“Every Bite Crackles—and the Juice Runs Down Your Lips,’? 
said Jim Young, famous grower of Fancy Gift Package Apples 
Firmer, Better Flavor 
“Starking Delicious at picking time 
are much firmer-fleshed apples and 
even better flavored than old Deli- 
cious. Ours bore their first crop at 
3 years.”’ E. E. Heid, Indiana. 
Replacing Old Delicious 
“Starking Delicious will replace 
old Delicious. Trees come into bear- 
ing earlier than Delicious and the 
fruit is entirely covered with red.”’ 
State Horticulturist Report, 
Colorado. 
Best Red Apple Ever Tasted 
“All my customers say that Stark- 
ing Delicious is the best red apple 
they ever tasted and most beautiful 
they ever saw. My trees bear 3 
years younger.”’ A. Svonac, Ohio. 
Applies on 3-Year Tree 
“My Starking Trees are only 3 
years old so I have just a few apples 
this year. They sure come in bear- 
ing earlier than the old Delicious.’’ 
Fred Ulrich, Minnesota. 
Letters from Maine to Alabama—From the Atlantic to the 
Pacific Prove that Starking Delicious Trees Bear Younger 
Bear 2 Years Sooner 
“T think Starking Delicious are 
younger bearers than Delicious by 
at least 2 years.”” Herman P. 
Sweetzer, Maine. 
3-Year Tree—33 Apples 
“As I bought two of your Starking 
Delicious Apple Trees 3 years ago, I 
want you to sample them. I think the 
apples beat anything I ever saw. I 
had 33 apples on one of my 3-year 
crees.”’ W. A. Staats, Md. 
Bears 2 or 3 Years Sooner 
“My Starking Delicious started 
bearing 2 or 3 years younger than the 
old Delicious and always bear more 
apples.’’ Chas. Stephens, Kans. 
Bushel from 4-Year Tree 
“My 4-year Starking Delicious 
ees bore as much as a bushel of 
pples each.”’ Knox McEwen, 
Alabama. 
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Bore 2 Years Quicker 
“My Starking Delicious trees be- 
gin bearing about 2 years younger 
than ordinary Delicious.” B. H. 
Pierce, Chihuahua, Mexico. 
Quicker-Bearer—Juicier 
Flavor 
“T find my Starking Delicious 
trees begin bearing 2 years younger 
than old red Delicious. Apple has 
higher quality and juicier flavor.” 
G. C. Hitchings, New York. 
100% All-Over Red 
“My Starking Delicious trees be- 
gan bearing at 2 years. The color 
of the fruit is 50% more red now 
(Aug. 26) than Delicious and by 
picking time will be 100% red.” T. 
S. Wiley, Oregon. 
(Photo above) One of 200 young 8-Year Starking Trees that bore 
2436 bushels in Rumbolz Orchard. (Leiler below). 
STARKING DELICIOUS 

“12 Bu. Average from 8-Year Trees” 
“Photo (above) Shows a Limb on One of My 8-Year Trees 
That Averaged 12 Bushels Each”’ 
“From 200 Starking Delicious trees 
—only 8 years old—we packed 2,436 
boxes—12.18 bushels per tree. This 
is the most remarkable yield I have 
ever received from any 8-year-old 
trees: 
“IT am sending you photograph 
(above) showing a limb of one of these 
8-year trees.’”” C. Rumbolz, Wash. 
3 Bushels from 4-Year Tree 
“We have had wonderful luck with 
our Stark trees and am sending you 
pictures of 3-year Stark Golden Deli- 
cious bearing fruit and also a 4-year 
old Starking Delicious which bore 
3 bushels of apples this year. We 
think they are marvelous.” Lyon 
Bro’s., Mont. 
$5.25 a Bushel Wholesale 
“North Carolina Starking Apples 
sold for $5.25 a bushel in carload lots 
in New Orleans last week—August 
25, 1948.” The Packer. 
“Last year I harvested a big crop of Starking Delicious Apples. 
50% Higher Prices 
“My Starking Delicious trees 
which started bearing when they were 
3 years are loaded again. 
“One of these trees bore 114 
bushels. Starking Delicious is a 
keeper and the tree is surely a young 
and heavy annual bearer. Apples 
bring me 50% more than Delicious.” 
F. M. Simon, Ohio. 
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“T wish I had more Starking De- 
licious because they color earlier and 
pickers can strip the trees at time of 
picking. This is an advantage— 
enabling me to get apples packed for 
early market which generally brings 
a premium price. 
“My crop will average 1,000 
packed boxes to the acre of first-class 
apples.”” H.R. Duncan, Wash. 
I was never 
so gratified in the quantity produced, the excellent color and size of the fruit and 
also in the price—$3.70 a bushel right at the orchard. 
“T have three blocks of these Starking Delicious—mostly bordered by 
Jonareds, Jonathan and Stark Golden Delicious. 
When I first started to pick 
these Starking Delicious I thought that I would have about a carload—500 
bushels—but I picked four cars of them, totaling 2,000 bushels. 
“When the buyer had his last bushel loaded on the truck he patted me on the 
back and said ‘I sure got a bargain in those apples—you should have got $4.00 
for every bushel of them—because every bushel of them is Extra Fancy. 
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Paul Ringhausen, Calhoun County, Illinois, 
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