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PLANT STARK TREES-And You Plant the Best! 
Only from Stark Trees Do You Get These Extra Benefits 
STARK TREES OFTEN PAY. FOR 
THEMSELVES WITH FIRST CROP 
$21.45 Worth of Apples on 3-Year 
Stark Golden Delicious Tree 
“3 years ago we ordered three ‘Gold-Mine’ 
Orchards from you and we are now in position 
to mail out Christmas boxes with a dozen Stark 
Golden Delicious in a box. 
~“We have na eg that are 4 inches across them 
mow. One tree has 146 apples on it and has been 
planted here 3 years and it was a hard winter 
and spring here on them.”—Mrs. Lynn McDon- 
ald. Barry County, Michigan. 
‘$24.00 Worth of Cherries from 
5-Year Stark Gold Tree 
(excerpt from Moberly, Mo. paper) 
“John L. Widner delivered 33 pounds of 
Stark Gold Sweet Cherries in Moberly which 
sold at 40 cents a vound. This 33-pound delivery 
was part of the crop from one tree, as the fam- 
ily used about half of the crop at home. Widner 
estimates the yield from this one tree to have 
been about 60 pounds. It is a 5-year tree and 
has borne a good crop the past two seasons. 
“*This Stark Gold Cherry is hardy, a regular 
and heavy bearer and is one cherry the birds let 
me pitk—some call it the ‘bird-proof cherry,’ Mr. 
Widner said.” 
$4.00 a Bushel for Peaches from 
3-Year Stark Trees 
“My Hal-Berta, J. H. Hale and Red Bird Cling 
Peach trees I bought from you 3 years ago had 
the finest peaches on them I ever saw. They 
weighed 14 ounces. I sold them for $4.00 a 
bushel and got 5c apiece for selected ones. 
gathered as much as 1% bushels per tree. I can 
recommend Stark trees as the finest, fastest 
growing trees I ever saw.” — John W. West. 
Cherokee County, Ala. , 
$4,850.00 Crop of Bur- 
bank July Elberta Peach 
W. A. May of LaMar County, Texas 
sold his 1948 crop of Burbank July El- 
berta Peaches from his young 10-acre 
orchard for* $4,850.00—$485.00 per acre. 
Mr. May recently wrote us: 
“My orchard is set out on 25 foot cen- 
ters giving me about 69 trees to the acre. 
I have only Burbank July Elberta Peach 
Trees in my orchard and I must say that 
Stark Trees are second to none.” 
STARK ORCHARDS AND ORNAMENTALS 
INCREASE PROPERTY VALUES 
Stark Trees Added $1,200.00 
to Selling Price of Lot 
“I have five half-acre lots eleven miles from 
Chicago,” writes Mr. O. R. Moore. 
“My friend, Mr. Brown, who is Vice-President 
of one of the largest real estate firms in the 
city, was offered $1200.00 MORE for one of his 
half-acre lots simply because his fruit trees, 
planted every 30 feet, were loaded with all kinds 
of fruit—and these were 4-year-old trees.” 
Stark World’s Champion Fruit Trees would 
add $6,000.00 to the vaiue of Mr. Moore’s five 
lots .on this same basis, and one crop of high 
quality fruit often pays the entire cost of the 
trees ' 
“Stark Trees Too Low Priced,” 
eked CoM Mathis, Ky. & 
“We planted the trees you sent us. We were 
very much delighted in your choice trees. The 
only criticism we have is you sell your trees too 
cheap, when you consider the high grade of trees 
you place on the market.” 
Stark Trees Helped Sell Old Place—Wants 
Bigger Stark Orchard on New Farm 
“I am sure our home orchard on the place we 
Sold helped to sell the place. Our Starking De- 
licious and Stark Golden Delicious apple trees 
and our Hal-Berta Giant peach and July Elberta 
peach trees bore a few fruits the second year 
after planting. I am most anxious to get a 
larger orchard started on our new 80-acre farm. 
Please rush me your catalog, so I can get started 
planning my new orchard.”—B. L. Powers, Pu- 
laski Co., Ark. 
