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DELICIOUS
COMPARISON OF COLOR AUG. 31»t.
STARRING
Red" Delicious, {left) not ripe hoi already RED. Regular DKLICIOI'S, Both picked emir day. (Aug. Rial), name orchard, storking gets red . ran be picked while "hard ripe", hence keeps juicy mouths longer.
LOUISIANA,!
115 YEARS OID
STAYMAN WINESAP Average Color
STAYMARED— the NEW ‘•Double-Red” Stayman
Owned & Sold Only by Stark Pro’s
.Left ) Stayman Winesap. ( Ripht ) STAYMARED, our sensational NEW "Don Deep, rich, solid red all over, preventing Scald. Every apple on tree E Far more valuable than regular Stayman— will bring much higher prices
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INDEX IS ON PAGE 64
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Date _ STARK BRO’S NURSERIES, Louisiana, Mo.
Subject to terms and conditions of your current Price List and the following Agreement, ship Nursery Stock as listed, for which I enclose
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The following agreement, between the undersigned and Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company, of Louisiana, Missouri, refers to the purchase by the undersigned of STARRING (Trade-Mark) (Stark Bro s Double.Red Delicious) apple trees and (or) GOLDEN DELICIOUS (Trade-Mark) apple trees and (or) STAYMARED (Trade-Mark) apple trees and “(or) HAL-BERTA GIANT (Trade-Mark) peach trees and (or) any of the Luther BURBANK NEW Tree or Plant Varieties. Owing to the great expense of the wide-spread testing and investigation of these valuable trees and plants, and the great cost of their introduction, Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company is protecting itself as well as the public from the imposition and substitution often practiced by unscrupulous dealers. This is intended to prevent fakers from misbranding and marketing inferior fruits as genuine. Furthermore, this will enable growers who purchase Genuine Stark Trees or plants of the above named varieties to reap the reward of the high price on the markets for the fruit of these high quality trees and plants without having the damaging influence of bogus and inferior sorts which may be attempted to be marketed as genuine. Thus the reputation for long keeping, high quality and big profits of these fruits will be maintained and protected by the cooperation of Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company and the purchasers of any of the above named varieties. Therefore, in consideration of the agreement of the under¬ signed not to give away or sell or permit anyone else to give away or sell or to take these Starking (Trade-Mark) apple trees and (or) Golden Delicious (Trade-Mark) apple trees and (or) Staymared (Trade-Mark) apple trees and (or) HAL-BERTA GIANT (Trade-Mark) peach trees and (or) any of the Luther BURBANK NEW Tree or Plant Varieties or their progeny or scions, buds or cuttings from these trees herein mentioned or their progeny or any other Starking (Trade-Mark) apple trees and (or) Golden Delicious (Trade-Mark) apple trees and (or) Staymared (Trade-Mark) apple trees and (or) HAL-BERTA GIANT (Trade-Mark) peach trees and (or) any of the Luther BURBANK NEW Tree or Plant Varieties or their progeny that may be furnished to the undersigned in the future by Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company for a period of twenty-five (25) years after any such trees and (or) plants are so furnished and the further consideration of the sale of any of the foregoing trees and (or) plants named in this purchase agreement. Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company, agrees to furnish the varieties named in this purchase agreement, which are herein ordered, to the undersigned. The undersigned agrees that in case of disposition of the property on which any of the varieties, named in this purchase agreement, are planted to make this agreement a con¬ dition of the transfer. (No verbal agreement or alteration or erasure herein shall be binding, and no countermand recognized.) I have read, understand and hereby agree to all these agreements and terms of sale.
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Here is a table showing why NOW IS THE BEST TIME IN 25 YEARS TO PLANT FRUIT TREE ORCHARDS. These actual figures put out by the Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, D. C.
Number of bearing age trees:
In 1899 the Nation had 201,795,000 fruit trees in bearing
In 1909 the Nation had 151,323,000 fruit trees in bearing
In 1919 the Nation had 115,309,000 fruit trees in bearing
In 1924 the Nation had 103,697,000 fruit trees in bearing
A net loss of 98,098,000 Bearing Orchard Trees in 25 years. And during this same 25 years, our population has jumped many millions. Plant an orchard now and reap the profits which will result from the ever-increasing demand at good prices for high quality fruit.
In a recent survey made by the United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D. C., it was found that the success of the fruit grower depended not so much on the quantity of fruit which he raised, but on the quality of the fruit which he produced. Grow the Big Money- Makers — Starking, Golden Delicious, Staymared, etc.
Plant Stark Trees — backed by the life experience of 5 generations of Stark orchardists and nurserymen.
VINEYARD— FREE!
Splendid Grape Vineyard Free on $10 Order
If You order Before April 1st
We will GIVE YOU FREE 5 (Five) big, fine, Grape Vines (one of the finest eating, jelly and juice varieties) with EVERY ORDER for $10 or more worth of anything in this 1931 Catalog (except baby chicks and inoculators) — whether you give your order to one of our salesmen or send it to us direct.
The Free grape vines must be added to your order blank before order is sent to our office or you will not be entitled to the free vines.
$4 BURBANK BULBS— FREE
Dozen Rare BURBANK BULBS (Worth $4.00 Retail) FREE With Every $10 Order!
If You order Before April 1st — All Cash with Order
We will give you ABSOLUTELY FREE — ONE DOZEN (Retail at $4.00) BURBANK’S “NEWEST-HYBRID” GLADIOLUS BULBS FREE (See Page 53 for illustrations and description) if you order $10 (Ten Dollars) or more worth of anything in this catalog (except baby chicks and inoculators) — For Spring ’31 Delivery, Cash Orders.
These FREE BULBS must be added to and written in on your order to make SURE that you will get the bulbs. If you accept this Free Bulb Offer, you cannot be given any other of our Free 1931 offers.
ONLY ONE FREE OFFER CAN BE GIVEN EACH CUSTOMER.
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Fruit Trees That You Can Obtain FROM STARK ONLY!
The greatest value of this Year Book to YOU in assisting you select the varieties of Fruit Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Ornamental Shade Trees, Hedges, Vines and Rose Bushes as well as Flower and Vegetable Seeds that will ASSURE GREATEST SATISFACTION TO YOU,
rests in the fact that we here present to you SUPERIOR VARIE¬ TIES THAT YOU CAN OBTAIN FROM STARK BRO'S NURSERIES ONLY!
These are EXCLUSIVE varieties introduced by us and Trade- Marked by us, and, for which, in many instances, we have APPLIED FOR U. S. PATENT.
They include all our STARK’S “RECORD-BEARING” STRAIN FRUIT TREES, including, among others, STARRING, GOLDEN DELICIOUS and STAYMARED APPLES— HAL- BERTA GIANT and STARK EARLY ELBERTA PEACHES— ALL the marvelous LUTHER BURBANK FRUIT CREATIONS, such as BURBANK’S “ELEPHANT HEART” FREESTONE PLUM— and all BURBANK’S NEW FLOWERS and VEGE¬ TABLES.
This Year Book, as a consequence, offers you the only opportunity to obtain these BETTER VARIETIES, which scientific experiment and vears of practical tests have unqualifiedly proven to be the BEST. They can be obtained FROM STARK ONLY!
This Year Book Guards, as Well as Guides You!
During the last decade, it has cost us tens of thousands of dollars to convert ALL our varieties to those propagated from “Record Bearing" Parent Trees. All this was done to INSURE better crops of better, higher-market-priced fruit for those who plant Stark Trees.
For over 30 years we have spared neither time nor labor nor money in searching for, discovering, developing and introducing NEW and BETTER VARIETIES OF FRUIT. The Stark introduction of Stark’s Delicious, Golden Delicious, Starking, Stay- mared and other leading apples — of Hal- Berta Giant and Stark Early Elberta
Peaches — of Stark Gold and Omaha Plums — of the Delicious Grape, are a few instances of this constant betterment of our fruit list FOR YOUR BENEFIT!
Our acquisition of the fruits of LU THER BURBANK'S GREAT FRUIT CREA¬ TIONS — which were bequeathed to us in accordance with his dying request — greatly broadened the list of trees and plants which we could EXCLUSIVELY offer you — and greatly increased the SERVICE that we could extend the public.
NOW — to protect the public against inferior, disappointing IMITATIONS, it became our DUTY to safeguard both the
public and ourselves by our PURCHASE AGREEMENT — which makes it impossible for any other nursery to grow or offer for sale these EXCLUSIVE varieties.
BUT — this method of providing you with these Exclusive Stark-Burbank varieties DOES PROTECT YOU, as well as our¬ selves.
That is why the shrewdest orchardist, as well as the type of home owner who wants to be SURE of the BEST for his home orchard and his home grounds, prefer these fruit trees and ornamental stock that can be obtained FROM STARK ONLY!
A Startling Comparison — Between Stark Trees and Cheap Trees
BELOW — 6-year Stark Tree Orchard bearing a good crop. When 6-year Cheap Tree Orchard — “Just Across the Road” — spindling visited by Prof. H. E. Van Deman, U. S. Pomologist, he reported in the weak trees that will never bear good apples. NOT from Stark Bro's. official U. S. Year Book of the Department of Agriculture: — “This Both photos made same day; same climate; same soil; same age — lesson in practical horticulture will be worth millions to the country.” Which do you want in your orchard — Stark Bros or cheap trees?
Two 6 -Year Old Orchards
60 FEET APART
STARK TREES PIECE ROOT TREES
Loaded 6-Yr -Old Stark OLD OAK PROCESS Orchard— “Just Across the Road”— a 6-Yr.-Old Cheap Tree, PIECE ROOT Orchard, not an apple
Stark Bro’s at Louisiana, Mo., for 115 Years
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Stark Bro’s “RECORD -BEARING” Strain Trees
It Cost Us Over $50,000.00 To Change All Our Varieties Over To These Wonderful “RECORD-BEARING’ 9 Strains!
ORIGINAL STARK EARLY ELBERTA TREE
Discovered by us in orchard of Dr. Sumner Gleason, noted Utah peach grower. AH from this tree is controlled us through Exclusive Contract. The of all genuine Stark Early Elberta
ORIGINAL STARK DELICIOUS TREE
— the perpetual propagating rights of which we exclusively own and from which we propagate Stark Delicious “Record- Bearing” Original Tree Strain Trees. We discovered it in Iowa.
U. S. Patent Applied For
ORIGINAL HAL-BERTA GIANT TREE —Highest Priced Peach Tree In World- bears luscious peaches “BIG as a quart cup!” 30% larger than Hale. All our Hal-Berta Giant trees propagated direct from this Original Tree.
But — They Will Bring Millions In Extra Profits To Fruit Growers Without Any Increase In Stark Tree Prices
We have always strived after BETTER propagation methods — BETTER Strains — and BETTER varieties. We feel it our DUTY to do so. Those improvements that we have been responsible for in the past Century have helped the fruit growers by giving them Better Fruits and Bigger Profits. In particular, our work in introducing to fruit growers, bud sports (like Starking), and other superior strains, opened the eyes of the fruit world.
Now, after years of investigation and the expenditure of more than $50,000.00 to change all our varieties over to these” Record- Bearing” Strains, Stark Bro’s are supplying nursery stock propa¬ gated from the best known Record-Bearing Parent Trees in all America or trees scientifically proved to have positive superior bud variations, bud sport characteristics and the ability to transmit to their off¬ spring these superior characteristics of either high color and earlier color, uniformity of shape and type, greater size of fruit and other characteristics.
All will admit that this is the safest method of propagation to assure the greatest satisfaction and profit to the fruit grower who buys nursery stock. Leading horticulturists and the most successful practical or- chardists, in planting their own orchards, prefer to plant trees they KNOW have been propagated from Parent trees of KNOWN Bearing Record. For instance: Prof. Green, for years Chief State Horticultur¬ ist of Ohio Experiment Station, stated:
“If I were planting an Orchard myself, I would prefer that the nursery stock I used would be propagated from trees of known record.”
Moreover, we are supplying these Superior Record-Bearing Strain Trees without one penny increase in the prices to Stark Tree planters.
What Prof. Shamel of U. S. Dept. Agriculture Says:
Prof. A. D. Shamel, in charge U. S. Govt. Fruit Improvement Investi¬ gations, is noted throughout the World, as the Foremost Authority on Bud Variation. His work for citrus growers alone saved millions of dollars. Prof. Shamel states:
"The work of searching out such valuable new improvements as your bud sport Starking and other superior variations of standard varieties is of great value to the fruit industry. These improvements in color, size, shape of fruit and increased production, as well as other important characteristics, can unquestionably be reproduced by propagation from these known superior strains. On the other hand, drone or poor bearing strains also occur and careful, intelligent parent-tree selection will eliminate inferior strains from propaga¬ tion and will result in better fruit and more profit for fruit growers. Our experiments and observations for twenty years have definitely proved these facts, and the fruit growers are realizing more and more the vast importance of obtaining trees propagated from these superior strains.”
Remember, it has taken our Staff of Scientific Horticulturists nearly 30 years of continuous work and search to finally arrive at the point where we are able to offer Stark “Record-Bearing” Strain Trees in every variety. Growers should, therefore, be very cautious about bogus, so-called “Superior” Strains, offered by those who have not the facilities for the great and costly work and who have not spent years and years in searching out and investigating the records of the Parent Trees from which they propagate.
The Service This Method Renders
It preserves Superior Colored Strains, like Starking, Staymared, Dark Red Rome Beauty, Double-Red Baldwin, etc. It perpetuates Heavy Bearing types, such as our Record-Bearing Strain of Golden Delicious, Stayman Winesap, etc., and keeps “drone" trees out of Stark Tree Orchards. It protects the typically shaped strains (such as Stark Delicious) from degeneration. It prevents our best varieties from relapsing into degenerate, weak strains and maintains the superior oi normal strains — as in the case of our Red McIntosh as compared to the inferior striped strain of McIntosh.
It preserves the habits of heavier yields of better colored fruit, ideal shape, larger size and other characteristics, and thus — assures better crops and better pro6ts to the growers who plant Stark“Record- Bearing” Strain Trees,
From our Nursery standpoint, it does, as far as humanly possible, eliminate errors in propagation and further assures Trees True-To- Name. And all of this is of vital importance from YOUR standpoint.
Every Farmer Knows This Fact
Every farmer and stockman now knows that he makes bigger crops from superior seed, gets finer stock from thoroughbred parents, and while trees are not the product of two parents, their propagation from a Stark “Record-Bearing" Strain Parent Tree is of vast importance to the man who wants assurance of a reliable source of the best fruit trees, and the biggest profits.
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ORIGINAL GOLDEN DELICIOUS TREE — which we own (having paid $5,000.00 for this tree) and from which we propagate Golden Delicious “Record-Bearing” Strain Trees. We discovered it in West Virginia, 20 miles from a railroad.
THE PARENT STAYMARED TREE Discovered by us in Virginia. Bears mar¬ velous crops of SOLID RED apples, that color ALL OVER 2 to 3 weeks before old Stayman begin to color.
THE ORIGINAL STARKING LIMB — which we own (having paid $6,000.00 for this limb and the tree) and from which we propagate STARKING “Record-Bear¬ ing” Strain Trees. We discovered it in New Jersey.
