All Stark Trees Are SUPER- Q UALIT Y— Grown from Record-Bearing Parents 
Extra Profits from 
Stark Patented and Trade-Marked Varieties 
An official nation-wide survey on Apple varieties made by the American 
Pomological Society recently revealed that Stark Patented and Trade-Marked 
Varieties are top favorites from Coast to Coast. Starking Delicious and Stark 
Golden Delicious were first, with Jonared, Scarlet Staymared, etc. next in order 
of preference. This preference adds millions of dollars every year to the profits 
of growers because the public eagerly pays Premium Prices for this Larger, 
More Deliciously FLAVORED, More Beautifully COLORED Fruit. And just 
think!—You can now grow YOUR OWN STARK FRUIT right in your own 
back yard when you buy Genuine Stark Trees. 
Constant Research for Better Varieties and Trees 
Every year Stark Bro’s invest thousands of dollars in research to bring you 
Finer New Fruits; Younger-Bearing, Heavier Bearing Varieites, such as Stark 
Golden Delicious Apple; Hardier Varieties, like Starking Hardy Giant Sweet 
Cherry; New Types of Trees, such as Stark Quadruple-Life Hardy Dwarfs; Im- 
proved Growing Methods; etc. The FIRST tree of a New Variety often costs 
Stark Bro’s $10,000.00—yet you get yours for less than $5.00. 
Every New Stark Variety 
Is Pre-Tested for You 
Before a New Fruit or Plant is offered to Stark Customers, it must stand 
this test: Jt must prove itself to be an IMPROVEMENT over any similar 
variety in the famous Stark-Burbank Test Orchards, where virtually 
ALL Leading Varieties are growing for comparison. 
After it has successfully stood this test, it is sent to Experiment Stations and 
leading growers for further testing in different types of soil and under different 
climatic conditions before Stark Bro’s introduce it. This is further assurance 
that Stark Trees and Plants will succeed for you, no matter where you live, 
What Stark ‘“‘Record-Bearing”’ Strains 
Mean to You 
Each variety of Fruit Tree we now offer is propagated from the best Parent 
Tree possible to locate. These Parent Trees are scientifically selected after years 
of careful research, testing and record-keeping of tree and fruit characteristics. 
Every farmer knows that he gets bigger crops from Hybrid Seed Corn and 
gets finer livestock from thoroughbred parents. He knows that Stark Trees, 
propagated direct-in-line from our ‘‘Record-Bearing Strain’ Parents, assure 
finer fruits, bigger crops and quicker profits. 
STARK “RECORD-BEARING STRAIN” TREES 
Assure You Trees That Bear Years Quicker—Bear Larger 
Fruit— More Delicious Fruit — Bear Far Heavier 
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 LO- 
CATE IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES—a tree with a 
known record of superior accomplishment. 
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. 
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“My grandfather bought trees from Stark when I was a boy. 
I remember the old Bear on the shipment when the trees ar- 
rived.’’ This is the story you will get if you ask any old-timer 
anywhere in America, 
Stark ‘‘Record-Bearing”’ Strain Trees Loaded — 
Not an Apple on Piece-Root Trees Across the Road 
When Prof. G. E. Van Deman, former Head Pomol- 
ogist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, visited the 
two orchards pictured below, he wrote in the U. S. Dept. 
of Agriculture Year Book: ‘‘This lesson in practical hor- 
ticulture 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 roead—NOT Stark 
Trees—didn’t have an apple. 
After generations of research and the ex- 
penditure of thousands of dollars, we now 
propagate a// 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 
Improvement Investigations, says: 
“The work of searching out valuable new im- 
provements and superior fruit variations is 
of great value to the fruit industry. These 
improvements in color, size and increased 
production can unquestionably be repro- 
duced 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 they know 
have been propagated from trees of known 
superior records. For instance, Prof. Greene, 
for years Chief Horticulturist of Ohio Experi- 
ment Station, stated: 
“If I were planting an orchard myself, I would 
prefer that the nursery stock I used would be 
propagated from trees of known records.”’ 
Every Stark Tree is now a ““Record-Bear- 
ing” Strain Tree, and back of it is our Par- 
ent 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 Par- 
ent Tree that has an outstanding record for 
heavier bearing, or younger bearing, or 
larger sized fruit, or better colored fruit, or 
a combination of these superior charac- 
teristics. 
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. 
“In my 10-acre Stark Demonstration Orchard the 
apples sold for as much as $65.00 per tree. Fully 44 
of the crop is sold a whole year ahead.” 
Montie Hammell, Ind. 
**A Stark Tree Is Cheap at $5.00 Compared to Other Trees as a Gift”’ 
“T 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 apiece—compared to 
so-called ‘cheap’ trees as a gift!”’ 
Houser & Sutton, Newton Co., Ill. 
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. 
Two 6 YEAR OLD ORCHARDS 
60 FEET APART 
STARK TREES | PIECE Root TREES 
SR a ae F 5 
rk OLD OAK PROCESS Orchard— 
Loaded 6-Year-Old S 
AD" 2 6-Year-Old Cheap Tree, 
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