Stark Orchard Cost Him $80.00—Helps Get 
$3,950 More for His Place Only 6 ‘Years Later 
“I’ bought about $80.00 worth of trees from 
you about 5 or 6 years ago for my small place 
which had cost me $550.00. I sold out for $4,- 
500.00. My Stark orchard helped me sell the 
place and make a good profit. I have bought a 
new place now—and will buy again from you.” 
—Chas. A. Coleman, Pike \Co., Kentucky. 
STARK FRUIT TREES KEEP THE WHOLE 
FAMILY HEALTHY AND HAPPY 
Fron Home-Grown Fruit 
You Get— 
VITAMIN “A” This vitamin helps the eyes, 
wards off colds and other infections as well as 
promotes growth. When Vitamin “A” 1s left out 
of the diet, eye trouble. such as night blindness 
and infection of the eyes has resulted. 
VITAMIN “B” With Vitamin “B” from 
fruits a healthy nerve system is maintained. 
Lack of Vitamin “B” causes neuritis. 
VITAMIN “C” Vital to the maintenance ot 
sound bones and teeth. This vitamin has long 
a cure for scurvy, but is still more im- 
ortant in overcoming body poisons. 
ITAMIN “G” This is the appetite vita- 
aun It promotes digestion and growth which_ 
makes for healthier people. 
MINERALS Essential minerals are avail- 
able .n fruits including Calcium, Phosphorous 
and Fron These are all important elements of 
the body for complete health. They play a vital 
pact a oone building and making red blood as 
well-as keeping a balanced condition in stomach 
and other internal tissues. 
Leading medical authorities are recommending 
apples in various forms as a definite cure for 
intestinal diseases of infants. 
PECTIN . The pectin in fruits promotes 
proper intestinal activity. It combines with water 
to form non-irritating bulk, helps to cure intes- 
tinal troubles by serving as a potent healing 
agent on internal membranes. 
ROUGHAGE . . Scientific research has proved 
that fruits serve as a mild, gentle laxative in- 
ducing regularity. Fruit helps keep intestinal 
tract normal and trouble free. 
ENERGY . flome orchard fruits have an 
ample supply of dextrose sugar in pre-digested 
form, thus being available instantly for energy. 
but non-fattening. Fruit is an important factor 
in reducing diets 
DENTIFRICE Fruits serve as nature’s 
toothbrush, giving gum massage and bone exer- 
cise. Dr. Knighton of the University of 
Louisville reported. at American Dental Associ- 
ation that in recent tests three minutes of tooth 
brushing plus mouth rinsing with antiseptics 
killed 64.3% of mouth bacteria. Chewing apples 
killed 96.7% of bacteria. 
“| Make 4 or 5 Times As Much Money 
bushels. 
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“My 2200 ‘Stark Golden Delicious Bore 10,05) - 
Bushels when 7 vears old. 5 consecutive crop: 
from these trees totaled 54,051 bushels.”"— 
A. 0. Eckert, lil. parents.” 
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From Stark Golden Delicious” 
“If You Want to Make a Lot of Money,: 
Plant High-Quality Fruit Trees,” says A. O. Eckert 
“The money-making possibilities of Stark Golden 
Delicious are without 
Eckert, “and we have found during the last 40 years 
that there is MORE MONEY in growing high-quality. 
tree-ripened fruit than in any other farm crop. 
“My Stark Golden Delicious started to bear young 
—a few apples at 3 or 4 years old—and by the time 
they were 6 or 7-year-old were in heavy production. 
We harvested from these 2200 7 years old Stark Golden 
Delicious—five (5) consecutive crops totaling 54,051 
comparison,” continued Mr. 
“T used to raise about 1,000 hogs a year and sold 
country cured hams, but I gave that up and now devote 
all’of my time to growing fruit. I find that if you want 
to make a good living and a little money, you raise 
hogs. If you want to make a good living and a lot of 
money, you grow tree-ripened ‘quality’ fruit — and 
plant only ‘quality’ trees from Stark Record-Bearing 
EXCLUSIVE 
BENEFITS 
Results Show Why Stark Trees Are the 
Lowest Priced Trees on Earth! . 
Stark Trees Bear Quicker-—1, 
2 or 3 Years Sooner, often 
when only 2 years old. 
2 Stark . Record-Bearing Strains 
Bear Best, because they come 
trom finest Parent Trees. 
