Top—HENRY CLAY 
Bottom—EARLY RED BIRD 
(oe Be (Trade-Mark.) 
Top Left Earliest Yel- 
low Apple. Large pale yellow, sometimes with crim- 
son cheek. Looks like Maiden Blush, but is better, 
more beautiful, 2 months earlier, and ripens its 
crop quickly and evenly. Tree strong growing, spread- 
ing, regular and abundant bearer; blooms late, is 
hardy and is earlier, larger, better quality and a 
better shipper than Yellow Transparent. No early 
Yellow Apple has such Excellent Quality. Com- 
mands top price on all markets and its value is being 
recognized by orchard planters everywhere. Should 
be planted in every home orchard as well as com- 
mercially. The apple eating public will always pay 
liberally for this beautiful apple, as it comes on the 
market when people are apple hungry. Cooking, 
Market, Eating. NNCS. ‘Best extra early apple.” 
—Frank Femmons, Calif. ‘‘The most delicious 
apple I ever tasted.’’—R. F. Rutledge, Tenn. ‘‘Very hardy and 
thrifty; yellow, reddish cheek, very fine flavor.’”,-—M. Roach, 
Mont. ‘‘Larger than Yellow Transparent, two weeks earlier 
than Williams; sells at better price; no signs of aphis or blight. 
We consider it one of the best apples.’’—N. J. Fruit and Pro- 
duce Co rlier, 



“Resembles Maiden Blush—nearly 60 days « 
better, has never failed a crop.’-—W. H. Knight, Originator, 
Ky. Introduced and Trees Sold ONLY by Stark Bro’s. 
Center—EARLY RED BIRD 
( 2 Color ) (Trade- 
Photos Above) Mark) 
(Crimson Beauty.) A fiery, flaming, scarlet red apple 
of good size that ripens 7 to 10 days earlier than 
Yellow Transparent. Tree strong growing, ex- 
tremely blight resistant, vigorous, extremely hardy, 
bears young and produces tremendous annual crops. 
Comes on the market earlier than any other apple, 
(except Stark Earliest) and being wonderfully at- 
tractive has sold for double the price of Yellow 
Transparent. Just what the early apple grower 
wants for big profit. We do not hesitate to recom- 
mend Early Red Bird for every home orchard—and 
we believe it is the long looked for blight resistant, 
extremely early apple for the comimercial orchard. 
“All Yel. Trans. gone years ago with blight. Early 
Red Bird fine big trees—no blight.’’—G. S. Thomas. 
Cooking, Market. Eating, NNCS. 
Prof. Sanders, Canadian Dept. Agri. says: ‘‘Earliest apple, 
young bearer—half bushel on 2-year trees; better shipper than 
Yellow Transparent. 15 acres in one year brought Mr. Chute 
1,500 bbls., sold at $7.00—or $10,500.00.’"’ Mr. Adney, son-in- 
law of Mr. Sharpe, famous originator of this apple, says. 
“Remarkably prolific, extremely hardy, never winter kills. 10 
days earlier than earliest early apple. Occupies a place no 
other apple fills.’’ 
Early Red Bird Apple gives the grower just what he wants for big early profits, 


Top—STARK EARLIEST 
Bottom—STARK EARLIEST 
(2) Above Patent 642, 
Now Stark Bro’s can offer their customers the apple for which 
we have been searching for many years! An apple that ripens 
as early as cherries—and is really good to eat right off the 
tree. 
The original tree was enthusiastically recommended to us by 
Mr. Leslie Reed, a fruit expert, who wrote: ‘‘This is the hardi- 
est, handsomest, sturdiest and most prolific apple tree I have 
ever seen, and I recognized the value of the apple the first bite.”’ 
Stark Earliest is a strikingly handsome apple with a flashing 
crimson cheek. It was picked in our orchard at the same time 
as the Gold Cherry crop last year. Can be picked over a period 
of two or three weeks (almost an ‘‘everbearing’’ apple)—is 
ideal for home orchard and roadside market and should be an 
excellent shipper. 
Medium size—larger than Transparent—with scarlet red 
color that strikes the eye clear across the orchard. Flavor is 
mild and pleasant—good to eat right off the tree—not acid 
like other early apples. The owner states that fruit on the orig- 
inal tree becomes even larger and better quality as the tree 
gets older. Trees strong, sturdy and hardy, and very resistant 
to disease. Grows splendidly in nursery row and in the orchard. 
Its habit of producing strong branches at right angles makes 
it an ideal shaped tree. Stark Earliest is the apple to start the 
season—very early, handsome, good to eat and cook—a ‘‘must 
have’’ for every home and local market orchard. Fruit ripens 
about a week to 10 days before Yellow Transparent is ripe. 
Stark Earliest is by far the earliest apple in our Test Orchards. 
Cooking, Eating, Market. NNCS. Patented, Introduced, and 
Trees sold ONLY by Stark Bro’s. 
(“oy iene) New. U.S. 



Amazing profits and eager demand from fresh-fruit hungry people has won great 
popularity for high quality early ripening apples. And now with the growth of 
Roadside Markets, the need for apples ripening early (and in succession) is 
rapidly increasing. While early ripening apples will not hold up in storage for 
a long period like the late keeping winter apples, every Home, Roadside and 
Local Market Orchard should grow some of these varieties. 
Herman Fagley’s successful Roadside Market (counting among its customers 
tourists from every state in the Union as well as Canada and South America) 
reports in American Fruit Grower Magazine that the biggest volume of his 
business is in apples, of which he has a succession of varieties. 
Early Red Bird (the earliest ripening variety we recommended until the advent 
of the new Stark Earliest, which is being introduced on this page), then Yellow 
Transparent (add the new June Wealthy and Lodi, Early Golden), Wealthy, 
Maiden Blush, (add Stark Jon-Grimes and Stark RedGold), Grimes Golden, 
Jonared, Stark Golden Delicious, Starking and Staymared. These varieties, 
ripening in succession, enable Mr. Fagley to offer his customers apples from the 
very earliest to the latest. S. P. Chute of Nova Scotia reports that he sold his 
Early Red Bird Apples for more than double the price received for Red Astra- 
kan ripening a week later. (See Apple Ripening Chart—pages 4-5—it will help 
you select apples ripening all season.) 
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