Leaders of the Apple 
~STARKING 
DELICIOUS 
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_ Here is the FINEST red apple in the whole wide world! — the 
shining, solid-ruby-red giant that glows on the counters of the 
highest-price luxury stores in America and floods the air with its 
-wine-like perfume Here is the MASTER apple that puts the 
crowning glory on the nation’s most expensive baskets of fruit— 
the “dream” eating apple prized above all others in deluxe clubs, 
fine hotels and restaurants throughout the land. The apple which 
has NEVER been equalled for magnificent color, mammoth size, 
crackle-crisp flesh, deeply exciting sugar-’n-spice flavor as tan- 
talizing as the fragrance of an old-fashioned garden! 
Actual Size 
And this is the apple, the matchless STARKING DELICIOUS, Dalicisue Apart 
that YOU can grow right in your own back yard! (Trade-Mark) 
For commercial growing, Starking Delicious is the world’s most 
popular and most profitable red apple. In the past 25 years this 
one variety has built some of the greatest fruit fortunes in America. 
Because it turns full-red before it ripens, it can be picked crisp, for 
late keeping—becomes “money-in-the-bank” for you weeks sooner— 
keeps perfectly right through the Winter months. All ready to 
cash in on fancy Spring prices long after ordinary apples have dis- 
appeared from the market. The world’s finest red eating apple. 
Tops in all quality markets. .America’s best red money-maker, pro- 
ducing big money crops everywhere—North, Central, South. 
"Got $5.00 a Bushel for My Apples — 
$2,229.80 from 2 Acres of Stark Trees" 
Walter H. Atherton of N. M. told us that he sold a $2,229.80 crop 
from his 2 acres of Stark Apple Trees this year. He said his local 
stores paid him $5.00 a bushel for his No. 1’s and that each tree bore 
over $30.00 worth of fruit. . 
“THEY PUT ME 
ON EASY STREET” 
(Photo at left) 
“When I_ planted 
250 Starking’ Delicious 
Apple trees I was 
heavily in debt on a 
small farm, but in a 
“WINS SWEEPSTAKES” 
“Starking Delicious won Sweepstakes 
at Canadian Royal Winter Fair and 
in addition won First, Second, Third 
Prizes.” Canadian Horticulture Magazine 
50% HIGHER PRICE 
“My Starking Delicious trees 
10 BU. FROM 7-YEAR TREE 
“About 7" years ago I planted 2 
Starking Delicious and 2 Stark 
Golden Delicious trees. They bore 
the 4th year and this year my best 
Golden Delicious had 10 bushels. My 
Starking Delicious were not quite so 
short time these trees 
- began to bear and in 
no time at all they put 
me on ‘easy street’— 
making me $3,000.00 to 
$6,000.00 per year. Not 
a bad income for an 
old man 80 years old. 
prolific, but I had plenty that meas- 
ured 12” in circumference. 
“Mississippi may not be an apple 
state, but if anyone will plant Stark 
trees and care for them, they will 
never be disappointed.”—Douglas D. 
\Weeks. Miss. 
which started bearing when they were 
3 years are loaded again. 
“One of these trees bore 11% 
bushels. Starking Delicious is a keep- 
er and the tree is surely a young and 
heavy annual bearer. Apples bring me 
50%° more than Delicious.”—F. M 
Simon, Ohio. 
“BORE 4 TIMES WHAT I 
EXPECTED” 
“Last year I harvested a big crop of 
Starking Delicious Apples. I was 
never so gratified in the quantity pro- 
duced, the excellent color and size of 
the fruit and also in the price—$3.70 a 
bushel right at the orchard. 
“When I first started to pick these 
Starking Delicious I thought I would 
have about a carload—500 bushels— 
but I picked four cars of them, total- 
ing 2,000 bushels. 
“When the buyer had his last bushel 
loaded on the truck he patted me on 
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When I say apples, I 
consider Starking De- 
licious the finest in the 
world.”—J. E. Parish, 
Calif. 
the back and said ‘I sure got a bargain 
in those apples—you should have got 
$4.00 for every bushel of them—be- 
cause every bushel of them is Extra 
Fancy’.”—Paul Ringhausen, Calhoun 
County, Illinois. 
“SAVED US DURING 
DEPRESSION” 
“T have 165 trees of Starking De- 
licious purchased from you which 
really saved the day for us during 
depression years. This small block 
(24 acres) grossed me $17,359.00 the 
last 6 years.”—A. Miller, Ore. 
U. S. Patent 
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Just 13 months after first 
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$1,020.18 Worth of Apples From $2.50 Stark Tree 
“In 1921 my father and mother sent you their -picture standing beside a 
paces Stark Golden Delicious apple tree bearing 114 bushels of big golden 
apples. ; : 
“Here is a picture*of me standing beside that same tréé in 1948 from which 
my son has just picked over 19 bushels of big, juicy apples. We- estimate 
that we have harvested about $1,020.18 worth of Apples from this one treé 
that cost my father only $2,50. I might add that we were very conservative 
in making this estimate.” A. Johnson-Mapes (Daughter Albert Johnson, Ore.) 
Also Available in STARK HARDY DWARF TREES 
“Big Six” Apple Trees 
Please order by name and number. 
A2 Stark Golden Delicious EACH RATE 10 RATE 
Al Starking Delicious (1 t09 (10 to 49 
A4 Scarlet Staymared Leta rege’ 
A3 Jonared 5 to 7 ft. size $2.75 a tree $2.50 a tree 
A6 Stark RedGold 50catree Extra | 4 to 5 ft. size $2.50 0 tree $2.20 a tree 
A& Stark Dbl. Red Rome Beauty 3 to 4 ft. size $2.20 atree $1.95 a tree 
If you want 50 or more Trees, Write for Special Prices 
Late spring 
Actual Size 
Stark RedGold 
Apple 
U. S. Patent 
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