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OLD OAK PROCESS Whole Root Trees
Grown ONLY BY STARK BRO’S
Trade Mark Registered U. S. PATENT OFFICE
' /^\LD OAK PROCESS Whole Root Trees” is a Trade-Mark, w registered in the U. S. PATENT OFFICE and owned by Stark Bro’s. It denotes the Superior Whole Root Trees produced by our Over-a- 100- Year-Old Nurseries. Stark Bro’s is the only nursery in the world that can supply genuine Old Oak Pro¬ cess Whole Root Trees.
Charles Downing, than whom no higher fruit authority has ever
lived, said: — “Large quantities of trees are propagated by using pieces of roots. This practice considered as tending to debilitate and reduce vitality — the seat of vital life in fact resting in the Natural Crown (the point where wood cells blend into root cells) and that once destroyed can¬ not be renewed. But one healthy, permanent tree can ever be grown from a single seedling stock.”
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A Whole-Root Tree is “Worth the Price of 10 Piece-Root Trees
Naturally, our trees cannot be sold at ' Bargain Prices " — though ours are mo9t reasonable prices, because by growing millions we reduce C09t9 and also improve the quality. These OLD OAK PRO¬ CESS Whole Root Trees develop into big. husky, fast-growing, young¬ bearing fruit trees, and usually live twice as long as ordinary tree9. As you know, the roots are the "feeders” — the foundation of a tree.
All Stark Trees Are “Born” in Famous Selected Scion Orchar
In these orchards, we practiced “bud selection” for gene¬ rations before that branch of horticultural science became known to horticulturists in general.
In our propagating orchards, trees are propagated (grown) from selected, heaviest bearing, healthiest, youngest bearing, highest colored RECORD-BEAR¬ ING Strain Trees.
Only the BEST are given place. Diseases and tree faultsand flawsare absolutely kept out of our orchards.
These Propagating Orchards contain a collec¬ tion of Superior Record-Bearing Strains of all lead¬ ing varieties collected for over half a century from every section of American and Foreign Countries. No such complete collection of Improved Strains exists any¬ where else on earth — all Stark RECORD-BEARING Strains.
This is an expensive practice, to be sure.
But, without it, we could NOT be SURE and YOU could NOT be SURE that our varieties were of the most profitable big Record-Bearing Strains and were absolutely TRUE TO NAME It is cheaper in the long run, for BOTH of us to be SURE.
In Propagating Orchards, all buds and scions are cared for as watchfully as though they were diamonds.
Every tree is labelled. Each variety is given special attention by experts who KNOW how to induce the trees to produce VIGOROUS 9cions and buds. Then — those scions and buds are cut only by men of 10 to 30 years' experience — men to whom the good name of Stark Trees is as dear a9 it is to any of the Stark family — tried and true and trusted men.
Scions and buds of only one strain are cut at a time by each one of these experts. Mixing is made almost an impossibility. This takes time, of course — and time means money. But — it is all done to > PROTECT YOU — and our good name.
Our Whole Root Grafts
are made with our own Special Patented Electric Graft Wrapper.
(See photo in oval below.) It avoids all theerrorsof old-fashioned handwrapping — makes a tight, compact wrap, and as¬ sures a perfect union of root cells and « woodcells (see photo in circle above — at right; and pro¬ duces a tree without blemish, and one that will make quick growth in nursery row and orchard.
If the tree is grown from a whole root, it has more roots, of course. Therefore, it has more roots to FEED WITH. These trees will quickly extend their root systems downward in all directions — take firm grip on the soil — eagerly suck up strength — shoot upward like a healthy out-doors boy— come into bearing young and live and bear big crops long years after “cheap,” weak, piece-root trees have died and been cut up for kindling.
f The Remarkable Roots of Stark Bro’s PATENTED Trade Mark Whole Root Trees j
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STARK BRO’S RECORD-BEARING STRAIN TREES
ORCHARD PROFITS
11-year-old Golden Delicious Tree in Mr. Chambers’s Orchard, Delaware Co., OHIO, bearing 10 Bushels This Year.
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500 Bushels Big Profit Apples Worth $7,000.00 from 15 Acres Despite Worst Drought in Years!
HERE’S a young OHIO farmer who 11 years ago planted 15 acres of his farm to Stark Trees on the recommendation of his father who had known and grown Stark Trees all his life and found it PROFITABLE to follow the advice of this Century-Old Nursery Firm. Read his experience and PROFIT BY IT — you farmers and land owners who are tired of the HIGH risks and LOW profits of corn-raising and general farming.
LESTER W. CHAMBERS,
Delaware Co., OHIO, in 1919 planted Stark Trees on 15 acres of ordinary corn land that he estimates might yield about $30 worth of corn per acre during good years. Now, from his Golden Delicious, Double-Life Grimes Golden, Jonathan and Winter Banana (ALL
Stark Record-Bearing Strain Whole Root Trees) in a bad, driest-on-record year, he picked 3500 bushels of apples that brought $2.00 and up per bushel!
He has received his BEST CROPS and his BEST PROFITS from his Golden De¬ licious trees ($2.50 to $2.75 a bushel orchard
run) and declares that in planting a new or¬ chard he would “plant it thirty per cent Golden Delicious and thirty per cent Staymared Apples — instead of Stayman Winesap!” His Golden Delicious began bearing at four years and have brought him a good income from the time they were seven years old!
Little Orchards Make More Money than Big Corn Farms
More Profit Than In An Orange Grove
Pays Better Than Grain Growing
Adolph Luksdorf, Lane Co., OREGON, bought 10 acres, planted Stark Delicious, Stayman Winesap and Grimes — sold it just coming into bearing for 5% times amount he paid for it. He is now planning an orchard of 90 acres which he will plant to Stark De¬ licious (30 per cent), and Golden Delicious (30 per cent). He declares, “Orcharding pays better than either cattle raising or grain growing.”
Jas. Sharpe, former R. R. fireman and farmer, Morris Co., KANSAS, reports his leading Stark Tree varieties Stark Delicious, Jonathan, Grimes Golden and Winesap. He has sold about $15,000.00 worth of apples from 40 acres each year for 3 straight years — land bought for $150 an acre and now worth $500.00 per acre. He declares: — “There is more profit in a well-cared-for apple orchard than in a Florida orange grove!”
Pays 10 Times As Much As Corn or Cotton
Arthur H. Thompson, Lee Co., Arkansas, formerly in cotton and lumber business, has been raising fruit for ten years. His leading varieties are Stark Delicious, Stark King David, and Stayman Winesap. Also block young Golden Delicious. Single Stark De¬ licious trees have yielded him 25 bushels in a year. He writes: “My orchard has paid me ten times more per acre than anything else, such as corn or cotton.”
-Listed in Order of Ripening
The apples listed here are the best of over 5,000 known varieties— those starred thus (*) are best.
Apples-
EARLY SUMMER ♦Early Red Bird *Henry Clay (Trade-mark) Yellow Transparent Early Harvest Liveland Raspberry Sweet Bough
SUMMER
♦'Double-Red” Duchess Duchess Early McIntosh ’"Wilson Red June **Summer Champion ♦Jefferies Red
SUMMER Maiden Blush
American Summer Pearmain FALL APPLES ♦Gravenstein, Crimson Red ♦Wealthy ♦Imperial Rambo ♦Mother
EARLY WINTER Fame'use (Snow)
N. W. Greening ♦McIntosh, Red Strain R. I. Greening
WINTER APPLES Baldwin (Double-Red)
Sweet Delicious Northern Spy (Double-Red) Banana (Winter)
Bellflower, Improved Grimes Golden ♦♦DOUBLE-LIFE GRIMES GOLDEN (Trade-mark) ♦Jonathan
♦♦Stark King David (Trade¬ mark)
LATE WINTER KEEPERS ♦Rome Beauty ♦♦Rome Beauty, Dark Red Cortland
♦Senator (Trade-mark)
York Imperial ♦Mammoth Black Twig
Improved (Gilbert Strain) ♦Paragon Winesap (Gilbert Strain) ♦♦Stayman Winesap ♦Staymared
LATE WINTER KEEPERS Winesap (Virginia Strain) ♦Giant Jeniton (Trade-mark) ♦♦Stark Delicious (Trade-mark)
♦♦GOLDEN DELICIOUS (Trade-mark) (Owned and sold only by us)
Willow Twig
Willow Twig, Double-Red ♦Black Ben (Trade-mark) ♦♦STARRING (Trade-mark i (Owned and sold only by us.)
Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees Obtainable ONLY FROM STARK BRO’S
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Spencer Waldron, Calhoun Co., Ill., Stark’* Golden Delicious Orchard began bearing at 4 years and has borne BIG PROFIT CROPS every year since.
Stark Trees Make Rough Hill Land Worth $1,000 an Acre
Spencer Waldron Banker and Orchardist
Calhoun Co., Illinois
Photographed by one of his 7-ycar-old Stark's Golden Delirious tr-es that bore over 7 hushels of HIGHEST MARKF.T PRICE apples after one of the worst seasons for apples in a generation—- when late frosts and record- breaking drouths totally ruined crops of inferior trees bearing common apples.
Mr. Waldron’s success in achieving independence by raising ONLY HIGH QUAL- TY FRUIT should IN¬ SPIRE YOU and every man to set aside at least part ^of vour land and on it SET OUT A STARK TREE OR¬ CHARD THIS YEAR!
Remember his carefully considered statement: — “1 KNOW that if you pick good land, plant GOOD trees and give them good care, THERE IS ABSO¬ LUTELY NO WAY YOU CAN FAIL! If there IS any other business as safe and as SURELY profitable as GOOD fruit raising, l have never heard of it!
Read ALL of his state ment on this page. IT W1 LI INSPIRE — AND PAY YOU!
The Story of SPENCER WALDRON, Banker-Orchardist, Calhoun Co., Illinois reads like a romance.
About a generation ago, a young man trudged into the hills of Calhoun County, with a mere forty dollars in his pocket — and an ambition in his heart.
He got a job the day he arrived. And, he worked, he looked about him. He saw that the only farmers in that hilly country making money raised apples. He noticed, too, that those who made the MOST money, brought the BEST apples to market— men like Chris Ringhausen, whose Stark Delicious were the talk of the county. He saw those who raised Ben Davis and other out-of-date fruit grum¬ bling at low prices.
“So,” he said to us, “while I had early made up my mind to own an orchard some day, I also said to myself that I would grow only the BEST varieties of apples.
“You know, some men deal in land, some go in for running a store, some go into business more or less hazardous. I went into the orchard business because I considered it ABSOLUTELY SAFE 1 KNOW that if you pick good land, plant GOOD trees and give them good care, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY' NO WAY YOU CAN FAIL— in the long run.
“I kept saving up for the day I could buy some land and put out an orchard.”
The day finally came in 1917. Mr. Waldron had accumulated a little money and carefully selected his land and bought it. It was rough enough, BUT, it was GOOD land for apple raising.
His next step shows the native cautious¬ ness of the man, — the trait that made his fellow townsfolks MAKE him Cashier of the new local BANK while he was out of town. He— hut, let him tell it —
“I recognized that there was a lot I DIDN'T know about apples. So I went to ‘Headquarters’ for advice. I went to Stark Bro’s, whom I knew had supplied the BEST trees to the BEST and most successful orchardists in my county.
“That was a wise step. Stark Bro’s were just introducing Stark's Golden Delicious in 1917, the year I bought my first land — and they insisted on my planting a lot of them — although some of my neighbors were mighty dubious about any new variety.
"Anyway, I followed Stark Bro’s ad¬ vice and planted my first orchard largely to Stark’s Golden Delicious, Stark Red Delicious, Jonathan, Double-Life Grimes Golden and Willow Twig apples. Later on, when Stark Bro’s introduced Starking, I planted a lot of that variety, too. Those six HIGH-QUALITY APPLES and a moderate quantity of the Stark Early Elberta and J. H. Hale Peach trees today make up my 250-acre orchards.
“Those Golden Delicious began hearing at 4 years and have borne fine crops of HIGHEST MARKET PRICED APPLES every year ever since. In many years, like 1929, when other varieties urre killed by frost, my Stark's Golden Delicious bore tremendous crops — 9-year-old trees hearing 10 bushels each and 7-year trees yielding 6 hushels each, on the average.’’
“Didn't you find it hard sledding the first few years, Mr. Waldron?” we queried
“Not particularly. I intercropped every year, alternating corn and beans, until the trees were 7 years old and always made some money. I kept my orchard in good shape without any great cost outside of the cash the inter -row crops brought me.
"THEN, BECAUSE I HAD PLANTED SUCH A LARGE NUMBER OF STARK'S GOLDEN DELICIOUS in my very first orchard, I began to pick REAL MONEY CROPS starting the fourth year. That money I put right hack into my orchard business, planting more Stark Record-Bearing Strain Trees every year and generally improving the facilities of my BUSINESS— FRUIT GROWING.”
The improvements are manifest to everyone who now looks over the 250 acres of wonderful orchard. His orchards at a distance seem like a wilderness of trees but the trees are producing Golden Money harvests EVERY’ YEAR and are making a well to-do man out of this poor boy who only a few years ago came to Calhoun County with S40 in his “jeans" and a dream in his heart.
On his property, Mr. Waldron has erected a magnificent Modern Packing Plant to carry out his ideals in grading and packing apples that delight the dis¬ criminating patrons in a score of States who annually send a thousand miles or more to get "those fine Waldron apples.” Neighbors say that this is the finest build¬ ing in all Calhoun County but Waldron simply says it is “Good business.
At the time of this interview Mr. Waldron’s trees ranged from 2 to 12 years old-only half of them old enough to hear— but his orchard that is bearing prompts him to conservatively state that he will NET 20 PER CENT PER YEAR ON $1000 PER ACRE valuation as all the trees come into bearing— and in closing the interview, he asked a question himself, to get “even” for all the questions we had asked him —
“What other SAFE BUSINESS will do that? If there IS any other as safe and as SURELY profitable as GOOD fruit rais¬ ing, I have never heard of it'.
Began with $40 — NO JVHas Stark Orchard that Will Pay Him 20% on $250,000 Yearly!
i4n Interview of Spencer Waldron, Banker and Orchardist,
Calhoun Co., Illinois
The Beautiful Waldron Home That Apple Profits Built
HIS is a true story of SUCCESS achieved in the face of real difficulties — told to us smilingly by a courageous, keen-minded, modest young man who, although only slightly over 40 years old, has made his dreams come true — has in LI short years reached forth and EARNED an independent fortune.
We say it was accomplished by his GRIT. He says it was because he had sense enough to plant STARK TREES right from the start.
Page 6 Golden Delicious — Owned and Sold ONLY By Stark Bro’s Under Contract
A Late-Winter Apple
Sold ONLY by
Stark Bro’s
Original
Starts
Golden
Delicious
Tree in Cage on Rocky West Virginia Mountainside. WE PAID $5,000.00 FOR THIS TREE and ground on which tree stands (30 ft. square). This great MOTH- ERTREEof all Genuine Golden Deli¬ cious is the MOST VALU¬ ABLE GOLD- EN APPLE TREE IN THE WORLD.
