STARK-BURBANK PLUMS 
Largest, finest flavored, hardiest varieties 
STARK 
GREEN GAGE 
Burbank’s Greatest 
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For nearly half a century Luther Burbank worked constantly with 
his plant-breeding problems. 
He always worked with a definite object in view. Take, for in- 
stance, the blood-fleshed plums—the tens of thousands of crosses made 
on this class of fruit were for the purpose of securing highest quality, 
largest size and a succession of ripening, so they could be enjoyed 
throughout the entire ripening season. 
He collected hundreds of wonderful new hybrid fruits of out- 
standing merit. Among them hundreds of plums, peaches, cherries— 
and for all different purposes. 
(Trade-Mark) Our $3,000 
Burbank Plum. Fruit clear. 
Bright Golden Yellow, com- 
pletely blushed with light cherry red when 
fully ripe. Large. Delicious quality. Very 
young, tremendous bearer. Tennessee grower 
reports he picked three crops from 4-year old 
trees. Hardy for North. 
For eating fresh, canning, plum butter and 
jelly it is one of the hest. Ships well. Thrives 
ig chick yards, fruit gardens, commercial 
orchards from the Atlantic to the Pacific; 
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. 
Half Plum—Half Apricot. Luther Bur- 
bank was the first man in the world to com- 
bine the flavor delights of both Plum and 
Apricot in one new fruit—the Plumcot. This 
PURPLE PLUMCOT is his finest blood- 
fleshed variety—huge, often 2 in. across, Gor- 
geous purplish-red, with flesh blood-red clear 
to pit. Rich—irresistibly delicious. Perfect 
freestone. Is bearing splendidly. One of the 
best of all Burbank’s New Creations. Hardy 
—bore after 24 below zero. 
Burbank’s—U. §. Patented 
Earliest Yellow Freestone Plum. Ripens 
even earlier than Early Shiro and is much 
larger. Largest, most outstanding solid gold- 
en plum of all the Burbank Wonder Crea- 
tions. Our Test Orchard Supt. describes it 
as “a huge, wonderfully beautiful pure 
golden plum, large as a small apple.” A free- 
stone when fully ripe, from 2 to 2% inches 
in diameter, excellent quality and with a 
very tiny seed for such a large plum. The 
name, GREAT YELLOW,’was given it by 
Burbank, and is most fitting for it is pure 
yellow without sign of blush. Best of the 
Early Yellow Plums—mild and sweet, with 
just the right touch of acid near seed. Top 
budded limbs only a year and a half old bore 
a splendid crop of huge plums in North Mis- 
souri, after 14 below zero. The beauty of 
this huge translucent golden plum is beyond 
description. Flesh is very solid, and holds 
up remarkably well in shipping. Home Yards 
and Commercial Orchards should plant 
Great Yellow. 

ELEPHANT HEART 
ACTUAL SIZE 
RESUS. PATEAT OFFICE 

New Plum Creations 
More work was, probably done by Luther Burbank on plums, 
peaches and cherries than on other fruits, but his marvelous new crea- 
tions of roses, pears, nectarines, prunes,-plumcots and other fruits and 
flowers also stand in a class by themselves. 
Our experts are confident that the new Burbank Creations we are 
now offering will far outclass all other varieties of similar type and 
season. For example, many of his Plum Creations are so different from 
ordinary plums that they are almost distinct New Fruits—differing 
almost as much as peaches differ from pears. 
Burbank’s New Freestone Giant. 
Red- Flesh Sensation. Largest 
Plum Grown—Amazing Flavor. Strong Grower. Hardy. The greatest 
triumph of all the Master Plant Breeder’s painstaking life work of 
striving to create a freestone blood-fleshed plum of enormous size and 
transcendant quality and flavor — a glo- 
rious success and one that represents the 
first fruition of our experts’ continuance 
ef his life’s work. Starting ’way back 
half a Century ago with 12 little seedling 
trees he worked diligently towards his goal. 
