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The WILDER MEDAL 
Awarded True Golden Delicious 
The Wilder Silver Medal is the Nobel Prize of the 
fruit world, provided for by the late Marshall P. 
Wilder, Scientist and Pomologist, President of the 
American Pomological Society for 38 years—with in- 
structions that it was to be awarded to a fruit only 
after exhaustive investigation had produced proof of 
that fruit’s supreme merit. 

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From the day the first amaz- 
ing Stark Golden Deliciousapple 
was discovered on a hillside in 
West Virginia, it seemed that 
Mother Nature had at last combined 
in one apple all of her richest gifts. 
For here was an apple of purest unblemished 
goldencolor—an apple 50% larger than usual 
yellow apples, yet from skin to core this new fruit 
was crisp, juicyand with anindescribablespicy tang 
unlike a sweet apple—unlike a tart apple—a star- 
tling new flavor creation of the horticultural world. 
But with all these great gifts, Mother Nature 
was still not content, for as more and more of these 
amazing Stark Golden Delicious came into bear- 
ing, came reports almost unbelievable—apples 
were being picked from many of these amazing 
trees when only 2 or 3 years old—Yes, Golden 
Delicious apples were actually picked from 2 year 
trees in 38 states. And not only did this remark- 
able variety bear unbelievably young but bore in 
such profusion as had never before been known in 
a commercial variety. 
Golden Delicious is about as large as Starking, 
Double-Red Delicious. A FAR SUPERIOR 
KEEPER to Grimes Golden. It is a big, glossy, 
Golden Yellow Apple, slightly conical in shape 
(somewhat like Starking) has a Juicy, Rich, 
Creamy Yellow Flesh, suffused with a slight hint 
“SUPREME COURT” of 

ety is to fruit and horticulture 

Highest Authority. This Society has oc- 
New (Trade Mark) 
“Finest Flavored Apple in All the World’’ 
—said Luther Burbank, Wizard of Horticulture 
2 Year Stark Golden Delicious Trees Bear Apples in 38 States 
Stark Golden Delicious trees amazed orchardists by bearing when only 2 
years old in all sections of the United States—in New York, Missouri, Arizona, 
West Virginia, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Texas, California, Iowa, Connecticut, 
Arkansas, New Mexico, New Jersey, Ohio, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Idaho, Alas 
bama, Oregon, Kansas, Maine, Utah, Maryland, New Hampshire, Washington, 
Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Massachusetts, 
Dist. of Columbia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Colorado, Michigan. 
of orange—Crisp, Firm, with a Sparkling, Tangful 
Flavor faintly like that of a perfect Bartlett Pear. 
No apple ever known or grown has so instantly 
caught the public’s favor—BECAUSE OF MAR- 
VELOUS DELICIOUS FLAVOR! 
One of the largest Orchardists in America, with 
headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa., said: 
“We have closely observed Stark Golden 
Delicious for many years. It is The Heaviest 
Bearing of All Commercial Varieties—even 
heavier than Rome Beauty, Black Ben or Ben 
Davis. The trees are strong and healthy, quite 
frost-resistant and they bear a commercial load of 
high quality fruit on one-year wood, being the 
only variety that does this. The apples never get 
mealy. We gathered 1220 bu. off 130 trees and the 
crop was 71 per cent Extra Fancy. 46 per cent of 
the apples ran 64 apples to the bushel—or larger 
size.”’ 
Beware of BOGUS GOLDEN DELICIOUS. 
Some people offer ‘“‘Golden or Yellow Delicious” 
trees which they claim are ‘‘same as Stark Golden 
Delicious.” Here is one such case. Judge Julian 
Shackleford, Buchanan Co., Mo., states: 
“I was told that another nursery could supply 
me Golden Delicious trees under a similar name. 
When these trees bore, I found them ordinary yel- 
low apples far inferior to Golden Delicious both in 
flavor and appearance.”’ 
the Fruit World Awards 

WILDER MEDAL to This Apple 
What the Supreme Court is to United Prof. C. P. Close, Official Pomologist, 
States law, the American Pomological Soci- 
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, 
the Final, AB. 
Prof. W. J. Green, State Horticulturist, 


Prof. C. P. Close 

Prof. W. J. Green 
cupied this eminent position for more than 
98 years. This great body of scientists and 
horticulturists gave to Stark Golden 
Delicious the highest tribute ever granted 
to an apple—the only Wilder Medal ever 
awarded to a yellow apple. This medal was 
“struck off’’ on the massive presses of the 
United States Mint, by special order, and is 
now in our possession. (See medal at left.) 
On the Committee making this Wilder 
Medal Award were such eminently con- 
servative fruit authorities as 


The first ‘‘clue’’ came to us one April day 
some years ago. Three wonderfully yellow 
apples reached us from a West Virginia 
mountaineer-orchardist—who wrote that 
they were a new, heretofore unknown, vari- 
ety. The second ‘‘clue’’ came when our Mr. 
Stark bit into one of the Golden apples. The 
flavor amazed him. These apples looked like 
Grimes Golden—but they tasted far more 
delicious! And they were in perfect condi- 
tion in April! Grimes Golden would have 
been rotted and gone months before. Our 
fruit experts all pronounced it the long- 
looked-for new golden apple. 
One apple was sent to Col. Brackett, then 
U. S, Pomologist at Washington, D. C, 
Friends present told us how the Colonel 
came hurrying into the office, a little slab of 
this wonderful yellow apple perched on his 
knife blade, exclaiming, ‘‘Taste this! Here’s 
an apple with a far better flavor than Grimes 
Golden."" 
That fall Paul Stark started on ‘‘The 
Quest of the Golden Apple.’’ He wrote: 
““A 1,000-mile railroad trip, plus a 20- 
mile horseback ride through West Virginia 

Ohio Exper. Station, Wooster, Ohio. 
Prof. N. E. Hansen, State Horticulturist, 
South Dakota Exper. Station, Brook- 
ings, S. D. (See photographs at left) 
Concurring in their unanimous verdict 
were such noted authorities as Dr. Liberty 
H. Bailey, Dean of New York College of 
Agri., Cornell University, and Author of the 
world-famous Standard Encyclopedia of 
American Horticulture—and horticulturists 
from nearly every Horticultural College and 
Experiment Station, 

‘Quest of the World’s Most 
Wonderful Golden Apple”’ 
mountain wilds, brought me to the farm of 
Mr. A. H. Mullins. 
‘‘Back of the house I saw an orchard. But 
—here came the dismal disappointment! 
Every tree I could see was nothing but a 
wild seedling—miserable runts. 
““Dejected and sick at heart, I turned 
around to leave—when I SAW IT! 
“There, looming forth in the midst of 
many small, barren trees, was a tree with 
rich green foliage that looked as if it had 
been transplanted from the Garden of Eden. 
“That tree’s boughs were bending to the 
ground beneath a tremendous crop of great, 
glorious, glowing, golden apples. 
““T started for it on the run. A fear bother- 
ed me, “‘Suppose it’s just a Grimes Golden 
after all.'’ I came closer and saw the apples 
were 50 per cent larger and shaped more like 
Red Delicious. I plucked one and bit into its 
crisp, tender, juice-laden flesh. Eureka! I 
had found it. The long-sought-for perfect 
yellow apple has been discovered. The 
Quest of the Golden Apple had finally 
reached a successful end.’’ 
Genuine Stark Golden Delicious Trees Sold only by Stark— 
Beware of imitation ‘‘Golden” or ‘‘Yellow” Delicious 
