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A Century and Five Years of Sincere Fruit Tree Raising!

How many firms in America have been in business for over one hundred years? Mighty few. And
those that have survived the storms of a century and more, naturally attract your confidence. You
know that there must be genuine merit in that which they sell — there must be high principles which they
have maintained in good times and bad — they must have been “souare” towards their customers at all times,
or they could not have scored a century success.

We are naturally proud of our record of lOS years of suc-
cessful nursery work. That just pride makes us jealous of
the reputation that “Stark Trees Bear Fruit.” It compels us
to be careful of that reputation — to make sure that every
Stark Tree that is shipped out of our nurseries is worthy of
our name and deserving of your confidence.

This was the idea and the ideal of the Stark who founded
these nurseries, here in Louisiana, Mo., in 1816. He was
Judge James Stark, son of Col. James Stark, veteran of the
American Revolution. Judge Stark served in the War of 1812,
just as his successors of the present generation served as U. S.
Army volunteers in the World War now happily ended. Here
at Louisiana, !Mo., he found the right soil, the right climate and
the right growing conditions for a successful nursery.

It was his ambition to make his nurseries a constant, un-
ceasing source of real help to all the world of fruit growers
— to constantly and persistently raise the ideals of fruit rais-
ing. His determined desire was to improve the “breed” of
fruit trees — and the satisfaction and profit that all fruit
growers and farmets should derive from planting Stark Trees.

This is still the aim of the present Stark Bro’s — direct
lineal descendents of Judge James Stark. Our constant wish,
desire and work is to continue to maintain these nurseries as
the home — the headquarters — the fountain head of tree.<! that
will inevitably and unfailingly bear the finest, highest-market-
priced fruit.

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A Prediction Founded on 50 Years^
Experience in the Nursery Business

By E. W. Stark, President Stark Bro's Nurseries, who has
been actively connected with our nurseries since 1873

FTER the war of ’Gl-'65 be-
tween the states, the writer
recalls that everyone had
money. 'All products, and especially
fruit, sold at very high prices.

‘‘Today the people of this country
have in their hands more money than
the people of any country have ever
possessed at any time.

■‘There is no reason to fear any
slump in this prosperity. The country’s
financial, business and farming inter-
ests are safeguarded against panics by
the Federal Reserve Law and other
legal panic-preventive measures.

‘‘This continuance of prosperity
carries with it the assurance that prices
for all products — those of the farm,
the factory, the orchard, the nursery —
will continue to be high.

‘‘Fruit prices must necessarily hold their present high
level — and will, in my opinion, go still higher. Increase in
fruit tree planting has not kept pace wiih our increase in
population — in fact, there has been a tremendous decrease
in the number of bearing trees in the past few years —
millions of trees have died from neglect.

“The result is — a great scarcity of good fruit, especially
apples. And the natural consequence is record-breaking
prices for all fruit-crops. (Apples sold on the wholesale
market this season for $13.00 to $18.00 per barrel.)

“With European orchards wiped off the face of the earth
by the World War, the United States must supply the world
with fruit — especially apples. Europe wil not be able to re-
place her lost orchards and vineyards in less than 25 years.
The United States will have to make record-breaking plant-
ings of orchards for at least 15 years to come before our own
national fruit production will be equal to the world demand
for American fruit-;-and the American Merchant Marine is
here to carry American fruit to Europe, South America and
all the world."

The United States at Dawn of the
Greatest Era in Orcharding History

By Major Lloyd C, Stark, written while in France with
American Expeditionary Forces

Sacre, Sarthe, France, April 30, 1919.
(( ■T X T'kIEREVER one goes in
%/x/ France he sees the results
T V of the unavoidable 5 years’
neglect of the orchards, even where
they were not destroyed by the enemy.
It will be a generation— maybe two —
before they will be back to normal.

“As you know, the French orchards
supplied the big percentage of the seed
for propagating seedling trees — espe-
cially apple. The French grow the bulk
of seedling stocks for the United States
because of the advantages here of
moist climate and cheap labor. During
the war, France grew a very small per
cent of her normal seeding crop and
seedlings are now and will be very
scarce.

“ Now — labor is scarce in France and
all Europe. The Old World has lost 10,000,000 of the flower
of its men. Cheap labor in France is a thing of the past.
This means that France, which is the source of the fruit tree
seedlings used for propagating fruit trees in the U. S., must
charge several times as much for her seedlings. (Later —
the prices for French fruit tree seedlings this year are 600%
to 900% higher than several years ago.)

“We — back in the United States — must grow more fruit
trees for the next generation. The American farmer or land
owner who will set aside a part of his land for an orchard or a
vineyard now will pocket wonderful profits 5 or 10 years
from now — for, the next 20 to 30 years will be the great profit-
harvest time for American fruit-growers.

“Our farmers — and our orchardists, especially apple grow-
ers, face the greatest opportunity ever presented to Americans.
I am sure they will grasp it — and I am confident that our
nurseries, founded in the morning of America’s history, will
help every farmer and land-owner to realize and reap the
fuir profit-possibilities of this, the greatest fruit-growing
opportunity in the World’s history.”

Nursery Trees are Scarce— Better Order TODAY

The World War reduced nursery plantings. We are no ex-
ception. Labor was scarce — and still is. It was not possible
to propagate as many nursery trees as we have grown in the
past. Wages and everything else required in the production
of trees went up and up — and are still just as high or higher. It
costs us many times as much to grow a Stark quality fruit tree
as it did a few years ago.

Consequently — not only our nurseries, but all nurseries
throughout America are “short” on fruit trees. Even last
season we ran out of stock due to the extremely strong de-
mand and had to disappoint many of our customers who
did not order early. We urgently advise you to send in your
for the trees you want — and DO IT NOW— IMMEDIATELY!
will reserve the trees for your order— and ship them at the
you specify.

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Every Stark Tree Must Be True to Label

WHERE can I get trees true to label? That is the big question that comes into your mind when
you are putting yoru: good money, your time and land into an orchard. Ask your neighbors —
ask the farmer — ask the Professors in the Horticultural Colleges — ask the State Horticul-
turists— ^the State Inspectors. Almost to a man they will answer — “STARK BRO’S NURSERIES.”

Why do these men know that Stark Trees are honestly labeled? Why do they say “Stark Bro’s”?

FIRST: They tell you Stark Bro’s be-
cause every man in the Stark Bro’s Organiza-
tion knows that he is subject to instant
dismissal if he mislabels a single Stark Tree.

To protect our customers and our reputa-
tion against even the chance of careless
mislabeling, we post “Warning” signs in our
Packing Houses. Any man detected mis-
labeling a tree would be discharged instantly.
We would forgive stealing quicker than the
unforgivable offense of breaking our “true-
to-label” commandment.

SECOND: They believe in Stark Bro’s
because Stark Bro’s have the reputation of
being an Absolutely Reliable Nursery; and
no amount of money could tempt us to hurt

this reputation that took us 105 years to build.

“To err is human” — and we are human.
Sometimes even with the best nursery system
in the world, we make mistakes, but — they
are few and far between and they are honest
mistakes.

T HIRD: They will answer “Stark Bro’s”
because Stark Trees are making good in the
State Demonstration Orchards and the State
Experiment Stations throughout the country.
Nearly every State Agricultural Experiment
Station and college sends us orders for trees
most every year. Also when the big State
and Federal Horticultural Professors buy
trees themselves to plant in their own or-
chards they usually plant Stark Trees.

This is one of the main proofs that Stark
Trees are everywhere recognized as combin-
ing the two big things that every tree buyer
wants: “HIGHEST QUALITY AND AB-
SOLUTE RELIABILITY.”

FOURTH: They will advise you to buy

of “Stark Bro’s” because we have branch
nurseries and growing plants in 7 different
States in America and European plants as
well. Therefore, we can offer you the highest
quality the world produces in each sort.

It costs us lots of money but it makes Stark
Trees worth far more than trees grown the
usual way. By growing millions, however,
we reduce the cost to you — we give you a
better tree at a cheaper price.

**Most Reliable Firm in the United
States to Buy Trees of”

Stark Bro’s, Swansea, Mass.

Gentlemen:

My brother-in-law, Mr. Everett B. Burlingame of Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, recommended you to me as the most reliable firm in the United
States to buy trees of.

I am thinking of setting 200 Hale peach trees as well as apples, etc.
. . . Yours respectfully, Amos F. Maker.

‘‘ Not a Single Instance Where Stark
Trees Are Untrue to Name”

The Editor of one of the most reliable farm papers in America writes:
“My Dear Mr. Stark: I think you may be interested in the enclosed

inquiry and my reply. ... It is a fact, as stated in this letter, your
house is one of the very few that seems to have kept their stock pure and
straight. ... I do not recall a single instance where it was claimed
your stock did not turn out to be true to name. This is an enviable record.”

‘‘By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them”

The Stark men have built up the Greatest Nursery in the World because they are more
than nurserymen. They have kept a Great Ideal ever before them — an Ideal that has been
passed on from father to son — a determination to improve the varieties of American fruits
and to produce for American planters the best trees — the best rooted, trees that a combina-
tion of modern horticultural science and long, practical experience can produce.

(Under Oath) “Not a Single Stark Tree Mislabeled”

And last but most important of all, because our Packing House Superintendent, the
man who handles the order fillers, is required to swear on oath before a Notary Public every

This sign above t«
one more check
against mistakes in
labeling — Another
safeguard for cus-
tomers’ protection.

This WARNING sign is con-
spicuously posted everywhere
in our Packing Houses — as
a never ceasing caution
against the slightest careless-
ness in tree labeling.

year that not a single Stark Tree, to the best of his knowledge and
belief, has been shipped out of our nurseries incorrectly labeled.
Every man in the Stark Organization will tell you that Stark Bro’s
will never mislabel their trees.

I herety certify that, to my beat knowledge
and belief, not a single tree or plant wae sent ont
mislabeled from Stark Bro's Nnraerles during the past

fear. Any employee guilty of mislabeling is subject to

nstant dismissal.

STATE OP KISSOirai)

) ss

COUHTT OP PIKE

Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary
Public, in and for said County and State, this 8th
day of January, 1920.

Hy term expires July 19^1921.

Moking House Superintendent
stark Bro's Hur series.

Stark Bro’s Superintendent Taking “True-to-Label" Oath.

Annual ''True-io-Label'* Oath That Stark Bro's Require.

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Stark Delicious

Illustrated in Natural Colors on Front Cover

America’s Proudest Fine-Fruit Creation
Stark Bro’s Greatest Apple Triumph

WHEREVER superfine fruif is in demand — the
great, big,^ flashing red Stark Delicious has
“first call.” Here is an apple that according
to many fruit connoisseurs should not be classed as
rnerely an apple — but as a fruit all alone by itself —
distinctive — different. For, as an apple it is the Mas-
terpiece of Mother Nature — the finest apple any
tree ever bore — or any man ever ate.

The tree that bears this unusual apple is just as
much in a class by itself as its fruit.

The original tree was discovered by the late C. M.
Stark of Stark Bro’s Nurseries. Close onto 25 years
ago he visited the farm of Jesse Hiatt (whose photo
and that of his good wife are reproduced at the right,
in connection with a photo of the original tree itself).

He immediately purchased perpetual rights to this orig-
inal Stark Delicious tree, knowing that in doing so, he
had, m the Stark Delicious, the apple that would astonish the apple experts and
the apple that would bring fortunes to the farmers who grew it, as well as fame
to Stark Bro’s Nurseries.

That was the reason why we immediately secured a registered trade-mark
L ^ United States Government on this name for this apple and the trees
which bear the genuine Stark Delicious. And the testimony of shrewd, successful
apple growers and farmers who have planted genuine Stark Delicious trees just
for the family needs, all prove that to get the trees that will bear these

Great, FlashingRed Beauties — with a Crisp, Tender, Juice-Laden Flesh

and an Indescribably Exquisite Flavor

You should protect yourself by buying Genuine Stark
Delicious trees from Stark Bro’s, Louisiana, Mo.

The fruit o-f these trees truly amazes people accus-
tomed to ordinary apples. “I would rather have
one Stark Delicious apple than six of the finest
oranges grown!” declares F. R.
Biglerof. “I know what a superb
kind of fruit genuine Stark Delicious
Trees bear because I buy Stark De-
licious apples by the box every year.”

of Stark Bro’s Wursertes
& Orchards Co. But for
him Stark Delicious would
probably have never been
known.

Photo of Jesse
(.e.vcltisive and perpetual
Stark Bro’s) — now close
still bearing splendid crops— the hale
of all genuine Stark Delicious Trees.

Have you ever “sampled” a Stark Delicious apple?
If not, you don’t know how perfect an apple can be I
It has a sparkling zest all its own. Different — and bet-
ter than any apple you ever ate until “they wasn’t no
core.” Its aromatic flavor is so refreshing — its flesh
so meltingly tender and so packed with mouth-watering
juice that all you can think of when you finished eat-
ing one is, “Give me another Stark Deliciousl” That
is why these incomparable apples —

Readily Sell for From 10 to 50 Cents per Apple in City
Markets Everywhere

That’s why the foremost fruit authorities agree with Luther Burbank,
“The Wizard of Horticulture,” when he says: “This is the finest apple
in all the world!” (See Burbank’s statement on page 7 — -just opposite.)
'That’s why H. C. Cupp, ex-President of Mississippi Valley Apple Growers’
Assn.j Adams Co., III., is able to say: “I sold 3 boxes of my Stark
Delicious apples out by the plate at 25 cents per single apple — and sold
all my Stark Delicious apples by the box for $5.00 per bushel!”

For home orchards it is the apple supreme — and for those who grow
fruit for the market-profit it is tlie bank-account-fattener of the orchard.

GREAT DEMAND AND WAR-LABOR CONDITIONS II.4VE
COMBINED TO MAKE GENUINE STARK DELICIOUS
TREES SCARCE. Please place your orders early if you want
be sure of getting them this year.

Two typical
specimens of
the great Stark
Delicious apple
— the sensation
of all markets.
No other vari-
ety has ever
brought such
tremcn d o u s
profit to or-
chardists,

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A g-year-old Stark Delicious tree in the ii-acre orchard of Harry C-
Carroll, Clarksville Mo., bearing i8 bu, top price apples. This years
crop brought him $3,000,00.

SeO U ^ PAT5H7 OFflCI

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Largest in the World
Oldest in America'ldlO

Stark Delicious Apple

^‘The Finest Apple In All

This Stark Delicious
tree planted only S
years and 4 months ago
bearing good crop of
perfect apples in Pike
Co., Illinois.

The World! — Luther Burbank

LUTHER

BURBANK

"The Wizard of
Horticulture"

ttOTARK Delicious trees from your nur-
O series have been growing on my place
for years and never failed to produce
a crop,” writes Luther Burbank, the
Wizard of Horticulture. “As the trees
grow larger they bear more, larger, bet-
ter fruit. The Stark Delicious is cor-
rectly named. No other apple has the Delicious
combination of the spicy fragrance and flavor of
Stark Delicious. Furthermore, it keeps longer
than any other good apple. IT IS THE FINEST
APPLE IN ALL THE WORLD.”

Fruit Experts Admit that Stark Delicious
is Greatest of Apple Trees

All the big horticultural experts
praise the genuine Stark Delicious
Tree. They know that every one
of these trees shipped from our nurseries is a true
descendent of the Original Stark Delicious Tree which
we alone control. The marvelous stamina of this
original tree is the inheritance, the possession of all
the Stark Delicious trees we sell.

The tree thrives and bears and defies drouth, dis-
ease and zero weather all over America and in Canada.
As one proof of this fact, just read what S. A. Beach,

Chief of Horticulture and Forestry, Iowa State Col.
lege, Ames, Iowa, wrote to us after the fearful win.
ter of 1917-1918: “After the unusually severe winter

which we have experienced, in which there has been
an abnormal amount of zero weather, we find that the
Stark Delicious trees are coming through absolutely
sound. I cut some yesterday and was pleased to see
that they show no signs whatever of winter injury.”

Stark Delicious — second
summer after planting in
J. E. Thursby’s orchard,
Cornelia, Ga. 4-ft. growth
— proof of remarkably
thrifty tree habits. He
says: “People are wild

over Stark Delicious —
bear every year from 5th
year here."

Leader of United
Confederate Vet-
eran Association
Praises Stark
Delicious

The Apple Noted for its Astonishing Long-
Keeping, Great Shipping Qualities

Ihe firm skin, sound flesh, the fact that
bruises dry up — don’t rot, and ability to
hold every particle of their alluring flavor
and aroma during long mpnths of storage
have earned for this apple a great reputa-
tion as a long keeper and a top-market-price
apple that will safely undergo long dis-

General Bennett H. Young, of Louisville, Ky.,
Honorary Commander-in-Chief for Life of this great
association, writes as follows; “The Stark Delicious
apple is the most widely advertised and appreciated
apple in the world, and with the general public is bound
to hold this proud position. It succeeds in so many locali-
ties. and always producing more than average fruit, com-
bined with the vigorous growth of the tree, make it one
of the most attractive of apples."

tance shipments. These apples were shipped
as far away from home as South America
last season. They reached their destina-
tion in such perfect condition that they
were eagerly bought for $14.00 per bar-
rel. This year right on the city wholesale
markets they are selling in carload lots at
the rate of $6.50 per bushel ($19.50 per
barrel).

The proprietor of Kunze Fruit Store, Chicago,
III., writes: "Have just completed record of hav-

ing Stark Delicious on sale every day for over
twelve months. Tliese apples were picked last
October. I sold them until November this year —
kept three weeks more than a year. I could have
kept them longer, but the c apply gave out. The
last were still juicy and of tine flavor. I am now
selling Stark Delicious at 60c for a Basket of flve
apples, and have sold them as high as 35 cents
each. Customers are always satisfled."

Thompson & Dingledine own the 40 acre Park
Kidge Orchards of Stark Trees at Harrisonburg,
Va. This year they got 3,000 bbls, of Stark
Delicious off this comparatively small orchard.
Figure out what this means at the current price
Of $6.00 to $10.00 pet bbl. in the orchard. This
is from land that wasn’t worth $100.00 for farm
crops 1

Ex-United States Pomologist Praises Stark Delicious

“The Stark Delicious is an apple that has stood all
tests. Stark Delicious trees bear everywhere._ I have
seen Stark Delicious trees growing and bearing from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. They have endured very
cold climates safely — as low as 40 degrees below zero.

This apple is proving to be a better keeper, higher
color and of even better quality in the East and Corn
Belt section than when grown in the Pacific States,
although there it is a wonderful success. It will be
planted and sold with profit and eaten with delight by
millions yet unborn.” — H. E. Van Deman, late U. S.
Pomologist.

PROF. H. E.
VAN DEMAN
Ex-United States
Pomologist and a
Nationally Known
Fruit Judge.

Stark’s Golden Delicious Holds
Flavor All Winter

Prof. J. C. Whitten in writing us in late July, says: —
"I received, on July 15th, Stark's Golden Delicious ap-
ples in thoroughly crisp and juicy condition. Flavor
was very sprightly despite long time storage and repeated
liandlings. I have never eaten an apple, coming out of
storage this late, which retained so fully Its normal crisp
texture, juiciness and live condition. It proves fully to
me that Stark’s Golden Delicious ranks as one of the
very best storage apples, far out-stripping Grimes Golden
In this respect." (.^ee pages 13 to 16.)

^tark Delicious
trees {above) only
4 yrs. old in orch-
ard of T. E. Nin-
inger, Waynes-
boro, Va. Note
splendid size of
apples and sturdy
growth of tree.
All Mr. Ninin-
ger’s apple trees
from Stark Bro’s
bore splendidly
this year — his le-
acre orchard net-
ting him splendid
money — so much
so that he ordered
1,000 more Stark
Delicious for this
y-ar’s Planting,

An 8-year-old Stark Delicious from our nursery, loaded
down with great crop this year in Georgia. These are
the trees that fatten growers’ bank accounts,

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Largest in the World
Oldest in America-1816

Stark Delicious Apple

The , , onderful Money-Crop-Maker

Every State

in

Many varieties of fruit trees are suited only to one section of the country — a
certain kind of climate — and one sort of soil. The superb virility of the gen-
uine Stark Delicious tree enables it to thrive, grow lustily, bear young and
yield bumper crops of fine, big, superior quality fruit everywhere — from the rocky
hill lands of Alaine to the rich orchard lands of Washington — from the frozen
country of Quebec to the torrid sands of New Mexico. It is

The “Money Tree” of a Hundred Thousand Orchards

From Ohio comes this report: “I sold my

genuine Stark Delicious apples for $9.00 a barrel.
Best grade Stayman Winesap at $6.00.” — Geo.
Rofkar, Route 1, Port Clinton, O.

From North Carolina comes the following mes-
sage: “You may book my order for 1,000 more

genuine Stark Delicious. I now have 2,500 genu-
ine Stark Trees that will have a nice crop this
year. I also have 400 more 20-ycar-old Stark
Trees that my father and I bought 4 years ago.
They have proved a wonderful paying investment.

How to Get Double Crops
from Every Acre

Turn back to page 1 and -
read again what Dr. J. C.

profits to be made by raising
a double-crop-profit on land
by raising small crops be-
tween the orchard tree rows.

Qi Then, harken to these

W ’ I profit-facts from a practical,

' ' ; J successful fruit-raiser and

^ farmer: “A young ten-acre

^ orchard will produce 40

, V- _Jm bushels of corn per acre, or
400 bushels for the ten acres.
-- $600.00 at the rate of $1.50

per bushel. If an orchard
V. has been set from one to

five years, or one to be
set this year, the grower
can do no wiser thing than
HON. THOS. F. to plant his young orchard

RIGG to corn, then cultivate his

Famous Iowa Hor- soil at least four times or

iicultural Writer more during the season.” —

and Experimenter K. O. Clark, Pike Co., 111.

Stark Trees are hardy and easily shaped and we
have never had any trouble with diseases of
kind." — J. J. Nichols, Asheville, N. C.

M. II. Ray, of Kettle Falls, in Washington,
writes: “Two years ago I bought a bearing

orchard here, set to genuine Stark Trees. We
are :iear the Canadian line, altitude about 2,000
feet. Stark Delicious is our best bet. Jonathan
blights badly, but Stark Delicious, Stayman and
Double-worked Grimes from your nurseries are
practically free from blight.”

Profit by Planting a Little
Back Y ard Orchard

Hon. Thos. F. Rigg (portrait at left), one of
Iowa’s famous Horticultural Experts and Writer
(Co.-Editor of American Poultry Journal), is a
strong advocate of the back yard orchard. He
says that the chicken runs make ideal spots for
planting genuine Stark Trees — and that the rich
soil there found insures splendid crops of superb
fruit.

You can also combine your orchard with your
home vegetable garden. See page 4 for ideal
planting plan. Some years back Kirby S. Ben-
nett, Chase Co., Kansas, planted a few genuine
■Stark Trees in a 50x100 foot back yard orchard.
Last year his profit from the crop amounted to
$92.70. See photo on page 4.

Simply hundreds of similar Back Yard Orchards
planted with a few Genuine Stark Trees and
Berry Bushes have brought pleasure and profit to
American Home owners.

g-y ear-old Stark Delicious Tree in Harry
Carroll's il-acre orchard, Clarksville, Mo.
These trees helped him get $^,ooo.oo for
his this year's crop,

6 -Year-Old Trees Prove to
be Wonder Money-Makers

The splendid photo of tree on Page 12 shows
one of the many 6-year-old Stark Delicious trees
belonging to C. M. Fette, Marion Co., Mo. Think
of trees only 6 years old bearing their third suc-
cessive crop.

In October of this year, Mr. Fette writes:
“My Stark Delicious had all been pre-
viously sold by orders placed last season.”

Think what it means to be sure that you can
sell your NEXT YE.\R’S crop twelve months
in advance. YOU CAN if you plant Stark De-
licious trees.

James Craig, Mgr. Rose Cliff Orchards, Waynes-
boro Va., examining big 6-bushel crop borne by one of
his 6-year-old Stark Delicious in his io,ooo Stark Tree
orchard. It began bearing at $ years,

Famous Rose Cliff hillside orchard, showing over io,ooo 6-year-old Stark trees — all bear-
ing excellent crops of high-price fruit this year. Mr. Craig, Mgr., says — "Alt my Stark
Delicious run large. Bear very young and regularly. The heaviest, surest bearer.

G. J. Hopkins, whose Garland Orchards in Virginia are known every-
where, has planted thousands of Stark Trees (will plant nothing else) on
poor farm land that wouldn’t grow 20 bu. corn to the acre. His Stark trees
are bringing him a fortune. 40 Stark Trees in one block brought
him 400 barrels. Three trees alone yielded 45 barrels.

Is making extensive new plantings of Stark De-
licious and Stark’s Golden Delicious this year.

ORDER EARLY! There is a Tree Shortage

This warning is something we owe to our many thousands
of customers. If you delay your Stark Delicious Tree order we
may have to regretfully write you, “Sorry, all sold out.’’ This
happened in hundreds of cases last year — and Stark Delicious
Trees are more scarce than ever this year.

