Easier now to grow Luscious Flavored New Giant Fruits 
than Old Varieties of Ordinary Size... 
COME FULL BEARING 
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as a result of ‘scientific. 
selection and propagation 


Baby Trees Grafted on Big Heavy Complete Root Systems 
work amazingly to shorten the time until you pick fruit—utterly different from, ordinary trees propagated with a single piece of root 
We won't dig our trees out of the ground witha spade. That often 
injures the roots—cutting them or bruising them in pulling up the 
tree. To avoid this damage that you might never notice, we have 
CSE invented a patented power tree-digger. It drives a sharp cutting 
LE ca $ gem tool deep below the roots—it cuts the earth, not the tree. It loosens 
ioe oo er oa it clean all around—then the tree is lifted gently by power, instead 
of yanking it out by hand. 
After digging, instead of throwing the young trees on the 
ground to dry out, we place each one in a special, covered truck 
which protects them from sun and wind. This truck carries them 
to the cool, darkened grading houses where they are prepared for 
shipment by wrapping in wet packing and then enclosed in hand- 
sewn burlap bags or in modern weather-proof cases: 

Ordinary . Ordinary Big 6 Yr. Stark 
Tree Whole-Root Tree— Tree Whole-Root Tree 
Spindly Record-Bearing Weak Shy Bearer Loaded With Fruit 
All this care may seem unnecessary, but it contributes amaz- 
ingly to making Stark Trees bear younger and live longer. From 
Roots Strain 
If you plant a fruit tree that has only a small piece-root, that puny 
tree, for the next year or two, is fighting for its existence—trying to 
put out enough roots for survival. Not much strength left for growing 
and getting ready to bear! No, sir! 
But plant a tree with a full, yes, an extra heavy root system, and 
you have ideal conditions for bearing fruit one, two, or sometimes even 
three years quicker than ordinary trees. 
Every Stark Tree—yes, every Stark Tree has an extra heavy whole 
root system. Experienced fruit growers can almost recognize a Stark 
Tree by noticing its heavy roots. : 
This is one of the big reasons why Stark Record-Bearing-Strain 
Trees are utterly different from ordinary fruit trees. 
If we wanted to grow ordinary, puny trees, or second-rate trees, we 
could ship 3 times the trees we ship today. We even reject thousands 
of young trees every year that are as good, yes, often better than thous- 
ands of ordinary trees placed on the market. 
First of all, we won’t grow two successive crops of trees on the 
Same acres. 
all sides we get letters telling of fruit on 2 or 3-year-old Stark 
Trees. Yes, from planters who expected to wait 5, 6, or,7 years, 
based on their experience with ordinary trees. 
So naturally, if Stark’s method of propagating direct-in-line 
from the original Record-Bearing parent tree will help make your 
trees bear a year or two sooner—that’s what you want. 
If Stark’s method of grafting on extra heavy whole root sys- 
tems will help make your trees bear a year or two quicker—that’s 
what you want. 
All the extra care that Stark gives—in grafting—in growing— 
in digging, in protecting the tree from drying out, in subjecting 
it to 5 rigid inspections—hélp in giving you sturdier trees that 
will shorten the time-until you pick fruit. 
Don’t deny yourself these amazing trees that bear the finest 
fruits grown-in America. If you have to plant a few less trees in 
order to get these better Stark Record-Bearing Strain Trees, do it. 
Have the finest, and in a few years your trees will pay you back 
what they cost and pay for many, many more trees, toa! 
So declared Mr. Sutton, Owner of a 7,000 Stark Record- 
Bearing Strain tree orchard in Jasper County, Illinois. 

“Last spring I bought 800 trees (NOT 
Stark Trees) because of a so-called bar- 
gain price. I had to throw away 400 cheap 
trees as worthless. I received the Stark 
Record-Bearing Strain Trees at the same 
time, so I planted the best of the “cheap” 
trees between the Stark Trees. You should 
see the difference between a Stark 
“Record-Bearing Strain” tree and a “cheap” 
tree of the same age! A Stark Record- 
Bearing Strain tree only 3 months old is 
much bigger than a “cheap” tree 15 months 
old. That’s why a Stark Tree would be 
cheap even at $5, compared to*those others 
as a gift.’—and remember—-Stark Trees 
cost only a little more than ordinary trees. 
