THE NEW EARLY COLORING 
RED KING DELICIOUS 
(Patent Pending) 
Red King Delicious is a new Early coloring red Delicious sport. 
It was discovered in Okanogan County near Riverside, Wash. 
thirteen years ago. The sport limb was discovered on a bearing 
tree of the Starking variety of Red Delicious by Mr. Barclay 
Brauns. 
Mr. Brauns has several bearing second generation trees which 
were grafted from the original sport limb. He also has over 
fifty acres of second, third and fourth generation trees from 
one to eight years old, some at Riverside in Okanogan County 
and some inChelan County at Entiat. He expects to harvest 
over two carloads of apples in 1955. 
For the past thirteen years the original sport limb has consist- 
ently produced fruit which colored ten days to two weeks 
earlier than the rest of the fruit on the parent tree. The second 
and third generation trees have shown the same early coloring 
characteristics that are found on the sport limb of the parent 
fEec. 
In size, shape and bearing ability the RED KING DELICIOUS 
appears to be very similiar to its parent 
The demand for trees of the new RED KING DELICIOUS has 
been very heavy, especially in the North Central Washington 
area where growers have been able to see and compare the 
fruit of RED KING with the fruit of other red Delicious, both 
the newer and older sports. Due to the demand al! of the RED 
KING DELICIOUS trees have been sold out for the 1954-1955 
season. The VAN WELL NURSERY is now booking orders for 
delivering in the Fall of 1955 - Spring of 1956. 
Mr. Brauns has applied for a patent on this new apple and 
has chosen the VAN WELL NURSERY as sole propagators and 
distributors of RED KING DELICIOUS. 
RED KING DELICIOUS is sold only by 
VAN WELL NURSERY 
WENATCHEE WASHINGTON 