Order NOW — to, be SURE of getting your Stark Trees.
We will ship your trees and at the proper time.

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The Master Fruit Tree of America

and the World

WHEN you plant an orchard — little or big — you must look at it as investment in labor and
land as well as an initial expense for trees.

You should be sure of your trees. Unless they are that char-
acter of fruit trees that will bear for a generation or more to
come — and will begin to bear fruit young and bear the biggest
crops of the finest-quality, highest-market-price fruit, your in-
vestment in good land and high-wage labor will not bring you
the profits it should — and could.

The last 25 years have proven that genuine Stark Delicious
trees provide the best orchard-profit insurance for those who
plant them. Our mails bring us thousands of letters like this :
“My genuine Stark Delicious trees began bearing at about 4
years of age and have had dve successive crops. The Stark
Delicious is rightly named.”—}. S. Hixson, Hillsboro, Iowa.

Harold Simmons,
the well-known
Minnesota Hor-
ticulturist.

Costs Little to Plant a Splen-
did Stark Delicious Orchard

Don’t get the idea that setting out an orchard
involves too big expenditure of money, time and
labor.

A big orchardist who recently visited us, said:
“After the land is plowed and prepared, a man
can easily dig the holes and plant SO to 75 trees
3 day.”

Don’t worry about the task or the cost of setting
out your orchard. Think more
about getting genuine Stark
Delicious trees.

Kenneth O. Clark, of Pike
Co., 111., cleared $5,400.00 from
one apple crop off 4 acres of
ordinary land last year because
he had planted it all to Stark
Delicious. No wonder that
farmers call these trees “The
Money Makers of the Or-
chard.”

Makes Cheap
Land Worth
$1)000 per Acre

The very day this section
of this catalog was being writ-
ten, G. F. Cadwell and his son
from Griggsville, 111., paid a
visit to our Louisiana, Mo.,
headquarters. He comes to us
year after year for his trees.
Last season they planted 8,000 Stark Trees.
They came to buy approximately 10,000 more
trees for their big Illinois orchards. They recently
bought 160 additional acres which they are going
to plant to genuine Stark Trees. As Mr. Cadwell
said: “It may be just bare, run-down land now,

but when it has a Stark Tree orchard growing on
it, I will refuse $1,000.00 per acre for it. Why
the crops I have taken off in the past several years
have totaled over $2,000.00 per acre. Just last
year I got over 10,000 barrels (the net market
price of No. 1 apples was $9.00 to $15.00 per barrel)
from 50 acres of Stark Trees! Just 3 of my Stark
Trees alone yielded 65 barrels of No. 1 apples.
Why should I sell an orchard like that for $1,000 00
per acre? I have watched this apple game and I
can see that the prospects were never as bright for
big money for orchardists.”

got enough from this one
crop to pay for the trees, the
land and for all my labor!”

Here is an astonishirtg demonstration of bearing
ability of Stark Delicious even on poor rocky landl
Mr. Horace Rainey, owner of this Maury County,
Tenn., orchard writes:

“I got enough from this one crop alone from
.-i. 1 _ ^ these_ 15-year-old Stark

Delicious to pay for the
trees, the land and
for all my labor. The
fruit was far above
the average in size
and color and sold
readily at a fancy
price. I gathered 25
bushels or more from
many of these trees.
Not one limb wa.s
broken although they
bent to the ground.”

Thrives — and Gives Abun-
dance of Fruit Everywhere

E. P. Taylor, State Horticulturist of Idaho
and Consulting Expert on Orcharding, hit the nail
on the head when he said: “Genuine Stark De-

licious Trees thrive and grow and bear fruit in all
parts of the world.”

In the columns at the left you have read how
well this tree succeeds in cold, rocky \'ermont.
Now listen to these words from a leading orchard
authority of frigid Minnesota: “This season fur-

nishes as much proof of the superior quality of the
Stark Delicious apple as last winter of the hardiness
of the Stark Delicious tree — this year bore after
47 degrees below zero.”

“Stark Delicious apples produced here were all
sold before Christmas to apple growers who, al-
though they had plenty of winter varieties on hand,
had tasted the Stark Delicious and were willing
to pay more than twice the amount for them that
they could get for their own fruit.” — HAROLD
SIMMONS.

(See Mr. Simmons’ photo at left)

Note Heavy Crop of This s-year-old Stark
Delicious Tree in Pennsylvania Orchard.

.4 s-ycar Stark
Delicious loaded
zaith enormous ap-
ples. "Stark Trees
Bear Fruit.”

Ihii one crop of Stark Delicious paid for Rainey's -whole orchard — land, labor and trots.

8

*‘lt is a worthy teammate of Stark Deli-
cious," exclaimed Mr. E W. Stark, Presi-
dent of Stark Bro's, as he held one of
these marvelous apples after it had been
repacked four times, shipped long dis-
tances and remained eight

I Buckman of Illinois, one of America's juiciness. Benj. W. Douglass, Ex-
Horticultural and Orchard Leaders. This State Entoraologi^ of Indiana

glorious apple is 50 to 85 per cent larger than ^ rev ac

% ■ , j j • ^ 1 1 if i.4. • Orchards of 1 revlac, Ind., and JIT

Gnmes Golden, and immeasurably better m many authoritative Wj

flavor. Its beautiful golden skin makes an fruit articles for Country
instantaneous appeal to the eye and its marvelous Gentleman and other farm

flavor completely entrances the taste. The papers, declares: “Golden Deli- '

crisp, tender, creamy-yellow flesh is blessed with cious is easily the best yellow apple
a spicy, aromatic flavor savoring of a particularly that I ever tasted.” ^

Remarkably Young and Heavy Bearer "

® other tree ever tested out by us has ever equaled the young

i heavy bearing record of tha Golden Delicious The photo-
aph at the right shows a Stark’s Golden Delicious top graft that
ras set only 18 months before this photo was ^ken. The year
follow'ng this tree bore another big Golden Delicious crop. Now
— look on next page (Page 9). This shows same graft the third
year. Simply loaded down with an immense crop of apple
beauties. And still again, the fourth year it set a wonderful
crop. The fifth year it is again carrying an enormous crop.
This bearing record is the^ most marvelous of any apple we

Supreme Court of the Fruit
World Awards A

and remained eight
months in storage without loss
of quality or solidity. **Really,
it seems to actually
improve in storage,"
1^ Mr. Stark went on en-
thusiastically, * * t h e
fruit-world needs fust
such a long keeping

golden apple to take the
place of Grimes Golden,
iohich will not keep.**

THE WILDER MEDAL

The Wilder Medal Is the Nobel
Prize of the fruit world. It was

firovlded for by a trust fund left
□ 1886 by the late Marshall P.
Wilder. Scientist and Pomologist,
Pr^ldentof the American Pomo-
40glcal Society for 38 years
—with instructions that
It was to be awarded r'
to a fruit only after
proof of that fruit’s .
supreme merit. X

-one worthy of your
confidence — ^your pur-
chase— your planting
—a fit teammate of the
red Stark Delicious.

An 18-
months-old
Top Graft
of Golden
Delicious —
hearing in
Central
West, an
extra heavy
crop of big,
golden,
super-qual-
ity apples —
50% larger
thanGrimes
Golden.

Stark’s ^
Golden C
Delicious

Z-year-old Stark's Golden
Delicious at Ark. Exp. Sta.
■ — hearing 14 apples "as big
as Stark's illustration,",
says Prof. Cooper.

Look at the wonderful growth of
this Stark's Golden Delicious,
14 months after planting-

shape and quality, averages

Typical Golden Delicious — Much Like Stark Delicious •« size,

50 to 75 per cent larger than Grimes Golden

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9 Stark* s Golden Delicious

The Trail of the Golden Apple

By Paal Clarence Stark

The first “clue” came to us one April day some years ago. Three wonderful yellow apples reached us from a West Virginia
mountaineer-orchardist — who wrote that they were a new, unknown variety. Evidently a cross between Stark Delicious and
Grimes Golden.

Third
Crop
4| Years
After
Grafting

Stark’s

Golden

Delicious

The second “clue” was discovered when my brother, now Major Lloyd Stark, bit into one of the golden apples. The flavor
amazed him. They looked like Grimes Golden — but tasted better than Grimes — like a cross between Stark Delicious and the best
Grimes he had ever tasted. They were shaped much like Stark Delicious. And they were in perfect condition in April/ Grimes
Golden would have been rotted and gone months before.

Our experts were summoned. All were given
a “taste.” The enthusiastic commotion that re-
sulted could have had only one parallel in our
over a century of history — that being the time
when Stark Delicious, the King of All Red Ap-

ples, was discovered by Clarence M. Stark.

One apple was sent to Col. Brackett, late U. S.
Pomologist at Washington, D. C. Friends pres-
ent at the time told us how the Colonel came

hurrying into the office, a little slab of this won-
derful yellow apple perched on his knife blade,
exclaiming, “Tasie this! Here’s an apple with
an even better Havor than Grimes Golden.” He
wrote us glowing praises.

foliage that looked as if it had been transported
from the Garden of Eden.

That fall the writer started on "The Trail of
the Golden Apple.”

A 1,000-mile railroad trip plus a 20-mile horse-
back ride through West Virginia mountain wilds,
brought me to the farm of Mr. A. H. Mullins,
on whose place this golden apple tree had grown
— no one knew how.

Back of the house I saw an orchard. But —
here came the dismal disappointment! Every tree
I could see was nothing but wild seedlings —
miserable runts.

Dejected and sick at heart I turned around to
leave — when —

I SAW IT!

There, looming forth in the midst of the small,
leafless, barren trees, was a tree with rich green

That tree’s boughs were bending to the ground
beneath a tremendous crop of great, glorious,
glowing golden apples I

I started for it on the run. A fear bothered
me, “Suppose it’s just a Grimes Golden tree after
all!” I came closer and I saw the apples were SO
per cent larger than Grimes Golden. I plucked
one and bit into its crisp, tender, juice-laden
flesh. Eureka! I had found it. The long sought
for perfect yellow apple had been discovered. The
“Trail of the Golden Apple” had reached a suc-
cessful end.

And, just as I had eaten my apple, core and
all, I turned to see Mr. Mullins, with an “I-told-
you-so” smile on his face, climbing the hill to
welcome me.

Sensational Nation-Wide Record
of 2-Year-Old Trees in Bearing

From practically every apple growing state in the Union comes reports of Golden Delicious bearing the
second year after planting. Qur pwn experience with the variety shows this same young bearing habit,
but not until we begun to hear from delighted orchardists from the East, West, North and South, all
telling the same story of unheard-of young bearing at two years old, were we fully convinced that this
was without question the youngest bearing variety on the entire list of apples. Lack of space prevents us
giving many reports, but .we print a few. Read these remarkable statements:

Average 14 Apples per Tree. — I enclose a
picture of one of my two-year-old Golden Deli-
cious trees with 14 apples on it, which is
approximately the average on all of the trees
in the orchard. ^ Am exceedingly proud of
them. — H. D. Didier, Roanoke, Va.

Strongest of 150 Varieties. — Golden Deli-
cious trees two years old bore some splendid
apples last autumn, proving positively the
strongest grower of 150 varieties. — A. Russell
Paul, Belvidere, N. J.

Two-Year Tree 10 Feet High, — Golden
Delicious tree sold :to me two years ago, was
full of bloom this year and many fruits
set, probably 50 or 75. I am leaving

Konly 8 on the tree, which is 9 or 10 feet
high. — L. B. Dutton, San Jose, Cal.

Bears Young as Strawberries. — Golden Delicious
tree shipped me two years ago has four apples set,
fruits almost as young as strawberries. — G. W.Sheppard,
Banks, Oregon.

Large Apples — Little Tree. — One two-year Golden
Delicious had 7 fine perfect apples last year. Neighbors
thought the little tree a curiosity with such large firm
apples. — C. C. Drummight, Brownville, Tenn.

As Hardy as Wealthy and Snow. — Strongest grow-
ers in our orchard. The tree can stand as much cold
as the Wealthy and Snow. — Sebastian Zamgwirth,
Oshkosh, Wis.

Youngest Bearer of All. — One Golden Delicious
tree two years old had 150 blooms on it, for I counted
them myself. No other tree ever bloomed for me so
young, — T. S. Sprinkle, Winston-Salem, N. C.

Full of Bloom and Vigorous. — The Golden Deli-
cious apple tree I got of you two years ago has made a
wonderful growth, and last evening I counted six well-
formed apples on it. It was full of bloom and is a
vigorous tree. — Dr. W. E. Lawhead, Burlington, Iowa.

Twenty-One Apples on Two-Year-Old Tree. —
I have a Golden Delicious two-year-old, has 21 apples
on. They are fine and sure bear young. — J. Ginther,
Bone Gap, 111.

Ten Apples on Two-Year-Old Tree. — Two-year-
old Golden Delicious apple trees had quite a lot of
blooms this spring. At this writing I have 10 apples
that I think will stick. — C. A. Griffith, Tatum, Texas.

The photo
above shows
branch of the
iqi8 crop of
one Golden De-
licious Tree. This
was the THIRD big
crop in years after
top grafting. On a
measured 14 inches of
this one limb there were 29
large apples *‘as thick as they
could stick on the branch.^*

Famous
Iowa Grower
Enthusiastic

“Golden Delicious is
certainly a splendid
apple — highest quality
and very late keeper
—a fine g r o 'w e r.
Hardy in 28° below
zero. Great improve-
ment over Grimes.”—

Photo above — Third Consecutive Crop of Stark’s Golden Authority and

Delicious within 4^2 years from day it Was top-grafted. Horticultural Editor.

Tlws.

OUR OWN EXPERIENCE

To show you what it has done on our grounds —
and WILL do for YOU — we call your attention to the
following actual facts:

The picture on page 8 shows a Golden Delicious
■top graft that was set out only 18 months before this-
photo was taken. Just take a look at the splendid
crop of fine, big, perfect-shaped Golden Delicious that
it bore. The year following the tree bore another big
Golden Delicious crop. The same tree the third year
produced a wonderful crop with fruit nearly TWICE
the size of the average Grimes Golden. And still again
in 1919 it returned its owner another bumper crop.
This date (August 10. 1920), it is carrying the grandest
crop of all and the fruit is of immense size — as large
now as mature Grimes Golden, making the FIFTH
SUCCESSIVE CROP IN SIXTY-SIX MONTHS—
Five and one-half years from the date it was top-grafted.

Idaho Authority
Writes :

“The flavor of Golden
Delicious is very pleas-
ing and it will be popu-
lar from a standpoint of
quality. You have mad^
a valuable discovery.” —
E. P. TAYLOR, Horti-
culturist, University of
Idaho.

(Note: — The priginal
tree has never shown
any signs of collar rot
or any other weakness —
vstiai it is a splendid healthy
Rigg E, P. Taylor tree in the orchard.)

T

Stark^s Golden Delicious to

Statk Biols Nurseries
atIOUISIANA.MaSiiioel8i6

The Marvel Crop and Profit- Maker

WHEN vve first offered this truly superb golden apple to our thousands of loyal customers some
years ago, we did so only after exhaustive tests of this tree in our own experimental orchards.
These tests were conducted for several years here at headquarters and at our branch propagat-
ing grounds and also orchards located in Idaho, Ohio, New York, Arkansas, Virginia, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, and many other states.

We had faith in the tree from the very start. But — we gladly spent our own money and our own
time and labor to make sure of this tree’s hardiness, its young bearing and annual bearing qualities,
before we dared to offer it to fruit growers. Its record everywhere has justified our faith.

Growers Planting Golden Delicious by the Thousands

Original Golden Delicious tree. Purchased
by us for $5,000.00. Entirely enclosed in huge
cage built by us — protected by burglar alarm
that gives reaming of trespassers.

Statement by the Originator of
the Stao'k’s Golden Delicious

This apple ripens along with the other late
winter apples. 7 hey keep hue and do not rot;
remaining crisp and nice until late spring. I
found some in }ny cellar in May, sound and
nice. I am sure this tree is a seedling, be-
cause it stands on my farm which has been in
the hands of onr family for forlv years. The
tree is now only about nine years old and to
my knowledge has borne big crops for the past
four years. I don’t know how many crops it
bore before then.

Last year the tree bore twelve bushels of
nne fruit and this year it has a good crop
although the rest of my orchard and ncighbor-
\ng orchards are failures. Four years ago
there were no apples in this country, hut this
tree had a full crop. Blossoms serv hardy —
never failed to bear.

(Signed) A. H. MULLINS.

Wonderful as a Long-
Distance Shipper

I The most successful growers in the country immediately
saw the big protits to be gained by growing this superior apple.
The apple buyers urgently advised them to do so — and assured
them a high-price market for their Stark’s Golden Delicious
crops. No tree in our list is in as great demand among “know-
ing” growers.

For Instance. G. J. Hopkins. Famous Fruit Grower, bought 500 of these
trees after seeing crop tliat It bore within 18 months after top-grafting
and the photos of the second and third year (see these photos on pages
14 and 15).

Within a month after getting the trees, ho wrote Stark Bro's:—
“The Stark's Golden Delicious stock is 'just as fine as frog's hair.* Never
saw such clean, healthy, well-rooted trees as the Stark's Golden Delicious.
Wish now that I iiud bought 1.500 Instead of 500. Could you supply that
many more now?" — Garland J. Hopkins, Prop. Garland Orchards, Trout-
ville. Va.

This record-breaking demand* for these trees had so reduced our stock
that we were forced to ask Mr. Hopkins to wait another year before we
supplied him the additional trees. He is to make another big planting
of Stark's Golden Delicious and Stark Delicious in 1920.

We (Stark Bro’s) are planting out 60 acres more Stark’s
Golden Delicious in our own commercial orchards this fall. It
is “right” in every way and the big apple buyers are strong for it.

Holds Entrancing Flavor
All Winter Long

We have put it to ex-
tremely severe tests regard-
ing its keeping qualities.

Prof. J. C. Whitten (whose
photo is reproduced above), says:

'T received on July 15th.

Golden Delicious apples (picked
last fall) in thuruugiily crisp
and juicy condition. ITavor was
very sprightly despite long time
storage and repeated handlings.

1 have never eaten an apple,
coming out of storage this late,
which retained so fully its normal
crisp texture. It far outstrips
Grimes Golden.”

Eighty-seven leading ex-
perts throughout the U. S.
whom we asked to give us
their opinion at the same
time (nearly 10 months after
these Stark’s Golden Deli-
cious had been in ordinary
storage) said that they never
saw a yellow apple capable
of standing up under this
long storage and holding its
original fresh flavor like this.

Trees are Scarce
ORDER EARLY

Before the season was half
over last year, we had to re-
gretfully tell our customers
“no more Golden Delicious
left.” Our stock is bigger
than last year — but is still
short.

Prof. J. C. Whitten
For 25 years Dean of Horticulture,
Missouri College of Agriculture. Now
Professor of Horticulture and Forestry,
University of California.

Test shipments were made

fSrmoTpoin“ts1n“?h7rnfted GOLDEN DELICIOUS GRIMES GOLDEN

States, North, East, Sruth Stark’s Golden Delicious is 50% Larger and
and West. Keeps 4 Months Later Than Grvnes.

The firm smooth texture of the Stark’s Golden Delicious skin, with its
non-rotting qualities brought it triumphantly through every test. Its regu-
larity of shape makes it ideal for packing. The fact that any bruises it
nay receive dry up, instead of rotting, adds to its superior shipping virtues.
Coming on the markets in the spring it will bring top prices.

Stark s Golden Delictons in Silas

“Golden Delicious is the most wonderful

ever

Photo shows e>iorm07ts \
crop borne by Stark’s I
Golden Dctirious this ypar. I
The twelfth successive ;
crop of this id-year^old ^
tree. This year’s yield j
alone netted over 55 i
bushels of these big glo‘ j
rious apples. i

He declares:
the world.”

All Big Apple Buyers Say Golden Delicious Is
Finest and Showiest Apple They Ever Saw

When Silas Wilson (photo above), famous fruit grower of Iowa and
Idaho, visited our headquarters at Louisiana, Mo., this year, he could
talk of nothing save Golden Delicious. Here is a man who owns 750
acres of remarkably productive orchard. It required 150 K. R. re-
frigerator cars to carry his 125,000 box crop this year to
market. He has been a successful fruit grower for more
than 40 years and is known far and wide
for his calm judgment and conservatism.
Yet, he says : — “My judgment of this won-
derful apple and tree is endorsed by all
the big Eastern fruit buyers who visited my
orchard this season. They all say that it
is the finest and showiest apple they ever
saw. Furthermore the tree is as hardy as
Stark Delicious and Wealthy. It sets an ap-
ple for every blossom. I grew every apple
set, to maturity — clings fast to the tree."

Benj. Wallace Douglass,

Famous Country Gentleman Writer, Says —

“The best yellow ap-
ple ever tasted. More
tender and juicy than
any Grimes Golden I
saw.” BENJ.

DOUGLASS,
ex-State Ento-
mologist o f
Ind. & Mgr.
of T r e V 1 a c
Orchards. Has
Golden Delic-
ious Orchard
— every tree
growing splen-
didly. Benjamin Douglass

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ler and Better Colored than Jonathan

Prof* U* P* Hedrick in Official Report N* Y* Exp, Sta,

PROF. Hedrick is known as one of the most conservative
men in horticultural circles, and he says: ^ otark King

David proved superior to Jonathan or Arkansas Black.
Hardy. Added to its deep solid red color are rotundity
in shape and uniformity in size. These three qualities
give this apple almost perfection. Fruit hangs long and
wgU. Flesh is firm, fine, crisp, tender, spicy and juicy.”

We found this most excellent apple many years ago in
a trip over a rough Ozark Mountain road — still loaded
with great, gloriously-colored apples on October 25th, five
weeks after all Jonathans in the neighborhood had fallen.
We immediately bought the tree — and secured exclusive rights
to all scions and buds. It is today one of our most popular sellers.

Five-Year-Old Stark King David
Bears One Thousand, Five
Hundred and Forty Apples

The Western Farmer’s Review says
of the Stephens Idaho Orchard: ‘‘The
185-acre Stephens Orchard produced over
10,000 bushels of choicest apples. The
Stark King David is the most productive,
most vigorous grower.

‘One 5-year old Stark King David bore 1,540
apples. It is a young, productive bearer.”

Frank Moffitt, Carmel, Ind., authority, says:
‘‘King David has been fruiting here for five or
six years and has a way about it of making
friends. The tree is a strong grower and a
young cropper, while the fruit does not
spot.”

Youngest, Heaviest Bearer
Ever Fruited Until We Discov-
ered Stark’s Golden Delicious

After Stark’s Golden Delicious it is
the youngest, heaviest bearer we have
fruited. In fact, its only fault is its
tendency to overbear. If that can be
called a fault, it’s a mighty good fault
for an apple to have and orchardists
welcome it. One-year trees in John
Bennett’s orchard near Lawrence.
Kan., bore two crops the first three
years planted. It takes mighty vig-
orous, well-grown trees to make such
records as those made by Stark trees
— they have big roots, strongly de-
veloped tops and as thousands of our
customers say: ‘‘Stark trees have

the right backbone.”

I BLACK BEN

(Trade-Mark — Reg. in U. S. Patent Office)

“The Barrel Filler of the Orchard’*

WITH the prices for apples going higher and higher every
year, the wise fruit grower will plant trees with a reputation
for extra heavy and regular crops. Such is the deserved
jfaxne of the Black Ben — the apple that has

practically banished Ben
Davis from orchards
throughout the
country.

Great
Record

as a Big Crop-Profit Maker

Black Ben, like Stark Delicipus, is an exclusive Stark Bro's introduction.

It is a seedling which originated in the Ozark Mountains of Washington
County, Ark., on the farm of M. Black. From the original tree nine grafts
were taken and set in J. F. Bain’s orchard where each year they excelled
Ben Davis, bearing some years when Ben Davis failed.

It has brought wonderful money-crops to fruit growers who have planted
it. C. W. Wilmeroth, of Washington, says: “’Sold my Black Ben for $1.00

more per box than Jonathan. Mr. Tibbetts, Pres. Wenatchee Apple Growers’

Association, told me recently that his block of Black Bens from your nurseries com-
menced to bear when three years old and have borne every year. They are now
eight years old and average ten boxes to the tree. They bear far heavier than Ben Davis.’!

Big Demand for Black Ben This Year

The shortage of fruit throughout the country has raised prices so high that thousands of foresighted
land owners are setting out blocks of fruit trees. The fame of Black Ben as a ’’barrel filler” has
resulted in a record demand for this variety.

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The Stark Method of
Double- Working

The Stark Method is commended by the best scientific orchard-
ists, and we urge the use of these double worked trees when-
ever Grimes Golden is planted. An orchard of these double
worked, long-lived trees will pay big returns, for there is an
established market for the fruit and it never fails to bring top-
of-the-market prices.