A. H. Mullins the
Originator
is shown standing by Gate by Big Cage.
This Barren Out-of- •He-wejr Mountainside Gire t'o the World the Greatest Yellow Apple. Lovers of Fruit Will Long Remember This Historic Spot.
Actual Size
Sold ONLY by Stark Nurseries
Stark’s Golden Delicious
Stark s
Golden
Delicious
The Trail of the Golden Apple
By Paul Clarence Stark
For 20 years the Starks had searched for a large late keeping yellow apple as good in quality and as satisfactory in tree as Stark Delicious.
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, heretofore unknown, variety.
The second “clue” came when my brother, Major L. C. Stark, bit into one of the Golden apples. The flavor amazed him. They looked like Grimes Golden — but tasted like Stark Delicious! They were shaped like Stark Delicious. And they were in perfect condition in A prill Grimes Golden would have been rotted and gone months before.
That tree’s boughs were bending to the ground beneath a tre¬ mendous crop of great, glorious, glow- ing, golden apples.
I started for it on the run. A fear bothered me, “Suppose it’s just a Grimes Golden tree after all!” 1 came closer and I saw the apples were 50 per cent larger than Grimes Golden. I plucked one and bit into its crisp, tender, juicy-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 successful 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
All our experts were given a "taste.” The enthusiasm that re¬ sulted could have only one parallel in our over a century of history — that being when Stark Delicious, the King of All Red Apples, was discovered by C. M. Stark.
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Golden Delicious Bought For $5.75 Bu. Wholesale By Ocean Liner — Preferred to Red Apples
One apple was sent to Col. Brackett, late U. S. Pomologist at Washington, D. C. Friends present at the time told us how the Colonel came hurrying into the office, a little slab of this wonderful yellow apple perched on his knife blade, exclaiming, “Taste this! Here’s an apple with an even better flavor than Grimes Golden.” He wrote us glowing praises.
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 seed¬ lings — miserable runts.
Dejected and sick at heart, I turned around to leave — when — I SAW IT!
Here’s a letter from a prominent ARKANSAS man that will make any progressive fruit grower “Stop-Look-And LISTEN!”: —
Stark Bro’s Nurseries. Ft. Smith, Ark.
Gentlemen :
Reserve for me 250 Golden Delicious trees at once.
I have about 100 Golden Delicious trees now and must say that they have given me the best satisfaction of 5 or 6 varieties I have. This year I have had to pick off some 5 to 10 bushels to keep my 8-yr.-old Golden Delicious trees from breaking down.
I have just recently returned from a South American and South African cruise on the liner "Duchess of Athol." In the dining room of this ocean liner, they were serving Golden Delicious apples.
Being interested. 1 went to the Head Steward and asked him WHERE he got these Golden Delicious apples. He said that they had been bought in New York City.
I then asked him what he had paid and HE SENT FOR HIS INVOICE AND HE HAD PAID $5.75 A BOX FOR THESE APPLES! They were medium size (about 138 to the box).
There, looming forth in the midst of the small, leafless, barren trees, was a tree with rich green foliage that looked as if it had been transported from the Garden of Eden.
They had red apples on the dining tables of this liner, but thf> Golden Delicious apples wej*e all gone before the cruise was half over. NOBODY ATE ANY OF THE RED APPLES until Golden Delicious were all gone.
C. A. Lick
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130 Golden Delicious trees (above) ov less than 2 acres yielded 1220 bu. that sold for $5,583.00 for American Fruit Growers, I ncXlldqrs Pittsburgh, Pa.)
J.E.Eggers, St. Louts Co.. Mo., declares : "Every one of my 50 Golden Delicious trees (above) bore in 3rd ygar— from 5 to 20 each."
"All my 250Golden Delicious trees plant¬ ed 2 yrs. ago bore 20 to 30 big apples each this year!" writes Chas. Riedenbacker , Burlington, N. J . (Photo above).
Bore Despite 2 Freezes And 3 Bad Frosts
This last spring, in a great many States, there were 3 hard frosts and 2 ruinous freezes, right after an extra warm March had brought forth the tender fruit blooms.
But — Stark's Golden Delicious produced big crops of fine apples after the frosts, because of its frost-dodging blooming hab¬ it. This remarkable variety of fruit tree puts forth three dif¬ ferent blooms. First— the or¬ dinary fruit spur buds.
Next — the lateral bloom- buds. And. then, term¬ inal bloom-buds. Two sets of blooms may get frosted — and still the third can produce an a- bundanceof fruit. No otherap- ple doe s this.
Bore At 2 Years Old In 33 Different States
— It has astonished scien¬ tists and horticulturists by bearing when 2 years old in Arizona, Missouri, West Virginia, Oklahoma, New York, Texas, Mississippi, California, Iowa, Connecti¬ cut, New Mexico, Arkansas, Ohio, New Jersey, Oregon, Ala¬ bama, Idaho, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, Louisiana. Wash¬ ington, Maryland, New Hamp¬ shire, Utah, Maine, Kansas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, Virgin¬ ia. Indiana, and Mas¬ sachusetts.
Enthusiastic reports have poured in up¬ on us from de¬ lighted growers everywhere. Read state¬ ments be¬ neath photos on this page.
F. D. Straight, Allegan Co., Mich, writes: — "This 4-yr.-old Golden Delicious tree (above) has borne 3 successive years."
Golden Delicious apples picked in or¬ chard (above) ofJ.L. Webster, Chelan Co., Wash. "These apples averaged as large as
A.8 In lit* htj eh *! "
“ My Golden Delicious trees (4 years top worked) averaged 4 bu. to the tree — and this is the third crop," (above) writes Wm. Holaling, Columbia Co., N. Y.
A. W. Braylon, Mount Morris, III. writes: — "My 2-yr.-old Golden Delicious (above) is bearing 7 apples!"
R. K. McCobban, Poir Co., Ore. (abore) declares — “ This tree bore 12 apples at 2 yrs. old and 163 at 3 yrs. old."
Golden Delicious Awarded Wilder Medal by Supreme Court of Fruit World!
What the Supreme Court is to American Law, the Amer¬ ican Pomological Society is to American fruit and horti¬ culture. For over 80 years it has been the unquestioned authority on all questions pertaining to fruit on the Western Hemisphere.
This Society gave to the Golden Delicious the highest tribute ever bestowed on an apple since the introduction of Stark Red Delicious — the only Wilder Silver Medal (see cut above) that has ever been granted to a yellow apple variety in the last 40 years.
STARK’S GOLDEN DELICIOUS PRICES
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100 |
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. SI. 50 |
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1.10 |
.90 |
.70 |
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. 1.00 |
.90 |
.70 |
.60 |
Less than 10 go at “each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 or more at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
Golden Delicious Apples are the Preferred Fruit in Highest Class Hotels, Exclusive Clubs and Fashionable Ocean Liners
Throughout the World
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See Page 7 for Prices of Golden Delicious Trees
“No One Ate Red Apples When
They Could Get GOLDEN DELICIOUS”
The Queen of the Great Canadian Pacific’s Line of Atlantic Steamers — “The Duchess of Atholl”— Serves Golden Delicious Apples Paying $5.75 a Bushel!
A NOTHER instance of the tremendous popularity Golden Delicious 1 '■apples are achieving everywhere — in the world’s fruit markets as well as in the orchards of the leading fruit growers of the United States and Canada. A successful American orchardist starts
on a cruise to South Africa on a Canadian Pacific Liner — AND
MEETS GOLDEN DELICIOUS APPLES THE MINUTE HE EN I ERS THE DINING SALOON! Here’s what he wrote on his return home:
50 Trees Bear More Than 350 Others
“9 years ago I planted 350 apple trees and if I had planted all Golden Delicious I would have made five or ten times as much money as I have.
“This year all failed except Golden Deli¬ cious. When 50 will continue to produce more than 250 bushels year after year and bring one-third to one-half more per bushel it makes a fellow like them.”
-Albert C. Smith, Edwards Co., ILLINOIS.
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10,000 Bu. Off 40 VA. Acres in “Short Year”
1( G. J. HOPKINS, Botetourt Co., VIRGINIA, reports this year: — - Most of my varieties failed to set crop this year in my young 6 and 9 years-old orchards. BUT— my 600 Golden Delicious trees 9-yr.-old and 600 Golden Delicious 6-yr.-old trees (only 40 acres) had 10,000 Bushels Golden Delicious apples this year! Many of my young trees yielded 18 to 20 bu. each. This year’s crop alone off these 1200 Young Golden Delicious will nay for this orchard! (See Phnin Relrrw)
Only Variety to Bear In 500-Tree Orchard
“Have 500 apple trees, some 8 years old and my Golden Delicious are the only ones I will gather any apples from this year. Last year the Golden Delicious doubled other varieties in prices and I will get $3.00 per bu. this year.
Its lateness of blooming makes it frost proof. All I regret is not having 500 trees instead of 65.”
M. T. Flippin, Obion Co.. TENN.
The remarkable record of Golden Delicious trees bearing year after year everywhere
no matter how bad the conditions — when other varieties are failures, apple crops are light and apple market prices are HIGH, is simply amazing. Here are a few such in¬ stances: —
All Others Killed In N. Y. Orchard
‘My 50 7-yr.-old Golden Delicious averages 3 bushels per tree. Late freeze killed all other varieties of apples except Golden Delicious. Wish I had 500 more. Grow fast and are very hardy.
“Last year I sold my Golden Delicious at $3.00 per bu. and all other varieties at $1.00. Golden Delicious making more money for grower because of young bearing, long blooming season and good quality.”
- — B- C. Thompson, Wavne Co., NEW YORK
“Will Make $50 Land Worth $1000 an Acre!”
tt J* O. STAATS, Vermillion Co., INDIANA has just written:
My 250 Golden Delicious I bought from you 5 years ago are loaded this year many bearing 5 bu. each — when other varieties were light. At first I hesitated as I thought it could not equal Grimes Golden. My mistake was in not planting 2500 instead of only 250. I can take $50 an acre land, plant it to Golden Delicious and in
10 VP3 rc it will ho urr»rfh ® 1 OOO OO n ,
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Hopkins in Young Golden Delicious Orchard in Virginia Bearing 10,000 Bu. Staats in 5-yr.-old INDIANA Golden Delicious Orchard, Loaded With Fruit
WELDON, WILLIAMS & LICK, INC.
Fort Smith, Ark.
Stark Bro’s: Please reserve me 250 Golden Delicious 4-7 ft. Have 100 now which have given best satisfaction of all varieties I have. This year, trees 9 years old had to thin off 10 bushels to keep trees from breaking. Just returned from South Africa cruise on Canadian Pacific Duches of Atholl. They served Golden Delicious apples. The Head Steward showed me invoice showing he paid $5.75 a box in New York— for medium size. Although they had red apples also —
No One ate red apples when they could get Golden Delicious.
Yours very truly, C. H. LICK
BEARS When Apples Are Scarcest and Prices Highest*’
Golden Delicious — Owned and Sold ONLY Bv Stark Bro’s Under Contract
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rings Highest Record Price!
$2,947.50 Eagerly Paid for 1 Carload of these Golden Apples by New York Wholesale Apple Buyer !
THE NEW YORK PRODUCE NEWS of Feb. 19, gives us — and you apple growers — this good news : —
To8. Sicker
“At wholesale auction last week, Joseph Sicker (a leading New York apple buyer) paid $2,947.50 for 1 carload of Golden Delicious apples (only 736 boxes) — unquestionably the highest price at which a car of apples has been sold! He said that the fancy fruit stores of Greater New York have been calling on him for a yellow apple that would retain its flavor and beautiful appearance after long stor¬
age,’’ (as these apples did, coming out after being about 6 months in storage). “After tasting some of the apples from this car, Mr. Sicker gave samples to his prospective buyers, who said they would buy them regardless of price.”
SELLS FOR DOUBLE ORDINARY PRICE
Dr. S. H. Miller, Missouri orchardist, de¬ clares: “All my 60 Golden Delicious trees now six years old bore last year. Some yielded 4 bushels. I sold them all at more than double the price of ordinary varieties."
Consumers Go Wild Over Golden Delicious
Within a short time after he had introduced these Golden Delicious to New York dealers and con¬ sumers, Mr. Sicker was sold out completely — and wired Golden Delicious growers: “NEW YORK RETAILERS AND CONSUMERS GOING WILD
FOR GOLDEN DELICIOUS. Our stock cleaned up. How many cars Golden Delicious can you furnish immediately? Public will pay most anv price. Wire answer.”— Joseph Sicker & Co., New York City.
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95 Golden Delicious Trees, 5 Years Old Produced $1,140.00 for this Indiana Grower!
Here is amazing PROOF of the record-breaking, money-making productivity of “The Queen of All Yellow Apples.”
Think of young 5-year-old trees — only 95 of them, on less than a single acre (see photo above) yielding $1,140.00 (One Thousand, One Hundred Forty Dollars) in one of the worst apple years in generations. Mr. N. Y. Yates is one of the best known and most successful orchardists in KNOX COUNTY, INDIANA. He writes:
December 20.
Stark Bro’s Nurseries.
Dear Sirs:
I bought 95 Golden Delicious trees 5 years ago this last Spring. This season they pro¬ duced 350 bushels of apples.
Two hundred and seventy bushels were fancy and sold to commission houses and grocers at $3.50 pier bushel basket. The other 80 bushels were clean, smooth fruit and out¬ sold my best Grimes Golden. While other varieties did not have much fruit left after the spring freeze, the Golden Delicious set too full and the frost did not hurt them.
They are very hardy trees, 'good shape, do not require much pruning, make a good growth each season and bear full crops young.
I picked a nice crop from these trees last year also, but did not keep a record of the yield. Some people had tried to make me be¬ lieve they would not do in this section. Now these people wish they had planted the Golden Delicious, especially when I showed them my sales this year, which were $12.00 per tree, on five-year-old trees. I wish now I had 5,000 trees of the Golden Delicious in my orchards. This year my sales from them would have been $60,000.00, (at 5 years old),
as my production averaged $12.00 per tree.
I received so many comments on my Golden Delicious at the Indiana State Fair, where we won the Blue Ribbon and where I displayed the fruit Apple Week, that several shipments of my Golden Delicious have gone to U. S. Senators and Congressmen, Washington, D. C., and one shipment to President Calvin Coolidge.
Cordially yours,
(Signed) N. Y. YATES.
(Note: — $12.00 per tree average means that these 95 Golden Delicious trees. 5 years old, on less than one acre, brought $1140.00 in one year.)
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Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees Obtainable ONLY FROM STARK BRO’S
iHT Prices on Page 12
Luther Burbank and U. S. Pomologist Close Enthusiastically Endorse STARKING
Burbank Said: “You have in this Starking all of the fine characteristics of the Orig¬ inal Delicious with the very valuable addition of earlier color, and deeper all-over red. You do not have to test its adaptability — its reputation is already made, because it is simply an improved Delicious and will grow and succeed wherever Delicious succeeds. The more brilliant solid red color will bring higher prices to the fruit grower. Because the fruit colors up much sooner, it can be picked at the proper time, and will thus maintain its juicy quality late in the season, never becoming mealy.”
