

10 REASONS WHY I: Pays 
To Have Stark Trees Come to You 
No Matter WHERE You Are Located 
Trees for the first time—or the one who 
already has some trees, but has not yet 
discovered the many advantages of getting his 
trees from Stark Bro’s—is sometimes inclined 
to ask: 
“Why should I have trees come to me from 
some other section, such as from Stark Bro’s?” 
This is a natural question. The fact that 
Stark Bro’s ship trees from North Missouri to 
every State in the Union, to Canada, Mexico, 
and in fact to every fruit growing section of the 
world, proves that there must be good reasons 
for doing so—reasons so sound that they have 
been proved on a dollars-and-cents basis by 
fruit growers, large and small, everywhere. 
There are many reasons why it pays to have 
Stark Trees come to you. Here are ten of the 
most important ones: 
Tt: property owner who is planting Fruit 
THE RIGHT TREES 
FOR YOUR CLIMATE 
It has been conclusively 
proved that WHERE trees 
are grown makes very 
little difference—just so 
they are started in good soil and given correct 
care. Among the many authorities who have 
tested and proved this fact is Prof. W. H. 
Alderman, Director of the Minnesota Ex- 
periment Station, who, writing on this sub- 
ject, says: ‘There is a popular idea in many 
parts of the country that nursery stock to 
succeed must be grown in the general locality 
in which it is planted, on the assumption that 
it thus becomes ‘acclimated.’ As a matter of 
fact it makes little difference where nursery 
stock is grown, although it does make con- 
siderable difference HOW IT IS GROWN.” 
And Prof. George L. Slate of the New York 
Agricultural Experiment Station, writing in 
“Home Garden,” states: “Hardiness is a 
matter of variety and has little to do with the 
place where the plant is grown. The plant ofa 
hardy variety is hardy whether grown in 
Virginia or Maryland, Minnesota or Vermont.” 
Stark Bro’s maintain the best and most com- 
plete Research Department of any nursery for 
making sure of vigorous HARDY stock. They 
have test plantings in all parts of the country. 
By working closely with Experiment Stations, 
Horticultural Authorities and with Stark Cus- 
tomers everywhere, they grow and recommend 
the best varieties for every section. 

STARK TREES ARE 
HARDIER 
A tree of weak, poor stock 
will not transplant as well 
EVEN ONE MILE 
AWAY from where it was 
grown, as a hardy Old Oak Process Whole 
Root tree of strong, sturdy stock to which 
transplanting 2000 or 3000 miles away is no 
hardship whatever. Stark Fruit Trees are 
selected and propagated for ruggedness, by the 
men who know fruit trees best of all the experts 
in America. That is why, in orchards contain- 
ing other kinds of trees as well as Stark Trees, 
you will so often hear that the hardy Stark 
Trees were the only ones that could weather 
an unusually hard winter, etc. 

STARK TREES ARE 
BETTER STOCK 
Choosing pure-strainStark 
Trees, whether for a small 
planting or a large or- 
chard, is the same sort of 
common-sense as choosing pure-strain cattle 
for a dairy farm. Heredity tells. Behind every 
tree that Stark ships lies 134 years of exper- 
ience with every known variety of that tree’s 
“fruit family.”’ Before a tree leaves the Stark 
Nurseries, many GENERATIONS of that 
tree have been planted, studied, selected, im- 
proved, and PROVED. 

GUARANTEED 
BETTER HEALTH 
Because Stark Trees are 
shipped into all 48 States, 
into Canada and Mexico, 
and into all the leading 
fruit growing sections of the world, every 
Stark Tree MUST earn the O.K.’d Inspection 
Certificate of the Government. It must be 
absolutely free from insect pests and diseases— 
it must pass the most rigorous tests for Inter- 
state and International Commerce that most 
trees are not called upon to face. 
@) 

MORE VARIETIES TO 
CHOOSE FROM 
Stark Bro’s have intro- 
duced, and today can 
supply, more leading va- 
rieties of Apples, Peaches, 
Apricots, Plums, Pears and Cherries all told 
than any other nursery in the world. Each 
variety serves a specific purpose—for the time 
of season when it ripens, for its eating or 
shipping qualities, for its size or color for sec- 
tional market preferences—each has its REA- 
SONS for being grown and recommended by 
Stark. The buyer has virtually unrestricted 
choice of the world’s finest fruits; something 
which no smaller, localized source of supply 
can possibly offer. A great many Stark varieties 
are U.S. Patented or Trade-marked and cannot 
be obtained elsewhere. Luther Burbank, great- 
est of all Fruit Wizards, knew that only Stark 
Bro’s could do justice to his own wonderful 
new varieties. That is why he gave Stark SOLE 
RIGHTS to his finest New Fruit Creations. 