Stayman Winesap

Here we have a superlative commercial apple. Easily the best of all
the Winesaps. It bears extra large crops of extra size fruit — big.
fine, handsome — distinctively striped with rich crimson. Flavor is
crisp, juicy, with a mild, palate-tickling acid flavor that has made it a
general and a high-priced favorite in the big apple markets of the
world. We have seen single Stayman Winesaps that weighed as much
as 20 ounces. A truly wonderful apple. The Stayman tree
somewhat resembles that of ordinary Winesap, but is a stronger grower
and far hardier. Furthermore, because of its young and heavy bearing
habits it is pouring profits into the pockets of growers everywhere.
We ask our patrons to get their orders for Stayman Winesap trees
placed early so trees may be reserved.

Jonathan

Jonathan — a nationally known and universally liked brilliant
red apple with a spicy, rich acidity that has made it a prime favor-
ite with lovers of brisk sub-acid apples. It is widely adapted
and largely grown throughout the northwest. Central west, east
and south — in all apple regions except the far north. In the great
apple section of the Mississippi Valley Jonathan is one of the most
popular and profitable kinds and its planting is increasing.
Jonathan, Stark Delicious, Stayman Winesap, Stark King David
and Grimes Golden — the high quality kinds, are the varieties
that are being most largely planted — because the markets pay
more for them. Jonathan is a good orchard tree, rather spread-
ing in growth, long lived and comes into bearing young.

Sfark, Bros

Trade Mark

Grimes Golden |

Another Stark Bro^s Tree Triumph

ALL apple lovers know the Grimes Golden.
For nearly a century it has been known
and grown, and for the past fifty years
has been the gauge of quality among yellow
apples. A national favorite because of its mild-
ness, richness and spiciness.

The Grimes Golden tree, however, has a fatal
fault — one that has prevented as extensive plant-
ing of the variety as its quality and appearance

deserves — and that is collar rot, which has caused
the death of thousands of acres of Grimes Golden
trees at just the age when they should naturally be
most profitable. To control this bad habit we
experimented for years with different stocks and
different methods of double working and finally,
as a result we perfected our Double-Life {Trade-
Mark) method that gives long life and stamina to
Grimes Golden trees.

ivelemd Raspberry

X our judgment, the best variety ever irnported
and introduced from Russia. It is medium to
large in size, waxen white, almost entirely over-
spread with a pinkish blue and light red strip-
ings. The flesh is white as snow, tender, fine
grained, and often slightly streaked with
red next to the skin. Xiveland Raspberry
has never blighted seriously. In fact, we
have never seen a tree the least bit in-
jured. H. B. Fullerton, Director of
Long Island Experiment Stations, says:
■‘Far and away the best early apple.”
The U. S. Pomologist advised us a num-
ber of years ago that Liveland Rasp-
berry should take the place of Yellow
Transparent as it is the most wonder-
fully colored early fruit ever placed on
the market and that it was superior
to Transparent in quality. Henry
Wallis, Missouri authority, says it is
the best early apple he knows. The
South Dakota Experiment Station says
that no early apple east or west is better.
We began the propagation of Liveland
Raspberry almost twenty years ago, after
carefully studying the variety. In our first
description, we said that we considered it
the most valuable Russian variety.
We have never had reason to change
our opinion since that time.

Liveland Raspberry. — The best early
apple I know — Ideal in color, shape,
growth and quality. Yellow Transparent.
Red Astrachan, Red June and Benoni
are all Inferior to it.— Hy. Wallis, St.
Louis Co., JMo,

staspoerry

Champion (Trade Mark)

John P. Logan, a Director of Exhibits at
the great Panama-Pacific Exposition, says:
“Champion came out in better shape than
any other we had and held up longer on
the tables after being taken out of stor-
age than any other variety.” In color,
beauty, smoothness, keeping, for quick and
sure profit, ChampiorisurpassesWillow Twig,
Mammoth Black Twig and other extremely
late keepers. It onginated in Washington Co.,
Ark., and was discovered and introduced by
us nineteen years ago. The original tree
when it first attracted our attention was,
without any care whatever, bearing a
wonderful crop of perfect fruit — every apple
perfect, as though turned in a lathe. Golden
yellow ground, almost completely covered
with bright red in finely penciled streaks,
broader stripes and often deep solid red.
Flesh yellow, juicy, good and does not be-
come dry and mealy even in late spring.
Tested in every section of the United States
and it never disappoints.

Succeeds With Little Moisture. — Best
drouth resister of all : one of the best growers. —
W. H. Scott, Laclede Co.. Mo.

Keep Until June. — Cannot be beat; kept
them until June 15th in common cement cave. —
James Hardin, Fulton Co., 111.

Winesap

One of the oldest, most profitable, best known
and most satisfactory apples. It is still popu-
lar and largely planted all over the U. S., ex-
cept in the north. It is a vivid red apple, me-
dium to large in size, one of the best keepers
in cellar and cold storage. It is popular for des-
sert and kitchen use, fine for cider, and is
profitable for grocery store and fruit stand
trade. The planting of Winesap is on the
increase, especially in the central west and
in Virginia. The tree is a regular cropper,
is spreading in growth, and does best in
a deep, rich, moist soil.

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Senator—

{Late Winter.) One of the smoothest, handsomest and most gloriously
colored of all apples and one that will instantly attract attention on
aU maAets— a biilliant, glossy, cherry red. In size it is medium to
large, nesh. white, sometimes faintly touched with pink near the
skm; crisp,_ breaking, juicy, with a never-to-be-forgotten flavor
high rank in quality. Senator has proved thor-
oughly hardy Montana has planted them by the thousands
along with their McIntosh. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine and
aU New England plant them with Wealthy and other rugged
kinds; in Mo., Mich., lU., Ind., Ohio, Pa., and all the Central
States it has become a standard commercial variety, and most
popular for the home orchard. In Va., West Va., Tenn., Ky. ,

Ark., N._ M., and every state in the West — everywhere.

Senator is growing and is pleasing every grower. The vari-
ety originated in Arkansas and was introduced and trade-
marked by_ us about twenty years ago. It has never been
pushed as it deserves, but has won its way on merit alone.

George 0. Taylor of Onondaga Co., N, Y., says: ^^Handsomest
apples I ever saw; as large or larger than Baldwin — every one
of a size and exact shape and brilliant color, and the best quality
of any apple I ever had on the place, unless Stark Delicious,
which I have 500, proves superior,”— NNCS.

Wilson Red June {Summer). Enormous in size

, , . for such an early apple, and

looks like a great big Black Ben. Even a more brilhant and
glorious red than Carolina Red June, and ripens forty to sixty days
later, The t^e is extremely hardy, having been proven perfectly
adapted to Wisconsin and Minnesota conditions, standing forty
degrees below zero without injury and producing good crops. It is
being largely planted north in the central states and throughout the
south, showing wonderful adaptability to different sections and under
different conditions, Kansas City markets have paid as high as
516.00 per barrel for Wilson Red June, and on all markets it finds a
ready sale at big prices. We do not know another early summer apple
that can compare with it for beauty, size and splendid quality.— NCS.

A Beautiful Senator Grown by C. Fette, Vice^Prest, Miss, Valley Apple Grow^^s^ Ass'n.

Ralrlwin An apple that has for

*7“'*'^'^*** many years been largely grown
throughout the north and east, especially in New
York state. Where it is one of the most popiilar
varieties. However, improved and superior varieties,
such as Stark Delicious, are now being planted
largely in all Baldwin communities. It is, however,
a good apple, but is not as popular as it was a few
years ago.

Bellflower Improved

Kansas seedling of Bellflower and the bes't of
this class of apples — a young bearer. The origi-
nator says: “Outbears all others in my orchard,
never failed a crop since five years old.” Wm.
Cutter of Colorado says: ‘Tt will outbear Bell-
flower two to one.” We recommend it.

Dliol-wacc (Oldenburg) (Summer). Extremely
hardy, beautiful and early. Came
from Russia and was the mainstay of Northern
early apple growers until Russia sent us the earlier
and better Yellow Transparent and Liveland
Raspberry. Above medium size and is splashed
and striped bright red, shaded and mottled with
crimson.

Farlv (Fall). John M. Francis, an

Il.ariy meion Adams Co., 111., orchardist.
writes that he is growing thirty-three varieties and
Early Melon beats them all. He says they equal
Wealthy in size and quality and trees bear heavy
crops. We recommend it as one of the best fall
apples. It is of large size, striped with crimson,
and one of the best for cooking and eating raw.
An annual bearer. — NNCS.

Tpnifnn (Sluter), This apple is of
VjUam jenilOn the . Jeniton-Ingram type.
It originated in Missouri and was named and
introduced by us abour fifteen years ago. H. G.
Shumaker writes from Phelps Co., Mo., that it was
the latest bloomer in an orchard of twenty varieties,
was 50 per cent larger than Ingram and much
better, and the tree an unfailing cropper. The
fruit is large, red striped, juicy and has the tang
and flavor of Jeniton. A good home orchard
variety, makes splendid cider and sells well.

Grimes Golden S'^^this ^“spSId

apple was the standard of excellence among yellow
varieties, until the discovery and introduction of
Golden Delicious, which bids fair to take its place
on the markets of the country, because of its splendid
size, unapproached quality and wonderful keeping
qualities. However, Grimes Golden is a splendid
apple, one of the very finest and as Prof H. E.
VanDeman once safd, ‘‘Once tasted, it is never
forgotten.” Grimes Golden has a fault, however.
It is short lived, because of collar rot. We have
eliminated this by our double life method of double
working.

Flavor Never Forgotten. — Of all yellow apples none
more beautiful: once tasted, is never forgotten. — Prof.
H. E. Van Deman, in Fruit Grower.

/‘^lovr (Trade Mark) (Early Summer).
V.'lay Originated in Hopkins Co.,
Ky., and first offered by us. Resembles Maiden
Blush, but ripens almost 2 months earlier, with
Yellow Transparent. Ripens its crop quickly and
evenly — gone by the time Transparent is half

picked, a valuable market trait in an early fruit.
Large, pale yellow with crimson cheek; flesh white,
tender, crisp, highly flavored, juicy; quality the
very best. Strong, spreading grower, regular and
abundant bearer.

Improved Red Rome Beauty

(Late Winter). A large, bright red apple, that is
tender fleshed, juicy, good quality and an A-1
cooker. The tree is of spreading growth, blooms
late, bears young, fruit hangs firmly. A never-
failing bearer. For over half a century it has been
one of the profitable late winter commercial sorts.
The late William Stark, father of the present
President of Stark Bro’s, and for thirty-nine
years head of these nurseries, said in 1867, in
an address before the Missouri State Horticultural
Society: “Our Rome Beauty grown on strong, well
cultivated soil this year sold for $4.25 per barrel;
the purchaser took them to Nashville and sold
them for $9.00 per barrel.” Since that day Rome
Beauty orchards have been planted by the
thousands of acres, and the fruit has always
brought good prices, but not until the last ten
years has it been planted as it deserves. Every
apple-growing section of the United States
except the extreme north grows it successfully
and profitably, and its planting is on the increase
because it pays. Throughout the central west it
IS one of the most widely planted sorts, and while
it does not equal in cmality such sorts as Stark
Delicious, Stayman Winesap, Golden Delicious
or Grimes Golden, yet it keeps well in storage
and in common cellar, and is satisfactory and
profitable from every view-point. We now grow
only improved red strains of Rome: One from
Washington, one from Illinois and two from Ohio.
Just old Rome, but all red. — NCS.

Adapts Itself to Conditions. — ^After long experience
I consider it one of the best in cuitivation; has long range
of adaptability and succeeds well in the Eastern, Western
Middle, and Northwestern States, and adapts itself to a
vanetyof soils. — Hon. G. B Brackett, U. S. Pomologist

Fruit Evenly Distributed.— One of the largest apples
we have, especially when grown on bottom land. This
variety Is reliable cropper, yet seldom, if ever, overbears,
the fruit being evenly distributed all over the tree. The
latter IS also true of Ingram. — Edwin H. Riehl, Illinois
Experiment Station.

Bear Every Year. — My Rome Beauty trees have not
Co Ky^ crop lor thirty years. — W. G. W. Riddle. Pike

Can Alwa^ Depend on It. — Best general bearer we
nave: sells along with Jonathan and Winesap. — C. J.
Morgan, Mesa Co., Colo.

Maiden Blush An old widely-

ivxakucii lemon yellow

apple that ripens through a long season. In years
past it has been profitable, but it is fast being
supplanted by better sorts. Wealthy and Early
Melon are better, hardier and more valuable. — NCS.

Paragon

(Late Winter). Paragon is a
decided improvement over Old
Mammoth Blacky Twig which is a shy bearer.
Years of observation and comparison with similar
varieties has proved to us that Paragon is an apple
that should be largely grown, hence we are
advising its planting in all Winesap regions and
further north. It has been called the “Glorified
Winesap” on account of its large size and superior
quality. Tree stronger and more vigorous than
Winesap.

Summer Champion fh

Queen or Early Pennock. An improved seedling
of the latter from Washington County, Ark. A
valuable early summer market variety; brilliantly
colored deep red with stripes. Splendid for cook-
ing. The tree is a splendid grower with heat and
drouth-resisting foliage; has remarkable vigor and
bearing qualities. Especially profitable for ship-
ping; stands up under rough handling. — NCS.

W^alfl-iTr (Mosf Valuable Fall Apple), An
vvcr€llL.liy attractive and valuable shining
red fall apple. Throughout the U. S. it is the
ypry best of its season. Large, smooth, uniform
in size; brilliant red all over, distinctly marked
with narrow stripes and splashes of deeper red.
It bears enormous loads of fruit — we have seen
trees so loaded that they really looked almost like
a big stack of red apples.^ The quality is superb;
for those who prefer a rich sub-acid apple it is
almost the equal of Jonathan. The discovery and
introduction of Wealthy has added millions to the
wealth of the north, for it will produce its marvelous
fruit wherever Wolf River or any other apple will
grow. The tree bears extremely young — we had a
Stark Tree bear a perfect apple in the nursery row
when no larger than a pencil — 4 months old from
bud — we never saw this equalled by any other.
It thus makes a profitable filler, although it is
long lived and makes an ideal permanent tree.

Wealthy Pays Better. — In the lead here as a money-
maker. A prolific bearer, a splendid eating and cooking
apple, with a beautiful red color. In the last three years,
Wealthy trees have produced S3.00 for every Sl.OO that
McIntosh trees of equal age have produced in this valley.
— Geo. A. Fessenden, Flathead Co., Mont.

Best for Cooking. — Wealthy bears heavily every year.
It will do to cook even when only half grown. — John Cottle.
Washington Co., Ohio.

Yellow Transparent wideTy^'tiknted

and popular transparent, waxen-yellow apple that
is noted for its hardiness. ^ An upright, vigorous
tree, and good, crisp, sub-acid, fragrant fruit. It is
one of the first apples to ripen early in the sum-
mer when the markets are eager for fruit. They
bring fancy prices. Liveland and Yellow Trans-
parent are the most profitable very early apples.

Additional Varieties

In addition to the varieties described in this
catalog, we offer the following well known varie-
ties of apple which are listed and priced in the
accompanying price list.

Albemarle Pippin, American Golden Russet,
Arkansas Black, Banana (Winter), Bellflower,
Yellow, Benoni, Buckingham Improved (Stark
Strain), Early Harvest. Ensee, Fall Pippin,
Fameuse (Snow), Improved Rambo, Jeniton,
Kinnard Choice, Lady Sweet, Lowell, Mammoth
Black Twig (Improved). Mammoth (Jrimes
Golden, McIntosh Red, Minkler, Mother, Newtown
Pippin, Northern Spy, N. W. Greening, Paradise
Winter Sweet, Rambo, Red Astrachan, Red June
(Carolina), R. I. Greening, Spitzenburg (Esopus),
Stark Summer Queen, Stark, Steele Red, Sweet
Bough, Talman Sweet, W. W. Pearmain, White
Pippin, Willow Twig, York Imperial, etc.

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days, often making a difierence
r cent increase in ^ /

L. D. Batchelor,^^^-^^

Stark Early Elberta

THE GREAT

That Pulls in

Stark Early Elberta

“A Model Peach! Congratulations!”
— Luther Burbank

Here is the best of over 4,000,000 peach- trees. The

tests covered over 30 years and embraced over 4,000,000
peach seedlings. The tree that was afterwards named
Stark Early Elberta proved itself emphatically superior in
every detail — in fast growth, in sturdiness, in resistance
against tree diseases, droughts and climatic changes, in young
bearing, in heavy bearing, in bearing season after season, in
the quality, as well as quantity of its crops and in the size,
beauty and flavor of its fruits.

Like Abou Ben Adam, it “Lead all the rest” — and its lead
was so great that Stark Bro’s Nurseries had to perforce make
it their leader.

Specimen from Stark Early Elberta Trees in Orchard of
Dr. E. L. Jl/om‘5, Fayette Co., Term. These were the
biggest, handsomest peaches we ever saw — average 16 ounces.

Ur, Sumner Gleason,
Originator.

Stark Bro's Exclusive Con-
tract for Stark Early
Elberta

In consideration of S

the said Sumner Gleason (the
originator of Stark Early
Elberta) does hereby grant,
assign and set over unto Stark
Bro’s the exclusive right and
control of all stock and buds
of the original tree to the sole
use and control of Stark Bro's;
said Sumner Cileason agrees
to personally supervise the
cutting of buds from original
bearing tree or any parent
tree.

BREAKS WORLD’S SHIPPING RECORD
SHIPPED 11,000 MILES WITHOUT ICE

Last year six boxes of regular run Stark Early
Elberta were packed in the Gleason Orchards by
Dr. Sumner Gleason, the famous originator of this
peach, in Davis Co., Northern Utah. These were
shipped to H. W. Colling wood. Editor Rural New
Yorker, 2,920 miles away.

He reshipped 5 of the 6 to Prof. E. J. Wickson,
Director of Calif. Agric. Exp. Station, making a
total journey up to this point of 6,471 miles.

In time Prof. Wickson reshipped one of the boxes
of Early Elbertas to E. H. Favor, Editor Fruit
Grower and Farmer, St. Joseph. Mo., and when
they reached Mr. Favor they had completed a total
journey of 8,646 miles.

He in turn expressed 2 of the peaches to our
offices in Louisiana, Mo., an additional trip that
brought the total up to 8,973 miles.

But — even this wasn't the endl We shipped 1
of these 2 peaches again to the Editor of Rural New
Yorker and he returned it by express to us —
making a Grand Total of 11,509 miles without
an ounce of ice.

Every recipient of the peaches at every stage of
the tremendous trip reported the Stark Early
Elberta in magnificent eating conditioni And that
peach reached us after its semi-world-encircling trip
almost as solid and fresh and luscious as the day
it was picked. Not a trace of decay. Firm and
sound as a dollar 1

This proves that Stark Early Elberta is the
world's greatest shipper among all peaches.

THE GLORY OF A CENTURY’S
NURSERY WORK

Stark Early Elberta — as grown in abundance on
genuine Stark Bro’s correctly and carefully grown
trees — are beyond all cjuestion one of the most
radiantly beautiful creations of old Mother Nature.
As Dr. Crossett. of Tennessee, a friend of our old
advisor. Dr. E. L. Morris of Moscow, Tenn. ex-
presses, "They hang on the trees like huge globes
of gold.” The genuine Stark Early Elberta is a
great freestone, glowing golden in color, with its
strong protecting skin blending into a deepest red
blush on its sunny side — ^it^ luscious flesh satur-
ated with nectar — sweet juice. . , . ,

This big wonder peach allures with its beauty
gratifies with its quality — and sells for top market
prices in every state in the Union.

FAR SUPERIOR IN EVERY WAY TO
OLD ELBERTA

As compared with old Elberta the genuine
Stark Early Elberta is larger, 10 days to 2 weeks
earlier, more highly colored, decidedly better in
quality, the World’s Record shipper, npt so fuzzy,
has smaller seed, with none of the bitterness or
coarseness so noticeable in old Elberta, and the
flesh is not stringy. , t- , i?,!. .. •

In texture the genuine Stark Early Elberta is
melting and buttery— not spongy and coarse as is
often found in Elberta. ^ It colors all over before it
softens, which makes it ideal for distant shipments.
The tree is hardier and will bear as many bushels as
old Elberta or any other known variety. Further-
more. it always sells for higher prices than ever
have been paid or ever will be paid for old Elberta.

‘‘Stark Early Elberta trees bought from you 2
years ago had some of the finest peaches on them
you ever saw. They ripened a week ahead of old
Elberta and were larger in size.' Louis biebert,

Chicago and St. Ixiulfl Fruit M^kets
during the week of August 9 to 15, genuine ^^kEaH^
Elberta from the orchards of Louis »

Mo., brought from S3. 00 to $3.60

ronid not be sold for more than $1.25 to $1.45 per cral^
to thesJmafkete ^ Both varieties sold much

higher In 1917.

Best Commercal Peach _

"I consider this the very best commercml
peach that has ever been introduced into th^^U^^^
Coming at a season
by a week pr ten
of a hundred pei
the returns.” — :

State Horticulturist of Utah.

•*It Brings Me More Money Than Anything
Else I Grow,** — Connecticut's Greatest
Peach Grower

B. Carine, Connecticut’s greatest peach grower,
landed in Connecticut 25 years ago with $22 in his
pocket. Today he owns immense orchards con-
taining 100,000 fruit trees, owns 4000 acres of
fruit land and has the largest peach orchards in
Connecticut. He writes:

“I would rather have an orchard of genuine
Stark Early Elberta than any other variety of peach.
It brings me more money than anything else I grow.
I have received at the rate of $2.70 per crate when
the old Elbertas were averaging the same season
only $1.50. (Both varieties sold much higher in
1917 — as high as $5.00 per bushel.)

"Genuine Stark Early Elberta comes on the
market about a week or ten days ahead of old
Elberta when the market is right, with no other
peaches to spoil the market.

"It is by far the best quality yellow peach grown
anywhere — extremely hardy, sure bearers.

‘T am planting genuine Stark Early, Elberta
heavily. Four years ago I planted 700 trees, the
next year 2000, last year 4000, and this year I
wanted 5000 or 6000 more but Stark Bro’s were sold
out and I got my order in too late to have it filled.

"I have stopped planting old Elbertas altogether
and am going to stick to genuine Stark Early
Elbertas.’^

Warning to Peach Planters

Several inferior so>calied Early Elbertas have
been grown by others. Just because they ripened
a few days ahead of Elbertas they were called
‘‘Early** Elbertas. We have found, after careful
investigation, that they are not the genuine Stark
Early Elberta, but entirely different varieties
originating in other sections. Be sure you get the
genuine. Stark Bro’s have a contract for the
exclusive prop^ating rights of all genuine trees
owned by Dr. Crleason, the originator.

Be Sure You Get GENUINE Stark Early Elberta

The claims made on this page refer only to
genuine Stark Early Elberta trees, coming from
Stark Bro’s at Louisiana, Mo. Genuine Stark
Early Elberta trees from Stark Bro’s^ carry the
individual labels with the autograph signature of
Dr. Sumner Gleason, who planted the. original
Stark Early Elberta tree, sent to him by Stark Bro’s.

Are Not Cannon
— They Are Stark
Early Elbertas, Grown in
Tennessee — average 16 oz.

Ordinary Elberta

Stark Early Elberta

Average Specimens Grown in Same Orchard Under Identical Conditions.
Stark Early Elberta Brought 86% More Than Old Elberta Same Season.

^ Early Elberta. Orchard of Mr. Knudson

Heavily Loaded with Magnificent Peaches. Successful
Wherever Peaches Grow and the Hardiest Yellow Peach We
Know. A young, heavy and sure bearer — a proven

15

PEACH TEAM

Biggest Profits

J. H. Hale Peach

The Ideal Orchard Team-Mate for
Stark Early Elberta

This is the peach that has made such giant strides towards a
high place in the estimation of all peach growers during the last
few years. It has completely earned the proud title of “Team-
Mate to the Stark Early Elberta.” This is particularly so because
of the fact that the J. H. Hale follows Stark Early Elberta about
two weeks in ripening. By the time that your Stark Early Elberta
have all ripened and been picked, you can begin picking the J. H.
Hale, which ripens just at the time the old-fashioned Elbertas ripen.

By planting J. H. Hale to follow Stark Early Elberta in the ripen-
ing season, you lengthen your picking season — which means a con-
siderable saving of money as compared with the picking cost if your
whole orchard ripened at the same time.

MAGNIFICENT IN APPEARANCE!— EXQUI-
SITE IN FLAVOR

We know of no peach gifted with greater sun-
painted beauty. Truly kingly in appearance.
Huge in size. Ruddy streaked golden globes,
enveloped in blushing velvet. Its solid but melting
flesh is of purest gold in color — tender — dripping
with a honey tart lusciousness that once tasted is
never to be forgotton. It is so deliciously different
from the bitter tang that has always been the draw-
back of old Elberta.

STARK BRO’S WAS THE FIRST NURSERY
TO FRUIT J. H. HALE

We grew our first 13.000 crop of J. H.

