Stark Bro’s 
Nurseries & Orchards Co. 
General Nurserymen 
Branch Nurseries 

Burbank Central 
Experiment Grounds Growers of Fruit Trees Wapato, Wash. Maricnville, Me 
General Offices & Fruit Plants and Farmington, Ark. Porum, oe 
Home Nurseries Hardy Ornamentals Dansville, N. Be a Okla. 
Louisiana Missouri 

Louisiana, Mo. 
Dear Friend: 
I wish you had been sitting in my office the morning when we received 
your request for our Year Book. In the same mail we recei ived 11 letters fram people 
who just like you -- maybe 2 years, 3 years or 4 years ago had written in for our 
illustrated catalogue of prize fruit trees. 
If you could read some of these letters it would be just like looking 
into the future, You would see yourself on your own land picking from the heavily 
burdened branches the very fruits that you are now going to look at in this beautiful 
color Year Book. Yes, merely reading any one of the 11 letters that came in with yours 
would transport you to a day in the future when you would be reveling in an abundant 
supply of luscious apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, grapes and berries, all 
that you and your family could eat and an over-supply that "would fill every mason jar 
in your cellar. 
I can*t help but quote one of these letters for you, then I am going 
to give you some extra good news -- here's what Mrs. Anna Looker, Kendall County, 
Illinois writes: 
"I have been very much pleased with the results obtained from 
the trees I bought from you four years ago. 
"This year my Hal-Berta Giant had 2 bushels of large peaches 
that weighéd. from 4 to 1] ounces each. Two years ago (when 
it was just 2 years old) it had 11 on it just as big. My 
Burbank's Great Yellow Plum had its first plums on it, the 
size of a tea-cup. My Elephant Heart had 12 on it, all 
about 2% inches in diameter. My Jonared Apple had 54 apples 
this year. My Yellow Transparent had 5 apples in 1939, 7 in 
1940 and 21 in 1941. My Wilson Delicious Apricot had about 
a peck of very lovely fruit this year. My Stark Gold and 
Burbank Cherries each had about two quarts on them.” 
Now, I am going to take it for granted that you do not have any of our 
new patented varieties of miracle fruit trees that bear wonder fruits on baby trees, on 
any of your land, If you did, I would not have to point out to you that these trees 
are utterly different from ordinary fruit trees. For example, the Golden Delicious is 
the world's youngest bearing apple tree -- yes, the youngest bearing apple tree in the 
world. Our Pears, Peaches, Cherries, Plums, Grapes and Berries are all grown from 
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