Hal-Berta 
Giant peach trees, Last year both of these varieties bore 
and brought highest prices. Although there was a big 
fruit crop all over the country, I sold 200 bushels of Hal- 
Berta Giants (from 40 trees) for $2.25 to $2.50 a bushel. 
Again this year, I have a bumper crop—130 bushels 
of July Elbertas and my 40 Hal-Berta Giant trees are 
loaded again this year. I am getting $3.00 to $3.50 a 
bushel for them right at my orchard. July Elberta 
and Hal-Berta Giant are two of the finest, most profit- 
able. They are making me ten times the profits I get 
from the same acreage in wheat.”’ 
“My July Elbertas, 2 years old, set good crop and bore 10 
bushels of big deep red and gold peaches. They hang on tree 
week or 10 days after shipping stage, showing they are 
good shippers. I think July Elberta the outstanding 
peach among many choice varieties I grow. They bear 
earlier—3 weeks before Elberta. Flavor is good as quality. 
Growth of tree while carrying crop is amazing—most thrifty, 
vigorous trees I set out. I want more this Fall, as thisis a 
peach you can’t flatter too much—it looks finer on the 
trees or counter than in the catalog.’’—Logan Fain, Morris 
Co., Texas. 
- WORLD’S FINEST 
CANNING PEACH 

Midseason— Vellow Clingstone. The sweetest, fin- 
est, most delicious and most beautiful yellow 
fleshed clingstone peach the world has ever known. 
The finding and introduction of this great variety 
covers a search that took us into every peach 
section of the United States, and the testing of 
hundreds of promising sorts—BUT WE HAVE 
FINALLY FOUND IT! The original tree grew 
in Arkansas—often called ‘‘America’s Greatest 
Experiment Station.’’ After years of extensive 
tests, we can now unqualifiedly recommend it. 
The fruit looks somewhat like Stark Early Elberta 
—about the same shape, the same marvelous 
golden color—BUT IT IS A PERFECT CLINGe 
STONE, Quality superb, honey sweet juice and 
flesh—the most alluring quality of any clingstone 
—yet so firm, so solid, that it will ship alrhost 
any distance without breaking down. ‘‘The 
Finest Canning Peach in the World.’’ 
We now offer Golden Elberta Cling, as unquestionably the 
best yellow clingstone peach, from every standpoint. NCS. 
“Our most pleasant surprise was with the GOLDEN EL- 
BERTA CLING Peach. Itisa beautiful large peach, excelled 
by none in flavor.’’—Willis D. Witter, Maryland. Ripe 5 days 
before Elberta. Introduced and Sold ONLY by Stark Bro’s. 





Originated by Mr. J. H. Hale—‘'The Peach King.” In size, color, texture, 
¥ flavor, keeping and shipping-qualities J. H. Hale surpasses old Elberta. 
Mammoth in size, vivid carmine over golden yellow, almost perfectly round, 
fuzzless and smooth as a glove. Commands instant attention on all mar- 
kets by Giant size and glorious color. Flesh solid like a cling, yet melt- 
_ ing, tender, free from grain and stringiness, has exquisite peachy flavor— 

shipping ability really marvelous. Bears heavily and has proved its adapta- 
bility to a wide range of soils and climates. The N. J. Exp. Sta. says 
“From our experience J. H. Hale is a much superior peach commercially 
to Elberta—an extraordinarily good shipper.” Eating, Cooking, Can- 
ning. NCS. 
without any of the bitter tang of Elberta; almost as firm as a clingstone; 

“J. H. Hale is beyond any claims made for it. Elberta tree 
froze out at 22 degrees below zero; Hale came through 
without injury. Very large fruit; very vigorous. Rapid grower. 
J. H. Hale is the handsomest thing in the peach line that I 
have ever seen. Prof. Chenoweth and I agree that it is a 
much handsomer peach than the Elberta. Better in quality 


and a much better market peach.—F. S. Sears, Prof. Will displace Old 
‘ Pomology, Mass. Agri. College. Elberta in future 
j plantings.’"” — 
De N. P. Mead, 
; Chelan Co. 
yg Southern Farming quotes—‘‘From 
i 1 acre J. H. Hale trees we harvested 
; 748 bushels—1500 baskets and 
1000 six-basket crates. They 
i sold the next morning for 
f 60 per cent higher 
f than Elberta.’’ 
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“The J. H. Haleis the | 
greatest peach I ever | 
saw. Must say they i] 
are better than | 
anything else I 
have. Your Hale trees 
are absolutely free from 
any disease.’’-—Jas. M. 
Mount, Montgomery Co., 
Maryland. 
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