Hale in 1911-12, years ago, before

J. H. Hale trees were generally known.

All of these trees were sold to Mr.

J. H. Hale.

Prof. P. F. Williams wrote in “The Southern
Fruit Grower” (Aug. 1912): “The J. H. Hale

peach I received is one of the most beautiful
examples of perfection in peach growing I have
ever seen. The rather thick, firm tenacious skin is
another fine point in its favor. Its quality is
excellent. I understand that Stark Bro’s of
Louisiana, Mo., are propagating this new peach.”

J. H. HALE BRINGS $250.00 MORE PER CAR
THAN OLD ELBERTA

As a further proof of the extra profit gained by
raising J. H. Hale rather than Old Elberta, a recent
number of the Atlanta “Constitution,” had this to
say:

“In car lot shipments, cars loaded one-half old
Elberta and one-half J. H. Hale have been sent out,
thus testing their selling value side by side. Last
year the new peach netted 50% a crate or $250.00
a car more than old Elberta.”

This great peach becomes perfectly colored before
fully grown, and if the trees are too heavily laden
with fruit, they can be thinned and the peaches
thus removed can be shipped. The following week,
the peaches left on the tree have reached enormous
size, but should the market be crowded, such is its
sturdy qualities that it can be left on the trees for
yet another week, and then be in prime condition
for shipment.”

A Beautiful Life Size Peach Grown by the Late J. H. Hale at
South Glastonbury, Conn.

A MARVELOUS PROFIT MAKER

HAS RECORD OF $1,420.00 PER ACRE

J. H. Hale trees have yielded such enormous crops
of such fancy fruit that they have actually produced
the astonishing profit of $1,420.00 per acre on one
year’s crop. Quoting from Southern Farming:
“From this one acre of J. H. Hale trees we harvested
748 bushels, which would make practically 1,500
full peach baskets and 1,000 six-basket crates.
95% of this fruit was in first class, merchantable
condition and sold the next morning at an average
of 60% higher than the old Elberta.’’
WONDERFUL SHIPPERS

The flesh of this marvelous peach is almost as firm
as that of a clingstone. J. H. Hale were actually
shipped in barrels, like potatoes or apples — made a
long 1,000 mile trip and arrived in tip-top condition.
'This certainly proves the remarkable shipping
quality possessed by this peach. The reason for
its unique shipping ability is given to us in a letter
we recently received from Prof. M. A. Blake, that
well-known authority on Horticulture, of the N. J.
Agri. Exp. Station. _ He says: “From our expe-

rience the J. H. Hale is a much superior peach com-
mercially to old Elberta. One of the good qualities
of J. H. Hale is its firmness at the ripening state,
this makes it such an extraordinarily good shipper”
J. H. HALE HAS MADE OLD ELBERTA
OBSOLETE

It has won the distinction of being the one and
only team-mate of the Stark Early Elberta.

'The greatest experts confirm us in this statement.
G. D. Brackett, Pomologist, U. S. Department
Agriculture, said: “J. H. Hale is better quaUty than
Elberta and a longer keeper.” F. C. Sears, Prof,
of Pomology, Mass. Agricultural College says:
■'Handso nest peach I have ever seen. Proffessor Cheno-
weth and I agree that J. H. Hale Is a much handsomer
peach than old Elberta. Better In quality and a much
better peach," Joseph Gerardl, Illinois authority, says:
“FromwhatlknowoI.J. H. Hale it’s goodbye Gld Elberta.”

Hon. Parker Earle cooperat-
ed with Stark Bro’s in growing
fruit in that famous 70,000-tree
orchard in the Pecos Valley,

New Mexico, that later brought
$800 per acre — also read Mr.

Earle’s article on Pear Growing
on page 45 of “Success Or-
chards.”

Recently, Mr. Earle wrote us:

"I have f uited the J. H Hale this
past season Irom trees planted last
year {fruited one year from planting).

I had specimens 3H and 3 15 inches
In diameter. They grow as large as
Early Elberta and that Is a plenty.”

THE J. H . HALE PEACH
Monument to Genius of the Late J. H. Hale

This great man, known throughout the world as
“The Peach King of America.” wrote a message to
the readers of Stark Bro’s Year Book, in which he
said: “New and hardier varieties have made it

easily possible to grow good peaches in nearly every
state of the Union, with the possible exceptions of
Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana.
I would be glad to see from one to a dozen peach
trees in every family garden. There is a great
money-making opening for commercial peach
growing. It’s a great business opening too long
neglected.”

STARK BRO’S J. H. HALE TREES ARE THE
GENUINE STRAIN

Our J. H. Hale trees are the genuine strain and
are fully up to the high standard of Stark Bro’s
quality. _ Our record of 100 years of successful tree
growing is back of every genuine Stark Tree.

This Big Tree is Only 20 Months Old and is a gen-
nine J. H. Hale from Stark Bro's — Bore 112 Big
Peaches for F, H. Davis. “Stark Trees Bear Fruit."

A Branch of J. H. Hale, “Just as Thick as They
Can Stick" on Stark Bro's Orchard Trees of J H.
Hale at Louisiana, Mo. A Wonderful Profit Earner.

A Young J. H. Hale Tree in Stark Bro’s Orchards,
Enormous Red and Gold Peaches and Wonderfully
Solid. Note the Size — Bigger Than a Baseball.

16

The Century’s Best Peach Discoveries

»|. {Early White Freestone.) Magnificent

AlLOn white fleshed freestone peach that is
larger than Carman, better quality than Champion
and handsomer than any picture ever painted. One
of the sweetest and most luscious peaches and no
tree will bear more or bigger crops. U. L. Coleman,
a South Missouri orchardist says:

“They have borne every year since they came into
bearing. I know one fellow who has had them
eight or nine years and they have missed but one
crop.” E. A. Riehl of Alton always gets $1.50 per
bushel for his Altons. Dr. E. L. Morris, well known
Tennessee orchardist sold them at fifty cents per
dozen. Calvin R. Clark of Scott Co., Iowa says:
“Finest peach I ever saw; brought three times as
much on the markets as my other sorts. Every-
thing considered Alton is the best and most pro-
fitable white peach in propagation.’’— NNCS

Hiohest Price of All. — ALTON succeeds well here, bring-
ing the highest price of any peach that I grow. Hardy,
exceedingly handsome, fine llavor. Best of them all for eat-
ing and preserving. — S. S. Haswell, Essex Co., Mass.

Finest Early July Peach. — Sold at 50 cents per dozen. —
Dr. E. L. Morris, Fayette Co., Tenn.

People Fought for Them. — Sold this summer by the wagon
load at high prices; people simply fought for them. — ■
E. H. Riehl, 111. Experiment Station.

BELLE OF GEORGIA {Mid-season White Free-
stone.) Large, rich, creamy white flesh with a bright
red blush; delicious. Popular in all peach sections.
Good shipper. NCS

•BIG INDIAN BLOOD CLING {Mid-season Red
Flesh.) Biggest, handsomest peach of all the Blood
Clings. The peach par-excellence for pickling and
preserving. NCS

CHAIR’S CHOICE (Late Yellow Freestone.) Best
of the Crawford Late type. Large, deep yellow with
red cheek. NCS

CAPT. EDE (Mid-season Yellow Freestone.) Large,
excellent shipper. A general favorite; a strong
growing, hardy tree. Popular in Northern peach
sections. NCS

CARMAN (Early White Freestone). Large, creamy
white, deep blushed. We consider Alton, practically
the same season, its superior. NCS
CHAMPION (Mid-season White Freestone.) A
magnificent white peach, most excellent and de-
servedly popular. However, fewer Champion are
being planted as Alton becomes better known.
NNCS

Champion a Money-Maker . — Extreme hardlne.ss and
productiveness render It a never-falling source of profit;
never falls. So large, so beautiful and such high quality
k always commands highest market prices. — • Report
Western N. Y. Hort. Society.

CRAWFORD EARLY IMPROVED (Mid-season
Y Mow Freestone.) Better quality and hardier than
old Crawford Early — the best peach of this type.
CS

CRAWFORD LATE IMPROVED (Late Yellow
Freestone.) Larger, better quality, hardier, surer
bearer than old Crawford Late. Not sufficiently
hardy far North. CS

ELBERTA (Mid-season Yellow Freestone). For
years the standard, yellow peach for commercial
orchards. Many years of experimenting, observa-
tion and testing enables us to offer peaches of the
Elberta type ripening throughout the season. Plant
June Elberta. Stark Early Elberta, J. H. Hale
Elberta, Late Elberta, October Elberta and Krum-
mel October for big profits. Our strain of Elbertas
is a select one. NCS

EARLY MAMIE ROSS (Early White Semi-Free-
stone.) The best peach of the Mamie Ross type,
ripening nearly a week earlier than the old strain
and is larger and finer looking. Valuable. NCS
Pli . (Mid-season Yellow.) A big,

tLlD6rt£l ^liriEf handsome, yellow cling that
looks just like an Elberta; the queen of Cling
peaches. NCS

Fine Market Peach. — Lasts longer than Elberta. —
J. W. McAnulty. Ark.

From six trees gathered more than 100 baskets. — S. J.
Blythe, Buchanan Co., Mo.

17 1 1711- X. (Greatest Yellow Freestone.) Rip-

EiBrly iLlDSrta ening ahead of Elberta. See
Stark Early Elberta page 20. NNCS
ENGLE MAMMOTH (Mid-season Yel-
low Freestone.) Immense size, attractive,
splendid quality; makes friends and
holds them; thoroughly hardy. Popular
North. NNCS

EARLY ROSE (Very Early.) A hardy, beautiful,
good quality extremely early peach from the ex-
perimental orchards of J. H. Hale at .South Glaston-
bury, Conn. It has the large white blossoms of the
North China type which insures hardiness. It has
quality, size, beauty. Ships well and is fast taking
its place as an extra fine early variety and should be
planted with Red Bird Cling in all peach sections.
NCS

17 1 (Early White Freestone.) One of the

hardiest, thriftiest, healthiest of
peaches. Extreme cold that kills most varieties
seldom injures Eureka. Growers along the Northern
limit of the peach belt should plant Eureka. NNCS
GOLDEN SWEET CLING (Mid-season Yellow.)
One of the juiciest, sweetest and most delicious of
all clingstone peaches; thoroughly hardy and
immense size. NCS

IDAHO MAMMOTH (Late Yellow Freestone.) An
immense yellow peach with red blush. Attractive
and delicious. NCS

||i» • (Mid-season White Freestone.) Large,

illlHOlS handsome, juicy, spicy high flavor.
Eureka. Alton, Champion and Illinois make an ideal
white peach combination. NNCS

JT| TT 1 The J. H. Hale peach (see page
• !*• 21) has proved successful through-

out America — wherever peaches grow. There is no
question of its wide adaptability, hardiness and
extremely young bearing qualities.

Everyone of our customers who have tried out
genuine Stark Bro’s Old Oak Process Whole Root
J. H. Hale trees are loud in their praise of the
wonderful qualities of both the tree and its fruit.
They like the tree’s habit of bearing young and
prodigiously — its sturdiness — its vigor — its
hardiness. They cannot say too much in praise of
the beauty, quality and flavor of its fruit. They
congratulate us and themselves every time they
send J. H. Hale peaches to the market and reap the
extra profits J. H. Hale’s always bring. NNCS

JT71U 1. (Earliest Yellow Semi-Free-
Un6 thlDSmS stone.) The earliest ripening
peach of the Elberta type. “They ripen evenly,
flavor fine, meat deep, rich yellow clear to the seed.
Hardiest, healthiest trees I ever saw and by far the
best early peach,” says Wm. H. Welch of Dent
County, Klo. It has a large, light pink bloom of the
hardy North Clhina type. NNCS

Making Great Record in Largest Conncalcut Orchard. —
Showing up In splendid shape. — One of the heaviest bearers
In my orchard — a great money-maker." — B. Carlne, Coim.
IF 1 /•t t L (Late Yellow Free-

K.rummel October stone.) Largest, hand-
somest peach of all the late peaches. Ripens about
a week after Sal way. It has less competition on the
market than any other big, yellow peach, as it is
ripe after all other good peaches are gone. “Krum-
mel October has made me more money year after
year than any peach I have,” says Joseph Gerardi,
well known Illinois orchardist. No peach is sweeter
or better — no bitterness whatever next to the pit;
the flesh is firm, fine texture. Ships perfectly. N CS
LATE ELBERTA (Late Yellow Freestone.) A big,
handsome, highly colored Elberta that ripens 25
days after old Elberta is gone and comes on the
market when good peaches are scarce. NCS
LATE QUALITY QUEEN (Very Late White Free-
stone.) Originated near Louisiana, Mo., on the
estate where our nurseries were located before the
Civil War. Large, beautifully blushed, unsur-
passed in quality. NCS

MAMMOTH HEATH CLING (Very Late White.)
One of the sweetest, juiciest, and most luscious of
peaches — the housewife’s favorite for canning and
preserving. Large, creamy white, red blush; good
shipper. NCS

MARTHA FERN CLING (Late White.) Originated
in Pike County, Mo. Immense size, superb quality.
One of the finest white clingstones. NNCS
MAYFLOWER (Very Early White Freestone.) A
gloriously beautiful “red all over" peach. The
earliest of all. Every home orchard should contain
Mayflower. Hardy and healthy in tree. NCS

OLD MIXON FREE IMPROVED (Mid-season
White Freestone.) Similar to Old Mixon Free but
larger, higher color and more productive; flavor is
exquisite. NCS

OCTOBER ELBERTA (Very Late Yellow Free-
stone.) A big, handsome peach that looks just like
Elberta but larger and better quality and ripens
just ahead of Krummel October. NCS
Oxirl R:..,-] (Very Early White.) As

IV6C1 Dircl L„lin£f large as Elberta, strikingly
handsome and the first big peach that is ready for
market. A sensation everywhere; bright glowing
red on a background of creamy white; flesh firm,
making it an ideal shipper. Early in the season
people are fruit hungry and these big, handsome
peaches bring prices that are almost unbelievable.
W. A. Jeffers, a well known Arkansas orchardist,
got as high as $10.00 per bushel for Red Bird; also,
E. W. Kirkpatrick, Texas’ great peach authority
says: “Now selling at from $4.00 to $6.00 per

bushel by the carload.” The advent of this glorious
peach makes possible tremendous profits. It is so
superior to Sneed, Alexander and other poor quality,
soft; watery peaches ripening at the same time.
NNCS

No Early Peaches So Profitable. — My Bed Bird Cling
Drought S2.00 per bushel this season. Would have brought.
$3.00 If I had demanded It — R. A. Schlau, Marlon Co., Dl.

SALWAY, Holsinger Strain. (Very Late Yellow
Freestone.) An improved Kansas strain from the
grounds of Major Frank Holsinger. Not as good as
Krummel. NCS

f-f JlgV (Early Belle.) (Early White Freestone.) A
” white peach of great size and beauty, being
highly colored on the sun-exposed side.

SEA EAGLE IMPROVED (Late White Freestone.)
A delicious white peach of great beauty and raor-
mous size. Good in all soils in all peach regions.
NNCS.

STARK SUMMER HEATH (Mid-season White
Cling.) Of the Heath type with snow white flesh
clear to the pit. It has no peer for canning or
preserving. NCS.

STARK HEATH CLING (Very Late White.) The
best strain of Heath Cling that after careful test
was declared by the Michigan Experiment Station
to be 100 per cent more productive than old Heath
Cling on their grounds. NCS.

Greensboro (Very Early White Semi-Free-
VjreenSDOrO stone-) A greenish white peach
shaded with light and dark red. Hardy, depend-
able and a good early sort especially for home use.
WASHINGTON {Mid-season White Freestone.)
Just simply a Late Champion almost identical in
shape, size, color and quality, but is three weeks
later. Tree vigorous, hardy, sure cropper, NNCS
YATES RED CLING (Late White.) Choicest Cling
of its season; practically red all over. Fine for
canning and preserving. NCS
1 ij*.* 1C* A. We also have a good

Additions.! Skirts supply of other varieties
not described on this page. All varieties in price list.
The Big Grower’s Plant Stark Trees
The judgment of the big growers is the best
guide for the man who is buying a few trees — even
just a handful for a fruit garden in his back yard.
These big growers are experts. They know tree
values. When they approve any particular brand
or variety of tree you may wisely follow their lead.
Stark Bro’s OLD OAK PROCESS Whole Root
Trees are the standard of excellence in all orchard
regions.

Read these words from two of the biggest
growers in the peach state — Georgia:

“I have received the 4,000 Stark Bro’s Old Oak
Process Whole Root J. H. Hale trees in good shape
and am well pleased with them.” — W. A. Shore,
care W. A. Shore & Co., Grower of Peaches,
Habersham Co., (Ja.,

An “echo” of the same letter — from one of our
many loyal Georgia patrons:

“Shore is tickled to pieces with his J. H. Hale
peach trees received from Stark Bro’s at Louis-
iana, Mo. Just telephoned to say they are the
finest he ever saw.”

Cornwall & Brazey, Growers of Fine Fruit.

Habersham Co., Ga.

Alton — White freestone of highest quality,
fine for commercial planting or home
orchard — Best of its type

Krummel — A 3-year-old Stark Tree
heavily laden, hardy, sure bearer,
best late peach

Elberta Cling~Fine for market and
home use — every housewife wants
cling peactic. — atways sell well

Red Bird — Earliest good peach. Largttt
better shipper than Elberta and
a great money maker

“Stark Bro’s Most Valuable New Plum”

Mammoth Gold Plum

A GREAT big, luscious, red blushed, golden plum of enormous size; so early that they are
ripe and gone by the 4th of July — a fit orchard mate for the great “Gold” plum which
has created such a sensation among plum growers all over the country.

Mrs. Wm. Bywater, Adams Co., 111., says — “Our four trees are a picture — nothing can be
seen but plums and a few leaves. One plum measured 7| inches in circumference.”

Mammoth Gold will enable you to supply' the early market demand for good plums. The trees bear
young, the fruit is of splendid size, sweet and delicious, clear to the seed. _ None of the ' sharp bite that
some plums have. Another point worth considering is that of its early ripening habit which practically
eliminates chances of brown rot. Mammoth Gold originated with the late George W. Endicott of Illinois
Experiment Station — a scientific experimenter who did a great work for central and western orchardists.
Mammoth Gold is undoubtedly the greatest of all of his plum breeding achievements. We have ex-
clusive contract with Mr. Endicott for propagation from original tree. ,

Dawson Grady, of Pike County, Missouri, says that his Mammoth Gold trees bore the second summer
that the fruit was of immense size, beautifully blushed and far ahead of other plums. He stated further
that although the season was very wet and plums rotted badly, not one Mammoth Gold showed a
bit of rot. NNCS

Other Leading Plums

ABUNDANCE {.Early, Japanese.) Large, cherry
red. pure Japanese, firm, sweet, excellent quality,
ships well. NCS

A • {Very Early, Hybrid.) Large, glossy

™Hfl©nC3 red. Beautiful as a plum can be.
America, Mammoth Gold, Gold, Early Gold (Shiro)
and Omaha are the five best plums east of the
Rocky Mountains. NNCS

BLACK DIAMOND {Mid-Season, European.) A
huge dark purple plum almost black; delicious.
NC

BURBANK {Mid-Season, Japanese.) Richly col-
ored red plum mottled and dotted with yellow.
Well known and widely planted. NCS
COMPASS, Cherry. {Early, Hybrid.) Medium
size, light red, changing to dark red at maturity.
Popular in the West and planted sparingly in
Central West and East. A hybrid of Sand Cherry
and a plum NCS

DAMSON, BIG MACKEY {Mid-Season, Eu-
ropean.) A strain of the Stark Free Stone that av-
erages larger. Originated in Pike County, Missouri
and recommended because of size, bearing and
general tree characteristics. A true Free Stone.
NCS

DAMSON, MAJESTIC {Mid-Season, European.)
The earliest of all Damsons. NCS
DAMSON SHROPSHIRE {Mid-Season, Europ-
ean.) Best known Damson. Trees bear enormous
crops. N CS

DAMSON STARK, Freestone. {Mid-Season,
European.) The largest Damson. Originated in
Pike County, Missouri. NCS

|-v . {Mid-Season, Hybrid.) The new blood

JJURrt© plum originated by Luther Burbank,
who says: “A fine grower, hardy, never failing —

bears abundant crops. Very rich, delicious and
nearly freestone.” Beautiful, enormous size, good
quality, promising everywhere. We advise it for
extensive trial in all sections. A variety with splen-
did parentage. Produced from seeds of America

"Photo of my 2-year-old Early Gold {Shiro) bearing
3 gals, luscious plums. They are all your Year
Book claims them, to he." J. J. Rosenberger.

and pollenized by Climax. Has, proven hardy in our
New York nurseries and here at Louisiana (in
Northern Missouri). NCS

EARLIEST OF ALL {V ery Early, Japanese.) One
of the earliest; solid red, medium size, popular.
NCS

Shiro. {Very Early, Hybrid.)
IhRrly vaOICI Pure Transparent Golden Yellow
— a huge honey drop, also Luther Burbank’s produc-
tion. Early Gold is probably second only to Gold.
A marvelous plum. NCS

FREESTONE GOOSE {Mid-Season, Native.) An
improved Wild Goose originating with Theo.
Williams of Nebraska. Immense size and of iron-
clad hardiness. NNCS

GERMAN PRUNE {Mid-Season, European.) One
of the largest and handsomest and best of the
prunes. N CS

/-• 11 {Trade-Mark.) {Mid-Season, Hybrid.)
'jOICl Our great Gold, the $3,000 plum, has
created a great sensation and made more friends
than any other of the many valuable plums we have
introduced in the last one hundred years. We con-
sider it the most valuable mid-season plum; just as
much so as its great team mate. Mammoth Gold is
the best very early plum ever introduced. Gold is
so delicious, so large and beautiful, such a heavy
bearer and so successful everywhere that we have
never been able to grow enough trees to supply the
demand for it. Buy the genuine from Stark Bro’s.
the exclusive introducers and owners. “Gold” is a
trade-mark of ours, registered in the U. S. Patent
Office. Gold is a union of the best plum blood of
the earth’s two great continents — Asia and America.
Hybrid of Burbank (Japanese) and_ Robinson’s
Native. The originator says; “Gold is one of the
most remarkable fruits known. The best plum ever
introduced- Delicious, juicy, sweet; two weeks
later than Burbank; keeps a month or more; clear,
semi-transparent, light golden yellow, later nearly
overspread with a hazy carmine blush; when fully
ripe a transparent light cherry red — the hand-
somest plum in existence. Among plums there is
nothing on earth as beautiful or good.”

$3000, was the price we gladly paid to Burbank
when we bought the Gold plum some years ago.

A. N. Seymour, of Dane County, Wisconsin says:
“Stands our winters like the hardiest natives.”
H. Floyd, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, says:
“Not a bud injured. Gold is all right even North of
LaCrosse and Oshkosh.”_ J. B. Broughton, New
Madrid County, Missouri, says: “Have two Gold
plum trees with a record of 260 gallons this season —
130 gallons from each tree.”

We could quote from hundreds of growers as to
the hardiness and sturdiness of tree, its marvelous
bearing qualities and of the beauty and clearness of
its fruit. Truly a marvelous plum. NNCS
INDIAN BLOOD, Duarte. {Mid-Season, Hybrid.)
The new blood plum from Luther Burbank. Beau-
tiful, enormous size. Plant everywhere. NCS
ITALIAN PRUNE {Mid-Season, European.) Sim-
ilar to German prune but distinct. Probably more
largely grown than any other. NCS
LATE GOOSE {Late, Native.) From Theo. Will-
iams of Nebraska. Recommended because of size,
beauty, quality and extreme hardiness. NNCS
LOMBARD {Mid-Season, European.) Large,
violet-red, pleasant flavor. Favorite everywhere.

