
ABOVE: Color photo of Genuine Gleason Strain Stark 
Early Elberta in Alvin Eckert Orchard. 
BELOW: Loaded 4-year Stark Early Elberta—Knud- 
son Orchard. 
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The SUPREME Yellow Freestone Peach! 
Stark Bro’s Genuine Sumner Gleason Strain 
of Stark Early Elberta is the most delicious 
variety of 4,000,000 new Elberta Hybrid 
Trees sent out by us for nation-wide testing! 
For 25 years Stark Early Elberta has 
topped the Peach world with its fine size 
(larger than old Elberta), glorious red-blush 
over pure golden color, and luscious flesh— 
by all odds the best-liked Peach in America. 
Luther Burbank called it ‘‘A Model 
Peach.’’ Home orchardists and commercial 
growers call it the COMPLETE peach 
for every purpose. Best for eating fresh; best 
for canning. Wonderful for freezing. Mar- 
velous for pies! 
Ripens about 7 days ahead of old 
Elberta. Sturdy, hardy, heavy bearer of big 
crops that often bring twice as much per 
bushel as old Elberta. Perfect for Eating, 
Cooking, Freezing, Canning, Drying, Market. 
Big earner in North, Central, South. 
For the very finest yellow fleshed 
peaches ripening in succession all sum- 
mer long, plant Starking Delicious, Bur- 
bank July Elberta, Stark Early Elberta, 
Hal-Berta Giant, Stark Red Strain of 
J. H. Hale, and Stark Late Elberta. 
“My Greatest Mistake Was Not Planting More Stark Early Elbertas’—-said Alvin Eckert, Ill. 
Genuine Sumner Gleason Strain 
STARK EARLY ELBERTA 
$6.00 per Tree Crop 
“T bought 20 Stark Early Elberta Peach 
Trees are Sold ONLY byStarkBro’s. Trees and set them out April 26, 1946. This 
None GENUINE without this label. 
Dr. Sumner Gleas 
who fruited jirs 
Stark Early Elberta 
year (1947) they averaged 11% bu. per tree. I 
sold them for $4.00 a bushel. Paul Ratliff, 
Miss. 
‘“‘Crop from 2 Year Trees 
Paid for Orchard”’ 
“Stark Early Elberta and J. H. Hale peach 
trees in R. M. Orth’s orchard bore a good crop 
at 2 years—enough to pay all sigs s on his 
orchard to that date and a good profit be- 
sides. J. W. Hill, West Virginia. ” Bage a 