And—NOW—the triumphant climax, Bur- 
bank’s “Elephant Heart,” the supreme BEST 
of over 800 new varieties of great promise 
that were perfected and bequeathed to Stark 
Bro’s after his years and years of exacting 
selection and rejection, when we took over 
the Burbank Experimental Gardens. After 
Stark Bro’s years of tests of this plum—it 
earned a place at the very peak of Burbank’s 
horticultural creations. One of the outstand- 
ing achievements of the Greatest Fruit Won- 
der Worker in the World’s History. 
For Young Bearing, a Longer Ripening Season, Heaviest Bearing, Better Pollenation, 
Plant Several Varieties. Plums Below Are Listed in Order of Ripening. 
RBURBANK'S EARLY :GOLD (Shiro). Mar- 
velously beautiful, transparent golden yellow 
plum—a huge Koney-drop—sweet and excel- 
lent. Ripens vety,eatly. Another great Bur- 
bank origination, Fruit’ is extra-large size 
and handsome. A tree loaded with this gol- 
den fruit is a wonderful sight. Tree is hardy, 
very prolific. Suécéeds North and is one of 
the greatest plums for. the South. Fine for 
eating fresh, sauce,“plum butter, preserves, 
jelly. Recommended, fot Chicken Yards, Home 
Yards, Local’ Market. Orchards. 
BURBANK'S SANTA’ ROSA. Very Early. 
Favorite in Home Yards and Commercial 
Orchards. Won Gold Medal at Lewis “and 
Clark Exposition. Handsome, round, dark 
crimson plum; immense size, splendid quality. 
Firm flesh, strong skin,’ excellent shipper. 
Hardy, strong grower, good bearer. Cooking, 
eating, canning, market. 
BURBANK'S AMERICA, Very Early. A 
full brother of Gold. Large, glossy, coral 
red—a most beautiful and delicious plum. 
Can always be depended on for erop. Tree 
large, very vigorous, thoroughly hardy, bears 
extremely young, and bears enormous erops 
every year. Succeeds everywhere. Excellent 
for eating fresh, canning, plum butter. Es- 
pecially good for Chicken Yards and Fruit 
Gardens. 
“Almost phenomenally free from rot.”— 
Plums of N. Y. “Uninjured by 55 degrees 
below zero.” —J. ‘R. Williams, Elmsdale, 
Quebec. “Hardy, good quality and does not 
rot.”—-E. H. Riehl, Ill. : 
“ABUNDANCE. Early. A large, bright, cher- 
ry red plum. Firm, sweet, excellent quality. 
Ships well. The tree is hardy, healthy and 
productive. Shawld be planted in every or- 
chard—home yara™and commercial. Good to 
.fresh and for ‘cooking, canning, plum 
&r and preserves. \ 
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BURBANK'S INDIAN BLOOD (Duarte). 
A fine red-fleshed plum,: but Elephant Heart 
larger, better. Trees upright fast growers, 
hardy. Fruit large, egg-shaped—flesh deep 
blood color, quality delicious. A plum ef all 
around merit. Eating, cooking, canning, mar- 
ket. Thrive in. Chicken Yards, Home and 
Commercial Orchards. | ; 
SUPERIOR (Minnesota 194). New. At last 
a Super-Hardy plum: producing very large 
handsome fruit for far North, Prof. W. H. 
Alderman wrote, “Undoubtedly best plum in- 
troduced by Minn. Station,” Tree outstanding 
for hardiness, vigor, early and prolific bear- 
ing.- Fruit very large, beautiful dark red. 
Flesh rich yellow, firm, juicy—a lively sweet 
flavor. Excellent for eating fresh, plum but- 
ter, jelly and preserves. Home Yard and 
Commercial Orchards. 
©MAHA—Iron-Clad—Hardy Plum—-Mid- 
Season. A very large plum. Dark rich red. 
Almost perfectly round. Golden yellow flesh 
is meaty, sweet and delicious. 
Originated by Theo. Williams, a plum 
authority of Nebraska, who considered Omaha 
the best of all Iron-Clad hardy plums. 