OCTOBER PURPLE {Mid-Season, Native.) Rich,
dark reddish-purple, superb quality. Desirable for
home garden and for market. NNCS

{Mid-Season, Hybrid.) The greatest
creation of Theo. Williams, the Bur-
bank of the North (Nebraska). "The value of his
productions is recognized everywhere. His best
plum which he requested us to introduce and name
for a great city of his state, Omaha, has proved one
of the most valuable from any section for many
years. Very large, almost perfectly round, dark
rich red, deeper in color than Abundance, flesh
meaty and delicious. Sturdy and hardy as an oak
and grows without the least damage far North;
has always proven thoroughly satisfactory in the
South. The originator said: “No other plum in

existence is as cosmopolitan as Omaha. It has
fruited from Alberta (Canada) south to the Gulf;
it thrives in Vermont and has been tested west to
the Pacific. Not since we introduced Gold has any
variety suited us so perfectly as Omaha and Mam-
moth Gold.” NNCS

ORIENT {.Mid-Season, Japanese.) Orange colored,
overlaid with cherry red; sweet and excellent. NCS
POOLE PRIDE {Mid-Season, Native.) Most valu-
able of the Chickasaw type. Red with heavy
bloom. Delicious for preserves and jellies. NNC

Tj 1 T {Very Early, Japanese.) Named

i\.6Ct JUn6 and introduced by us nearly
twenty-five years ago. Dark coppery red, free from
rot, does not drop. Fine canning variety. NNCS
SANTA ROSA (Very Early, Hybrid.) An origina-
tion of Luther Burbank. An immense red plum
with firm flesh, strong skin and an excellent shipper.
Won the Gold Medal at the Lewis & Clark E.xposi-
tion. Ripens about a week ahead of Gold. NCS
SATSUMA {Mid-Season, Japanese.) Fine red
fleshed, large, purplish-crimson, excellent quality,
but not quite hardy east of the Rockies. We prefer
Purple Flesh which is hardy and more dependable,
STARK GREEN GAGE, Missouri. {Mid-Season
European.) Introduced by us. All plum lovers
commend it as the best of its type. A home or
market orchard is not complete without it. Large,
good quality, bears abundantly. NCS
STARK PURPLE FLESH {Mid-Season, Jap.)
Hardy Japanese variety that succeeds far north
where Wickson and Burbank will not stand. The
finest red fleshed variety. NNCS
STRANG {Early, Japanese.) A seedling of Abun-
dance, ripening just after Red June. NCS
TATGE {Mid-Season, European.) A rival of
Lombard. Fruit richer, darker color and very fine
quality. NNC

WICKSON {Mid-Season, J apanese.) One of the
handsomest plums; widely planted throughout the
country. Mammoth Gold more profitable. NCS
WILD GOOSE IMPROVED {Mid-Season, Native.)
Superior to old Wild Goose. Bright red, delicious,
sweet and juicy. NCS

A Branch
of Gold

G. A . Grass,
Perry Co.,Ind.,
Grew These
Plums — 27
Gallons from
One Tree-
Brought
$5.70.

Leading

The so-called “sour cherries” are not
really sour but have enough acidity to
make them refreshing when eaten fresh
Dr when cooked. Cherry pies, sauce or pre-
serves are always popular. These cherries
thrive in back yards, fence corners and on
any ordinary well drained soil from Maine
to Alabama and from ocean to ocean. No
other fruit will bear more regular crops and
will produce bigger profits; $250 to $500 per
acre is not out of the ordinary. The fruit
ripens early and is welcomed on the early
markets. The demand is always heavy and
more cherry orchards are needed. We
recommend the Montmorencies as the best,
most profitable and most widely successful
cherry grown.

6 Acres of Cherries a Gold Mine

“PLANT SIX ACRES OF YOUR LAND TO
CHERRIES AND YOU WILL SOME DAY
HAVE A LITTLE GOLD MINE Everybody
laughed at that advice when it was given to Roy
Phillips, but today the gold mine is there. During
the last nine years this little cherry orchard has
yielded more than 21,000 crates of fruit, and has
returned ro its owner a net revenue of more than
$21,000.” — Country Gentleman.

$300.00 Per Acre in Chicken Yard
A. K. McGraw, of Washington County. Md..
says: “ I bought a five and one-half acre tract for a
chicken farm. It was planted to fruit — apples with
cherries (Montmorency) as fillers. They have
never been cultivated nor pruned. Their unusually
rapid growth I attribute to the presence of the
poultry — at 7 years they returned $300.00 net per
acre." (In addition to profit from apples and
poultry.)

One-Fourth Acre Stark Cherries $240.00

“Our 35 cherry trees — every one a Stark Tree —
Montmorency King. Suda Hardy, Dyehouse, on
one-fourth acre brought $240.00 this year.” —
E. B. Barnes of Emporia High School Faculty,
Lyon Co., Kansas.

Leading Cherries

BING, Sweet. A delicious sweet cherry, popular
west and seems to succeed east better than most
sweets. Large, black, fine quality. NCS
BLACK TARTARIAN IMPROVED, Early Sweet.
This is a greatly improved seedling of old Black
Tartarian. Wherever sweet cherries grow, plant
this sort. Large, black, heart-shaped, unsurpassed
in quality. NCS

DYEHOUSE, Very Early. Better and a week
earlier than Early Richmond. Larger. Pit smaller.
Strong grower, good bearer. NNCS
EARLY RICHMOND (Early May.) (Early.) A
week later than Dyehouse. Clear bright red. A
standard sort. Sometimes called “pie cherry.”
NCS

ENGLISH MORELLO (Very Late.) Dark red,
acidy. Small tree. Suda Hardy of same type
is better. NC

GERMAN OSTHEIMER (Late.) Large, heart
shaped, productive. Suda Hardy better. NNCS
GOV. WOOD (Early), Large light yellow, heart-
shaped, sweet, rich. NCS

LAMBERT, Late Sweet. Mammoth size, dark red,
turning almost black when ripe. Firm, rich,
splendid. This splendid sweet cherry popular
everywhere. NCS

may DUKE. Large, rich red, semi-sweet. Suc-
ceeds everywhere. NCS

18

Cherries

Montmorencies J,^e%he^bTsrso-caUed

sour cherries. When fully ripe, however, they are
sweet and luscious. The Montmorency is planted
everywhere — east, west, north, south. Perfect tree,
resists diseases, most popular, best bearers of all.
We grow several strains that are the favorites
among commercial cherry growers. Our strains
have been grown by us for many years and are kept
absolutely pure. Ripens ten days later than
Early Richmond.

Years ago about the only variety we heard of was Early
Richmond. Today the best cherry Is Montmorency. A
tine grower, bears early. Is hardy, fruit of large size and Is
In great demand by canners and preservers.

Mr. Wade, from 400 Montmorency trees, produced last
season 3200 16-quart crates.whichaveraged In Chicago SI. 50.
Hestates that no other variety will compare with Mont-
morency lor profit. — W. I. Smith, West. N. Y. Hort. Society.
MONTMORENCY KING (Early.) Ordinaire The
old type of the well known Montmorency. Beauti-
ful in tree. Crop never fails. Every farm should
have its row of Montmorency trees. NNCS

Montmorency King — Most Valuable Cherry. — Began
hearing when two years old, has borne ever since. This
season a full crop where 25 varieties were almost all a
failure. Superior to any other of Its class. Tree Is a rapid
grower In spite of Its annual production.

I have several of your Montmorency King cherry trees.
I picked 25 gallons off one tree this year, seven years old.
— G. W. Maxwell, Jasper Co., Mo.

$19.00 From One Mont. King Tree. — I have a Mont-
morency King cherry tree which has been loaded every year.
Have gathered enough fruit from this tree In one year to
pay for all the stuff I bought of you. and the bill was over
$19,00. — Mrs. Al. McQuay, Champaign Co., 111.
MONTMORENCY LARGE (Early.) Somewhat
larger than King and ripens a little later. Some
so-called “large ' Montmorencies have proven
worthless. Get the true strain. NNCS
MONTMORENCY MONARCH (Early.) A
splendid strain of Montmorency from the Iowa
Experiment Station. Introduced by us twenty
years ago and has never disappointed. NNCS
MONTMORENCY STARK. In our judgment
the best type of the Montmorencies. Originated
on our grounds. Larger than any other Montmor-
ency. Stronger grower than King.

Profitable. Plant it. NNCS

MONTMORENCY SWEET

(Early.) A true Montmorency
but sweeter than any other
strain. NNCS

NAPOLEON (Late.) A large
yellow sweet cherry, pink blushed.

Beautiful and delicious. NCS

Most Productive arul Most Profitable.

— Napoleon cherry, the most produc-
tive of the yellow sweet cherries: fruit
large, heart-shaped and mottled with
red, texture firm, and quality fair. The
trees are hardy and thrifty, one of thee
most profitable sweet cherries on trial. Very
firm: valuable both for home use and market. Vig-
orous, productive — bore the heaviest crop of any
sweet on trial. — Michigan Experiment Station.

ROYAL ANN (Late.) One of the best known
and most popular light colored sweet cher-
ries. NCS

ROYAL DUKE (Early.) The best of the Duke
type of cherries. Ours is a Colorado strain. Large,
light red, tender, semi-sweet. Plant fewer Duke
and more Montmorencies. NCS
SCHMIDT’S BIGARREAU (Late.) Black, sweet,
immense size, attractive. Popular in the east. NCS
SUDA HARDY (Very Late.) The best cherry of the
English Morello type. Hardy, better bearer, better
tree. Originated at Louisiana, Mo. We have grown
it more than twenty-five years. NNCS

More Vigorous Than Morello — Suda Hardy Is more
vigorous than others of the English Morello type; one of
the most productive. Valuable for market. — Michigan
Experiment Station.

A Sure and Heavy Bearer. — Suda tree eight years planted,
has given five heavy crops, this year 12 gallons, the trunk la
barely 5 Inches through, tree 10 ft. high, every limb loaded.
Bearsevery year. No failure. P. J. Thlehoff, Shelby Co., Mo.

Montmorency Stark

Succeeds everywhere, best all-around money-
making cherry grown

firm

Stark Gold

Our new great,
hardy, sweet
cherry that suc-
ceeds North,
East. South
and Wes t

WINDSOR. A dark colored sweet cherry,
flesh, ships well. Popular east. NCS
WRAGG (Very Late.) Suda Hardy same type is
better. Montmorencies superior to any of the
English Morello type. NCS

YELLOW SPANISH. Large, heart-shaped, light
yellow, sweet. Popular. N CS

Missouri Needs More Cherry Orchards —

A Gold Mine

“My orchard is one-half Montmorency and one-
half Early Richmond. Good old Missouri stands
at the head with big red apples. We need more
cherries. Plant them so we can ship in car lots,
like we do apples and peaches. Every fruit grower who plants a
variety of fruits will always have a fat bank account. Cherries
begin to bear at four years and from ten to twenty years are
equal to a gold mine.” — Daniel Lowmiller, Platte Co., Mo.

STARK GOLD (Trade Mark)

A beautiful and luscious sweet cherry that has proven
as hardy as Montmorency. Stands forty degrees below
zero and bears big crops.

Stark Gold is a large sweet cherry of superb qual-
ity— a dazzling golden yellow, not a sign of blush — the
only high quality pure golden yellow cherry that we
know. The fruit ripens about two weeks later than
Early Richmond, but will hang on the trees ten days
after ripe. It has very firm flesh, ships well and is an
ideal sweet cherry. Here is a cherry of tremendous
value and it enables fruit growers in localities of extreme
cold to produce a sweet cherry that is second to none
in beauty and in quality.

“The parent btark Gold tree is twenty years old. At three
years it bore the first crop and has never failed since. This year
when Early Richmond and English Morello bloom was killed,
the Stark Gold tree bore a tremendous crop. The tree is about 36 feet high with
a spread of nearly 40 feet. Limbs strong and tough, never breaking. Stark Gold
surpasses any other cherry on my place in hardiness where the thermometer often
registers 40 below zero, yet it is never injured. In bloom a beautiful sight, large
blossoms, almost like a crab.”

Stark Gold is a trade-mark. We recommend this marvelous sweet che.-.'y for
cold sections or wherever any cherries grow. NNCS

Let the Originator Tell the Story

parent Stark Gold tree is twenty years old.

At three

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Lincoln

Pear

Best Pear Profit-Makers

ANJOU (Beurre d' Anjou) (Late Fall). Large,
handsome, yellow, blushed dull red, and of richest
quality — no pear better. With proper care, can be
kept until the holidays. Succeeds everywhere and
is a great money-maker for home or commercial
orchards. Ripens a month later than Bartlett
and is remarkably free from blight. — NNCS.
BARTLETT. A favorite in all orchards
and on all markets. A large, rich, golden
yellow pear with a soft blush. It is
very juicy, melting and with a rich,
indescribable flavor that has made it
popular everywhere. The tree is a
strong grower, bears young, large crops
every year, and is a late bloomer.
Bartlett is probably the most widely
planted and best known pear in
propagation. — NCS.

BEURRE BOSC (Fall). A large,
fine looking, juicy pear with a
sweet delicious flavor. Deep
yellow and rather long in shape.
—NCS.

DUCHESS (Angouleme)
(Fall). Bears extremely
young, best as a dwarf.
Also grown as standard.
Extremely large, often
weighs over a pound.
—NNCS.

FAME (Trade-
Mark) (Late Sum-
mer). There is
no more deli-
cious pear than
this; juicy,
melting, sweet
and rich.
Seeds few,
almost no core:
large, blushed
yellow. — NCS.
FLEMISH
BEAUTY
(Fall). A superb
pear — large,
beautiful, sweet
and good; needs
sunny situations,
or it is apt to
crack and scab.
—NCS,
GARBER
(Fall). Some-
what coarse,
but fair qual-
ity. Remark-
ably free from
blight; wonder-
ful bearer — like
Kieffer. Garber
fine to pollen-
ize Kieffer —
plant them to-
gether.— NCS.

LINCOLN — King of All Pears

N pears, the variety we find worthy of our highest commendation is the genuine True
Lincoln of Illinois— a splendid early fall pear — largely popularized by Stark Bro’s — (not
the old worthless Lincoln Coreless, offered by some). From the Alleghenies to the Rocky
Mountains, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, no other pear has proved its equal. These
trees are remarkably blight resistant, heavy croppers and have the habit of living and bearing
long after other pear trees have died. The old original tree, over 80 years old, stiU bears
crops of luscious pears, after weathering the droughts and blizzards of nearly a century.
The Lincoln is a clear, beautiful yellow pear with sometimes a blush of red. The handsomest
pear that ever grew. In size and quality it is even better than Bartlett, the leader for many
generations. It ships well and its quality and beauty commands top prices. Stark Bro’s
propagation comes direct from the original tree — whence you take no risk. A. H. Gaston of the
111. Hort. Society wrote us: “Grow Lincoln by the millions so they can be planted for yard,
street and park trees. Lincoln should become a national fruit.”

Best of Several Hundred Varieties

Benj. Buckman, whose splendid experimental orchard in Illinois is recognized by the U. S. Dept,
as one of the most valuable in the U. S., says: “Have 500 Lincoln trees. The best pear to plant
for market or home use—the most desirable of several hundred I have tested here — tree vigorous,
blights less than any other good pear.“

GOLD NUGGET— (rracfe-Marfe)

Winter Sugar Pear — Originator Says NeDer Blights

From F. H. Davis, several years ago, late in the spring, we received a box of pears, as
peculiar in shape as “Stark Delicious” apples; also a bundle of letters from America’s leading
fruit authorities praising this new pear, the “Gold Nugget.” In one of these letters. Col.
Brackett, U. S. Pomologist, suggested that the pear be named Nugget and we are glad to follow
this suggestion in its introduction.

After watching and testing for several years we feel that it is deserving of propagation.
We have found it a late keeper. One of the most vigorous growing pear trees we ever tried
out in our test orchards. Gold Nugget has a thick protecting skin— juicy, fine-grained, honey-
sweet flesh, larger than Bartlett, but more round in shape — nearly apple shape, making it ideal
for packing and shipping. — NCS.

The originator, Mr. F. H. Davis, of Esmeralda, Calif., writes; "The Gold Nugget trees
are blight resistant. Two other trees not over 30 feet from the original Gold Nugget tree
are practically dead from blight. But Gold Nugget is absolutely free from it, and is now 40
years old.”

G. B. Brackett, U. S. Pomologist: “Gold Nugget is certainly near the head of the list of

fine pears. Very seldom have I tasted one so good, etc. It is a wonder to me that you have
never brought this excellent pear to notice before.”

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KIEFFER (Winter). The pear for the millions
east of the Rocky Mountains. It has paid, hence
it is probably the most widely planted pear. Large,
rich, golden yellow, sometimes tinted red on the
sun-exposed side; quality only fair, though ex-
cellent for canning, while baked Kieffer is deli-
cious. Bears every year. — NCS.

KING KARL (Late Fall). An extremely young,
heavy bearer, almost free from blight. Fruit is
beautiful and good. Plant it commercially and
for home use. — NCS.

SNYDER (Farly Summer). A large, deep, golden-
yellow pear that is sweet and satisfying in flavor.—
NCS.

STARK SECKEL(S«gar Pear) (Late Summer) . We
grow a select strain from the orchard of E. A.
Riehl. Its spicy, honeyed flavor makes it the
acme of pear perfection. — NNCS.

STARK TYSON (Very Early Summer). So much
resembles Seckel that it has been called a Summer
Seckel. A handsome little pear of fine texture,
melting, juicy and perfumed. — NCS.

TRIUMPH (Winter). Fruit resembles Duchess,
but is finer grained, better quality and will keep
until January. — NCS.

WINTER BARTLETT (Winter). A late keeping
large pear of the Bartlett type. Vigorous, remark-
ably free from blight. — NCS.

WINTER NELIS (Winter). A delicious greenish-
yellow pear, dotted with russet; fine grained, juicy
and much sought for on the markets. — NCS.

Dwarf Pears

Dwarf Pear is the ordinary pear grown on quince
roots, which produces a small tree, and brings it
into bearing much younger than when grown as a
standard tree. While the dwarf tree never attains
large size, the fruit it bears is the same size as that
grown on standard trees of the same variety.
When space is limited, dwarf trees can be planted
close (10 to 16 feet apart). Dwarf pears should
be planted in every back yard — often planted in
a row like a hedge. We always advise standard
trees when planting for commercial purposes.
However, Dwarf Anjou and Bartlett are profitably
planted as fillers in orchards of standard pears.
This practice is becoming very popular in all
sections. We offer the following varieties as
dwarfs: Anjou, Bartlett, Comice, Duchess, Fame,
King Karl, Stark Seckel and Triumph.

APRICOT

BLENHEIM. Deep orange in color, sometimes
slightly blushed; splendid flavor. — NCS.
COLORADO. A large apricot that is hardy and
good in quality. Fruits splendidly in Colorado
when others fail. — NCS,

HEMSKIRK. Large, orange color with red
cheek; luscious, fine quality. — NCS.

MOORPARK. One of the largest, handsomest,
best and most profitable of all apricots. Deep
yellow, blushed red; firm, juicy and luscious.
ROYAL. A dull yellow apricot mottled with
brown. The most popular and largely planted
in California and other apricot sections. — CS.
TILTON. Large, handsome, highly flavored.
One pf the most valuable sorts for canning and
shipping. — N CS.

WENATCHEE MOORPARK. The strain of
Moorpark grown in the famous W’enatchee Valley
of Washington that is such a great money-maker.
Far superior to the ordinary Moorpark. — N(iS.
STELLA. Very productive, improved Russian,
originated in Nebraska. Unsurpassed for produc-
tiveness, size and color. — NNCS.

Hardier than most apples, peaches, pears and plums—
the Duchess Oldenberg among apricots. Stella has gone
on growing full crops, while every other sort we planted
has been killed by our strenuous climate. — Theodore Wil-
liams, Nebraska, Originator.

SUPERB. A magnificent, hardy, improved Rus-
sian apricot; originated in Kansas and largely
planted throughout the Central West. Bears
heavily and the quality of the fruit is excellent.

Has produced more fruit of larger size and better quality
than any other, native or foreign. Best and most constant
bearer of 100 sorts' Try Superb and grow a fruit that is
fine. — A. H. Griesa, Originator, Douglas Co., Kans.

QUINCE

ORANGE. Of good size but much smaller than
Van Deman. — NCS.

VAN DEMAN {Trade-Mark) {Early)* One of the
$9,000.00 fruits Stark Bro’s purchased from
Luther Burbank. Best quince and largest grown.
In flavor, texture and quality it is unapproached —
delightfully fragrant. Fine for baking; canned or
dried, retains all the quince flavor. The best
variety for jellies, preserving, etc. — NCS.

Finest qualUy, large size, regular bearer, very prolific. —
John Cottle, Washington Co., Ohio.

Van Deman bore a 20-ounce quince the first season. The
tree bloomed late — almost summer. Trees are doing fine.
— C. L. Stewart, Athens Co., Ohio.

Frost Proof Bloom. — Van Deraan last year weighed 15
ounces. Bloomed early and the frost killed them. Later
it bloomed again and raised fruit. That is the kind of
trees to have, frost proof. — Chas. H. Sikes.

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B e r r i

Blackberry

The Blackberry is more and more becoming the
most profitable of the bush fruits and should be

frown commercially for all markets as well as for
ome uses.

A strong, deep and fertile loam is best for the
Blackberry, though it succeeds almost as well on
sandy soils and clay land. It responds gener-
ously to fertilizers, mulches and good, clean cul-
tivation. Space rows 6 feet apart and set the
plants 2 feet apart in the rows. Head the canes
back to force out laterals for fruit bearing.
BLOWERS {Rverbearing.) Large, jet black, ships
well. Popular. — NCS.

EARLY HARVEST iY ery Early. ') The ol*d standby,
extremely productive, good quality.: — CS.

EARLY KING {Early.) A long time favorite of
g^ood size. Fine, vigorous and hardy. — NCS.
ELDORADO {Mid~Season.) Large, jet black.
Keeps well after picking. — NNCS.

McDonald {V ery Early.) Large and fine. — NCS.
MERSEREAU {Mid^Season.) One of the hardiest
sorts, bears enormous crops, ships well. Berries of
excellent quality. — NNCS.

SNYDER {HIid-Seaso7i.) Hardy and most depend-
able, good size and of good quality. — NNCS.
WARD {Late.) Healthy, strong growing, bears
large crops, fruit of splendid quality. — NCS.

Dewberry

AUSTIN (Early.) Fine for Central States and
largely planted South. — CS.

LUCRETIA (Early.) The best and most depend-
able of all dewberries. Large, jet black and fine
flavor.— NNCS.

The Raspberry, for best results,
deep, rich, strong loam, which should be pre-
pared as for potatoes.' Set plants 2 feet apart
in the rows; space rows 6 feet apart. Cut
canes back to 3 or 4 inches at planting time to
^imulate root growth. Cultivate thoroughly
the canes grow one year and bear the next and
Will then bear no more. Therefore when the
truit-has been picked and as soon as the leaves
drop, cut the bearing. cane out— to leave it in
only takes vigor from canes that will bear next
season. The Raspberry patch should be re-
newed every five or six years.

BLACK PEARL (Early Black.) Large size, hardy
big cropper. — NCS.

COLUMBIAN (Mid-Season.) Large, rich purple
unrivaled for productiveness. — NCS.
CUMBERLAND (Early Black.) The best of all
black caps. Perfectly hardy. — NCS

vafu?"-:-To»and“X^?o®^.5Si^'t‘'^ commercial

CUTHBERT (Mid-Season.) Well known red va-
riety. popular and profitable. — NCS.

GOLDEN QUEEN (Mi^Season.) Large, beautiful
clear amber yellow. — NCS.

HOOSIER (Mid-Season.) Jet black, firm.— NNCS.
KANSAS (Late.) Glossy black, good quality
productive vine. We prefer Cumberland. — NCS. '

the best and most

profitable red sorts. — NCS.

ST. REGIS {Eveibearing.) Bright crimson, firm
rich and delicious. Iron-clad hardiness. — NNCS.

GRAPE VINES

Great opportunities await the grape grower.
They are easily grown in almost any soil and no
garden is complete without them. Plant
them along the fences, in the corners, or cover
unsightly buildings. Use them for borders along
the walks and drives,

AGAWAM. Dark red, finely flavored, hardy,
ripens just after Concord. — NCS.

BANNER. A delicious red grape introduced by
us from the vineyard of Jos. Bachman of Ark.
Bunches very solid, berries medium size, ripens
late, ships well. — NCS.

BARRY. Black, attractive, high quality, keeps
well, fine, hardy. — NCS.

BRIGHTON — Bright red, heavy bunches, one of
the sweetest and most delicious red grapes. — NCS.
CAMPBELL EARLY. An early black grape of
immense size. It is of the Concord type, but larger
in both bunch and berry. About two weeks earlier
and better quality. — NCS.

CATAWBA. A favorite red grape. Makes deli-
cious grape juice. — CS.

CLINTON. A fine wine grape, small bunch and
berries. — NCS.

C-ONCORD, The most widely grown, most
popular of all grapes; rich, black, good bunch, good
quality, good shipper. Produces tremendous crops
everywhere. — N CS.

LUTIE. Large, red, good everywhere and under
all conditions. It seldom rots and can always be
depended upon. — NCS.

MOORE EARLY. The most widely planted
most popular of the early black grapes. Similar to
Concord in appearance and quality and two weeks
earlier, ^ucceeds evferywhere Concord grows. We
advise ^e^jilanting of Moore Early for it always

NIAGARA. The best known, white grape As
vigorous and productive as Concord. We grow it
largely and recommend it commercially. — NCS.

Moore Early

Stark Eclipse

DELAWARE. No American grape has a more
delicate flavor or more pleasing aroma. Bright red,
ripens early, profitable. — NCS.

DIAMOND. A magnificent white grape, slightly
earlier than Niagara. As dependable in vine and in
fruit as Concord. Plant everywhere. — N(is.
HICKS. A valuable black grape; an improve-
ment on Concord. Originated in St. Louis County,
Missouri, and.becoming popular in all grape sections!