Prof. Close Said: (Prof. C. P. Close is Official Pomol ogist for the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture). "I am most favorably impressed with this new variety and believe it will crowd Delicious out of use in time.
I was impressed with the fact that the fruit on the original Starking was not only solid red, but was larger and more uniform in size than the apples on the rest of the Delicious tree. The fruit on the young Starking trees was also large and solid red. The par¬ ticular value of Starking is in the early deielopmcnt of red color which makes it possible to pick the fruit and place it in storage as soon as hard ripe. This will not only lengthen its commercial life, but the fruit will not become mealy."
More Will Grade Out Extra Fancy
“A much larger percentage of Starking will grade Extra Fancy. Starking colors up so uniformly, the percentage will, of course, be greatly increased.
Starking will also have better keeping qualities since the apples can be picked when hard-ripe, though red all over. Consequently its life in storage will be materially lengthened." —
C. C. Wiggans, Horticulturist, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nebraska.
Prof. C. P.
Close and Wilder Medal i Winning Starking Applet
Prof. C. P. Close, V. S. Gov’t Pomologist, and Associates, Awarded The Famous Wilder Medal to the Starking Variety
— The Sensational NEW “Double-Red” Delicious
LL RED APPLES
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Actual 5im of Average Starking Apple
Knowing of our constant search for improved strains of fruit trees, a noted Horticulturist told us, some years ago:
A New Jersey Orchardist has an amazing Stark Delici¬ ous tree. One limb of this Stark Delicious tree is loaded °,very year with apples that get RED ALL OVER IN A UGUST, a month before ripening , when the apples on the other limbs are still green!'
We investigated and some months after bought this tree for $6,000.00, erected a cage around it for protection and began a series of tests to PRO VE that scions cut from that limb would produce trees that would bear apples having that same early-coloring, super-color, double-red characteristic.
During all the years of tests and inspections by scores of State Horticulturists, Pomologists, noted fruit Growers and our own experts, STARKING exceeded the “rosiest” expecta¬ tions of all of us— -has performed in such a way that it has convinced every State and National Horticulturist who has seen the Original Tree and the succeeding generations of STARKING trees, that it is a true bud-sport. As Prof. Joseph Oskamp, New York State Exp. Pomologist says: “There is no question whatever about its retaining this all-over-red color when propagated, because the fruit on the young STARKING trees in same orchard were even deeper red than apples on the sport limb.”
The $6000.00 Limb That Will Carry This Boy Through College
The photo above shows part of the Original STARKING tree, with the young son of Mr. Mood, in whose orchard we found this tree, sitting on the famous $6000.00 STARKING “Double- Red” Stark Delicious Limb. The $6000.00 (Six Thousand Dollars) that we paid for this limb and tree, will be used by his father as a fund to carry this young man through college in the years to come.
Typical Starking Apple Grown in Orchard in Middle West
A Late Keeping Win ter- Apple
Prices on Page 12
STARRING — Owned and Sold ONLY by Stark Bro’s Under Contract
Page 11
BECAUSE they DO color a beautiful, solid, all-over red, STARRING apples can be picked early — to get the Highest “First- Delicious-on-Market” prices. They can be picked while still hard, crisp, full of juice — and yet a Beautiful Blood Red and will keep until late spring and never get dry or mealy — retaining full juice and crispness.
“Starking Bears Years Younger Than Delicious!”
An amazing FACT seems to be developing in the orchards of growers who had the foresight to plant STARKING Trees — STARKING IS BLOOMING AND BEAR¬ ING SEVERAL YEARS YOUNGER THAN DELICIOUS!
We had noticed this same younger bearing tendency of Starking in our own Experiment Orchards but have conservatively refrained from making any statement regarding this habit of Starking. But — NOW — these re¬ ports from so many Starking growers are so convincing that wre feel compelled to tell you about this added virtue of this won¬ derful apple variety. Here are a few typical reports:—
Thomas J. Harwell, well known VIRGINIA orchard- ist. reports: — "Our 4-yr.-old STARRING trees bloomed this year and now have young apples large as small marbles (in April). They are bearing much younger than Q-yr.-Old Delicious!”
Edw. E. Heid. INDIANA apple grower, reports: — ‘‘There is going to be a good many apples on my 3-yr.- old Starking trees this season."
Striking Difference Between Delicious and STARKING
The pile at left shows Delicious apples picked at same time from trees in same orchard as pile STARR¬ ING apples at right. Note difference in color — Stark¬ ing, red a month before it ripens — Delicious is un¬ colored.
“Starking Will Be A Tremendous Money-Maker for Fruit Growers!”
This is the statement of Prof. C. D Matthews, State Hort., of North Carolina.
He said, after visiting the Original STARKING tree twice: "I am certainly pleased that I saw the Original STARKING tree. I was greatly surprised when I saw this tree and surprised again when I saw the young STARKING trees. The contrast in color between their fruit and Ordinary Delicious trees in same orchard was more striking than I expected.
“I am so confident that it will prove won¬ derfully valuable that I want to be per¬ mitted to purchase some of the first trees of this variety that you offer for sale.”
(NOTE. — Prof. Matthews bought and planted 750 STARKING trees in his orchard the next spring.
Another Young 2nd-Generation Tree
Just look at the huje crop on this 6-year-old 2nd-generation STARKING tree. Photo taken in August, with every apple Extra Fancy in color, Red-All-Over even in stem and blossom ends.
Even Apples on Shaded and Lower Limbs Get Red All Over In August
Here’s the Official Report of The NEW JERSEY Horticultural Society:
“Even the fruit that is shaded on the lower and inner branches develop plenty of red color. Its striking characteristic is that of developing a deep red color when ordinary Delicious is still almost green. It colors at least 2 weeks earlier. The color is a deep almost solid red.”
A Third-Generation Starking Tree
A 3rd-Generation Starking Tree in a New Jersey orchard bearing big apples that were red all over- even in blossom ends— in August. This PROVES that Starking retains its early coloring habits.
Young 2nd Generation STARKING Tree
Photo taken in August— with tree bending to ground loaded with big, all-over-red beauties. Delicious Starking
STARKING a True Bud Sport
Many scientific horticulturists are skeptical of alleged Bud Sports that originate as whole trees. Where it originates as a single limb, they know it to be a true bud sport— one which will always reproduce its valuable char¬ acteristics. Prof. U. P. Hedrick, Horticultur¬ ist, New York Exp. Sta., says:
“When an entire tree shows the variation, one almost must assume that the variation is due to local soil conditions or to the stock’ upon which the tree
_ s grows. One may feel
pretty sure that when a limb of a tree shows a marked variation and continues to show it year after year, it is a bud sport that can be propagated indefinite-
For Starking Prices, See Page 12.
Produces Early Colored All-Over Red Apples on Trees of Suc¬ ceeding Generations
By years of exacting tests, we have proved that STARKING propagates true to type in succeeding generations! All the noted Horti¬ culturists who investigated the original STARKING tree and also young succeeding generation STARKING trees agree that STARKING is a wonderful horticultural phenomenon — a very rare and valuable occurrence in Nature. The fact that it occurred on only this one limb of the Original Tree proves that it is a TRUE BUD SPORT which Scientists agree will produce fruit true- to-type on trees of Succeeding Generations.
Big Value of Early Coloring
WARNING
As we write this orders for STARKING are pouring in on us in great quantities. STARKING tree9 can be sold ONLY by Stark Bro’s. Those who want to be sure to get STARKING trees should ORDER EARLY.
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STARKING — Owned and Sold ONLY By Stark Bro’s Under Contract
Starking Sales 80% Greater Than Old Delicious
'T^HOUGH introduced less than a generation (after years of rigorous -t testing), Starking has been accorded a record-breaking welcome by keen, far-sighted growers.
Last Season We Sold 80 Per Cent More Starking Trees than we sold of ordinary Delicious, which was for years by far the best seller.
Growers who plant for profit have planted and are planting Stark¬ ing by the hundred of thousands. Out in Washington and the Great Northwest, where Stark Delicious has for years been the growers’ GREATEST PROFIT MAKER, Starking is being planted as no other apple variety was ever planted before.
Amazes World’s Largest Fruit Growing Company
color. Beautiful dark red Starking apples (when the Delicious are still green) surprise all observers. Our Starking apples grew to 48 size (48 to bushel means apples over 12J4 inches in circumference — and bring exceptionally high prices). They are solid, all-over red color instead of striped. Starking trees planted late in Spring 1925 bore apples in 1927!”
“It Is a WINNER!”
PROF. W. S. BROWN, State Horti¬ culturist, OREGON, traveled 3000 miles to inspect the STARKING. He writes: “You have a winner in STARK¬ ING! In testing it” (last February) “We found the apple flavor excellent, color and finish especially good. Tex¬ ture still solid and firm in February. Fine for shipping. Especially juicy and crisp for this time of year.” (February.)
Keeps Months Longer
PROF. POTTER, NEW HAMP¬ SHIRE, State Horticulturist, reported: “Beyond all doubt a TRUE BUD SPORT. I think that the new variety carries twice as many hereditary factors (red) as Delicious carries. It makes it possible to pick the fruit earlier and MAKE THE APPLES KEEP LONG¬ ER, — of great value to commercial orchardists!”
“Doesn’t Get Mealy!”
PROF. J. H. GOURLEY, Ohio, Chief Horticulture Dept., enthusiastically states, after inspectingOriginal STARK- ING Limb and the young 2nd genera¬ tion STARKING trees in bearing: “This guaranteed red color assures fruit growers: Early Picking, Firmer Fruit for Longer Keeping and Better Quality over a longer Storage season.”
Than Old Delicious”
A MERICAN Fruit Growers, Inc., 1 1 world's largest orchard com¬ pany (with general headquarters Pittsburgh, Pa.), have thousands of STARKING trees in their great orchards. LEO C. ANTLES, Or¬ chard Production Manager of We¬ natchee, Wash., district, reports:-- “Starking by side ordinary Deli¬ cious show tremendous contrast in
Nationally known Horticulturists inspecting voung znd generation STARKING Tree bearing big croD of deeD solid
generation STARKING Tree bearing big crop of deep solid red aDples while Delicious nearby were still green.
The Original STARKING Limb, purchased by us for $6,000.00 and entire tree enclosed in burglar- proof cage for protection.
“Shows Even More Color Than Necessary For Fancy Grade!”
That’s the positive statement of Prof. Roy E. Marshall, Assoc. Prof, in Horticulture, Michigan State College.
“ The color of the STARKING apples even from the most shaded portion of the limb showed more color than is necessary for EXTRA FANCY GRADE. “STARKING is a bud sport of De¬ licious having every tree and fruit characteristic of the latter, PLUS SOLID RED COLOR. It should yield like Delicious, grade out better and command even better prices on apple markets than Delicious.”
Young 6-yr. old STARKING orchard with trees loaded with . big. solid red apples in August when Delicioqs in adjoining orchards were just showing traces of color
‘Far Greater Value
State and U. S. Govt, Horticulturists waxed enthusiastic when they saw young 2nd generation STARKING tree bearing even redder, larger apples than the Original Limb.
The Internationally famous Dr. U. P. Hedrick, State Horticulturist of NEW YORK declared: ‘‘STARRING has come to stay! STARKING TAKES ON ITS ALL-OVER RED COLOR MUCH EARLIER AND CAN BE PICKED AND STORED BEFORE MEALY MATURITY. This gives it an improved form and WILL NEVER RETURN TO THE PARENT STATE. Young STARKING trees bear the same extra red fruit.
Owned & Sold ONLY by STARK BRO’S Under Contract
Be sure to sign Order Blank which includes Purchase Agreement, otherwise trees cannot be shiooed.
STARKING TREE PRICES
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WARNING— STARKING Treet can be Legally Sold ONLY by Stark Bro’e.
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STAR KING DELfC/OUS APPLES I
the finest carload of apples ever SHIPPED FROM WENATCHEE DIS7*
“Finest Carload of Apples Ever Shipped in America' — ALL STARRING
A NOTHER Starking TRIUMPH! Leo C. Andes, Orchard Pro- ** duction Manager, AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, INC., the World’s Largest Orchardists and famous for their BLUE GOOSE brand of fruit, jubilantly sent us this telegram announcing the shipment of this, the finest carload of apples that ever left the far-famed Wenatchee Valley District of Washington — one of the richest orchard sections in all the World!
Note that he declares: — “Apple Growers, Shippers, Inspec¬ tors and District Horticulturists say This Carload Is the Beginning of an Epoch In The Apple Industry!”
Furthermore —
These Apples Brought the Growers $5.00 Per Bushel F.O.B. Cars!
— when Extra Fancy Delicious were bringing $2.50 to S3. 00 per bushel. The higher all-over color, the firmer texture and the proven longer keeping ability (will keep crisp and juicy until late Spring) all combined to make Starking eager¬ ly bought at 100 per cent higher prices!
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AM SENDING PHOTO FIRST CAR OF ALL STARKING APPLES SHIPPED FROM NORTHWEST STOP LEADING GROWERS AND SHIPPERS WHO VISITED CAR AND EXAMINED FRUIT ARE DELIGHTED WITH THESE WONDERFUL STARKING APPLES STOP GROWERS SHIPPERS AND INSPECTORS AND DISTRICT HORTICULTURISTS PRONOUNCE THIS THE FINEST CARLOAD OF APPLES EVER SHIPPED FROM WENATCHEE DISTRICT WASHINGTON AND SAY IT IS BEGINNING OF A NEW EPOCH IN THE APPLE INDUSTRY STOP ALL EXCITED OVER THEIR EARLY ALL OVER COLORING AND FAR GREATER* PERCENTAGE THAN DELICIOUS OF EXTRA FANCY STOP THEY GREW TO FORTY EIGHT SIZE FORTY EIGHT FILL A BUSHEL
LEO ANTLES
Starking Success Prophesied Years Ago by Noted Horticulturists
Men with genuine KNOWLEDGE who assisted us in testing and determining the SUPERIOR WORTH of Starking, prophesied that which has come to pass. They confidently and unanimously reported to us: — “Your Starking Apple Variety Is A Find!
It Will Undoubtedly Be In Great Demand In All Sections!” Many of their glowing prophecies are presented on 9k other pages and here are some more: —
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J. H. Gourley
( hief In Holt., Ohio Exp. Sta.
Roy E. Marshall
Prof. Horticulture Mich. State Coll.
Prof. M. J. Dorsey, Chief in Pomology,
University of Illinois, Predicted: —
"Starking will make horticultural history. It is worth millions to American fruit growers.”
Prof. C. D. Matthews, Chief in Horticulture, North Carolina State College, Predicted: —
'Starking will grow rapidly in popularity. It is a super-Delicious.”
Prof. W. H. Alderman, Chief in Horticulture, University of Minnesota, Predicted: —
"It is not hard to predict a most triumphant future for Starking. It is a Delicious in every respect except it colors earlier, has deeper red and develops earlier. Biggest thing that Stark Bro's have ever uncovered.”
Prof. T. J. Talbert, Chief in Horticulture, University of Missouri. Predicted: —
"Starking will be an outstanding leader m the future.”
