
STARK REDGOLD—Red Hybrid of Stark Golden Deliciou 

NEW—U. S. PATENT Pending—Rivals Famous Parent Stark Golden Delicious in Flavor & You 
g Bearing 
We Paid World’s Record Price of $7,500.00 for This Amazing Apple—Actual Co otograph at Righ 
Now, after being shrouded in secrecy for ten long years of testing, we can 
reveal the existence of this new apple—one that may well exceed the wildest 
dreams of apple growers. For many years orchardists and apple men have 
realized that there is a crying demand for a Top Quality Dessert Eating 
Apple | the gap just ahead of Jonathan. All our tests indicate that Stark 
ld is this long looked-for, deliciously flavored apple. 
Grown from a seed of Stark Golden Delicious, the new Stark RedGold has 
the exquisite dessert quality of Starking (Dbl. Red Delicious) plus a piquant, 
spicy flavor like Stark Golden Delicious. Yet the skin is fiery red, the size larger 
than Jonathan, and it is ready to eat at least a week earlier than Jonathan. 
After years of careful tests in orchards and nurseries, we gladly paid the 
Originator, Mr. F. A. Schell, $7,500.00—a World’s Record Price—for sole 
ownership of this sensational new Stark RedGold Apple, and we confidently 
expect it to revolutionize the early winter apple market. 
The New Stark RedGold Apple 
Stark RedGold is bright solid-red in color, has a 
distinctive trim oblong shape and is strikingly 
attractive. Packed for market, it will instantly 
attract any buyer, and the exquisite flavor fully 
justifies the appearance. In Stark RedGold is com- 
bined the world famous rich flavor of Starking 
merged with the spicy tang of Stark Golden De- 
licious and this exquisite flavor is fully developed 
weeks before Delicious or Jonathan reach prime 
eating condition. RedGold is an apple you will 
relish from the day it is first picked, when other 
winter apples are still too tart or starchy to enjoy. 
Yet, it has kept well in cold storage until March. 
Very Young-Bearer. 
Golden Delicious do. 
Amazing Young-Bearing Tests 
This remarkable new apple seems to possess the same pre- 
cocious young-bearing ability as its parent Stark Golden 
Delicious, forming fruit buds on spurs, terminals and lateral 
buds on one-year-old wood. Jonared, Young-Bearing Jonathan, 
Stark Golden Delicious and only a few others do this. 
Just 13 months after the first test graft was set in our Test 
Orchards it bore fruit! With the single exception of Stark 
Golden Delicious, this had never previously occurred in over 
50 years of testing thousands of new apples! Even more sur- 
prising—nearly every one of 4,112 Stark RedGold 2-year trees 
in our nursery rows bloomed and set some fruit last year! 
From all our tests we are convinced that Stark RedGold will 
bear just as young as its famous young-bearing parent, Stark 
Golden Delicious—not only in the Mid-West and East, but in 
the far West as well. 
Flavor is a combination 
of Starking and Stark Golden Delicious. 
What More Could be Desired! 
F. A. Schell, Famous Orchardist and Originator 
of Stark RedGold, reports that 15 of the first grafts 
cut from the original tree bloomed the same season 
they were top-grafted. Here is what Mr. Schell wrote: 
“T have 3 trees topped last year and about 4 more 
this Spring. So, in a year or so, will have a nice lot 
of fruit. Of the grafts set last year, I had about 15 
to bloom the same year and fruit—just like Stark 
“They color solid-red, but seem to have Stark 
Golden Delicious tree characteristics as to large 
leaves and wood and early fruiting habits. Stark 
RedGold is a Hybrid from a seed of Stark Golden 
Delicious. Color is like the Solid-Red Delicious at 
every stage. Wood, leaves and limb growth the same 
as Stark Golden Delicious. Also the year-old wood 
sets buds the same as Stark Golden Delicious. 
“As far as I can check, it is not going to turn 
mealy. Strong skin like Starking, 
equal to both Starking and Stark Golden Delicious. 
“What more could be desired!”’ 
Stark RedGold is the first high quality early Winter dessert apple to develop 
full flavor—delicious and ready to eat weeks before Jonathan and Delia, 
have developed their full flavor—ready to use just at the time the market is 
first clamoring for a high quality dessert apple! 
Imagine a variety with these amazing advantages—solid-red color like 
Starking (Double-Red Delicious)—the exquisite flavor combination of Starking 
and Stark Golden Delicious—a young and heavy bearing tree like Stark Golden 
Delicious and the strongest grower in our nurseries. 
Our Superintendent, H. Witcher, reports: ‘‘Last year nearly every one of 
the 4,112 two-year Stark RedGold trees actually bloomed in the nursery rows 
and set some fruit.”’ 
Here at last comes an exquisitely delicious, flashing red apple that promises 
to bear as young as that world-famous young-bearer and money-maker—the 
Stark Golden Delicious! 

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TESTS BY EMINENT FRUIT EXPERTS 
Mr. Edwin Smith, Senior Horticulturist, Agricultural 
Research Administration, United States Department of 
Agriculture, wrote from Wenatchee: 
“We have handled some of Mr. Schell’s (Stark RedGold) 
apples for him for the past three winters, storing them at 318 
We think that this apple (Stark RedGold) has an excellent 
flavor and quite good texture. 
“‘Tree characteristics: The manner of growth and foliage 
characteristics (of Stark RedGold) closely resemble those of 
Golden Delicious. It makes a vigorous growth and has large 
leaves. Also like the Golden Delicious, judging from scions in 
top-worked trees, it fruits early, bears heavily and probably is 
self-fertile. Scions 3 and 4 years old bear heavily. 
“Fruit characteristics: Fruit size tends to be slightly 
larger than Jonathan. It reaches its best maturity about a 
week earlier than the Delicious and acquires color early. 
“The fruit has a wide latitude in picking maturity. It has 
low astringent constituents and, unlike the Delicious, will 
acquire good dessert quality when picked a week or ten days 
before reaching ultimate maturity. When picked at an early 
stage of maturity it is more sprightly, and has a slight degree 
of sprightliness commonly associated with Spitzenberg. When 
fully mature, it has more character than the Golden Delicious.” 
W. A. Luce, Asst. U. S. Extension Agent of Yakima Co., 
Washington, reported to Mr. Schell the Originator:— 
“T have tested samples of Number 68 (Stark RedGold) and 
it appears to have wonderful qualities. Others who have tested 
it say they like it very much better than the quality of Delicious. 
I feel that this apple is going to be a good one to those who 
really know apple quality. Would you please let me know when 
trees are available through Stark Bro’s Nurseries?” 
and with flavor 
“‘Every one of my 3-year-old Starking trees bore this year,’’ wrote Jos. A. Richartz (photo below). They averaged 214 bushels per tree. 
Two trees bore 4 bushels each. All the apples were very large and solid red.”’ 
rees are Sold ONLY by Stark Bro’s. 
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