Larger and sweeter than Concord, more vigorous, hardier'
rots less. — E. J. Ayres. Supt. 111. K.xp, Station.

On the station grounds Hicks is more prolific than Con-
cord: vines of stronger growth. — Grapes of New York.
IVES. A black grape of good quality that makes
a splendid red wine. Fruit ships perfectly.' — NCS.
KING, Giant Concord. A black grape that is larger
than Concord and of very fine quality. — NCS.
LINDLEY. A handsome light red grape that is
tender, sweet and good. — NCS.

LUCILE. Dark red. best in quality. Vine is vig-
orous, hardy and productive. — NCS.

Niagara Wallis Giant' '

ECLIPSE {Trade-Mark.) The finest
early black grape, the sweetest and best in (quality
Ripe a week or ten days ahead of Moore Early and
the markets are always ready (or them Hardy
early, strong growing, bears well. Does not crack
in wet weather. — NCS.

r, Station Vngualinedlv -Recommends

It. — Eclipse Is the only new grape in a collection of over
four hundred that we can unqualifiedly recommend Wo
have had it at this station since 1893, and It has been* fruit-
ing since 1896, and each year obtains greater favor in tho
eyes of those who see it. It is a seedling of Niagara and
therefore, a CTandchlld of Concord, which it rraemhlM
differing chiefly in being earlier and of much better nualltv'
The vines are hardly surpassed by those of any other
variety; being hardy healthy and produetlve-^ualitira
that should commend it for commercial vineyards The
ripe fruit hangs on the vines for some time without deteri-
oration and the grapes do not crack In wet weather If

should make a splendid forerunner of Cdnchrd. Report

N. Y. Exp. St&tlon, ,

Sl. Regis Raspberry

Asparagus year after year without

replanting and should be more

A fiftv manure.

A fifty foot row of Asparagus should be planted in
every garden. We ofier all the leading vLietiel

Rhubarb eplant. Grows successfully every-
« 'n 1 J. r and should be in every garden

&"o’l'a^^“°^lJn^rs!

Horseradish Prefers a deep, loose, loamy soil.

cl, ij 1- • easily grown; hardv and

should be in every garden. ana

day* thaf h!is^ the^^onaM^ ° r'/ Srape in existence to-

Hicks

Stark Delicious

vinf'!; Thinks It a Great Grape.— Hardy in both

poj|‘ena“^,;^nd‘S?Sr'g®L%M

Endlcott, Vloe-Pres. Southern HI. Hort. Society.

Stark Delicious ^T^ttie-Mark.) a mag-

nificent light red sort
that IS the sweetest, richest, best in quality of all
W,? th h Ripens in September. The bunch is
1^ j medium to large m size, the bunch
n eoes on the market

,s shape. The first specimens Mr, Riehl sent
t, * undoubtedly the

most beautiful red grapes we had ever seen. It
surpassed our high expectations and we
both for wherever a red grape is wanted,

both tor home use and for market. — NCS.

WALLIS GIANT (Trade-Mark.) Huge black
bunches of giant size, delicious, sweet, iuicy grapes
greatest creation. Now offered
for the first tirne. _ Owned, controlled and for sale
only by Stark Bro s at Louisiana, Mo,

WOODRUFF (Late.) A handsome, showy red
grape, large bunch and berries fair quality. — NCS.

WORDEN. A magnificent black grape; as hardy
vigorous and productive as Concord and larger
better quality and ten days earlier. — NCS '

Nut Trees

CHESTNUT, AMERICAN SWEET. A large
native ornamental tree of symmetrical habit.
Bear.*: sweet nuts of fine flavor. Fine for specimen
or groups on the lawn.

FILBERT, AMERICAN, Corylus. A hardy shrub
to 7 ft., bearing a good quantity of edible nuts.
HICKORY, MISSOURI MAMMOTH. Tree
grows to a great height. Nuts large and of good
quality.

HICKORY, SHELLBARK, Shaggy bark, very
picturesque. Bears large crops of high quality nuts.
PECAN, ILLINOIS SEEDLING. Originated in
Pike Co., 111. A thrifty tree producing extra large
nuts.

PECAN, MISSOURI SEEDLING. Produced
from tree bearing extra large nuts near our home
nursery.

GRAFTED PECAN., Pabst, Nut of excellent
qua.ity of moderate size. Shell soft, parting well
from meat.

GRAFTED PECAN, Stuart. The best paper-
shell pecan. Tree a vigorous grower, bearing hiizh
quality nuts. ®

^^GAN, Van Deman, A large nut of
good quality, oblong in shape, with moderately thin
shell.

WALNUT, BLACK, Juglans Nigra. A large
spreading tree_ growing to 50 ft. Extensively
planced as a timber tree, wood is very valuable,
u/ r’ t>earing large rich nuts.
,^'^GNUT, japan, Juglans Sieboldiana. A
hardy tree from Japan. An abundance of thin-
shelled nuts.

WALNUT, WHITE OR BUTTERNUT, Juglans
Ctnerea. Fast growing tree. Oblong nuts with rick
meat.

We Prepay Freight! That makes our Nursery as near to you as your Railroad Station

Shade Trees

Lombardy Poplar, an unusual and picturesque tree that gives variety
to the planting. Valuable for lawn, avenue or screen.

ASH, AMERICAN, Fraxinus Americanus. A stately, symmetrical
tree of spreading habit reaching a height of 80 ft. Of rapid growth.
Excellent for shade and ornamental planting. Foliage glossy green
and divided. A clean, quick growing tree.

BIRCH, CUT LEAVED WEEPING WHITE, Betula Alba Laciniata
Pendula. Excellent ornamental tree, finely cut, fern-like foliage on
slender drooping branches.

BIRCH, EUROPEAN WHITE, Betula Alba. Rapid growing symmetri-
cal tree, graceful form, slightly drooping branches. Bark white. Small
foliage, glossy green.

CATALPA, UMBRELLA, Catalpa Bungei. A broad foliaged tree of
dwarf habit usually only about 6 to 8 ft. in height. Neat, compact,
round head on slender trunk. Requires no trimming. Used extensively
for planting on either side of walk leading to residence.

CRAB, FLOWERING, Pyrus Parkmanni. An attractive small tree or
shrub, 8 to 12 ft. in height. Flowers semi-double and pink succeeded
by small dark red fruits which ripen in late autumn.

ELM, AMERICAN WHITE, Ulmus Americana. The best of all our
native shade trees and the most popular. Of graceful spreading habit
with slightly drooping branches. Adapted to a variety of conditions
and succeeds everywhere. Easily transplanted. An excellent avenue
tree and unexcelled as a rapid growing shade tree.

KENTUCKY COFFEE BEAN TREE, Gymnocladus Canadensis. A
native tree of large size. Rapid growth, producing heavy spreading'
branches. Flowers green in June followed by long pods which produce
the beans said to have been
used by early settlers for
coffee.

LINDEN,AMERICAN, Tfha
Americana. A valuable native
tree of rapid growth forming a
broad round open top. Fra-
grant creamy-white flowers
July. A honey-bee favorite.

Adapted to a variety of soils.

A good avenue or specimen
tree.

LINDEN, BROAD LEAVED
EUROPEAN, Tilia Pla-
typhyllos. A broad leaved
European species often 75 ft.
in height. Fine for avenue
or lawn.

LOCUST, BLACK, Robinia
Pseudocacia. A native rapid
growing tree with spreading
branches. Long drooping
clusters of creamy white pea-
shaped fragrant flowers in
Spring.

of

all native trees — grows everywhere.

MAPLE, ASH LEAVED or BOX
ELDER, Acer Negundo. A large
native tree of rapid growth
and spreading habit. Planted
extensively in West where it
endures both cold and arid
conditions. Valuable for street
planting for quick effect.

MAPLE, NORWAY, Acer
Platanoiaes, An excellent
compact, round headed tree of
medium growth, to SO ft. in
height. Requires little or no
pruning. An ideal aven ue tree.
Perfectly hardy. Leaves dark
green remaining on the tree
until late autumn when they
turn a bright yellow. The best
of all the maples.

MAPLE, SCHWEDLERI or
PURPLE LEAVED, Acer
Platanoides var Sckwedleri.
Spreading habit attaining
Weeping Willow, a graceful drooping tree, about 40 ft. in height. Foliage
Adapted for lawn, cemetery or near water, a bright red at first, turning
Popular in the Old World for centuries, to a dark purplish green.

MAPLE, SILVER LEAF, Acer Dasycarpum. Very rapid growing tree
used extensively for street planting where immediate results are desired.

Grows to 60 ft. in height. Easily transplanted and very hardy. Not
particular as to soil, of spreading habit.

MAPLE, SUGAR or
ROCK, Acer Saccharum. A
fine round headed tree with
spreading branches. Of
moderate growth and long
life. An excellent avenue
tree and as a specimen
where dense shade is de-
sired. Valuable also for its
sugar production. Leaves
bright green changing to
golden yellow and orange
in Autumn.

maple, wiers cut

LEAF, Acer Dasycarpum
Weirii. A strong growing
tree with finely cut foliage
and drooping branches.
Hardy. An attractive
specimen tree on the lawn.
Very desirable on account
of its graceful habit.

Carolina Poplar {seven years old).
The most rapid grower. Extremely
hardy — succeeds under all conditions.
Used for street, lawn, screen or wind
break,

MULBERRY, TEA’S WEEPING,

Morus alba pendula. A graceful
weeping tree growing 6 to 8 ft. high.
OAK, PIN, Quercus Palustris. Un-
excelled for street planting, being
a very shapely tree.

OAK, RED, Quercus Rubra. A
native species of rather fast growth.
OAK, WHITE, Quercus Alba. One
of our large native deciduous ti ees.
PERSIMMON, Diospyros Vir-
ginica. A medium sized native
tree to about 40 ft in height.
PLUM, CRIMSON LEAF, Prunus
Pissardi. Foliage and twigs dark
purple forming a striking contrast
when planted near the border.
POPLAR, CAROLINA, Populus
Monolifera. A widely known tree
of exceedingly rapid growth with
bright green foliage. Used exten-

Norway Maple, has been called the "One Best
Shade Tree.” Fairly rapid grower and
splendid for avenue or lawn planting.

sivelyfor avenue, lawn or windbreak. It soon
attains the height of 40 or 50 ft. Fine for wind-
break when planted close together. Succeeds
everywhere. Used largely in between the slow
growing trees in order to get quick shade.
POPLAR, LOMBARDY, Populus Nigra
Pastigiata. A familiar Italian tree from the
province, Lombardy. A very rapid growing
tree of slender upright habit, the height often
exceeding 80 ft. Excellent to break the sky-
line in massed planting.

POPLAR, NORWAY, Populus “ Norway. "An
excellent tree of the Carolina type but of more
rapid growth and said to be hardier. Termed
‘"rhe Sudden Sawlog” in the west.

RUSSIAN OLIVE or SILVER LEAVED
OLEASTER, Elaegnus Argentea. A small tree
or shrub to about 12 ft. with small willow like
foliage silvery white in appearance. Flowers
small yellow and fragrant, succeeded by yellow
fruit. Perfectly hardy, makes a good hedge.
SYCAMORE, AMERICAN or WESTERN
PLANE TREE, Platanus Occidentalis. A
native tree of immense size, succeeds easily.
Of rapid growth and spreading habit. Leaves
large with pointed lobes. Used as street trees.
Globe-shaped heads of seed hang on until winter.
SYCAMORE, EUROPEAN or ORIENTAL
PLANE TREE, Platanus Orientalis. An erect
tree of rapid growth. Easily transplanted.
Extensively used for avenue planting in large
cities as it withstands smoke and dust. Prac-
tically free from insects and diseases. Thrives
most anywhere and is most desirable.

TULIP TREE or YELLOW POPLAR, Lirio-
dendron Tulipifera. An excellent tree of large
proportions. Of rapid growth to 60 ft. Flowers
tulip-shaped; bright green and orange yellow.
WILLOW, WEEPING, Salix Bdbylonica. A
large spreading tree with long slender drooping
branches often 40 ft. in height. An excellent
effect when planted near the edge of water.

Evergreens

Standard varieties, symmetrical and thor-
oughly dependable. Express or freight ship-
ments on cash orders. Evergreens are shipped
separate from fruit trees and orders should be
written on special evergreen order blank.
Write for descriptive literature and prices.

Catalpa Bungei or Umbrella Tree, a unique
tree that is largely used on the lawn.

Tea's Weeping Mulberry, long slender stems
droop to the ground. Hardy, largely used.

Flowering Shrubs

der planting.

A fiHasauri Mpme Be>
fowo Flantion Shrubs.

TAa ihatagfapb on the right
■was taken before Stark Bro’)
Landscape Department plan-
ned and stperintended this
landscape planting. The
second picture on the right
illustrates the wonderful im-
provement that can be se-
cured at a ver-y moderate
cost. Note particularly,
that the house before planting
appears very tall and bleak.
After planting the shrubs
about the foundation, the
house appears lower, more
protected and far more at-
tractive.

AMELANCMIER CANADENSIS, Jane Berry. Large upright shrub
or tree. Flowers white ta early spring before leaves appear.
ARALIA CHINENSIS, Chinese Angelica Tree.

(Hercules Club). A large aljnib or tree ta 30 ft. with
large heavy, prickly stems. FoHage large and divided.

Gives a 6ub-tropj(^ appearance.

ARALIA PENTAPHYLLA, Five-Leaved Angelina Tree.
prickly shrub of neat appearance bearing dense foliage of
bright green Gold! on 0-aoefnl drooping branches. Flowers
greeuiah-whitfi ia June. Makes a good ornamental hedge.
BERBERIS THUNBERGH, Japanese Barberry. A compact
growing hedge plant of symmetrical habit from Japan.
Foliage small, bright green turning bright crimson in autumn
which, together with the orange-red berries it prodoces, makes
this plant most attractive.

CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS, Carolina Allspice. A widely
known shrub with dark green foliage and bearing chocolate
colored spicy, aromatic flowers in May. Height from 4 to
6 feet.

BUDDLEIA VARIABILIS MAGNIFICA, Bullerfiy
Bush. Beautiful shrubs to 4 ft. with large clusters
of lilac colored flowers, which attract butterflies in
large numbers. Sometimes winter kills to the
ground, but renews growth in the spring.

CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS, Button Bush.

.\ sturdy iiatis’e, round topped shrub of rapid
growth. Height 5 to 7 ft.

CERCIS CANADENSIS, Red Bud. native shrub
or medium sized tree producing many red pea-
shaped flowers in early spring before leaves unfold.

Height 16 to 25 ft. Leaves heart-shaped.

CORYLUS AMERICANA, American Filbert or
Hazelnut. .\ good shruh for border planting pro-
ducing the well known Filbert nut. Attains a
height of about 6 feet under ordinary conditions.

CORNUS MASCULA, Cornelian Cherry. A shrub
or small tree attaining a height of about 10 feet.

Flowers small and followed by attractive and edible
red fruits about three-fourths of an inch in length.

Ludwig
Spaeth Lilac

DEUTZIA GRACILIS. A

dense shrub of dwarf habit.

Flowers pure white and abun-
dantly produced on graceful
drooping branches in May. Height
rarely exceeds 2 ft.

DEUTZIA LEMOINEI. One of the hardiest Deutzias.
Flowers pure white, borne profusely. Shrub of spread-
ing habit to i ft.

DEUTZIA SCABRA, "Pride of Rochester." One of
the earliest flowering Deutzias. Flowers double, white
tinged pink; borne in profuse clusters during the early
part of May. Reaches 6 ft.

DIERVILLA FLORIDA, OR WEIGELA ROSEA. A

spreading shrub, arching branches; trumpet shaped
rose colored flowers in early Jane freely borne on the
stout branches. Height 6 ft. Leaves dark green. A
graceful and beautiful shrub that is a necessity in all
planting. Spirea Van Honttei and Diervilla are two
of the best shrubs grown. Illustrated on page 63.

DIERVILLA FLORIDA “CANDIDA,”
WhiteFlower Weigela. Same as preceding.
DIERVILLA HYBRIDA “EVA RATH-
KE,” RedFlowering Weigela. A shrub to
4 ft. with clnsters of carmine red flowers.
EUONYMUS ALATUS, Winged Burn-
ing Bush. Compact spreading shrub to
8 ft. Twigs and branches with corky
wings. Flowers in May or June followed
by red berries.

FORSYTHIA FORTUNEI, Fortune's
Forsythia. A vigorous shrub with upright
or arching branches. Flowers yellow
thickly set on slender twigs before
leaves appear.

FORSYTHIA SUSPENSA. A graceful
drooping shrub which, when trained on
a trellis, will grow 8 to 10 ft., but when
left alone rarely exceeds 4 ft. Excellent
shrub for front of border or entrance
planting. Yellow fltwers in April before

earlv

Snow Ball — an old favorite.

CORNUS ALBA 'SIBER-
ICA, Red Stem Dogwood. A
very ornamental shrub
attaining the height oJ 8
ft. Clusters of white flow-
ers succeeded by bright
red berries in autumn.

CORNUS FLORIDA,

White Flowering Dogwood.
A native shrub from
10 to 15 ft. high. Very
showy white flowers in early
spring. Fine for specimen
planting on the lav/n or
background in the border.

A Wonderful Change Se-
cured in Three Months.

The two Pictures on the
left give a good illustration
of "before and after" effects
from a planting made from
one of Stark Bro's Free
Planting Plans. This re-
sult is all the more remark-
able because of the great
"immediate" change. Note
the beautiful hedge which
gives privacy, also the grace-
ful outlines of the shrubbery
which hide the foundation.

HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA, Witch Hazel. Shrub or small tree
to 20 ft., bearing small yellow flowers in late autumn. Perfectly
hardy. Valuable for deep border planting.

HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENS STERILIS, HillsofSnow.
An erect slrrub to 4 or 5 ft. with large white balls of flowers
in July and August, resembling the Snowball, but larger.
Very attractive planted in large groups in the border.
HIBISCUS, Altheas. Assorted colors — bush form,
with all the variations of the following colors.
Height 5 ft.: Red, white, rose color, both double
and single.

HIBISCUS SYRIACUS, Rose of Sharon. Fine
single purple flowers in profusion. Fine for bor-
6 to 8 ft. in height.

HIBISCUS TOTUS ALBA, White Rose of Sharon. Pure white
single variety. Bush 6 ft. high.

HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA. A beau-
tifal shrub to 8 ft., bearing immense cone-shape clusters of
white flowers in J uly and August, almost all sterile and turn-
ing a bright pink as they become older. Very attractive
when banked in the border planting, or as specimen plants
near the house.

LONICERA FRAGRANTISSIMA, Fragrant Bush
Honeysuckle. Sweet scented white flowers in May.
Height 4 to 6 ft. with dark green foliage.

LONICERA GRANDIFLORA ROSEA. Large pink
flowers followed by red berries which are very showy in
late summer. Good border plant, or where clumps of
rich green are desired. Splendid Bush Honeysuckle.
LONICERA MORROWI, Japanese Bush Honey-
suckle. An open spreading bush from Japan bearing
dark green leaves and white flowers in May.
LONICERA TATARICA ALBA. Large white flow-
ers followed by scarlet berries in August. Foliage dark
green. Very ornamental when in fruit or blossom and
the foliage effect is always valuable.

LONICERA TATARICA RUBRA. Deep pink flow-
ers in May. Height 6 ft. Good for front of border.
PHILADELPHUS AUREUS, Golden Syringa. A var-
iety of Philadelphus coronarius with golden yellow
foliage throughout summer.

PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS. Mock Orange.
An old fashioned shrub that is still very popular.
Sometimes grows 10 ft. high. Flowers produced freely
of creamy white color and very fragrant; May and
June. Presents a very ornamental and attractive
appearance in the border. Of spreading habit and
should be allowed sufficient room to fully develop.
Good specimen plant on the lawn. Known as Syringa.
PHILADELPHUS GORDONIANU^, Gordon's Syrin-
ga. Fine shrub with flowers similar to preceding but
later.

PHILADELPHUS LEMOINEI, Lemoines Syringa. A
sweet scented hybrid smaller than the preceding, rarely
exceeding 4 ft. Erect growing with small foliage.
Creamy white flowers in June entirely covering plant.
PRUNUS TRILOBA, Flowering Almond. A Chinese
shrub which produces abundant pink, double rose-
like flowers before the leaves appear in Spring. Very
attractive.

RHODOTYPUS KERROIDES, White Kerria. Intro-
duced from Japan. 3 to 5 ft. high. Flowers white; late
May. followed by black con-
spicuous seeds which hang
to the plant all winter.
RHUS COTINUS, Smoke
Bush. (Purple Fringe). A
native of Europe growing
from 10 to IS ft. high. The
feathery flowers are purplish
and cover the entire bush
giving it the appearance of
smoke from a distance.
RHUS GLABRA, Smooth
Sumac. A tall shrub, 10 to 12
ft. in height, with smooth
bark. Flowers, July, produced
at the end of branches followed
by clusters of dark crimson
berries. Brightly foliaged;
very attractive in Autumn.

The best and most popular .shrub.

Philadelphus

Coronarius

Mock Orange

Flowering Shrubs — Continued

RHUS TYPHINA LACINIATA, Cut Leaved Stag-
horn Sumac. Shrub or smab tree attaining 15 ft.
Very picturesque with its finely cut fernlike foliage.
ROBINIA HISPIDA ROSEA. Moss Locust, Rose
Acacia. A dwarf tree to 12 ft. Large, drooping
clusters of rose colored flowers in May. Branches
with bristles like Moss Rose.

ROSA RUGOSA. A beautiful bush to 5 ft. with
rich dark green crinkled foliage. Flowers single red
throughout the summer followed by large attractive
orange-red fruits. Fine for hedge planting.
SAMBUCUS AUREA. Golden Elder. A golden
leaved variety of the European Elder. Very
attractive. Will grow to 8 ft. but can be pruned
back into a neat shrub any height. Large clusters
of white flowers in June or July followed by black
berries in August. Very good for contrast in dark
places of border.

SPIREA ANTHONY WATERER. A very good
variety of S. bumalda bearing flat clusters of bright
pink flowers throughout summer. Height 2 ft.
SPIREA BILLARDI. Rather open shrub with
small foliage. Vigorous and hardy. To 6 ft. in
height. Flowers densely clustered at the end of
long slender branches. July and August. Splendid
border plant or for near the house.

SPIREA OPULIFOLIA AUREA, Golden Spirea.
A vigorous growing shrub to 7 ft. with golden yellow
foliage. Flowers white in June.

SPIREA THUNBERGIl, Thunberg's Spirea. A
graceful bush with slightly drooping branches. Of
dwarf form, growing to 4 ft. Flowers single white,
borne very early in spring.

SPIREA VAN HOUTTEI. The one best shrub.
Best of all varieties of Spirea. Grows to 6 ft., bear-
ing clusters of small white flowers in May and June
which almost entirely cover the bush, giving it the
appearance of a huge snowball from a distance.
Of graceful drooping habit and well adapted to
grouping front of building or around entrances.
Also a fiile border plant. The one best shrub for
all purposes; will succeed everywhere.
SYMPHORICARPUS RACEMOSUS, Snowberry
A low growing shrub to 3 ft. Flowers small, pink,
followed by large pure white berries which remain
on the plant late into winter, causing the slender
branches to bend with their load. Desirable for
front or border or around entrances.

Lilac — Syringa

LILAC, Comtnon Purple. Purple variety with
smaller flowers and clusters than the budded
varieties. A widely known shrub. Height 6 ft.
LILAC, Common White. A white flowered variety
of the above species.

BELLE DE NANCY, Budded Lilac. Large flowers
of satiny rose color blending to white towards the
center.

FRAU DAMMANN, Budded Lilac. Large, single
white flowers in immense clusters.

GIANT TREE, Budded Lilac. A late blooming
variety producing large clusters of attractive white
flowers after other varieties are past flowering.
Sometimes attains the height of 15 to 20 ft.
HENRI SLADEK, Budded Lilac. Immense clus-
ters of dark reddish-purple flowers. One of the best.
Originated in our nurseries and named after one of
our employees who first propagated it. An im-
proved variety of Ludwig Spaeth.

LUDWIG SPAETH, Budded Lilac. Flowers of
large size and very attractive. Of a dark purplish-
red color.

MADAME ABEL CHATENAY, Budded Lilac. A
creamy white variety with large double, very
fragrant flowers.

MARIE LEGRAYE, budded Lilac. Large trusses
of single pure white flowers, very fragrant.
MICHAEL BUCHNER, Budded Lilac. Flowers
very double, pale lilac color.

PERSIAN LILAC. Large clusters of purplish-
lilac flowers borne in June.

PRESIDENT GREVY, Budded Lilac. Exception-
ally large individual double flowers of a very
beautiful distinct blue color. The finest and largest
lilac we know.

TAMARIX AFRICANA, Tamarisk. A feathery
light green foliage plant of upright habit, growing
to 8 ft. in height. Flowers small, bright pink borne
in slender clusters; April or May.