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Prof. C. C. Vincent, Chief Horticulturist,
University of Idaho, Predicted: —
"Starking will undoubtedly revolutionize commercial growing."
Prof. Geo. F. Potter, Chief Horticulturist,
New Hampshire, Predicted: — -
"Starking is going to be the BIG money maker for fruit growers."
Prof. Roy E. Marshall, Prof. Horticulture,
Mich. State College, Predicted: —
"Starking will yield, grade out better ,uid command even better prices than Delicious."
Prof. H. L. Crane, Prof. Horticulture,
W. Virginia Exp. Sta., Predicted: —
"With the great popularity of Delicious behind it. the better Starking will prove a great success.”
Prof. C. A. McCue, Chief Horticulturist.
Delaware Exp. Sta., Predicted: —
"In the years to come. Starking will largely displace Deiicious."
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H. L. Crane
Prof. Horticulture \Y Va. Exp. Sta.
Representatives from N. Y. Agri. Exp. Station # Geneva, and N. Y . Agri. College , Cornell, under Original Limb at Starking Christening-Profs. Hedrick and Tukey, Geneva; Profs. Heinicke , Oskamp, Carrick, and McDaniels, Cornell.
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Stark Bro’s at Louisiana, Mo., for 115 Years
Monument to Original Stark Delicious Tree
— on which the State of Iowa inscribed the name of C. M. Stark as having the “ sole right to propagate.” The Stark Delicious Apple Monument dedicated by State of Iowa in presence of Leading Scientific Horticulturists from all over U. S. and Canada. Although nearly 60 years old this Original T ree is bearing good crops of superb fruit.
ORIGINAL TREE Strain Sold ONLY by STARK BRO’S
A Late-Winter Apple
Shrewd orchardists insist on genuine Stark Red Delicious because they know the ORIGINAL TREE Strain Stark Red Delicious can be obtained ONLY from Stark Bro’s.
They know that the Original Tree (Photo at left) was discovered by C. M. Stark over a third of a century ago — and that we immediately purchased Exclusive and Perpetual Rights to this tree from the owner of the farm, Jesse Hiatt, and we are protected by an U. S. Registered Trade Mark. We continuously renew our stock from this Original Tree. No other nursery can obtain buds and scions from the Original Tree.
Over 35 years ago, at the time we introduced Stark Delicious, we confidently PREDICTED that it would revolutionize the apple market and BRING RECORD HIGH PRICES TO ITS GROWERS. In less than a generation our prediction came TRUE, as you know.
Original Stark Delicious Tree
Photo of Jesse Hiatt and Original Stark Delicious Tree ( exclusive and perpetual pro¬ pagation rights owned by Stark Bro’s) — • now more than a Half Century Old but still bearing splendid apples.
$50,000.00 Crop Off 40 Acres
Buck Bros., well-known Elberfield, Ind., growers, got a $50,000.00 apple crop from 40 acres. Sixteen-year-old Genuine ORIGINAL TREE Strain Stark Red Delicious Trees bore as high as 20 bushels to tree. Their Stark Delicious sold for $12.00 a barrel when other red apples went for less than half that price. They admit that it was the Stark Delicious trees that made the $50,000.00 crop value possible!
Your orchard is a lifetime proposition. You don’t want to gamble — you must be sure ! You want the Genuine ORIGINAL TREE Strain of Stark Delicious — the one that is backed by a record of 50 years of proven hardiness, disease resistance; regular annual bearing, and also — has been the biggest money-maker everywhere. The new Starking is even better, as it is twice as red.
$1,000 An Acre In Nebraska
“Have sold Si. 000. 00 worth of apples from just one acre of Stark Trees. Stark Delicious sold at $3.50 per bushel in t-he orchard.** — Chas. S. Ludlow, Red Cloud, Nebr.
7 Acres Orchard Beats 50 Acres Corn
H. N. Yohe, Des Moine9 Co., IOWA, reports: “My returns from 7 acres fruit is more than 50 acres good corn would bring!” A nervous breakdown 7 years ago compelled him to work out of doors and his orchard work has not only improved his health, but yielded him a good living, enabled him to send his boys through High School and now through College and also lay up money for old age.
74 Trees Yield $2,460.00 Crop
Seventy-four 11-year-old ORIGINAL TREE Strain Stark De licious trees yielded C. L. Witherel, near Middlebury, Vermont 576 bushels of glorious apples. They brought him Two Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty ($2,460.00) Dollars. He tells us his trees began bearing when four years old — and have borne every year since. He now has 1,000 more Stark Delicious 6-year-olds that he declares are producing a bumper crop this year.
Afterwards he wrote: “We have just sent our last car of Stark Delicious to New York getting $6.00 per bushel box in New York wholesale markets for the run of fancy Stark Delicious.” (Fancy McIntosh apples sold for $5.00 per barrel in same market same day.)
Showers of Apples
The splendid genuine Stark Delicious Tree Orchards of C. M. Fette, Marion, Co., Mo., were simply loaded with magnificent specimens of Stark Delicious apples.
Pays 10 Times As Much As Cotton
A. H. Thompson, Lee Co., Arkansas, reports: “My orchard, containing ORIGINAL TREE Strain Stark Delicious has paid me 10 times as much as cotton or corn. Some of my Genuine Stark Delicious trees yielded as much as 25 bushels to the tree
Made Missouri Man Rich
W. C. Curd of Saverton, Mo., formerly a city man, bought 110 acres at $20 an acre. Planted it to ORIGI- 1 NAL TREE Strain Stark Delicious and others of our eading varieties. Three crops off those trees recently
brought him over $84,000.
$4.00 Per Bushel in Maryland
"The majority of my trees are Stark Delicious. Last year 1 could not begin to supply the demand for Stark Delicious apples at our local stores at $4.00 per bushel basket, while other sorts were hard to sell at $2.00." — D. P. LeFevre, Cumberland, Md.
STARK RED DELICIOUS PRICES
RECORD BEARING Each 10 100 1000
1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . $1.20 $1.00 $ .90 $ .60
3 to 5 ft. “ . 90 .80 .70 .45
2 to 3 ft. " . 65 .60 .55 .35
Prices F. O. B. Nursery
Less than 10 go at "each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 or more at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
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Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees — Obtainable FROM STARK ONLY
A Red Winter Apple
“One of the greatest and most profit¬ able varieties grown. High color aac excellent quality make it a favorite on all markets." — O. M. Brooks, Chelan Co., Washington.
Jonathan is nationally known by both home and commercial orchard growers, and is uni¬ versally liked. The apple is a bright flashing red with a spicy rich acidity that has made it a prime favorite, and the tree has wide adaptability, and is largely grown through¬ out the Northwest. Central West, East and South and as far North as Michigan.
"The man who can successfully grow Jonathan has the financial problem of apple growing solved." — Thomas F. Rigg. Hardin Co., Iowa.
JONATHAN APPLE PRICES
RECORD BEARING
Jonathan. Starking, Golden Delicious, Stay- mared. Stay man. Stark Delicious, Stark King David and Grimes Golden are the high quality sorts that are being most largely planted and are making most money for the grower.
The Jonathan is a wonderfully good orchard tree, rather spreading in growth. hardy, long lived, bears young, (our strain bears remarkably young), the fruit is popular on the market and the price it brings makes it extremely profitable.
1st Class Stark Trees
Each 10 100 1000
rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . $1.10 $1.00 $ .85 $ .55
3 to S ft. " . .80 .75 .65 .40
2 to 3 ft. “ . .60 .55 .50 .30
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
Less than 10 go at “each" rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 or more at 1000 rate.
Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
"Jonathan trees hardy here. Apples are good color, good size, good keepers, fine for dessert and cooking." — E. P. Brotzman & Son, Binghamton, N. Y.
Following a definite plan we searched the country over for years for Young- Bearing Jonathan tree with all the required characteristics as a Parent tree for our Jonathan propagation. We finally located it in a Pike County, Missouri, orchard and our entire Jonathan propagation is direct through this tree. This parent Jonathan tree matured 20 apples when 3 years old, 90 apples when 4 years old and has never missed a crop since. The fruit is extra size, deep rich flashing red and the tree is as perfect an orchard tree as we ever saw. It bore after a freeze, when other Jonathans in same block failed.
Jonathan—
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“DoubleLife” Grimes Golden— Record-Bearing Strain
Rot Re' sistent Body [Stock
A Yellow Winter Apple — The best Yellow Apple except Golden Delicious.
Our Grimes Golden trees are propa¬ gated direct from a Record-Bearing tree — the Most Famous in the U. S. for vigor, good fruit and heavy bearing. Official record of this tree at the Ohio Experiment Station show that it averaged 23.9 bushels per year over a period of 14 years. Tree and fruit are typical.
Grimes Golden is Medium size — • Mid-Winter appl er— hardy — golden transparent yellow color with exquisite, fragrant aroma. Crisp, tender flesh, rich, spicy and juice laden. Enjoys great popularity and growers demand and secure big Ground Line prices everywhere every year. Should be largely planted in home and commercial orchards. Sur¬ passed only by our other yellow apple — Golden Delicious.
Crimes Golden Above Here
Recommends New Grimes Golden
GRIMES GOLDEN
DOUBLE-LIFE GRIMES GOLDEN PRICES
RECORD BEARING Each 10 100 1 000 1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . $1.20 $1.10 $.95 $.65
3 to 5 ft. " . 90 .85 .75 .50
2 to 3 ft. “ . 70 .65 .60 .40
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
Less than 10 go at each" rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 or more at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
"I have advised the planting of double- worked Grimes Golden for years. Otherwise it is short lived." — Benj. W. Douglass, former Indiana State Entomologist.
STARK RECORD-BEARING “DOUBLE¬ LIFE” GRIMES YIELD BIG CROPS OF FINEST GOLDEN FRUIT.
Old Grimes Golden Weakness Eliminated
life of the tree. The photo at the left explains this method. We start with carefully selected French Crab roots. To each is
DOUBLE-LIFE
The only weakness of Grimes Golden has been that Collar Rot has killed off Grimes Golden trees by thousands. To overcome this defect, the Stark “Dou¬ ble-Life” method of propa¬ gating insures a tree that will live as long as any other standard variety. The “Double-Life” process, trade-marked by Stark Bro’s, adds to Grimes Golden trees the stamina and roots of a sturdy tree and doubles the
grafted a long scion of sturdy Rot- Resistant Stock, which forms the main mass of lusty root growth and the trunk. (See B in photo.) High up on this disease resistant “Double-Life” body is added the Grimes Golden Bud. (See A in photo.) Wood of Grimes Golden well above ground. Can be no collar rot. (C, hardy French Crab roots.)
Page 16 STAYMARED — Owned and Sold ONLY By Stark Bro’s Under Contract
Stork DOUBLE-RED
STAYMAN WINESAP
Trade MarK Reg*.
-A Super Stayman
A Worthy Companion for Starking and Golden Delicious
(Pronounced Stay-ma-red)
THIS is the most sensational announcement made in horticultural history since that famous bud sport, Starking, the “Double-Red” Delicious, was introduced to the world by us some years ago.
Staymared, like Starking, is a bud-sport. It originated in the celebrated Moomaw Orchard in Virginia. It is a true Stayman Winesap in tree and fruit — except the Color of the Fruit is a Deep, Blazing RED ALL OVER, where ordinary Stayman would be red striped and partly green. Every apple on the tree (even on inside, shaded limbs and under sides of branches) glows with this MAR¬ VELOUS SOLID RED.
Leading orchardists confidently state that THIS SOLID ALI.- OVER-RED COLOR MEANS 100 PER CENT PERFECT EXTRA FANCY GRADE in color— that it assures 30 to 50 PER CENT HIGHER MARKET PRICES — that it will mark the beginning of a new era of bigger, surer profits to apple growers. It will take its place with Starking and Golden Delicious as one of the World’s 3 Greatest Apples.
After several years of exacting tests and careful propagation direct from the PARENT STAYMARED TREE in the famous Moomaw Orchards in Virginia, we are glad to announce that, we are now able to furnish Staymared trees to growers alert to this opportunity to add a new source of larger profits to their orchards.
B. C. Moomaw In Whose Orchard Staymared Was Discovered and Original STA YMARED Tree in B. C. Moomaw' s Virginia Orchard
The Great Trio of the Apple World— Staymared, Starking and Golden Delicious
How Staymared Was Discovered
ABOL1T 5 years ago Hon. W. S. Campfield, Secretary Virginia Horticultural Society, wrote us about an amazing SUPER-RED Stayman Winesap Tree fn the noted Stayman Orchards of B. C. Moomaw, located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, famous for its extra fine Stayman apples.
He stated : "This tree is typically Stayman as to leaf, bark and general shape and the
fruit is in every particular a high quality Stayman except as to color, which is a most beautiful mahogany Red All Over. Even fruit on inside of trees and underside branches develops color very uniformly — the most beautiful Stayman I have ever seen.
"This color develops in a marked de¬ gree 2 to 3 weeks earlier than fruit on surrounding Stayman though the tree stands in low, heavy soil that is not
calculated to develop high color.”
Expert Sent To Investigate
We commissioned Garland J. Hopkins, nationally known orchardist, to visit and investigate. His noted Garland Orchards, Troutville, Va., are known everywhere for their superb Staymans, so he was well qualified to pass expert judgment on this tree and its fruit. He reported:
Staymared
Sold Only by Stark Bro’s
Shown in Natural Colors on Inside Front Cover
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“This Tree Is A Real Find!”
“THIS TREE IS A REAL FIND! Even the fruit on the shaded inside branches and on fhe under side of branches showed this same deep, solid red color. I couldn’t Grid a single apple on the whole tree that had even a slightly greenish cast!
“In manner of growth, foliage, health, vigor and general appear¬ ance, this is a typical Stayman tree. The fruit has fine uniform size. While this new Stayman apple colors earlier, it does not ripen any earlier than the old Stayman and it can be picked at the same time.
Better Quality Than Old Stayman
"The fruit has firmer, harder texture and has actually a better eating f quality than the old Stayman. The apples stick as tight to the limbs as though tied on with catgut. In the old Stayman, the lack of keeping quality because of scalding (on poorly colored apples) in storage is sometimes a great defect.
The keeping quality of this new apple will be from 2 to 4 months longer than the old Stayman. Its wonderful all- over red color will prevent storage
We Secured Control Of The Tree
Acting on the advice of all these Experts, we promptly purchased and arranged for the control of all propa¬ gation from this remarkable tree — now known as Staymared (pro¬ nounced Stay-ma-red), the Stark DOUBLE-RED STAYMAN WINE¬ SAP.
Will Multiply Growers’ Profits
— because Staymared’s deep. All- Over Red Color immediately places a very high percentage of the crop in the Extra Fancy Class. This deep, all-over solid red color insures against scalding in stor¬ age — solid red apples do not scald.
ORDER NOW! Supply Limited
Sold ONLY By STARK BRO’S Under Contract
PRICES ON STAYMARED
RECORD BEARING Each 10 100 1000 1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. sizes . $1.50 $1.20 $1 .00 $0.80
3 to 5 ft. “ . . 1.25 1.10 .90 .70
2 to 3 ft. “ 1.00 .90 .70 .60
Prices F. O. B. Nursery. Less than 10 go at
“each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 at 1000 rate.
