Stark “Record-Bearing Strain” Trees 
Stark Record-Bearing Strain Parent Trees Bear Larger Fruit— 
More Delicious Fruit—Bear Years Quicker—Bear Far Heavier 
After generations of research and the ex- 
penditure of thousands of dollars, we now 
propagate a/l/ our varieties direct in line from 
exclusive Stark Improved World’s Champion 
‘“‘Record-Bearing”’ Strain Parent Trees. 
Prof. A. D. Shamel, in charge U. S. Fruit Im- 
provement investigations, says: 
“‘The work of searching out valuable 
new improvements and superior fruit 
variations is of great value to the fruit 
industry. These improvements in color, 
size and increased production can un- 
questionably be reproduced from these 
known superior strains and will result in 
better fruit and more profit for fruit 
growers.”’ 
Leading Horticulturists, when planting 
their own orchards, prefer trees which they 
know have been propagated from trees of 
known superior records. For instance Prof. 
Greene, for years Chief Horticulturist of Ohio 
Experiment Station, stated: 
“Tf I were planting an orchard 
myself, I would prefer that the 
nursery stock I used would be 
propagated from trees of known 
records.’ 

zZ ; oe ad, tea B J 
EACH STARK TREE HAS A FAMOUS ‘“PARENT’’— 
Every fruit tree sold by Stark is propagated direct-in-line 
from THE FINEST TREE OF THAT VARIETY WE COULD 
LOCATE IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES—a tree with 
a known record of superior accomplishment. 
Every Stark Tree is now a ‘‘Record-Bear- 
ing’’ Strain tree, and back of it is our Parent 
Tree with a known record of superior 
accomplishment. 
In other words, every variety of fruit we 
now grow is propagated direct-in-line from 
the very finest tree of that variety we could 
locate in the entire United States—a Parent 
Tree that has an outstanding record for 
heavier bearing, or younger bearing, or larger 
sized fruit, or better colored fruit, or a com- 
bination of these superior characteristics. 
Our ‘‘Record-Bearing”’ Strains are the best 
insurance of success a planter can buy—yet 
these better trees cost little more than 
ordinary trees propagated from scions cut 
promiscuously from unknown parents. 
What This Method Means to You 
This carefully worked out Stark Method of 
‘“‘Record-Bearing Strain’’ Parent Tree prop- 
agation eliminates the possibility of de- 
generate strains and loafers getting into 
your orchard. 
Each variety of fruit tree we supply is 
propagated from the best Parent Tree pos- 
sible to locate. These Parent Trees have been 
scientifically selected after years of careful 
research, investigation, testing and Record 
Keeping of tree and fruit characteristics. 
Every farmer and stockman knows that he 
makes bigger crops from Hybrid Corn and 
superior seeds and gets finer livestock from 
thorough-bred parents. They know Stark 
trees, propagated from our ‘“‘Record-Bearing 
Strain’’ Parents, assure the finest fruit and 
the biggest profits. 
Stark Bro’s have always strived for 
BETTER propagation methods—BETTER 
Strains—and BETTER Varieties. We feel it 
our DUTY to do so. Improvements in- 
troduced exclusively by Stark Bro’s have 
helped fruit growers all over the world by 
giving them Better Fruits and Bigger Profits. 
Stark “Record-Bearing” Strain Trees Loaded— 
Not an Apple on Piece-Root Trees Across the Road 
When Prof. G. E. Van Deman, formerly Head Pomologist, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, visited the two Orchards pictured below he wrote in the U. S. Dept. of Agri- 
culture Year Book ‘“‘This lesson in practical horticulture will be worth millions to the country.’ 
6-Year Stark Record-Bearing Strain Trees loaded with fruit. 6-Year Piece Root Trees just 
across the road—NOT Stark Trees—didn’t have an apple. 


Page 48-A 
iouded f= Year-Old Stark “OLD OAK PROCESS Orchard— "JUST ACROSS THE ROAD’— 
Two 6 YEAR OLD ORCHARDS 
60 FEET APART 
NSTARK TREES | PIECE Root TREES 
EE 
TRADE 
MARK 
saa nat 
Largestin the World—Oldestin America-1816—Over 134 Years Old 

7 Ser 
THE FRIENDLY OLD STARK BEAR TRADE- 
MARK—This Stark Bear Trade-Mark on every 
shipment of GENUINE Stark Trees, is the symbol 
that Guarantees highest quality nursery stock 
to Stark Tree Planters throughout America. 
‘““My grandfather bought trees from Stark 
when I was a boy. I remember the old Bear on 
the shipment when the trees arrived.’? This is 
the story you will get if you ask any old-timer 
anywhere in America. 
“‘A Stark Tree Is Cheap at 
$5.00 Compared to Other 
Trees As A Gift” 
“Last Spring I bought 800 trees (NOT 
Stark Trees) because of a so-called ‘bargain 
price.” When they came, I had to throw away 
400 of them as worthless. 
“About the same time, I received from 
Stark Bro’s a lot of Stark Old-Oak Process 
‘“‘Record-Bearing Strain’’ Trees. So I planted 
the best of the ‘cheap’ trees between the Stark 
Trees. Now look at the difference! 
“The top photo marked No. 1 is a Stark 
tree only one year three months planted. 
No. 2 is a ‘cheap’ tree planted at the same 
time! In addition to these I have Stark Trees 
that have been planted only 3 months that 
are much bigger and better today than the 
‘cheap’ trees planted a whole year before! 
“That’s why Stark ‘Record-Bearing 
Strain’ Old-Oak Process Whole-Root Trees 
would be cheap at $5.00 a piece—compared to 
ha 
so-called ‘cheap’ trees as a gift! 
Houser & Sutton, Newton Co., IIl. 






No. 1 (Right) Stark 
Tree 1 year and 
3 months after 
planting—A Big, 
Husky -Rooted, 
Fast+ growing 
Healthy tree. 
No. 2 (Left) ‘Bar- 
gain-Price’ Tree 
1 year and 3 months 
after planting. Puny 
spindling growth— 
A dead loss even at 
a dime a dozen. 
_ NOT SR 

—a 6-Year-Old Cheap Tree, PIECE ROOT Orchard: not an apple. 