REACH YOU IN 
FINER CONDITION 
The way a tree is taken 
from the soil, packed and 
shipped to its ‘new home” 
is a thousand times more 
important than where it has been grown. The 
Stark Patented Old Oak Whole-Root Process 
propagating method plus the use of the Stark 
Patented Tree-Digger, assures a thick, luxur- 
ious, thriving root system for every Stark Tree. 
Each is packed with plenty of fine specially 
processed and fully aged packing material 
around its roots, with ample moisture, and 
the entire tree is staunchly protected against 
handling and weather on even the longest 
journey. This is why every Stark Tree 1s 
GUARANTEED to arrive healthy and safe, 
to start growth quickly, and to grow strong. 
©) 

- Pa 
B LOUISIANA, MO. JO) 
THE TREE CENTER OF 
AMERICA 

THE STARK BUYER 
KNOWS WHAT HE 
IS GETTING 
Because Stark Bro’s are 
the LARGEST growers of 
fruit trees in the world, 
they have larger plantings from which to pick 
the best trees for shipment to their customers. 
The best trees out of ten thousand or a hundred 
thousand are certain to be better than the 
“pick” from only a few hundred. Stark cus- 
tomers KNOW they are getting the “Cream 
of the Crop’—the very best trees from the 
best that are grown. 

A PLEASURE TO 
RAISE 
Much of the enjoyment of 
Stark Tree ownership is in 
watching each tree grow, 
begin fruiting quickly, and 
flourish from infancy into full-bearing ma- 
turity. Again and again, owners say that the 
pride of accomplishment in bringing up their 
own trees from infancy could never be matched 
if someone else ‘‘took over” for them. Just as 
there is pride of workmanship in any other 
good job, there is deeper satisfaction in trees 
that a man can point to as HIS OWN AC- 
COMPLISHMENT. And the Free Advice 
from Stark’s Special Service Department, plus 
the complete Planting and Care Instructions 
that are supplied with every tree, make it so 
easy that even children in their ’teens can be 
successful, enthusiastic Stark Fruit Growers. 

“ASK THE MAN WHO 
OWNS THEM’’ 
@) Just as there is more 
satisfaction in owning a 
fine home, a fine car, or a 
fine piece of farm equip- 
ment—there is surer and more iasting satis- 
faction in owning Stark Trees. Stark owners 
know they have THE BEST—that generations 
of the most careful fruit selection and breeding 
stand squarely behind every Stark Tree on 
their land. They know their trees will produce 
finer fruit quicker and bigger profits, year 
after year. Their Stark fruit LEADS THE 
PROCESSION in every locality. 

COST LESS AFTER 
FIRST CROP 
Hundreds of “‘hard-head- 
ed” orchardists pay just a 
little more for Stark Trees, 
and gladly pay the ship- 
ping costs no matter where they live, because 
their own account books prove that the very 
small extra first cost is quickly offset. Usually 
the first harvest more than pays back the 
difference, and many times more. And for 
each year thereafter their Stark Apples, 
Peaches, Apricots, Plums, Pears or Cherries, 
etc., bring them in MORE MONEY—more 
bushels per tree, and more income per bushel— 
than ordinary varieties, from run-of-the-lot 
trees, can ever earn. 
STARK TREES MORE THAN ‘PAY 
THEIR WAY’—WHETHER IT’S TEN 
MILES OR TEN THOUSAND MILES TO 
THEIR ‘‘“NEW HOME”! 

Growers Everywhere Declare: “Stark Trees Bear Quicker, Bigger Profit Crops”’ 
$17,350.00 
“My neighbors 
told me‘You can’t 
grow fruit here.’— 
but I sold $66.00 
worth of apples 
per tree from my 
7-year trees. I got twice as much for my Jonared 
because of extra red color.”’ 
John Widner, Mo. 




$66.00 
PER TREE Crop 
“T sold my house 
and lot and got 
$600.00 more for 
it because of the 
6 good Stark Fruit 
Trees that were 
then loaded with fruit—cherries were ripe 
then.” 




$600.00 
MORE FOR HOUSE 
John Trevethan, Pa. 

“T have 165 Trees 
of Starking Deli- 
cious. They really 
> saved the day for 
us during depres- 
sion years. In just 
6 years this small block (214 acres) has grossed 
me $17,350.00.” 
Andrew Miller, Ore. 
IN 6 YEARS 

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