VIBURNUM DENTATUM, Arrow-wood. A na-
tive shrub with slender smooth branches. Flowers,
in June; flowers creamy white.

VIBURNUM LANTANA, Wayjaring Tree. An
unright growing shrub of compact habit to 10 ft.
White flowers in May followed by pink berries
which later turn red, then black.

VIBURNUM OPULUS, High Bush Cranberry. A
showy shrub, flat clusters of white flowers. The
bright red berries are attractive in August and
September.

VIBURNUM OPULUS STERILIS, Snowball. A
variety of the above but much more attractive with
its large round heads of pure white sterile flowers
which are so familiar on Decoration Day. Makes a
fine specimen plant or is good in the border.
WEIGELA (See Diervilla Florida.)

YUCCA FILAMENTOSA, Adayns Needle. A
hardy plant with broadpointed sword shaped
foliage. Flowers are creamy white, thickly set,
on a tall stem in June. Very showy when in
blossom.

THE ROSE

The different classes are indicated thus: Climb-
ers (Cl.), Hybrid Perpetuals (H. P.), Hybrid Teas
(H. T.), Teas (T.), Rugosa (R.), China (C.). Moss
(M.), Polyantha (P.), etc.

If you plan to plant a rose garden you should have
Stark Bro’s Rose Book which gives complete
directions and instructions. Write for it — sent
free on request.

Climbing Roses

AMERICAN PILLAR (C^) A popular large single
variety. Color deep pink with yellow stamens.
BALTIMORE BELLE {Cl.) A well known old
favorite. Flowers white tinted pink, very double,
A fine hardy climbing variety that always gives
satisfaction.

CHRISTINE WRIGHT {Cl.) A new rose of many
fine qualities. Bright clear pink and double.
CLIMBING AMERICAN BEAUTY {Cl.) Similar
in every respect to American Beauty with added
quality of climbing. Flowers large, deep pink and
fragrant. Vigorous and very profuse bloomer.
CLIMBING BABY RAMBLER. Miss Messman
(Cl.) A climbing, everblooming form of the Baby
Rambler.

CRIMSON RAMBLER {Cl.) Profuse clusters of
bright crimson double flowers. Vigorous climber,
DR. W. VAN FLEET {Cl.) Very rapid growth,
climber. Color flesh pink. Flowers full and double.
DOROTHY PERKINS {Cl.) Immense clusters
of beautiful double pink fragrant flowers. Per-
fectly hardy and a vigorous grower. Porch climber
or trellis. The one best climbing rose.
EVER-BLOOMING CRIMSON RAMBLER {Cl.)
Similar in every respect to Crimson Rambler, but
blooms continually.

EXCELSA, Red Dorothy Perkins {Cl.) An excellent
brilliant, crimson climber. Foliage glossy.

QUEEN OF PRAIRIES {Cl.) An old familiar
standby, red climbing rose. Extremely hardy and
vigorous climber. In bloom this rose presents a
magnificent sight. Succeed wherever roses grow.
TAUSENDSCHOEN, Thousand Beauties {Cl.) A
rapid growing climber. Flowers pink deepening
to rosy carmine in clusters. Almost thornless.
TRIER (C/.) A most beautiful rambler with large
clusters of yellowish-white, semi-double flowers.
The open center is filled with bright, yellow anthers
which gives a distinct yellow color. Extremely
vigorous.

WHITE DOROTHY PERKINS {Cl.) A white
flowering sort of the well known Dorothy Perkins,

Bush Roses

ANNA DE DIESBACH {H. P.) Flowers large and
full. Color carmine pink.

BURBANK (C.) Free blooming, cherry-rose col-
ored flowers.

BABY RAMBLER, Mad. Norbert Levavasseur {P.)
A dwarf with large clusters of bright crimson
flowers in profusion. A continuous^loomer. Fine
for edging.

CATHERINE ZEIMET {Poly.) Flowers pure
white in immense clusters. Fragrant. Good for
edging.

CLIO {H. P.) A vigorous grower. Flowers large,
globular, flesh color shaded to pink in center.
CLOTHILDE SOUPERT (P.) One of the very
best bedders. Ivory-white, shaded pink. Excellent
for borders. Blooms continually,

CONRAD F. MEYER {H. P.) Clear silvery rose
color. Very vigorous, hardy, fragrant. Cross of
hardy Rugosa and the Tea.

EUGENE FURST {H. P.) A large full rose of a
deep red color. A splendid bloom of velvety
texture.

GENERAL JACQUEMINOT {H. P.) An old
favorite. A large full flower of crimson-scarlet
color.

GRUSS AN TEPLITZ (C.) An excellent bedder.
Bright red changing to velvety crimson. Flowers
borne in clusters, fragrant. A continuous bloomer.
HELEN GOULD ( H. T.) A free grower with bright
red flowers. Good bloomer. Very popular.

J. B. CLARK (if. P.) A vigorous grower produc-
ing large beautiful flowers of a deep scarlet color.
JONKHEER, J. L. MOCK (if. T.) Flowers large,
full, fragrant. Color, beautiful carmine outside and
light pink inside.

KAISERIN AUGUSTA VICTORIA (if. T.)
White flowers. Free bloomer, full and fragrant,
KILLARNEY (if. T.) Large, buds and flowers of
a deep sea-shell pink color. Fine for forcing.

LA FRANCE (if. T.) Silvery pink color and
frangrant. A free bloomer.

MADAME CAROLINE TESTOUT (if. T.)
Very free flowering. Flowers silvery rose with deep
center. One of the best Hybrid Teas.

MADAME PLANTIER (if. _P.) Pure white
flowers of medium size and very fragrant, produced
abundantly. Extremely hardy. Valuable Decora-
tion Day variety — called the Cemetery Rose.
MAGNA CHARTA (if. P.) Extra large, full
flowers of a bright rosy pink color.

MAMAN COCHET (T.) One of the best roses
grown. Long pointed buds. Color rich coral-pink.

MARSHALL P. V/ILDER (if. P.) Flowers large
Deep rich red. Fragrant. Strong grower.

MRS. JOHNLAING (if. P.) A profusion of large
bright pink flowers. Full and double, very fragrant.
PAUL NEYRON (if. P.) Largest of all roses.
Deep rose color. Well formed buds on stout nearly
thornless stems. Called the “Peony Rose.”
PERSIAN YELLOW. A familiar rose of grand!
mother’s garden. Abundant yellow flowers very
early.

PINK MOSS (M.) An excellent pink with beauti-
ful moss covered buds and branches.

PRINCE CAMILLE DE ROHAN (if. P.) Full,
dark velvety crimson maroon.

RADIANCE (if. T.) A constant bloomer with
large brilliant rosy carmine flowers.

RED MOSS {M.) A beautiful old time- red rose
with mossy buds and stem. Very hardy and
vigorous.

ROSA RUGOSA (P.) An attractive single ever-
blooming red rose from Japan. Extensively used in
border or hedge. Flowers succeeded by red fruits.
Very showy.

ROSA RUGOSA ALBA, White Japanese Rose {R.)
A white form of the preceding.

SNOW QUEEN (if. P.) Often called White
American Beauty. Best white variety. Hardy and
vigorous.

ULRICH BRUNNER (if. P.) A fine cherry-red
rose of immense size. Fine form and fragrant.
WM. R. SMITH (if. T.) Rose pink, with beau-
tiful flesh tints, large, pointed buds of exquisite
fragrance, a constant bloomer.

Hedges

JAP. Berberis Thunbergii. Hardiest

and best hedge plant. Fine foliage with masses of
red berries that hang on over winter. A good
protective hedge.

PRIVET, AIVIOOR RIVER NORTH, Ligustrum
Amurense. Upright growth with shiny foliage and
white flowers. Hardy enough for the North.
IBOTA PRIVET, Ligustrum Ibota. The hardiest
privet. Excellent for hedges. Of upright habit.
CALIFORNIA PRIVET, Ligustrum Ovalifolium.
The most familiar of hedge plants. Flowers pure
white in July. Foliage glossy green. Can be pruned
to any shape desired. Excellent hedge. Very quick
grower.

REGEL’S PRIVET, Ligustrum Regelianum. Read-
ily distinguished by the almost parallel slender
branches which slightly droop. Fine for low
clumps.

COMMON PRIVET, Ligustrum Vulgare. Dark
green foliage and white flowers. Leaves turn
purplish in the fall. Excellent for massing in the
border.

Peonies

PEONY, ASSORTED VARIETIES. Our selec-

tion. You may depend on getting the best we grow.
EDULIS SUPERBA. Early, silvery pink.
EUGENE VERDIER. Early pink, new, very fine.
FESTIVA MAXIMA. The most popular peony.
A pure white early variety.

FELIX CROUSSE. Large, perfect flowers of a
deep crimson color. A late bloomer. New.
OFFICINALIS RUBRA. An early peony. Rich
deep, purplish-crimson.

QUEEN VICTORIA. A free flowering white with
petals slightly edged pink. Early.

Climbers

AMERIC.4N IVY, Ampelopsis Quinquefolia. Beau-
tiful green divided leaves which turn bright crimson
in autumn. _ Fine for covering porches, trellises,
etc. A rapid grower and perfectly hardy and it
clings well.

BOSTON IVY, Ampelopsis Veitchii. Hardy vine,
small, compact foliage. Used extensively for cov-
ering stone or brick residences and walls. Clings
tightly to any support.

DUTCHMAN’S PIPE, Aristolochia Sipho. Pipe-
shaped flowers of a purplish-brown color. Leaves
very large.

CLEMATIS HENRYI. Creamy white.
CLEMATIS JACKMANNI. V’iolet-purple, large.
CLEMATIS MADAM ANDRE. Large crimson.
CLEMATIS PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA.
Great masses of fragrant, white, star-shaped flowers.
HALL’S HONEYSUCKLE, Lonicera Halleana.
A half evergreen, retaining foliage late in winter.
Flowers white, turning to yellow. Good for cover-
ing low walls, banks or fences.

TRUMPET CREEPER, Tecoma Radicans. Flowers
trumpet-shaped and orange colored.

WISTARIA CHINENSIS. Rapid growth. Flow-
ers pea-shaped and pale blue in long clusters. A
good porch and arbor climber.

WISTARIA CHINENSIS ALBA. Similar to
preceding, but white flowers.

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Get $20= Worth of Fresh Vegetables for a Dollar Bill !

Never in the history of America have the prices of
all foodstuffs been so high as they have been in the
last year. And there is little relief in sight. Amer-
ica must sell and send billions of dollars’ worth of her
foodstuffs abroad — for those war-tom countries cannot
raise enough to feed their people.

Why let yourself be the victim of these circumstances?
Why not raise at least part of what you eat? Why not
use a little comer of your back yard and a little of your
spare time on a little garden ?

With this Dollar Collection of Stark Seeds you can have
a splendid 20x42 ft. garden that will yield a surprising
amount of first quality vegetables — tomatoes and lettuce,
peas and radishes, spinach and squash, sugar com and
watermelons, cucumbers and cantaloupes and every good
kind of easily grown vegetable and vegetable fmit.

You can make a single dollar and a little pleasant work
bring you $20.00 worth or more of fresh foodstuffs — better
than you can buy from grocer or huckster. Won’t that
be worth while? So — send in your order TODAY for —

Our 1921 ‘Trize Garden” Dollar Collection

Enough Selected STARK SEEDS for a 20x42 ft. Garden

This collection is sent to you postage paid
by us. Delivered to your door for a single
dollar. Guaranteed to reach you safely.
Can be mailed the very day your order is
received. You had better ORDER EARL1^
— for there is sure to be a tremendous de-
mand for this Dollar Collection. If the
supply of any variety in above collection
should become exhausted we reserve the
right to use a similar sort instead. Each
packet in this collection is of regular ^
size, containing a full, generous wJjW

amount of fresh tested seeds.

STARK DOLLAR j
COLLECTION f
„ ^ ^TARk f

Vegetable Seeds JEEDS T

Many desire a garden but are undecided what varieties to select and plant. In this collec-
tion we have done the choosing for you. Each variety is a worthy sort, as proved by our
many years of experience to thrive the best under average conditions.

Look at the Dollar Box shown at the left then see the sample “Prize Garden” shown
in photo below. Make up your mind that YOU will have as good a garden in
your back yard. It will be a source of daily pleasure and profit to you and the
wife and the family all summer long.

We will help you to assure the success of your garden. First, by supplying
only selected virile seeds; and second, by giving you a

Planting Plan FREE with Every Order

This simple plan will show you how to best plant the seeds that this Dollar
Collection will bring to you. It will explain to you how you can get a
succession of crops of fresh vegetables all summer and early fall — and then
have pecks left over to can or store for winter. Get this collection and

You Gel $2.20 Worth of Verified Seeds for $1!

^TADk

Oeeds

’AYYP*'

This

Dollar Collection includes the

following

1 Pkt.

Beans — Stringless Bean Pod

1

Pkt.

Parsley— Emerald — Extra Curled

1 Pkt.

Beans — Golden Wax

1

Pkt.

Peas — Nott’s Excelsior

1 Pkt.

Beet — Eclipse

1

Pkt.

Parsnip — Guernsey

1 Pkt.

Carrot — Chantenay

1

Pkt.

Onion — Southport Yellow Globe

1 Pkt.

Cucumber — Early Fortune

1

Pkt.

Radish — Icicle

1 Pkt.

Cabbage — All Head Early

1

Pkt.

Radish — Scarlet Globe

1 Pkt.

Celery — Columbia

1

Pkt.

Squash — Early White Bush

1 Pkt.

Su^ar Corn — Golden Bantam

1

Pkt.

Squash — Hubbard

1 Pkt.

Swiss Chard — Lucullus

1

Pkt.

Salsify — Sandwich Island

1 Pkt.

Lettuce — Grand Rapids

1

Pkt.

Spinach — Round Thick Leaf

1 Pkt.

Lettuce — Big Boston

1

Pkt.

Tomato — Acme

1 Pkt.

Musk Melon — Osage

1

Pkt.

Turnip — Purple Top White

1 Pkt.

Watermelon — Halbert's Honey

Globe

This

collection is such a bargain at

the

price that we cannot permit any

substitutions or changes of varieties

named.

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Our 1921

Our 1921

Economy Suburban Garden
$2.50 Collection

YOU' folks who live in the suburbs or in small cities where you
have more room for a garden should have as large a garden
as possible this year. You will find it a great reducer of
grocery bills — as well as a summer-long source of the best of good
things to eat for the family.

This $2.50 collection is especially planned for the family which
has a love for gardening — that delights to grow their own vegetables
and win provide —

A Big-Crop 30x50 Garden
For Your Suburban Home

We will send you a Free Planting Guide with each collection.
This guide will show you how to utilize every inch of your garden to
the best advantage — and how to grow the most of the best quality
of vegetables from your soil.

“Big Family” Garden
$5.00 Collection

Here is the garden collection for the big family — the family
that needs plenty of fresh vegetables in the season and that
wants to “put up” a lot of vegetables for the winter.

If you haven’t room in your own yard for this size garden, get per-
mission to use part of some near-by vacant lot. Thousands of families
will raise these “Big Family” gardens this year — and profit splendidly
by doing so.

We have chosen the varieties for you, and a glance at the list wiU
convince you that this collection was not made up, as many collections
are, to sell something on which the seedsman is overloaded, but the
varieties named are the best known and if this collection is planted,
no garden anywhere will contain better or choicer varieties.

Plenty to Eat and Lots to Can

SXARK-$2.50

COLLECTION

Vegetable Seeds EEOS
IwHome Sanlens

ARK SEE

PAYYOu'

You Get This $3.85 Worth for $2.50

1 oz. Beet — Crosby’s Egypt

1 lb. Beans — Extra Early Red

Valentine

2 pkt. Beans — Pole Lima — King of

the Garden

1 oz. Carrots — Oxheart
1 pkt. Cabbage — Early — Early
Jersey Wakefield
1 pkt. Cabbage — Late — Premium
Flat Dutch

1 oz. Cucumber — London Long
Green

1 pkt. Celery — Columbia
1 lb. Sugar Corn — Stowell’s
Evergreen

1 pkt. Lettuce — Loose Leaf — Grand
Rapids

1 pkt. Lettuce — Head Calif. Cream
Butter

Ipkt. Onion — Southport Yellow
Globe

1 oz. Parsnip-*— Hollow Crown
1 pkt. Parsley — Extra Curled or
Emerald

1 oz. Radish — Soarlet Globe
1 oz. Salsify — Mam. Sandwich
Island

1 pkt. Swiss Chard — Lucullus
1 pkt. Squash — Summer — Giant
Crookneck

1 pkt. Squash — Winter — True
Hubbard

1 pkt. Pepper — Ruby King
1 pkt. Tomato — Early — Spark’s
Earliana

1 pkt. Tomato — Late — Stone
1 oz. Turnip — Pur. Top Strap Leaf
1 lb. Peas — Nott’s Excelsior
ii ' I Owing to the

fact that this
S2.50 Collection
is such a money-
saving offer, we
cannot permit
any substitu-
tions or changes
of varieties
named above.

Shipped, Post-
age Prepaid by
us. Delivered
to your door for
only S2. 50. Or-
ders filled the
day they are re-
ceived. If the
supply of any
variety in
above collection
should become
exhausted we
reserve the right
to use a similar
sort instead.

From this 50x80 ft. Garden

Furthermore, you will find that this size garden involves very little
more work than a small garden. And how proud you will be of it!
Think, too, how its crops will slice down your grocery bills!

It Brings You $8.00 Worth for $5.00

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 pkt.
1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 lb.

1 lb.

2 pkt.

Beet — Crosby’s Egyptian
Beet — Long, Smooth Blood
Red

Carrot — Oxheart

Onion — Ohio Yellow Globe

Onion — White Portugal

Parsnip — Guernsey

Radish — Scarlet Globe

Radish — Icicle

Salsify — Mam. Sandwich

Island

Turnip — Purple Top White
Globe

Turnip — Purple Top Strap
Leaf

Beans — Stringless Green Pod
Beans — ^Wardwell’s Kidney
Wax

Lima Beans — King of the
Garden

Pop Corn — White Rice
Sugar Corn — Golden Bantam
Sugar Corn — Stowell’s
Evergreen

Peas — American Wonder

1 lb.

1 pkt.
Vt. oz.
Vi oz.

1 pkt.

2 pkt.
2 pkt.
1 oz.

1 pkt.
1 pkt.
1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

1 pkt.
1 oz.

1 oz.

1 pkt.
1 pkt.
1 oz.

1 pkt.
1 pkt.

Peas — T elephone
Swiss Chard — Lucullus
Cabbage — Enkhuizen Glory
Cabbage — Surehead
Cauliflower — Ex. Ey. Dwarf
Erfurt

Celery — Columbia
Celery — Giant Pascal
Lettuce — -Grand Rapids
Lettuce — May King
Parsley — Emerald
Spinach — Savoy Leaved
Pumpkin — Sugar
Cucumber — Early Fortune
Cucumber — Everbearing
Eggplant — N. Y. Spineless
Muskmelon — Osage
Watermelon — Kleckley's
Sweets

Pepper — N eapolitan
Squash — Early White Bush
Squash — Hubbard
Tomato — Spark’s Earliana
'T omato — Stone

All sent postage prepaid by us. Delivered to your
door for a five dollar bill. However, because it is
such extraordinary value, we cannot permit any sub-
stitution or changes in varieties narned above. If the
supply of any variety in above collection should become
exhausted we reserve the right to use a similar sort
instead.

This “Big Family” Garden Collection
will yield you bushels of first-
, quality vegetables — deli-

cious, nutritious food-
^ stuffs that will cost

you dearly if bought
from grocer or
vegetable ped-
dler.

1 Ib

26

Stark Improved Scarlet
Turnip White Tip Radish

Prizetaker

Onion

Grow Your Own Onions and Save Money

Pl’i7f»i'alc<»l* yellow, globe-shaped onion, of immense size — in fact the largest of them all. It is success-
A lt^Cl.an.d fully grown everywhere, rich yellow skin, white flesh, sweet and tender. It is an all-purpose
variety — the young bulbs in early summer and the ripened onion at all times, for it is such a good keeper that
it may be used practically the whole year. Successful in all sections; one of the big money makers.

Pkt. 10c, oz. 30c, M it>> 85c, lb. $2.75.

SrkiifVir»rki»l- probably the largest and heaviest yielder of the

*^”'^*’**r''^* VAICMJC Southport varieties. No other commercially grown onion

is better or more satisfactory from a standpoint of profit, and it is unsurpassed for the home
garden. It will average three to three and one-half inches in diameter, is globe shaped,
with glossy red skin, white flesh, and is fine grained and tender. The Southport White,
Red, and Yellow Globes are the perfect market kinds. Pkt. 10c, oz. 30c, lb.
85c, lb. $2.75.

Southport White Globe

flesh that is firm and solid. No other onion will yield more bushels per acre,
or will bring higher prices. One of the great commercial varieties, and also
recommended for the home garden. Pkt. 10c, oz. 40c, yi lb. $1.00, lb. $3.75.

Stark Improved Ohio Yellow Globe

A reliable, well-known and widely planted yellow onion — an old
favorite, and the standard variety for use in the eastern markets, and
probably more largely grown for winter use by the home gardener than
any other sort. Even more globular in shape than the Southport
Yellow Globe, a little earlier, a splendid keeper, runs two and one-half
inches in diameter, ^Iden yellow or pale yellow skin, white
flesh, crisp and mild. They ripen uniformly — a characteristic that is
valuable to those who grow for market. They are most attractive,
because of shape, color and size, and always command top prices. Pkt.
10c, oz. 30c, 14 Ib. 85c, lb. $2.75.

Fine Table Beets Are Easily Grown

F'o’Vrtl’iaM Every housewife with a garden wants a good,
® real early table beet growing, and every housewife

who is not fortunate enough to have a garden of her own wants this same kind of a
beet for her table. Crosby's Egyptian exactly fills the bill; it is the first out-of-door
beet to make its appearance; it is a flattened globe-shaped, smooth, bright red, fine grained,
delicious variety that runs very uniform in size and just right for tying in bunches for the
market. It is generally ready for the table about fortj; days from sowing. For the truck
gardener, this early variety is an important crop and any city and town market will handle big
Quantities of them. Pkt, 10c, oz. 20c, ^ lb. SOc, lb. $1.40.

Perl standard main crop market variety — globular to oval in
/Cl.r UlL Ayai n. rvcu shape; smooth, good market size, and always uniform, deep
blood red with dark red flesh, and for the table is unexcelled. The ideal sort to follow
the extra early kinds such as Crosby's Egyptian and Stark Strain Eclipse; it may
also be sown about August 1st for a crop to store for winter use. New varieties
come and go, but the Detroit Dark Red, year after year, maintains its popularity
and holds its place right at the top of the list of good mid-season beets. Pkt. 10c,
oz. 20c, >4 Ib. 45c, lb. $1.40.

Eclipse (Stark Strain) Early Maturing a®nd

high quality round beet — bright, glossy red, skin and flesh perfectly smooth,
and regular in size and shape, fine grained, small top and easy to grow. It makes
a rapid growth, matures extremely early and is well known on all markets; for the
table it is unsurpassed. For the home garden it is a thoroughly satisfactory kind.
We consider Stark Strain Eclipse and Crosby’s Egyptian two of the best of their
type, Pkt* lOcy oz* 20c$ 34 lb* $1.50*

I r\Y\€T Rorl standard long beet that we

L^ong omOOtn DIOOCX tvea believe wUl grow satisfactorily with
less moisture than any other variety. Gardeners will find it of fine quality even
in late season when many varieties get coarse and lose flavor. Like all long
beets it matures slowly, _ so we suggest that plantings for late season should be
made considerably earlier than with the round varieties. The color is a
deep dark red. Pkt* 10c» oz. 20c, 34 SOc, lb. $1.40*

Egyptfan Stark Sclectcd /Joi/isAes

Stark Improved Scarlet Turnip White

’T'J— This is a smooth, good-looking, red radish, flatter than
* *P most of the round sorts — almost turnip shaped. It is grown
largely under glass and in the garden for home table and for the
markets; one of the most attractive of its type. The flavor is
excellent and it is generally ready for use in from twenty-one to
twenty-five days. The market gardener has found them a most
satisfactory kind, as the housewife likes them because of their nice
appearance and their good quality. We recommend them for
general planting. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c, ^ lb. 60c, lb. $1.75.

C — Qwlgif. Every year, just as soon as the snow

VAIVAUC melts, average folks begin to think and
talk of garden and get ready to buy garden seed. Naturally,
the early radish is one of the first vegetables considered. _ There are
several good early sorts, but for quick maturing and good eating qualities we believe Scarlet
Globe about the best. It grows large, is almost a perfect globe in shape and for the table
in early spring, no radish is more appetizing in appearance or better in quality. Pkt. 5c,
oz. 15c, yi lb. 50c, lb. $1.50.