Write Wholesale Dept. forPrices on 500 or more.
scald.” — Garland J. Hopkins.
Customer must sign Staymared Agree¬ ment on order blank ortrees cannot be shipped.
STAYMAN Winesap — A Great
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Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees — Obtainable FROM STARK ONLY
Frost-Proof Blossom
"Stayman Winesap is a fine, strong tree with frost-proof blossoms. I wish my whole orchard were Delicious, Stayman and a few Jonathan.” — C. M. Fette, V. Pres. Miss. Valley Apple Growers’ Congress.
The Stayman sent you weighed 201? oz. and measured 14 inches in circumference. Grew on a Stark Tree. No weak tree could produce an apple as big and fine.” — Jas. Turner, Pike Co.. Mo.
STAYMARED— All Red STAYMAN— Half Red
Showing the vast difference between the SOLID All-Red color of Staymared and the Half-Red color of the ordinary Stayman.
Stayman Winesap ( Late Winter ) — one of America's greatest long-keeping high quality apples. The most valuable Wine¬ sap (except Staymared) — distinctly striped with carmine; large size, exceedingly hand¬ some. Quality delightfully in- describable ; flesh is juicy and crisp with
The “Record- Bearing” Tree from which all our Stayman Winesaps are grown is from a famous Botetourt Co. , Va.. orchard — selected because of high color and mammoth fruit, vigor and size of tree, and enormous crops, during a 5-year period — one year over 66 bushels. Tree resembles old Winesap, but stronger grower and hardier, being profitably grown in far north apple sections where Winesap will not stand. About thirty years ago the originator, the late Dr. Stayman of Kansas, after trying without success to encourage his friends to take it up wrote us: “There will come a time when all will want it.” Everywhere, in all climates, it has established itself as an orchard leader. In commercial orchards plant Staymared, our “Double- Red” Stayman. (See opposite page.)
mild, pleasing acidity and an amazingly pleasant, spicy flavor. This variety has achieved great popularity among the shrewd apple growers of Virginia, Mary¬ land and in the state of Washington — but they are now planting STAYMARED. (pronounced Stay-ma-red) the improved all-red Stayman, instead. Ex. -Gov. Byrd of Virginia recently planted a large block of Staymared.
Branch Stayman Winesap from 5-yr.-old Tree. Apples always large, even size, beautiful.
This Variety Always Com¬ mands Very High Prices on Eastern Markets
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Early Red Bird
(Known in Canada as Crimson Beauty). Earliest of ALL apples. Strikingly beautiful, flaming scarlet, strawberrv red, good size, ripens 7 to 10 days earlier than Yellow Transparent. Tree strong grower, bears remarkably young, vigorous, extremely hardy and produces tremen¬ dous annual crops. All our Early Red Bird Trees are propagated from the best Parent Tree of known bearing record. JOc more than above prices.
"A. Gold Mine for Early Apple Growers." Have sold for double tne price of Yellow Transparent and Astrakhan. Prof. Sanders. Canadian Dept. Agri., says: “Earliest apple, young bearer half bushel on 2 year trees: better shipper than Yellow Transparent. 15 acres in one year brought Mr. Chute 1,500 bbls. sold at S7.00— or S 10,500.00.” Mr. Adney. son-in-law of Mr. Sharpe, famous originator of this apple, savs “Remarkably prolific, ex¬ tremely hardy, never winter kills. 10 days earlier than earliest apple.
Wilson Red June Summef- Big- Henrv Clav (Trade Mark). Very Early
gest, hand- * * Summer. Large pale yellow
somest mid-summer apple except with crimson cheek. Looks like Maiden Blush, Summer Champion. Glorious deep but better, 2 months earlier and ripens its crop red. Brought $8.00 per bbl. Ripens quickly and evenly. Tree strong -growing, after Red June; good quality. Our fP«ading. regular and abundant bearer; blooms
c r\ • • i late, hardy, and is earlier, larger, better quality
P PS O famous Original and a better shipper than Yellow Transparent.
_ ^ rt:e d'SCOV ered by US in Ark. Hardy. Propagated from Parent Tree direct from Orig- btood 40 below zero. Ships well.
Early Red Bird
Double-Red Duchess
_ 'summer. Combines
with all the desirable qualities of old Duchess that all-important quality of high red color. Described by Dr. Dorsey as true bud sport. Extremely hardy. Will bring top prices. Prop¬ agated by us from recently discovered Double-Red Duchess Parent Trees. 10c extra.
Wealthv FalL Best of a11 fal1 aPP,es- y All our Stark “Record-Bear¬ ing” Wealthy propagated from Zeucher's famous Wealthy Parent Tree in Minn. Noted for hardiness, and extensively grown. Tree a strong, spreading grower, bears ex¬ tremely young and every year. Remark¬ ably free from disease and long lived. Fruit attractive, brilliant red striped, medium to
inal Tree in Hopkins Co., Ky.
large. Quality superb — wonderful, wine- like flavor, refreshing juice. Wealthy is a money-maker for commercial orchardists ev¬ erywhere who plant “Record-Bearing” Strain Trees.
Yellow Transparent Ripens very early. Me- r dium. large, waxen
yellow, crisp, sub-acid. Tree upright, bears young. Hardy. Blight is its great enemy. We prefer Henry Clay. However, our trees are propagated from Parent Tree selected in Ohio Exp. Sta. orchard.
early McIntosh
Summer. An early son of McIntosh and Trans¬ parent. Has made splendid record in N. Y. Exp. Sta. and in our lest Orchard of 1001 Varieties. Never blighted. We truly believe it the BEST high quality very early variety after Early Red Bird. N. Y. Exp. Sta. says: “A seedling of Transparent by McIntosh: Tree strong, vigorous, productive and an ANNUAL bearer. Ripens with Red Astrachan but possesses McIntosh color, shape, size and flesh characteristics. Color, earliness, high quality, make it a most promising apple for DESSERT, kitchen and MARKET.” Ex¬ tremely young bearer in our orchards. Hardy after 30° below zero. 10c Extra.
Summer Champion
Summer. Most Delicious Summer apple. Brilliant, hardy , strikingly beautiful, red striped. Ripens between Wilson Red June and Maiden Blush. Best keeping and shipping summer apple. Has brought as high as SI 2.00 bbl. Splendid flavor. We propagate all our trees from Original Tree in Washington Co.. Ark
Other Summer and Fall Apples
We also grow and offer Early Harvest, Liveland Raspberry, Sweet Bough. Red Jefferis, Old Duchess, American Summer Pearinain, “Triple-Red” Gravenstein (10c extra). Maiden Blush. Imperial Rambo, and Mother. Each variety is propagated from “ Record- Bearing” trees — selected after years of search. PRICES ABOVE.)
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Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees Obtainable ONLY FROM STARK BRO’S
See Prices on Page 19
Stark
King
David
Stark King David
Trade
Mark
Very Popular
WINTER APPLES
Winter *mProvecl redder Jonathan. Does not drop or blight. A cross of ff til lei Jonathan and Winesap. Colors earlier. Can be marketed just before Jonathan are sufficiently colored. Tops Jonathan market at home and abroad. Keeps well in storage until late spring, when it commands extremely high prices. One of the surest croppers — escapes late frosts — bore all over the U. S. when many old standby apples were killed by frost. Young, heavy, annual bearer.
We introduced Stark King David over 25 years ago, and buds cut from original tree produced the special high type, heavy “Record-Bearing” tree selected from among many thousands as the Parent Tree for our future propagation. Jonathan and Stark King David are very similar. About the same size, both solid red, but King David is much darker red — colors up earlier and hangs three weeks longer. Quality even better than Jonathan. Ideal orchard tree — well formed, hardy , vigorous, blight resistant, healthy, long lived.
12 to 16 Bushels per Tree
Fine As cl Filler Tree _ _ Stark King David bore 12 to
16 bushels per tree — writes John E. Walters, New¬ ton Co., Ark. "Stark King David is best of all,”— W. Scott, La¬ clede Co., Mo.
For a filler tree, no variety is better than Stark King David,
B. F. Car- roll, Kear¬ ney Co.,
N ebr. writes:
“Out of 20 vari¬ eties, King David is our best seller. — - better than Jonathan. An annual bearer, free from blight.
Double-Red” Rome
Trade Mark
Winter A deeP solid TTinier DarkRedRome
Beauty. Colors deep red
clear to stem and calyx—
vastly better than Old Rome Beauty. This strain comes from U. T.
Cox, Lawrence Co., Ohio, orchard. From these buds was produced
this Record-Bearing Parent Tree for future propagation. Large, deep
burning red, tender, juicy, excellent cooker — sells at far better prices
than Old Rome. Younger bearer , late bloomer and bears regularly hardy
and heavily when others fail. Price is 10c per tree extra.
“Would Be Cheap at $5.00 Each Compared to These ‘Cheap’ Trees!”
"They would be bargains at $5.00 each compared to those others as gifts!” declared Houser & Sutton, owners 7,000-Stark-Tree orchard, Newton, Ill.
“Last spring I bought 800 trees (wo/ Stark Trees) because of so-called bargain price. I had to throw away about 400 of them as worthless.
“I received a shipment of Stark Trees about the same time. Planted the best of the cheap trees between the Stark Trees.
“Note the difference! Photo No. 1 (below) shows Stark Tree only 1 year 3 months after planting. Photo No. 2 (below) shows one of cheap trees planted at same time!
“See No. 3 (below) Stark Tree planted only 3 months ago. Even it has grown much better than the cheap tree planted 15 months before!”
“ Double-Red 99 Rome Beauty
Photo No. 1 (above) shows a remarkable growth Photo No. 2 (above) is that of another nursery's Photo No. 3 (above) shows a Stark Ttee only 3 of Stark Record-Bearing Strain Tree only 1 year “cheap” tree also 1 year and 3 months after months after planting. Even this very young and 3 months after planting. planting. No.e weakling growth. tree is larger than the 15 mos. old “cheap" tree.
Stark Bro’s at Louisiana, Mo., for 115 Years
Page 19
John Bennett's loaded 3-year-old Stark King David bearing its record crop. Always a late bearer and produces immense crops.
r'sxf.+ l ortrl Late Winter. “A late- ^oruana keepinK McIntosh.” Does not drop. Cross between McIn¬ tosh and Ben Davis by N. Y. Exp. Sta. Tender, juicy. Does espe¬ cially well in New York and New England — other sections, too. Our Parent T ree grown from buds cut from Original Cortland Tree.
Double Red Northern
S D V Winter. This strain “ * from buds cut at N. Y. Exp. Sta. True Northern Spy with deeper, redder color that insures higher market prices. Hardy. 10c extra.
Ra r* a n a Winter. Clear yel-
rsanana low pink blushi
large; distinctive banana flavor. We propagate from "Record-Bearing'' tree at Ohio State Exp. Sta. that averaged 14.8 bu. per year for 14 years.
Golden Delicious is far superior. Hardy.
Senator JT'ade
Winter. Intro¬ duced by us 28 years ago. Cherry red apple; large, juicy, delicious, keeps late. Hardy.
Sweet Delicious
Winter. Hardy child of Stark Delicious originated N. Y. Exp. Sta. Recommended as very sweet red apple. 10c extra.
R. I. Greening n'j”-
Large greenish yellow, fair quality. Our strain from Ohio Exp. Sta. tree with High-Bear¬ ing Record. Ilardy.
Mammoth Black
Tw5ff (Imp. Gilbert.) Late ® Winter. Large, red. Hardy. Bears young, regularly, heavily.
Other Winter Apples
-that we can supply are Faineuse, Baldwin. Spy. Greening, Bellflower Imp., Rome Beauty, York Imperial, Champion and Willow Twig— all Rec¬ ord-Bearing Strains.
Late Winter Big improve¬ ment overGano and Ben Davis. More bushels to tree than any variety except Golden Delicious. Marvelously beautiful. Extremely large glow¬ ing deep blood red, (no stripes) snow white flesh. Hardy. Keeps perfectly, no scald. Always com¬ mands good prices.
D. E. Lewis, Kansas City, Mgr. Central States Orchard Co., says “Black Ben far most satisfactory Ben Davis Type. Not susceptible to canker like Ben Davis.” We introduced Black Ben in 1898. Our propagation from second generation “ Record - Bearing ” tree in Pike Co., Mo. orchard.
McIntosh Red Earlv Winter.
A tender, juicy apple, uniform, fragrant, almost snow white flesh. Very hardy. Our propa¬ gation from “Record-Bearing" tree in orchard of A. E. Jansen, the "McIntosh King." Ulster Co.. N. Y. 1919 bore 51 bu.; 1920, 24 bu.; 1921, 49J$ bu.; 1922, 27 bu.
“Double-Red” Baldwin
Winter. Our New Improved "Double- Red" Strain, from “Double-Red" limb. Richer red than old Baldwin. Above medium, uniform size, juicy. Trees large, spreading, hardy. 10c extra.
Giant Jemton Lale wmter.
Biggest Jeni- ton. Our propagation from Original Tree on ground of J. W. Johnson, Lewis County, Mo. Red striped, juicy, tart, delightful flavor. Makes best ci¬ der. Hardy. Late bloomer — sure bearer.
Double-Red Willow Twig
Late Winter — A vastly improved Willow Twig strain.
Higher col- lored fruit.
10c extra.
Paragon
[Gilbert Strain) Late Winter. “The Glorified Winesap. Large, deep, red, firm, mild, superb quality, keeps ti late spring; does not scald. Tree immense size, spreading, long-lived, bears tremendous crops. We propagate only from a heavy “Record bearing” Parent Tree because of extra high color fruit. Hardy.
Many so-called Paragon Winesapsare simply shy bearing, inferior trees rightly known as “Little Paragon’’ or old “Mammoth Black Twig.”
CRAB APPLES
Winesap
(Stark Virginia strain). Late Winter. We found a remark¬ able Winesap Tree in famous Hopkins Vir¬ ginia Orchard. In Vigor and Regular, Heavy Bearing, this tree has Best Record in the U. S. During 8-year period averagea 15 barrels. Ilardy. Our Splendid “ Vir¬ ginia Strain” Wine¬ sap from this Record- Breaking Tree. We have Exclusive Prop¬ agating Rights.
nrlcFlorpnrp Best red Lrab- Reautl‘ oiarKr lorencc juj ornamental tree. Intro¬ duced by us. We propagate from a Parent tree with tremendous Bearing Record.
Stark Cold Crab gS't'.S’SS
jelly. Tree hardy; vigorous; bears big crops. Intro¬ duced by «' CKAB AppLE PRICES RECORD BEARING Each 10 100 1000
1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size $1.75 $1.60 $1.40 $1.00
.5 to 5 ft. " . 1.50 1.20 1.00 .80
2 to 3 ft. ’• . 1.25 1.10 .90 .70
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
Less than 10 go at "each" rate; 50 or more at 100 rate.
