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With Stark DWARF Trees—‘“‘You Can Grow Fruiton a 50-foot Lot”’ 
By Fleeta Brownell Woodroffe, Garden Editor of Better Homes & Garden Magazine 
“What could be more fun than picking fruit from your own 
trees? Flavor-filled fruit that’s not picked while still hard so it will 
ship well, but perfect fruit that’s ripened on your trees, getting 
sweeter and sweeter? 
‘What could be more satisfactory than growing Summer, Fall 
and Winter Apples this way? And your choice Pears and Quinces? 
“Plant Dwarf trees and you can have all the fun. Big juicy 
apples and pears on little trees you can fit into half a dozen spots 
without trouble. Plant several varieties of Dwarf Apples and you 
get family-sized crops from different varieties ripening over several 
months.”’ And you, too, can know the joys of your own delicious 
tree-ripe fruit—even if you have no more ground that a 50-foot lot! 
Fruit Just as Big — Just As Delicious 
It’s amazing, but the Apples and Pears grown on 
Stark Hardy Dwarf Trees are just as large, just as 
beautifully colored, just as deliciously flavored and 
just as fine in every way as the same varieties grown 
on regular trees. But Stark Hardy Dwarf Trees 
are so small they can be planted 8 to 10 feet apart— 
as many as 25 Trees can goin a space 40 feet square. 

Bear Even Quicker: some varieties such as 
Stark Golden Delicious, give some fruit at 2 years. 
Stark New Hardy DWARF Apple Trees 
All Stark Dwarf Apple trees are grown on the new Hardy 
Clark Dwarfing Stock developed by the late Dr. T. J. Maney 
and associates at the Iowa State College. Starting with this 
new hardy dwarfing stock, Stark Bro’s have perfected a 
Trade-Marked propagating method which brings hardy 
Dwarf Trees at reasonable prices. Stark Dwarf Trees are so 
HARDY they thrive wherever standard sized apple trees 
grow; so STURDY they need no staking or bracing; so 
SMALL they are ideal for Garden or Shrub Border 
plantings, and are now offered to you in a selection of 
favorite varieties listed in Ripening Order - at Right. 


As frame for doorway—Combined with a flower border 
—Stark Hardy Dwarf Trees rival finest flowering shrubs. Set 
across the end and the sides dress up an open lawn. Leave 
space about each tree for foot room while you prune and 
spray trees and pick the fruit. 
Enjoy Full-Flavored Tree-Ripe 
Fruit All Season Long 
You can literally eat your way around the season 
if you plant a family-size orchard of Stark Hardy 
Dwarf Trees. You can have Apples and Pears to 
pick from Early Summer until late frosts—with 
excellent kinds for canning and to store for winter, if 
you plant varieties ripening in succession. 

2 Year Stark Dwarf in Bloom—The color camera catches 
the thrilling beauty of Stark Dwarf Apple tree in full bloom 
just 2 years and 2 months after plantirg. It bore 44 bushel of 
big apples. Dwarfs quickly bestow crops of big, beautiful 
fruit—as fine in every way as fruit from regular-sized trees. 
Stark Hardy Dwarf Fruit Trees 
e Stark Earliest—U. S. Patent—See Page 15. 
e Early Harvest—Described on Page 15 
e Lodi, Early Golden—Described on Page 15. 
e Summer Champion—Trade-Mafk—See Page 2. 
© Wealthy, Double-Red—Trade-Mark—See Page 3. 
e Stark JonGrimes—u. S. Patent—See Page 15. 
e McIntosh, Double-Red—See Page 2. 
e Stark RedGold—u. S. Patent—See Page 14. 
e Jon-A-Red—U. S. Patent—See Page 13. 
e Starking Delicious—T*ade-Mark—See Pages 8 to 11. 
e Stark Golden Delicious—Trade-Mark—Described and 
shown in coior on Pages 4 to 7 
e Scarlet Staymared—uU. S. Patent—See Page 12. 
Described and shown in color on Pages 15, 16 and 17. 
Lincoln—August e Duchess—Ccr tober. 
Bartlett—September e Stark Seckel—October. 
Burbank Jumbo Quince—New glossy foliage. 
Van Deman, Burbank’s—$3,000.00 Quince. See page 15. 


Number of Dwarfs You Need for Any of Following-Sized 
Plots of Ground—Planting Dwarfs 10 Feet Apart 
10 x 20 ft.— 6 Dwarf Trees 20 x 30 ft.—12 Dwarf Trees 
10 x 30 ft.— 8 Dwarf Trees 20x 50 ft.—18 Dwarf Trees 
10 x 50 ft.—12 Dwarf Trees 30 x 50 ft.—24 Dwarf Trees 
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