Stark Customers Get “Miracle” 
Fruit—Created by Stark and 
Burbank, Wizard of Horticul- 
ture. 
Roots, because we dig with 
Stark Patent Power Digger. 
Stark Big, Husky-Rooted Trees 
Grow Faster, because grown 
by Stark Trade-Marked “Old 
Oak Process” Reg. U.S. Pat. Off, 
Stark Trees are Super-Quality 
—they are Grown by Experts. 
Backed by Experience of 6 Gen- 
erations—136 Years. 
Stark Tree Roots are Protected 
From the Sun and Wind by 
Covered Vans and Cool, Dark 
Packing Houses. 
4 Every Stark Shipment Car- 
ries State Inspection Certifi- 
cate, and every tree is inspected 
5 times before shipment. 
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 COL- 
ORED Fruit. And just think!—You can now grow YOUR OWN 
STARK FRUIT right in your own back yard when you buy Genuine 
Stark Trees. 
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 sci- 
entifically 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. 
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: It 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 intro- 
duce it. This is further assurance that Stark Trees and Plants will 
succeed for you, no matter where you live. 
Look HOW EASY It Is to Order from Stark Bro’s 
Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co. Is as 
Near You as Your Closest Mail Box 
TERMS—You can send all Cash With Order or send 25% Down Pay- 
ment. Check the payment plan you wish on Order Blank—either the 
CASH-With-Order Plan, C.O.D. Plan or Easy TIME-PAYMENT 
PLAN. 
HOW TO SEND PAYMENT. It is best and safest to send remittance to 
Stark Bro’s by Check, Postal Money Order, Express Money Order 
or Bank Draft. 
IMPORTANT: Write both Variety NUMBER and NAME shown above price 
schedules when ordering. 
WHEN TO PLANT. Select the Planting Season you prefer—FALL or 
SPRING—and check your wishes on Order Blank. We will ship at 
the right time for planting in your section, during the season you 
select. Most customers prefer to leave the exact date of shipment 
to our judgment. We recommend Only Spring Planting in Far North- 
ern States, such as Minn., Montana, ete. 
SAVE ON 10-RATE PRICES. Order 10 or More Trees and use the 
10-Rate Prices. 
On 50 or MORE TREES, SHRUBS OR PLANTS, send list of your needs to 
Stark Bro’s Commercial-Wholesale Dept., Louisiana, Mo., for SPE- 
CIAL ESTIMATE. 
EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS. You can buy Stark Nursery Stdck on the 
Easy Monthly Payment Plan. 
Free Trees to Cover Your Transportation 
Cost Included with Your Order 
Stark Bro’s will include Free, with Customer’s Shipment of Nursery 
Stock purchased at prices quoted in this catalog, enough Top-Quality Stark 
World’s Champion Nursery Stock to Cover Transportation Costs the customer 
pays when his shipment arrives. Only nursery doing this as far as we know. 
SELECTED BY OUR EXPERTS, Free Transportation Nursery Stock will 
be selected by Stark Experts to thrive in your locality. 
How to Select Varieties 
HARDINESS—After descriptions ‘in catalog, key letters—NCS— 
show region where the variety grows successfully—NN means Far 
North; N, North; C, Central; $, South; hence NCS means it grows well 
North, Central, South. 
POLLINATION—There.are probably enough Fruit Trees growing 
near you to pollinate those you plant. To make sure of cross-pol- 
lination select different varieties. It is best to plant at least 2 Apple 
varieties, 2 or more Pear, Plum, Sweet Cherry and Peach. 
$5.00 MINIMUM ORDER. Stark Bro’s lose money on orders totaling less 
than $5.00. In the event order totals less than $5.00, please add 50c 
to the total to help cover cost of handling. This applies to Stark 
Nursery Stock only—not to Stark Tre-Pep, Orchard Fertilizer, Spray 
Materials, Strawberries. 
Every Stark Tree is Guaranteed 
to arrive Safely at your ship- 
ping Point — or we Replace 
FREE. 3-Way Guarantee. 
Every Stark Tree is True to 
Name—Stark Head Propaga- 
tor makes Affidavit yearly. 
Stark Customers Get Afi the: 
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