APPLE PRICES, PAGES 18 and 19
|
RECORD BEARING |
Each |
10 |
100 |
1000 |
|
1st Class Stark Trees |
rate |
rate |
rate |
rate |
|
4 to 7 ft. size . |
$1.10 |
$1.00 |
$ .85 |
$ .55 |
|
3 to 5 ft. “ . * . |
.80 |
.75 |
.65 |
.40 |
|
2 to 3 ft. “ Prices F. O. B. Nursery |
.60 |
.55 |
.50 |
.30 |
(Double Red Rome Beauty is 10c per tree extra 1 Less than 10 go at "each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
Black Ben Ma?k
Montmorency Cherry Orchard on Stark Nursery grounds — produced 2,350 gallons per acre, sold at 40c a gallon — 5940,00 an acre.
Page 20 Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees — Obtainable FROM STARK ONLY
Stark Gold K HARDY Sweet
At last, a delicious sweet cherry that is really hardy. Stark Gold Cherry came from Richardson Co., Nebraska, and was introduced by Stark Bro’s. We quote Mr.
the originator: “Surpassed in hardiness any cherry on my place; thermometer often registers 40 degrees
Thomas,
Montmorency
below zero, and average winter reaches 25 to 30
below. Stark Gold never misses a crop. Sells for 3 times the price of other cherries.” Fruit is of immense size, glossy, almost transparent, pure, lustrous golden color without a single touch of red, and the quality is superb. Ripens about 2 weeks later than Early Rich¬ mond, but will hold on to the tree 10 days after ripening. Cherry growers throughout the whole country are enthu¬ siastic over this wonderful sweet cherry, Shown in natural colors on inside back cover.
PAUL STARK Examin- ing 2-Year Old Stark Gold Bearing Good Crop. The introduc¬ tion of this great vari¬ ety gives to the north a sweet cherry of su¬ perb quality.
Our Exclusive Contract
“In consideration of $ .
said C. J. Thomas hereby agrees to furnish said Stark Bro’s all buds, etc., from said Stark Gold Cherry Tree and give said Stark Bro’s exclusive right and control of all buds, etc.
STARK GOLD CHERRY PRICES
RECORD-BEARING Each 10 100
1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . S2.25 $2.00 $1.80
3 to 5 ft. size . 1.75 1.60 1.40
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
Less than 10 go at “each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; for 300 or more, write Wholesale Department for Quantity Prices. Stark Bro' s. Louisiana, Mo.
Montmorency Stark
Mid-Season. Best strain Montmorency. From a tree on our grounds which uniformly bears very large fruit— larger than any other Mont¬ morency. Tree stronger grower than Montmorency King (Ordinaire). Fruit large, flesh firm, ships perfectly; tree strong grower, sure and young bearer, largest of all the sour cherries, very hardy, produces tremendous money-making crops. It is the perfect variety for pies, preserves, cobblers, puddings and other good “eats.” The Montmorencies are the best “so-
called” sour or pie cherries — -
SOUR CHERRY PRICES ( Sweet Cherries are 25c Extra)
RECORD Each 10 100 1000
1st Class Trees rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . Si. 75 Si. 60 Si. 40 $1.00
3 to 5 ft. “ . 1.50 1.30 1.20 .90
Prices F. O. B. Nursery
Less than 10 go at “each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
they are not really sour for Montmorency when fully ripe is sweet and luscious, the favorite of the children. They are the most perfect in tree, resist dis¬ ease, less affected by wet weather, most productive and bear best fruit of all the sours.
See NEW Luther Burbank Cherries On Pages 33- and 34
Page 21
Stark Black Tartarian Improved STARK BRO’S
t cherry trees doesn't Jeser
OTHER CHERRY VARIETIES
30-000 StarkGold Trees in our nursery rows. We have a big stock of big trees this year.
We also offer the following sweet cherries, Royal Anne, Governor Wood and Windsor and the following sour cherries. Mont. Monarch, Mont. Sweet, Royal Duke.
Branch of Montmorency Cherry from 4-yr.-old tree in orchard of Hon. C. B. Kountze.
Sweet, Early. Here's the Hardiest Large Black Sweet Cherry — BLACK TARTARIAN IMPROVED — the ideal hardy teammate of Stark Gold, which is the hardiest yellow sweet cherry. It is being planted almost to the exclusion of all other black sweet cherries by shrewd commercial cherry growers where hardiness or pollenation is required. ( Price same as StarkGold shown on Page 20 opposite.)
This Record-Bearing Strain of Black Tartarian came from the famous cherry7 orchards of Edward Hughes in California and our young Black Tartarian Improved have been propagated DIRECT from his superior Parent Tree.
Mr. Hughes says of this hardy7 variety: — “This strain is at least 100% better in bearing big crops regularly than any other Tartarian I
ever saw. The uniformity of the huge size of its fruit is better than any other I have ever grown! A good pollenizer for Bing, Lambert and Royal Anne (Napoleon). Hardy — bore last year when a succession of heavy frosts took most of our fruit and adjoining blocks of other Tar- tarians proved a total loss!"
Bears regular heavy crops of extra large, black, heart-shaped, pur¬ plish-red fleshed, dark, sugar-juiced cherries. Ships better and SELLS BETTER than old Tartarian Trees can be obtained ONLY from Stark Bro's.
Montmorency King
(Ordinaire) Mid Season. Cannot be too highly recom¬ mended for quality and quantity of fruit, hardiness and beauty of tree, and unfailing crops. Ripens a week or ten days after Early Richmond. Montmorency is the most widely planted of all our cherries, but there is not one-half enough grown to supply the demand for the fruit. The trees do not require much care, and they pro¬ duce immense crops. Montmorency Stark and Montmorency King are ideal for the market
orchard, the home orchard and the small %7ard. ,
nPPinPnl Mid-Season Sweet. One of the largest “Black' Com¬ mercial Sweet cherries and one of the best in quality. Dark, purplish red, turning almost jet black when ripe, firm, rich, sweet, juicy and of splendid quality. Our Record- Bearing Parent Tree is rugged, a strong grower and bears enormous crops every year — even after 24^° degrees below zero. Growing these mag¬ nificent sweet cherries is a great industry
Bing
Early Sweet. One of the most delicious sweet cherries. Succeeds in East better than most sweets. Tree hardy, foliage heavy, productive, should be followed by Lambert, which ripens later. Both these great sorts are favorites in all sections where sweet cherries are grown.
Dyehouse
Black Tartarian Improved— Best, earliest, naratesi ana most profitable black sweet cherry.
t-. I D . i i Early. Ripens week later than
Larly Kicnmona Dyehouse and is not as good as Dyehouse. Medium size, clear, bright red; one of the best known standard sorts. Not so desirable as the Mont¬ morency group.
»* . o _ . MidSeason. A true Montmorency.
Montmorency oweet Sweeterthananyotherstrain. Orig- nated on our grounds where we watched it years before introducing. Introduced by Stark Bro's.
(Royal Anne) Sweet. A large yellow, pink blushed ltapOlcOn sweet cherry. Largely grown. Tree hardy.
Earliest of All. Better than Early Rich-
_ mond, a week earlier, larger, small seed
-best very early cherry. Grown largely all over the United States. Tree thrifty, unusually strong grower, good bearer. For sour cherries, Dyehouse, Montmorency Stark and Suds Hardy is a combination that gives fruit during the entire cherry season all over the U. S.
C J T_I „ „ J ,, _ Late. Wherever a late cherry is wanted. Suda
OUQ& naray Hardy should always be planted. Perfectly hardy and the fruit is produced in immense quantities. Of English Morello type, but larger, not quite so acid, better quality, and produces larger crops. Ripens and comes on the market 10 days after Montmorencies are gone and always sells readily at premium prices. Dyehouse, Mont¬ morency, and Suda Hardy give a long season of luscious money-making fruit and are the three best varieties. Introduced by Stark Bro s.
Bing— Enormous. Sweet. Popular and Profitable.
Dyehouse — Earliest of all Cherries. Very fine.
Lambert— “Sold far 30c per lb. in New York."
Page 22 U. S. Patent Applied For — NEW — Owned and Sold ONLY By Stark
World’s Highest Priced Peach Big As A Quart Cup
30% Larger Than Hale
Bearing Heavy As Elberta
HAL-BLK.1A GIANT, the amazing New Mid-Season Perfect Freestone Yellow Peach — the Giant son of J. H. Hale which FILLS the long-felt market need for a vigorous, supremely HIGH quality, EXTRA LARGE size, prolific, commercial yellow freestone peach to lengthen the Hale-Elberta season.
This great peach originated in the Experiment Orchard
of Hon. J. E. Markham of Clay Co., Ill., a noted experi¬ menter whose orchards have attracted the wide attention of great Horticulturists and Peach Experts. After thoroughly investigating and testing this remarkable peach, WE BOUGHT IT, PAYING THE HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID FOR A PEACH TREE IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY.
HAL-BERTA GIANT Bore At 2 Years — At 4 Years Bore 6 Bushels Half of which WEIGHED NEARLY A POUND EACH
Actual s{ze IJal-Berta Giant peaches ( grown on 4 year tree) showing beautiful shape, deep golden flesh, perfect freestone and huge size — these peaches weighed over a pound each.
SOME years ago we were told of a re¬ markable yellow peach in Illinois. Hor¬ ticulturists and County Agents urged us to investigate this tree.
We sent men who knew peaches like Lindbergh knows an airplane, to quietly in¬ spect the tree, and its golden fruit. The report was — “So marvelous that one must see this tree in order to get a real idea of how Beautiful and BIG peaches can be. Not a single small peach on the tree. These peaches have developed with very little moisture. If moisture had been normal, they would have been STILL BIGGER. Ripens Mid-Season, just after Hale and Elberta. Will continue and lengthen Hale-Elberta season. Has all the delicious flavor and melting, tender
Hal-Bertas From a 4 Year Tree
flesh of J. H. Hale (though 30 per-cent LARGER than Hale)— bears BUMPER CROPS LIKE ELBERTA. Should be TREMENDOUSLY PROFITABLE— THE YELLOW PEACH FOR WHICH WE’VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR PAST 15 YEARS!
“This 4-year-old tree bore 6 bushels — half of peaches WEIGHING NEARLY A POUND. Began bearing at 2 years old.”
So — we purchased it outright and a U. S. Patent on it has been Applied For, to be our sole property forever. We paid a HIGHER PRICE BY FAR, THAN ANY PEACH TREE HAD EVER BROUGHT IN HIS¬ TORY:
First Fruit Patent Applied For
U. S. PATENT on all rights to propagate and sell trees of the "HAL-BERTA GIANT" Peach has already been applied for at the U. S. PATENT OFFICE Washington, D. C. under the New U.S. PLANT PATENT LAW passed last winter by Congress. No one but Stark Bro’s can propagate or sell these Hal-Berta Giant trees.
We will VIG- OROU S LY PROTECT the Public and Ourselv e s against I n - fringers.
Amazingly HARDY and Vigorous
HAL-BERTA GIANT Trees came TRI¬ UMPHANTLY through test Winter of 1930 (26 degrees below Zero) — hardy and vigorous where many Elberta and Hale trees were winter killed to the ground.
Stock Very Limited. Order Quick
“HAL-BARTA GIANT” PEACH PRICES
RECORD BEARING
1st Class Stark Trees .... Each 10 100 1000
4 to 7 ft . $1.50 $1.30 $1.10 $0.80
3 to 5 ft . 1.40 1.20 1.00 .70
2 to 3 ft . 1.30 1.10 .90 .60
Prices F.O.B. Nursery
Less than 10 go at “each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 or more at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
HAL-BERTA HALE
Hal-Berta Giant average size on left compared to Hale grown in the same orchard.
Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees — Obtainable FROM STARK ONLY
Page 23
The Big J. H. Hale Peach
Now Being Planted By Tens of Thousands of Growers
A Bushel Basket of Hales
J. H. Hale Peach (Just Averaga
Size)
\Photo
Below)
J. c.
Taylor
A 4-year-old J. H. Hale Tree ( from Stark Bro s) in orchard of J. C. T ay¬ lor, Ross Co-, Ohio. See size of peaches in bushel basket at right.
"Peaches as Big as Cantaloupes” ( That's what the Columbus, Ohio CITIZEN said about these J . H. Hales grown oy J . C. Tavlor on Stark ' Record Bearing " Strain of J . H Hale Trees.
See article above.)
This famous peach is a Mid-Season ripener — ready to be picked just before 'Elberta. It is the wonderful yellow Freestone that has been talked about all over the nation. Originated by Mr. J. H. Hale, “The Peach King." In size, color, fuzzless skin, texture, flavor, keening and shipping qualities. [. H. Hale surpasses old Elberta. (The first. J. H. Hale trees ever grown in nursery rows were, however, grown by Stark Bro’s (Nurseries). Often sells for S5.00 per bushel when Elberta brings S3. 50. Mammoth in size, vivid carmine over golden yellow, almost perfectly round, fuzzless and smooth as a glove. Commands instant attention on all markets by its Giant size and glorious color. Flesh solid like a cling, yet melting, tender, free from grain and stringiness, is of exquisite peachy flavor — without any of the bitter tang of Elberta; almost as firm as a clingstone.
Former R. R. Man Grows Amazing J. H. Hales on $10 Land — On Stark Trees
The photo of tree at left (bottom) shows crop of 4-year-old J. H. Hale Tree in orchard of J. C. Taylor, Ross Co., Ohio. He was a railroad car inspector 7 years ago. Inspired by reading a Stark Fruit Book, he bought 30 acres of cheap, thicket land for $10. an acre — on 5 years’ time. He planted it to Stark Trees (including Stark Delicious and Stark Golden Delicious, later Starking) and used J. H. Hale and Stark Early Elberta peacn trees as nilers.
His J. H. Hale peaches (from Stark Trees) were the finest shown at the Ohio State Hort. Soc. meeting. They sold for 25 cents per peach and the demand was greater
than the supply. (See article from Columbus, O., Citizen near peach basket cut below.)
“I Give The Credit Of My Success To Stark Trees!”
—writes J. C. Taylor, Ross Co.. Ohio (photo above loaded tree). “And the advice I re¬ ceived from Stark’s in regard to the selection of varieties. I planted some of the old time varieties from other nurseries, but they never amounted to anything. In fact, I cut the most of them out last fall.
“We have planted 40 acres more just north of Springfield and intend to plant 60 acres more. Are ( planting all Stark “Record Bearing’’ Strain Trees.
“Our peach trees began bearing 3 vears ago — and we have picked 3 crops irom them. Your “Record Bearing” Strain J. H. Hale and Stark Early Elberta are certainly wonders. I get twice as much money for my peaches grown on Stark “Record Bearing” Strain Trees as the other fellows do with their Elbertas and old time varieties.
“And 7 years atro I didn’t know any more about a fruit tree than I did about an aeroplane.”
A Wonderful Shipper
J. H. Hale’s shipping ability is really marvelous — have been actually shipped in barrels like potatoes — 1,000 miles and arrived in good condition. Tree a stocky grower, often bears at 2 years old. Bears heavily and has proved its adaptability to a wide range of soils and climates but does best, properly pollenated, in good land. The N. J. Exp. Sta. says: — "From our experience J. H. Hale is a much superior peach commercially to Elberta — and an extraordinarily good shipper. "
“Can You Beat These Peaches — Big
As Cantaloupes!”
