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Trade-Mark 
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 fragrarice of an old-fashioned garden! Sie 
And this is the apple, tht matchless STARKING DELICIOUS, E 
that YOU can grow right in your own back yard! 
2 For commercial growing, Starking Delicicus is the world’s most 
°s popular and most profitable red apple. In the past 25 years this 
fa 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. 
Actual Size 
Starking 
~ Delicious Apple 
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"Got $5.00 a Bushel for My Apples —_— Z 
$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’ _ 
74 f over $30.00 worth of fruit. 
THEY PUT ME 
ON EASY STREET“ 10/BU. FROM 7-YEAR TREE “WINS SWEEPSTAKES” | 
“About 7 years ago I planted 2 “Starking Delicious won Sweepstakes 
“When I planted Starking Delicious and 2 Stark at Canadian Royal Winter Fair and 
259 Starking Delicious Golden Delicious trees. They bore in addition won First, Second, Third 
Apple trees I was the 4th year and this year my best Prizes.” Canadian Horticulture Magazine 
heavily in debt on a 
eo ee! 
small. farm, but in a 
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. 
Golden Delicious had’ 10 bushels. My 
Starking Delicious were not quite so 
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. 
50% HIGHER PRICE 
“My Starking Delicious trees 
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. 
When I say apples, ] Weeks. Miss. 
consider Starking De- 
licious the finest in the 
world,”—J. E. Parisht 
Calif. 
Simon, Ohio. 
$1,020.18 Worth of Apples From $2.50 Stark Tree 
“In 1921 my father and mother sent you their picture standing beside a 
3-year-old Stark Golden Delicious apple tree bearing 114 bushels of big golden — 
apples. ; 
“Here is a picture of me standing beside that same tree 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 tree 
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.) 
Fancy’.”—Paul Ringhausen, Calhoun 
County, Illinois. 
“BORE 4 TIMES WHAT 1} 
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— 
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 
“SAVED US DURING 
DEPRESSION” 
“TI have 165 trees of Starking De- 
“Big Six” Apple Trees - 
Please order by name and number. 
licibus® puréhased biran Hon A2 Stark Golden Delicious EACH RATE 10 RATE 
but I picked four cars of them, total- really “ead the day for Se during Al Starking Delicious £ 1 to9 na 10 to 4s 
ing 2,000 bushels, depression years. This smal] block A4 Scarlet Staymared . a 
“When the buyer had his last bushel 
(214 acres) grossed me $17,350.00 the 
loaded on the truck he patted me on 
A3 Jonared 
last 6 years.’—A. Miller, Ore. 
5 to 7 ft. size $2.75 atree $2.50 tree 
A6 Stark RedGold 4 to 5 ft. size $2.50 atree $2.20 a tree 
A8& 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 
“STARK REDGOLD 
U. S. Patent : 
e—Red Hybrid of Stark Golden Delicious—Rivals Its 
NEW—U. S. Patent Apple ing. We Paid World's Highest Price of $7,500.00 
Parent in Flavor and Young 
i azing Apple! : 
Jagan tant vane flavor—will be ready for you to pick. Bears 
Weeks ahead of Delicious, and before Jon- 
athan reaches prime eating condition, _you 
can smack your lips over the pure pur mere 
ness of Stark REDGOLD! ee pee 
i a 
nsation blends the rich Star cing I 
eoiby tang of Stark Coe Te tee ike 
im shape, flashing solid sca Z ‘ 
fe hecunital you'll be proud to say it grows on 
your property! 
amazingly young. Just 13 months after ca 
test graft was set in our Test Orchards, Re - 
Gold bore its first fruit. Late spring 
bloomer, sure bearer. ine 
5 ’s glad] aid the famou 5 
HSacairtretie ie Schell, $7,500.00—a wanes 
Record Apple Price—for sole Gyenet nthe A 
this sensational variety. You'll see why whe 
ill too tart or 
other apples are stt [ ih, 
dovaey to eat, RedGold—the first yer 
quality winter Gessert apple to develop 
you: raise RedGold for Early Eating, Roadside and 
Holiday Markets! NNCS. 
Actual Size 
Stark RedGold ; 
Apple 
U.S Patent 
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