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Here is the great new apple that a few short years ago electrified 
the horticultural world. A marvelously flavored new apple suddenly 
produced by a miracle of Mother Nature to transcend in all its virtues 
what was at that time the world’s outstanding apple, the Stark Delicious. 
That new apple is the STARKING (Double-Red Delicious): 
—But this astounding STARKING (Dou- 
ble-Red Delicious) while retaining exactly 
the same superb flavor and quality as Deli- 
cious, has improvements that. make it the 
most remarkable rea apple of the age. The 
size is the same as Delicious—but the color 
is a deep flashing red all-over from the base 
of the stem to the blossom end. It has the 
greatly-to-be-desired habit of taking on this 
glowing crimson red color two or three weeks 
before Delicious starts to color. Because 
all-red Starking apples can be picked while 
still hard-ripe, they keep crisp and juicy till 
late spring—do not get mealy! 
READ WHAT THESE 
“My Starking trees bear loads 
without breaking. Come into bear- 
ing when 4 years-old. Fruit has 
100% color.”—A. S. Phlegar, Va. 
“My: Starking bearing at 2 
years. of age. At picking time 
fruit is 100% red and very large. 
Everyone marvels at its beauty. 
—T. S. Wiley, Ore. 
“My Starking bore: much 
younger than Delicious. My cus- 
tomers are just crazy about them. 
Have sold at $3.50 a bushel.— 
Geo. T. Skiff, N. Y. 
“Last year we had a very se- 
vere winter, but there was no 
winter injury on my young Stark- 
ing trees, while thousands of 
Baldwins were absolutely killed. 
All my Starking trees bore fine 
crops this year.”—-K. Y. Taylor, 
Franklin Co., Mass. 
“Despite the drouth, many of 
my young Starking trees bore 6 
bushels each this year. Fine, Ex- 
tra Fancy, No. 1 Apples, follow- 
ing 20 below zero winter.”—D. 
Gold Miller, Berkeley Co., W.Va. 
STARKING (Double-Red Delicious) sets 
a remarkable price record on the markets— 
bringing 50c to $1.00 a bushel more. As soon 
as, this variety began to appear on the mar- 
kets, the demand for Starking (Double-Red 
Delicious) apples and apple trees simply 
swept the country! 
America's Supreme Red Eating Apple! 
Delicious flavor, crisp, juicy. Extra large 
size. Strong waxy skin. Fine shipper and 
keeper. Strong growing, long-lived, healthy, 
hardy tree. Younger-bearing. Heavier crops. 
All combine to make Starking “America's 
Greatest Red Apple.” 
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It was on a limb of a genuine Stark Delicious tree that an observing 
orchardist discovered this new “freak” bud-sport limb which gave to the 
world its finest red apple. Scientists from Coast to Coast traveled thou- 
sands of miles to examine this phenomenon of nature—this limb of 
superior red apples. They unanimously pronounced it a true Bud-Sport 
and declared that it would open a complete new era in apple growing. 
Then Stark Bro’s Bought This New Bud-Sport Limb 
for the All-Time Record Price of $6,000.00 
This new mystery apple is creating un-. 
heard-of excitement in the apple world, for 
it gives the apple growers just what they 
want. The apple-eating public is demanding 
and paying highest market prices for Stark- 
ing—Mother Nature’s--greatest achievement 
in red apples. 
Starking (Double-Red Delicious) is the 
brilliant red apple that is now the corner- 
stone of ali fruit tree plantings—the one 
red apple of which you will want to plant 
the largest number of trees—the one which 
SAY 
will bring you the most complete and unend- 
ing satisfaction in your, Back Yard, Fruit 
Garden, Local Market or’ Commercial Or- 
chard. No yard or orchard is complete 
without it. 
Of Starking (Double-Red Delicious) Lu- 
ther Burbank said, "Simply cannot be com- 
pared with any other apple—a rich, re- 
freshing juiciness not found in any other 
apple—a gem, the finest flavored red 
apple in all the world!" 
“Starking is a young and heavy 
annual bearer. The fruit brings 
50% more than Delicious,”—F,. C, 
Simon, Ohio. 
“My Starking trees began bear- 
ing younger than Delicious. All 
of them withstood the terrible 
drouth splendidly and bore good 
crops.”—C. McCurdy, Mich. 
“I. gathered 100 bushels extra 
fine Starking even though the 
drouth was the worst in history.” 
—Chas. W. Hamilton, Taylor Co., 
Towa. 
“The increased color of Stark- 
ing makes it possible to pick the 
fruit earlier’ and make the apple 
keep longer.’—Prof. Potter, N. 
H. State Horticulturist. 
“The keeping quality of Stark- 
ing is astonishing, I have held 
them up to June of the next year 
after picking and they were still 
firm, crisp and juicy.”——P. Weis- 
brod, Iowa. 
“Starking Apples after 15 
months in storage were still very 
firm and juicy.”-——Prof. T. J. 
Talbert, Mo. State Horticulturist. 

“I would rather plant Starking 
than any other red apple because 
Starking apples jare larger, finer 
flavored, higher colored fruit. My 
Starking trees. bore 2 years 
younger than Delicious.”—Harry 
Roberts, Madison Co., Tenn. 
“People in this vicinity were 
startled at the size and quality 
of my Starking and Golden De- 
licious. They didn’t know that 
apples like these could be grown 
in Kentucky.”— Jos. Waggener, 
Webster Co., Ky. 
“Starking —our most popular 
variety—brings us higher prices 
and makes us more money than 
any other.’—Dr, J. C. Lowry, 
Neat, 
“The all-over-red Starking color 
makes them bring 33% to 50% 
more than Delicious year after 
year.”’—-Frank Penstone, III, 
“All my Starking sell quickly 
for $1.00 more per bushel than 
Delicious, due to better color and 
finer flavor.”—Mrs, E, L. Bower, 
Richardson Co., Nebr. 
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