Extremely hardy. “After coldest New Hamp- 
shire winter in 13 years Omaha ‘still thriy- 
ing” reports L. L. Colby. Excellent for eat- 
ing fresh, for canning, cooking, plum butter 
and jelly. Thrives in Chicken Yards, Home 
Fruit Gardens and Commercial Orchards. 
When we introduced it Mr. Williams 
wrote: “No other plum is so cosmopolitan 
as Omaha—it has fruited from Alberta, 
Canada, to the Gulf and from New Hamp- 
shire to the Pacific.” 
HATE GOOSE. One of the best Hardy 
Plums. Red, resembling Wild: Goose, but 
much larger and much more valuable. Strong 
grower, extremely hardy. A heavy bearer. 
Should be grown everywhere for home use 
and market. More popular than old Wild 
Goose because of its immense size. Eating, 
cooking, canhing, market. 
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STARK GREEN GAGE—Our Favorite 
Eating Plum. All plum lovers commend 
Stark Green Gage as the “best of all Gage 
Plums.” A Home Yard or Market Orchard 
is not complete without this great plum. 
Prof. H. E. Van Deman, late U. S. Pomol- 
egist said,,“Stark Green Gage is large size, 
good quality and certainly bears abundantly. 
I think it a profitable variety, both on ac- 
count ef quality and remarkable produc- 
tivity.” 
Sweet as honey. Larger and better than 
old Green Gage. For preserving and canning 
it has no superior. Excellent for eating 
fresh, canning, cooking, preserving, market. 
“SERMAN PRUNE — Mid-Season. Our 
strain of German Prune is very large, 
hardy. Dark blue skin with light bloom. Yel- 
low flesh is sweet, juicy and delicious. Ex- 
cellent for eating fresh, for canning, drying 
and preserving. Thrives in Home Yards and 
in Commercial Orchards wherever prunes 
grow. 
STARK DAMSON. The largest and best 
American Damson. A true freestone. Our 
propagation from extra-productive, record- 
bearing parent tree. Fruit deep purple, juicy, 
rich, small stone, fine for preserves. Tree up- 
right, hardy, resistant to diseases, easy to 
grow, produces immense crops..Damsons are 
money makers and should be im every Home 
and Commercial Orchard. Excellent for pre- 
serves, canning, jelly and plum butter. 
(OTHER VARIETIES. We can also furnish 
the following other varieties of plums: Ital- 
ian Prune, Burbank, Compass, Shropshire 
Damson, Red June, Tatge, Lombard Im- 
proved, Underwood Plums, De Montfort 
Prune, President Prune and Stanley Prune. 
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Blood Flesh Freestone. Mid-Season. Re- 
sembles Elephant Heart. Gorzeous, large, 
red-fleshed plum, fit companion of Great 
Elephant Heart. Burbank describes it “Big— 
firm—small seed—sweet as sugar. Rich, full 
of delicious juice---regularly productive.” Tree 
fine, strong grower. Wonderful shipper. Tree 
very young and heavy bearer. Never winter 
killed. Has withstood 24 below zero. 3-year 
old trees in Mo. loaded with huge crops. For 
eating fresh, canning, market. For Home Yard 
and Commercial Orchards. : 
For complete list of New Burbank Plum 
Creations, see Price List—Page 14. 
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‘VAN DEMAN. (Trade-Mark) Our 
}$3,000.00 Burbank Quince. Best and 
largest of the Quinces — originated 
ey ago by the great Luther Bur- 
'bank—and today it still stands as the 
supreme and most desirable quince— 
no other variety compares with it in 
size, beauty and flavor. 
ORANGE. An old favorite—still wide- 
ly planted, but inferior to Van Deman 
—a vigorous, productive tree—good 

in quality. 
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Stark's Patented Tree-Digger “gets 
ali the roots” without the sliqhtest: 
injury. This superpower < digger, 
equipped “with ~ Special Patented 
blade, cats deep. under ‘the: trees 
below the feeder roots, lifting them: 
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