The crisp, tender, almost transparent white flesh of the White
Icicle Radish has made it a general table favorite. It grows
four or five inches long, and one-half to three-quarters of an inch thick, is extremely
early, has short leaves, and, everything considered, is probably the most satis-
V factory kind. Nice roots are produced twenty-two to twenty-five days from
sowing and remain in good eating condition for so long that from one sowing of
seed, good crisp radishes are assured from spring until mid-summer.
White Icicle is the best known and most widely planted of all the long list
of radishes, and is absolutely unsurpassed in quality and in value for home garden or
market. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, J4 lb. 60c, lb. $1.75.

This is the old favorite red, white tipped, half-
long radish that matures early and is very tender
and good, but gets pithy earlier than many other sorts. It is so well known
that further description is unnecessary. Pkt. 10c, oz. 15c, lb. SOc, Ib. $1 .50.

Prices of seeds subject to change without notice

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The Pick of the World’s Best Tomatoes

John Baer

An extremely early, glistening, brilliant scarlet
tomato, ripening just a little later than Spark's
Earliana, averaging probably a little larger and
yielding abundantly throughout a long season. In
size it probably averages larger than any other
variety ripening at the same time and just the right
size for satisfactory shipping. It is perfectly
smooth, very meaty, solid, ships splendidly, and
the quality is marvelous, being mild and deliciously
sweet with practically no acidity, no core, and
almost free from seeds. The vines are rather
dwarf in growth but are tremendously productive,
and we believe will grow more bushels of large,
smooth, handsome tomatoes per acre than any
variety we know. One of the main reasons for
its productivity lies in the strong growing, vigor-
ous, drought-resisting, disease-resisting vines.

The fruit is borne in clusters, is nearly round, has
very few seeds and is desirable in every way. For
the early market, for the home table and for the
canner it is recommended and it has proven itself
one of the most satisfactory varieties grown
Our seed of this variety has been carefully
selected from a splendid, uniform stock and
tomato growers can plant it with perfect
confidence. Pkt. 10c, oz, 50c, lb««

$1.50, lb. $4.75.

Spark’s

Earliana Tomato

The earliest and best of the
extremely early tomatoes and is
as solid fleshed and as good for
shipping as the medium-sea-
son and late varieties. The
plant is of compact growth,
rather dwarf, and is extremely
prolific, setting fruit freely in
the center, and producing im-
mense crops. It really needs
no introduction — it is familiar
to practically all people who
grow tomatoes, and its popu-
larity continues to grow. The
tomato is of uniform size, aver-
aging around two and one-half
inches in diameter, fleshy, solid,
good shipper, fiery red in color, of
fine flavor and is one of the very best
money-makers on the entire list. For
an extremely early variety for the home
market nothing, in our judgment, surpasses
Earliana. It is hardy and can be set out early.

The seed we offer of Earliana is the result of years
of selection and growers will find this strain most
satisfactory. Pkt. 10c, oz. 35c, lb. $1.00, lb. $3.50

Stark’s Strain of
True Giant Ponderosa

A giant in size, a beauty in shape and color,
and a wonder for profit. Ponderosa has been very
largely planted, especially for near-by markets,
for many years. It is a solid fleshed, sweet flavored,
big, handsome variety that is a great favorite with
housewives everywhere. We offer many varieties
of tomatoes — all of the best ones — but we urge
garden planters not to overlook the old reliable
Ponderosa, one of the largest, showiest, most solid,
highest quality tomatoes. Pkt. 10c, oz. 60c,
\i lb. $1.75, Ib. $6.00.

Bonny Best

This variety has made a sensational bid for
popularity within the past few years and is now
recognized as one of the best sorts in cultivation.
It is an intense flaming scarlet in color and the
color holds clear to the center of the fruit, while
the flesh is solid, meaty, slightly acid and of
splendid table quality, and has established itself
with gardeners and the buying public as one of
the best main crop varieties and is preferred for
pickling, catsup, chili sauce, home canning, as well
as for slicing — in short, an all purpose variety that
is becoming more popular each season. It begins
to ripen about a week later than Spark’s Earliana
and John Baer and the vines bear continuously
throughout the season; it colors clear to the stem,
does not crack, has few seeds, no green core and
ripens evenly; is borne in clusters of from three to
five, is round, somewhat flattened, smooth and
attractive. Pkt. 10c, oz. 50c, ^ lb. $1.25 lb.
$4.50.

Acme

This is an early tomato of just about
the same season as Earliana, but is a
purplish sort. There is always a demand
for these purple tomatoes and they sell
readily along with Earliana. Acme is a
nice, medium size variety that grows very
smooth and uniform, producing few small
unmarketable fruits. They grow in
clusters of three to five, somewhat flat-
tened, dark red flesh, fine in texture and
slightly acid. Pkt. 10c, oz. 35c, lb.
$1.00, lb. $3.50.

John
Baer
Tomato

June Pink

This is a purple-pink fruited variety of
rather spreading growth. The fruit is
large and flattened, is uniform in size,
smooth, purplish red, ripens early — about
the same season as Earliana — which it
resembles in many ways — produces im-
mense crops. Is an extremely early,

gink variety and stands easily at the
ead of the list of pink-fruited varieties.
Pkt. 10c, oz. 45c, M lb. $1.25, lb. .$4.50.

This grand slicing, cooking and canning
tomato is the standard and general favorite
with truckers, canners and home gardeners
throughout the country. It is of immense
size, round, smooth, regular, solid fleshed,
free from core, bright deep scarlet in
color, and ripens evenly to the stem — one
of the best main crop varieties and one
of the most beautiful tomatoes that goes
on the market at any season. Pkt. 10c,
oz. 35c, M lb. $1.00, lb. $3.00.

Livingston’s Globe

A true globe shaped, purplish red, solid
meated, fine flavored tomato with few
seeds, that ships well and is extensively
grown by market gardeners, especially in
the south for northern shipment. On all
markets this variety has an established
reputation, as it has been a popular sort
for fifteen years. Pkt. 10c. oz. 45c. M
lb. $1.25, lb. $4.50.

Dwarf Champion

This is a fanaous purplish red globe-shaped variety that is
smooth, regular in size, solid, meaty flesh, fine in texture, slightly
acid and an all around good kind. The bush is stocky and strong,
holding its fruit well up off the ground and does not run to vine
in rich soil as other varieties do. At least one early ri^ning
purple variety should be grown, and we believe that Dwarf
Champion is about the best of its season and type. It can
always be depended on to produce good crops, and for the mar-
ket and the home table is a thoroughly satisfactory kind. Pkt.

10c, oz. 50c, lb. $1.50, lb. $4.75.

Chalk’s Early Jewel

This variety has many good qualities — earliness, large size, productiveness
and very finest quality and is an ideal sort for the home garden, just a few days
later than Earliana, and fruit holds up well in size until the very last, producing
immense crops of large, smooth, round, solid meated, bright, clear scarlet fruit
with few seeds and ships remarkably well. This is rather a new tomato and
has made many friends among the market gardeners, is popular with their
customers, and we consider it one of the best early tomatoes. Pkt. 10c, oz.
40c, M lb* $1.25, lb. $4.00.

Write for Our Big Complete Seed Catalog

Spark’s

Earliana

The Best
Extremely Early
Tomato

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Fresh, Delicious Peas and Beans 0wn"GardL

e Should be planted as early as possible, while the
* ground is cool and moist. For a succession they

may be planted every two weeks up to the middle of J une.
One pound of seed is required for 50 feet of row.

Bea.nS sensitive to both cold and wet

Cd.119 weather and should not be planted until
the ground has become thoroughly warm. Cultivation
should be frequent but shallow.

BEANS

This is an Gariy bean, an extra good yielder and
DUrpee S Oiringiess V»reen roa one of the finest stringless green podded varieties.
It is hardy, early maturing and bears through a long season. The pod measures six inches long
and is brittle and absolutely stringless, even when full grown. Pkt. 10c, lb. 45c, 5 lbs. $2.00.
By express 10 lbs. or more at 22c per lb.

Fvfi-a Fa»*lxr Rrxrl VuIomI-ii-io ^ choice green podded bush bean with pods
E^xura ILariy lS.ea V aieniine about 4 inches long, round, fleshy, tender,
of good flavor, bears through a long season; the pods are pointed, round, fleshy and brittle,
even when fully matured, and the quality is as good as could be asked. Pkt. 10c, lb. 40c,
5 lbs. $1.7S» By express 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.

Riicl-nvrxrxf Wqv Here is the ideal bush wax bean; it grows about

I\.Ubi:prOOr \jOiaen_ VV ax ten or twelve inches high, holds the pods well
above the soil, and produces big crops of stout, straight, lemon yellow, stringless pods
that are brittle and of finest quality — the best bean of its type. Pkt. lOc, lb. 40c,
S lbs. $1.75. By express 10 lbs. or more at 22c per lb.

Kentucky Wonder (Homestead) wm naturln^ °p%o^u^^^

than the bush beans because there is more bearing wood and then again they continue
bearing much later. Of all the climbing kinds, we do not believe there is a better one
than Kentucky Wonder; it is an old variety with solid, meaty pods,_ seven to nine inches
long, that are stringless when young, and when cooked no bean is better. Pkt. 10c,
lb. 40c, 5 lbs. $1.75. By express 10 lbs. or more at 22c per lb.

PEAS

Thomas Laxton

The Best Elarly
Dwarf Pea

A I j, An extremely early variety that is sometimes called“Earliest

pf All,” and because of its hardiness can be safely planted
earlier in the spring than most varieties. The pods are of medium size
and are always well filled and it is the popular early season pea
for canning. They are not particular as to weather and can be
depended upon to produce good crops. Pkt. 10c, lb. 35c, 5 lbs.
$1.50. By express 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.

This variety is also called Prosperity.
~ IZ.any V^iaClUo ^ standard, very early, largely

productive variety and is largely grown by market gardeners as well as in
the home gardens; undoubtedly one of the most valuable sorts grown. Pkt.

ICc, lb. 55c, 5 lbs. $2.50. By express 10 lbs. or more at 30c per lb.

I >xv4-rxn Grow about feet high but are so strong
1 nOmaS l^aXLOIl that they do not require brushing. The
pods are about 3J4 inches long; straight, nearly round and square ended
and they always filL Ripens just a little bit later than Extra Early Gradus
and is even better in quality than that splendid variety. Pkt. 10c, lb. 55c,
5 lbs. $2.50. By express 10 lbs. or more at 30c per lb.
T#»lp»r»V»r>ri<x This is another old standard and its popularity is
* increasing. It grows nearly 4 feet high and has extra

strong heavy foliage, which protects the newly forming pods against intense
heat. The pods run about 4 inches long, straight, generally containing
eight light green peas which are among the most delicious that we know.
Pkt. 10c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. $2.25. By express 10 lbs, or more at 30c
per lb.

Stark Improved Blue Bantam i).gIw°i1’Ss

high but the foliage is stout and healthy. They carry enormous crops of
large pods that run from 4 to 4)^ inches long and are tightly packed. One
of the most prolific varieties that we know and one that we recommend for
all purposes. Pkt. 10c, lb. 60c, 5 lbs. $2.50. By express 10 lbs. or
more at 35c per lb.

Plan to raise peas enough to have a supply for canning.
They are easily put up by the cold pack method and when
served months later taste as good as those right out of the
garden.

Sugar Sweet Melons — Grow Them Yourself

MUSKMELONS

Stark Special Strain of Genuine Rocky Ford

The average man, when he wants the best melon, calls
for Rocky Ford. No melon ever introduced has been as
popular or is so worthy of its popularity. It is sweet and luscious and ripens very close to the rind; has a very small seed cavity. It does
not attain large size but is a great favorite with all classes and in all places and is the standard of quality among muskmelons. Pkt. 10c,
oz. 20c, ^ lb. 50c, lb. $1.50.

Q4-ovlr r\^ T-Irk'Moxr 1ToxA7 '^1^® sweetest, most delicious of all melons, originating in the Rocky Ford district of

•JbSxxv OpcClctl OLFa.111 nuiiey I^CW Colorado and attaining immediate popularity. Almost perfectly round, smooth, transparent,
white and under average conditions, about nine inches in diameter. The flesh is greenish white, thick, melting, and with an indescribable
flavor that has made it in just a short time the most popular melon. Pkt. 10c, oz. 25c, }4. lb* 75c, lb. $2.50.

r\v ^ large melon, oval with dark green skin, slightly ribbed, thick salmon tinted flesh and with a very

Visage or IVlllier » V,.rcdni alluring, spicy flavor. If you want a good melon for the home garden, there are none that will sur-
pass this sort. Pkt. 10c, oz, 20c, 60c, lb. $1.75.

1ft OC Au early and desirable melon with very small seed cavity and delicious, salmon-
OaiXTlOri 1 intCCl roiiocix IXO, tinted flesh that shades to green close to the rind. The quality is delightfully

sweet and it is a general favorite with all gardeners who cater to high-class trade. Pkt. 10c, oz. 30c, lb. SOc, lb. $3.00.

WATERMELONS

Tom Watson

This is one of the standard commercial shipping melons, especially
grown by southern growers. It is a long melon but has more thickness
than many of the long varieties. While the rind is thin, it is tough and ships perfectly. Pkt.
5Cf oz. 15cy ^ lb. 40c, lb. $1.25.

1^1 1^1^^ One of the best known and best liked of all watermelons. Oblong

OWCCLo in shape, dark green, thin rind, with scarlet colored flesh. The mel-
ons average about twenty inches in length, ten to twelve inches in diameter; a variety which
for the home garden can hardly be surpassed. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, ^ lb. 40c, lb. $1.00.

^ round, oblong, light and dark green mottled water melon that
OrQlTOOIV trfdiiy is extremely early and of very fine quality. The rind is thin, the
skin tough, is a good shipper, and for an early melon it is one of the very best. Pkt. 5c»
oz. 15c, 3^ lb. 40c, lb. $1.00.

Georgia Rattlesnake (Striped Gypsy) i ®o°obionf sSfpeThati

has excellent quality. This is an old-time, long-known melon, and its popularity has not decreased.
The rind is mottled, the flesh is dark red and it is sweet and good. It is an attractive melon, ships
well and has a good reputation on all markets. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, lb. 35c, lb. $1.00.

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Honey

Dew

Golden Bantam

Treat Yourself to S"""*"
All Summer

Stark’s Strain of
Golden

This is the ideal, *■ "4 i 1 % ■ » a % » K S Gminf’l'V

early, golden yellow i J.al-"!- IJ .A#-#! X B 1 »*-'l m ,4 H ^WUIlUry

sugar corn, a type ^.^aaisIL ■ 1, . la.- m. .Ml. .« -S'lK G^ntlf^msirt

that has ; been 1 1 i| ||^,iMaiPiFyf^ J A || ||^ vacniieman

in cultivation for S ■*■ medium size and the

several years, a' jL;Jt yaba[^MBHW|apapBbp^^M long, plump kernels are not in rows as

and that still ^ JMJBSjluC ' » ■.■» .* most sorts, but are placed irregular on

holds its own .-• Jfeapy m ^ the small cob and are so tender and milky they almost

as a. top-notch melt in your mouth. The quality is very fine, and many people

variety. The grow it for their main crop. It is an ideal sort for the small home garden. It is

ears run 6 to 7 ^he leading favorite in many markets and a good variety for canning and

inches long, have ten >s largely grown on contract for that purpose. The ears, which are often borne

rows of grains and has the " “ four to the stalk, are covered with heavy husks which help to keep the corn

highest table quality of any in good condition and to retain its delicious flavor and tenderness longer than

yellow sugar corn and is. we believe, the most popular variety grown, other varieties after removing from the stalk. Pkt. 10c, lb. 40c, 5 lbs. $1.75.
probably having a larger actual sugar content than any other sugar corn. By express 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.

The plants do not grow over four or five feet high and generally produce

two ears to the stalk. It is extra early, very hardy and can be planted a ’c F v«xv<ri»#x#»r» Introduced nearly sixty years ago and is

little earlier than most sugar corn. ^ For home use and for the market kjt-UWCll S l^VCx gFCCll today probably the best known, most
gardeners nothing surpasses this variety. The seed we offer is from a popular sugar corn. It has more good points to its credit, has fewer faults than
carefully selected strain and is superior to much that is offered under this any other variety, and is the standard sugar corn for the home table and for

old and popular name. Pkt. 10c, lb. 40c, S lbs. $1.75. By express the markets of the nation. The stalks grow 7 feet high, with ears about 8

10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb. inches long. No corn is sweeter or better and it is the ideal canning variety.

Truck gardeners throughout the country prefer Stowell’s Evergreen. Our
growth and bearing. Howling Mob is every- strain of this variety is an improvement over the old strain — uniformly deep
XXVXWllIlg IVlULf thing the gardener could wish. It is in our grain, small cob and high quality. Pkt. 10c, lb. 35c, 5 lbs. $1 .50. By express

judgment, the best and most satisfactory of all the second early maturing, 10 lbs. or more at 18c per lb.

large-eared varieties, has the good table qualities of the later kinds and is

the first white sugar corn of high quality to mature. The stalks are strong, TV^arvuvinil'Vi Mammoth White Cory is a sugar

vigorous, about five feet in height, the ears eight to nine inches long with IVldmillOtlT VV IllLC V..Ory corn that never disappoints anyone,
twelve to fourteen rows of corn to the ear, and are generally borne two to We recommend it for a good early garden variety. The good sized ears
the stalk. Pkt. 10c, lb. 40c, 5 lbs. $1.75. By express 10 lbs. or more mature early, and are seven to eight inches long, with twelve rows of large
at 20c per lb. kernels to the ear, the cob and grains are white, and this whiteness is retained

after cooking. Quality is delicious and the first of all the real sugar corns to
M ~ V ' ^ ^ mature. Comes in at a time when it is

|m /I I m# # ' ■ appreciated and there is a demand for

I vl W I I ■ ■--< all that can be grown. Pkt. 10c,

JL V^CIa VldlJI ^ Ib. 35c, 5 lbs. $1.50. By express

^ 10 lbs. or more at 18c per lb.

Flame with Flowers/i

Giarif AefiP>i*e immense, gracefully formed

Vllailk flowers of this marvelous aster > " gy , .

have made it a flower garden favorite everywhere. The petals

are long, c^led and twisted, having a feathery appearance, which ^ ^

has given it the name of Ostrich Plume in some sections. The /■

flowers are very fluffy and run five inches in diameter and are '' ^

as ^beautiful as any chrysanthemum. ^Fine for cutting.

Pink Pkt. 10c Mixed, choice^ mixture of all the

CregO Mammoth Asters ^e?t?Ta^e^1lorering”aTer:^

grow to great size, from 4 to 5 inches in diameter, resembling chrysanthemums, / . •* V ' 'V vW'lP^ "

and are borne on strong, long stems, which make them desirable for cutting. f V I? .

The plants are of strong branching habit, attaining a height of 2K feet. ' • ~ t

Purple . . Pkt. 10c Mixed .'.'.Pkt.' i'oc, 'jl^oz'. 30c ^

T Mixed. Beautiful in beds and / .. ^ ■. ^ ^

American j-ate Drancmng for cut flowers, large, double. r)’ "" i '

borne on longj^ strong stems and produced in a wide range of colors. We offer ^

1VT n vL-«f Mixed. This grand aster has a wide range v.'' \

V^ueen or ine IViarKet of colors and is one of the most profuse ^ A V '’Y

bloomers. Plants are spreading and grow fifteen to eighteen inches high. lirliTO ^ 1 ,j

The flowers are borne on long stems, the blossoms are flattened, of good size, *■ " ^ -

and are largely used for cutting; its extreme earliness also makes it popular. 1 °* " ' S ^ • Jm '

We offer mixed seeds which contain all shades and colors of this magnificent f ^L< J ^ C

variety. ^ ^

Pkt 10c ox 25c '

'il.

AfYI^PlCan R^JUltv hp aster of immense size, chrysanthemum- . . .»•

, . . . pCdULy like in appearance, and it has the entrancing - - ' ▼ ^

color of the American Beauty rose. Its perfect shape, wonderful color and s’

immense size and the profusion with which it produces flowers has made it ¥ -'F

one of the most popular of American asters. M?- fej te' |j|^^

rif - - ▼

t-¥Aot*f* rtf ^ beautiful aster of the purest ruby red, borne * ^ ■ 'W •- ^v' Stk ,

ll«?arL yi 1 raill.^ on long, strong stems, and retains its wondrous / ’■ :/ ' ~

beauty to the very end. The flowers are of immense size and are full to the s '<, ■ ^ ^

center. This is a marvelous flower, one of the most beautiful, and is easy to

grow. Keeps for a long time in v/ater after cutting. ^ ’ • i %

fClftcr double aster of pure, glistening white; blooms from
’ ' , August to October; one of the most attractive and beau- KL Sfgm

tiful. The plants are of strong growth, running from fifteen to twenty inches Of MM

high and producing blossoms in greatest profusion. WB

Pkt.... 10c Vi ox 35c M wtL^g Queen of

^ ^ the Market

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Tall or Climbing Nasturtiums

CHAMELEON. — Difierently colored flowers on the same plant. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c.

GIANT OF BATTLES. — Sulphur yellow, blotched red. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c.

KING THEODORE. — Dark foliage with flowers of deep crimson maroon. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c.
VESUVIUS. — A pleasing shade of salmon rose. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c.

STARK BRILLIANT TALL OR CLIMBING MIXED. — A mixture containing all of the
above named varieties and others. Pkt. 10c, oz. 15c, lb. 50c, 1 Ib. $1.50.

The Wonder Flowers — Sweet Peas

One of the most glorious flowers in the garden and by their beauty they have earned a place
in the hearts of all lovers of flowers. They bear practically all summer and produce their
beautiful fragrant flowers in greatest profusion and in many and wonderful shades and tints.
They are easy to grow and will thrive in most any soil and we really know of no other flower
that will bring more pleasure and produce more beautiful blooms with as little effort as the sweet pea.
Sow the seed as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. Do not wait for good weather. The
seed should be sown in a shallow trench and covered with about one-inch of soil. After the plants are
up and are some size, thin them to about six inches apart and gradually fill in the trench to the level of
the garden as the plants grow.

GRANDIFLORA MIXED. — This giant flowering strain is offered in mixed colors and
varieties and you will find that this mixture contains some of the finest varieties

known. Pkt. 05c, oz. 15c, 50c, 1 Ib. $1.50.

DOBBIE’S CREAM. — This is a large sized cream or primrose colored variety
with large, finely waved flowers borne on long stems. Pkt. 15c, oz. 75c.

NEW MERIAM BEAVER. — A pleasing and dainty shade of pink, being a soft
salmon pink on a cream ground. There are usually four flowers to a stem, all of them
large and waved, many duplexed. Pkt. 15c, oz. 75c.

R. P. FELTON. — This is an English variety that has become very popular. Color a rich
soft lavender. Pkt. 15c, oz. 75c.

MRS. CUTHBERTSON. — Standard clear, rose pink, with wings of white tinged with a faint blush
of pink. Pkt. 15c, oz. 75c.

ELFRIDA PEARSON. — A giant pale pink. Has long stiff stems making it a fine variety for
cutting. Pkt. 15c, oz. 75c.

ILLUMINATOR. — One of the most pleasing combinations of color found in sweet peas.

The ground color is a warm salmon orange with bright cerise pink. Pkt. 15c, oz. 80c.

WARRIOR. — The flowers are of great size, perfectly formed and well waved,

Reddish maroon color, tinged with bronze. Pkt. 15c, oz. $1.00.

WHITE SPENCER. — Our choice in this color for size of flower,
waved and frilled. Pkt. 15c, oz. 75c.

KING EDWARD. — Large flowers
oz. 75c.

of a deep rich carmine scarlet.

ROYAL PURPLE. — The color is a rich, warm, rosy purple. Pkt. 15c, oz. 80c.

SPENCER MIXED. — This is a mixture of all the leading Spencer varieties
and gives you in one packet a wide range of color. Pkt. 10c, oz. 40c, Ih.
$1.00, 1 lb. $4.00.

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WARRIOR— One
of the finest of
the Spencer
Sweet Peas.

Flowers of im-
mense size.

Nasturtiums that Set the Garden Aglow

One of the most largely grown of all flowers and can be found in nearly every flower
garden and every back yard where flowers of any kind are grown. They are of easy
culture and they blossom through a long season while in brilliancy of color and all
around beauty no flower excels it. They do not require rich soil
and will grow easily and bloom in any well drained sunny situation,
giving a gorgeous profusion of blooms from within a few weeks from
the time they are sown until frost. There are two distinct types —
the tall or climbing variety and the dwarf or bedding sort. We offer
a carefully selected list of each — chosen for their general excellence
and for an assortment of color.

Dwarf Nasturtiums

CHAMELEON. — Produces differently colored flowers on the same plant.
Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c.

EMPRESS OF INDIA. — Dark ornamental foliage with fiery crimson flowers.

Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c.

PRINCE HENRY. — Cream, spotted and tipped with red. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c.

STARK RADIANT MIXED DWARF VARIETIES.— A mixture made
up of all the better named sorts. Pkt. 10c, oz. 15c, lb. 50c, 1 lb. $1.75.

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