— From Columbus (Ohio) Citizen
Here’s part of tne encnusiastic praise of J. C. Taylor’s J. H. Hale Peaches (grown on Stark Record-Bearing Strain Trees) in Co¬ lumbus, Ohio, Citizen last Sept. 19 “ Peaches os big as cantaloupes — that is what you see in this basket (below). These (J. H. Hale) peaches were grown by J. C. Taylor on the north side of a big hill in Ross Co. Some are almost 5 inches in diameter. Experts ex¬ pressed the opinion that these peaches were the finest in the world. Mr. Taylor disposed of his fruit at 25 cents per peach.”
Peach Trees Very Scarce
Huge quantities of peach seed are required every' year to grow young peach trees. We use many carloads of our Special Native Natural Mountain seed (the best). 2 yrears ago there was a very short mountain peach crop. Therefore, a shortage of seed. Luckily’ for us — and you, our customers — we had a full supply. Most nurseries did not.
Result — veryr SHORT Supply of Peach Trees We advise EARLY orderingl
J. H. HALE PEACH PRICES
RECORD Each 10 100 1000
1st Class rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size $ .95 $ .90 $ .80 $ .60
3 to 5 ft. ... .85 .80 .70 .50
2 to 3 ft. “ . .75 .70 .60 .40
Prices F. O. B. Nursery
Less than 10 go at ‘ each" rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Quantity Prices on 500 or more.
Page 24
GENUINE Original Tree Strain Stark Early Elberta — Obtainable FROM STARK ONLY
Stark Early Elberta
Greatest Yellow Freestone Peach of the Century
Ripens Early Mid-Season
STARK EARLY ELBERTA — as developed by Stark Bro’s Nurseries — is the yellow Peach of the Century. The huge golden globes of fruit it bears in such astonishing abundance are now famous wherever peaches are grown. The genuine Stark Early Elberta is a beautiful golden yellow, blending into a glorious red on the sunny side; a strong, protecting skin, covering a luscious flesh that is flavored with a juice as sweet as nectar. It is the finest eating peach in'the world and it is also the finest canning peach. Clear golden juice— no red at pits when canned. It allures with its beauty, gratifies with its quality, and sells for top market prices everywhere. The peach lovers of the nation have put upon it the stamp of their approval, and it is today the most-talked-of and best-liked of all quality peaches.
Ripens 2 Weeks Earlier Than Old Elberta Best of 4,000,000 Varieties Tested 30 Years
As compared with old Elberta, it is larger, 10 days to 2 weeks earlier, more highly colored, decidedly better in quality, the World's Record Shipper, not so fuzzy, has a smaller seed, with none of the bitterness or coarseness so noticeable in old Elberta, and is not stringy.
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 much hardier than Old Elberta and will bear as many bushels as old Elberta or any other known variety.
From every standpoint of consumer and little and big fruit growers, the genuine Stark Early Elberta is to all other peaches what the genuine Stark Delicious is to all other apples. The discovery and development of both by Stark Bro’s mark two giant strides toward the betterment of orchards and fruit growers’ profits during our Century of Success.
Stark Early Elberta was selected as best by us after 30 years of experiment with nearly 4.000.000 peach seedlings.
The original Stark Early Elberta was developed from a Stark Bro’s seedling tested out in the orchard of Dr. Sumner Gleason of Kaysville, Utah. From his original orchard — from genuine Record- Bearing Stark Early Elberta trees that bear extra quality fruit, we receive genuine Stark Early Elberta buds.
No one else can get them. Here is the proof:
"Stark Bro's N. & O. Co.
"Dear Sirs:
"This i9 to inform you that 1 have never supplied buds from the original Early Elberta tree or other trees of the same variety to any nursery except Stark Bro’s, Louisiana, Mo.
“Very truly,
SUMNER GLEASON.”
From these original, true-to-name buds are grown hundreds of thousands of Stark Early Elberta trees that go forth every year from Louisiana, Mo., to bring delight to all peach lovers — and marvelous profits to fruit-growers.
Bring 100 Per Cent More Than Old Elberta
“The fact that Stark Early Elberta reaches the market a week to 10 days ahead of original Elberta often makes a difference of 100 per cent increase on the market price. There is no peach that compares with it for qual¬ ity. Its habit of young, hearty bearing makes it all that could be desired. Trees are vigorous and hardy.’’ — U. F. Hansen, Logan, Utah.
Best Peach For Home Garden
“Genuine Stark Early Elbertas are the most satisfactory peaches we have ever grown in our thirty years of home fruit gardening. They are very fine and have an ex¬ cellent color and flavor.” — J. W. Murphy, Editor Saturday Post, Des Moines Co. Iowa.
The greatest horticultural genius of America shares our enthusiasm. He writes:
“Stark Early Elberta is one of the hand¬ somest, most shapely and beautifully colored of peaches. The quality fully carries out its appearance. A model peach! Congratu¬ lations!”
Why Stark Early Elberta Trees Thrive, Grow, Bear Very Young And Continue To Bear Very Heavily
“STARK TREES BEAR FRUIT" because all Stark Trees and particularly all Stark Early Elberta trees, have strong, healthy, disease-resistant bodies — perfect root systems and are in every way perfect. We reject tens of thousands of trees grown in our nurseries every year — and burn them if they are found imperfect. We sell only first quality stock, all culls and “seconds” go to the bonfire.
Elberta
Brought $6.00 Bu. In Ill.
“Stark Early Elberta sold at Mt. Sterling, Ill., for $3.00 per bushel, and sold as high as $6.00 in many instances.” — R. M. Barnett, Brown Co., Ill.
Bore At 2 Years In Kansas
“My Stark Early Elberta trees bore their first crop at 2 years. It is the hardiest, most profitable and superior in quality to any other.” — O. J. Taylor, M. D., Sedgwick, Kans.
Grow As Big As Pint Cup
“Stark Early Elberta in my orchard were larger than a pint cup and nearly 20 days earlier than old Elberta.
Could not supply the de mand.” — S. W. Gray,
Pendleton Co., Ky.
Stark Early
“Congratulations on Early Elberta!” — Luther Burbank
Ordinary Elberta
Stark Early Elberta
Average specimen peaches grown in the same orchard under identical conditions and picked the same day — old Elberta peach at left — Stark Early Elberta at right.
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Holds World’s Long Distance Shipping Record
Bro’s at Louisiana, Mo., for 115 Years
Dr. Sumner Gleason
Over 11,000 Miles Without Damage!
THIS is the famous Record-Breaking Long Distance Peach Shipment you have read about in your farm paper. The photo above shows opening a box of Stark Early Elberta after a journey of 11,509 miles. Six boxes shipped from Utah by Dr. Sumner Gleason to H. W. Collingwood, Editor Rural New Yorker. He re-shipped them to Dr. E. J. Wickson, Calif. Exp. Sta.,
who shipped them to E. H. Favor, Editor Fruit Grower, St. Joseph, Mo., who shipped them to us at Louisiana, Mo. They were in perfect condition, so we sent them on for a second visit to Editor Collingwood. He examined them and returned to us — completing a remarkable journey, 11,509 miles, without an ounce of ice, in good shape, and “crisp and juicy to the last.”
C. M. Felte's (Mo.) Loaded 2-Year-Old Stark Early Elberta (above)
Enormous Stark Early Elbertas on way to Packing Sheds — Old Elbertas in this orchard were still green.
Brings Top Prices in Tennessee
“I have Alton, Elberta Queen and Elberta Cling, but Stark Early Elberta leads them bv long odds; about two weeks earlier than El- berta Queen. We have a number of fine sorts, but Stark Early Elberta brought 50c per bushel more than any of them.” — A. N. Nesbitt, Humphreys Co., Term.
2-Year Trees Bear Half Pound Peaches
“The Stark Early Elberta is ‘some’ peach. I grew six half-pound peaches on two-year- old genuine Stark Early Elberta Trees ("from Louisiana, Mo.), planted two years ago last April — big beauties, certainly.” — ;D. J. Mc¬ Cracken, Contributing Editor Live Stock World, Paxton, Ill.
“Brings Me More Money Than Anything Else I Grow!”
B. Carine, Connecticut's, greatest peach grower landed in Connecticut 25 years ago with S22 in his pocket. Today he owns immense orchards containing 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 1 grow. I have received at the rate of S2.70 per crate when the old Elbertas were averaging the same season only SI .50.
“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 any¬ where — extremely hardy, sure bearers.
"I 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. I can't afford to grow old Elbertas. when I know from experience that the Stark Early Elbertas are much more profitable."
Be Sure You Get Gen¬ uine Stark Early Elberta
The claims made on this page refer only to genuine Stark Early Elberta trees, com¬ ing 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.
Stark Bro’s Exclusive Con¬ tract for Early Elberta
In consideration of $ . 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 origi¬ nal tree to the sole use and control of Stark Bro’s; said Sumner Gleason agrees to per¬ sonally supervise the cutting of buds from original bearing tree or any parent tree.
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Mavflower |
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♦Red Bird Cling |
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*June Elberta |
♦Illinois |
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Arp Beauty |
♦♦J. H. Hale |
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Greensboro |
Giant Snowball |
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♦Early Rose |
♦Stark Summer Heath ♦♦Hal-Berta Giant |
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♦Eureka |
♦Golden Sweet Cling |
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♦Early Mamie Ross |
♦Holsinger Salway |
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♦Alton |
♦.Shipper's Late Red |
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Valiant |
♦Crawford Late Imp. |
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Golden Jubilee |
♦Chair's Choice |
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Carman |
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Rochester |
LATE |
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♦Late Elberta |
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Eclipse |
♦Big Indian Blood Cling |
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Fox Seedling |
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Page 26 Stark Bro’s Record-Bearing Strain Trees — Obtainable FROM STARK ONLY
■All Peaches Pictured (6 Big Trees) for .Only $4
June
Elberta
Our GOLD MEDAL Collection
6 Finest YELLOW Peaches $4.00
EaWz'esf Yellow Semi-Freestone^ (Introduced by Stark Bro’s). The ' ' <4*111 Yl V earliest ripening peach of the Elberta type — ripens at the same time as Red Bird Cling. By planting June Eluerta, Stark Early Elberta, J. H. Hale, Elberta (our improved Stark Strain), Elberta Cling, Late Elberta and Krummel October, you are assured a succession of glorious yellow peaches from June till heavy October frosts.
It is a big, handsome peach that ripens with the very earliest — and resists rot. Because of rich yellow color, large size, good shipping qualities and Extreme Earliness it brings top Enormously productive, young bearer, vigorous. Extremely hardy. Thrives wherever grow.
Win. H. Welch, Salem, Mo. reports: "Half bushel to three pecks June Elberta on 2-year- old tree. By far the best early peaches I ever saw. They ripen evenly, the flavor is fine and the flesh is a deep rich yellow clear to the seed."
B. Carine, the Peach King of Connecticut, writes: "One of the heaviest bearers in my or¬ chard-— a great money maker." Ripens 34 days before Elberta, Very hardy. (Price, 10c Extra).
Cf ckvlr FT 9i*lir a Greatest Early Yellow Freestone. (Introduced by Stark
OiarKCany E-IDerta Bro.Si) Xhe greatest of the Elberta type. See pages 24 and 25 for full description and Prices.
Ripens 14 days before Elberta. Very hardy.
Mid-season Yellow Peach. (Introduced by Stark Bro’s). An Elberta — with all the Elberta characteristics of heavy bearing great size, except it is a cling-stone, of splendid flavor. It is an exceptionally fine cling — and as such always will demand a big price on the market. It is a fine shipper and tremendous producer. J. C. Blythe, Buchanan Co.. Mo., reports: "From 6 trees I gathered more than 100 baskets.” Profitable because good cling peaches ar£ always scarce. Ideal for pickling, canning and preserving.
The tree is a sure cropper — bears heavily — and has never disappointed us in many years in our orchards.
Ripens 3 days before Elberta. Ilardy.
Mid-season Yellow Freestone. The wonderful money-making team¬ mate of Stark Early Elberta. See Page 2 * for full description and Prices. Ripens same time as Elberta or can be picked a few days earlier — Hardy.
rvipens i ** nays Deiore tioeri
J. H. Hale
ELBERTA (STARK STRAIN) ISJtTuZ
years of experimenting, observing and testing enable us to offer peaches of the Elberta type ripening throughout the season. Plant June Elberta, Stark Early Elberta, J. H. Hale, Hal- Berta Giant, Late Elberta, and Krummel October for big profits. Our Stark Strain of Elberta is a larger, superior one — Hardy.
f7TTIk^17!l^niViT3Yl1 *1 91 *1 (Greatest of all late Peaches). Latest Yellow Frce- stone. (Introduced by Stark Bro’s). This yellow, freestone peach ripens after all other good peaches are gone — reaches markets at- the time when it has no competition! Always brings highest prices.
Krummel is immense in size — almost as round as J. H. Hale, deep yellow, with a blush of carmine on the sunny side. No peach is sweeter or better — no bitterness whatever next to the pit. Flesh firm and of fine texture — ships perfectly. lias quality almost equal to Stark Early Elberta which is the finest of all peaches man can grow. Ripens 40 dnvs after Elberta. —Hardy _ _
OTHER YELLOW FLESHED VARIETIES
Late Elberta
Stark Early Elba
Late Yellow Freestone. Rest sort between Hal- Berta Giant and Krummel. Looks exactly like Ell>erta — far better flavor. Fine shipper. Comes on market when vellow peaches bring top prices. Tree fine in growth, bearing, hardiness.
RiDcns 14 days after Elberta. Hardy. 10c above regular peach tree prices.
FJn Mid-season Yellow Free- Lae stone Large, excellent
hipper Hard"
Golden Sweet Cling i^'ucr
any Lemon or Orange Cling. One of the juiciest, sweetest of all clings. Ripens 4 days before Elberta Hardy. (5c Extra.)
October Elberta
handsome peach that looks like Elberta but is larger. Quality better. Our propa¬ gation is from a Record-Bearing Parent Tree. Comes in just ahead of Krummel and is profitable. Ripens 26 days after Elberta. Hardy. (10c Extra).
Crawford Early Improved
’ellow Freestone. Better quality and than old Crawford Early — the best peach of this type. Hardy.
Japan Golden Giant
Propagated direct from Japan Experiment Station No. 2 imported by us 10 years ago. Immense size, beautiful yellow, marbled with red. Quality delicious — juicy, sweet, pure golden flesh. Bears heavily. Ripe 9 days before Elberta. (Price, Sc Extra).
Crawford Late Improved
Late Yellow Freestone . Larger, better quality, hardier, surer bearer than old Crawford Late. Hardy.
Other Yellow Sorts Yal.i*nt-
Golden
Jubilee. Eclipse, Chairs Choice. Salway <5c Extra) Worth. Shippers Late Red. (JOcEx).
RED FLESHED PEACH
Big Indian Blood Cling
Fie si
Biggest, handsomest peach of all Blood Clings. ( 10c Extra).
Krummel
October
Prices on oppo
J. H. Hale
See NEW Luther Burbank Peaches On Page 34
Page 27
Our SILVER MEDAL Collection
6 Best WHITE Peaches $4.00
Best very early white peach (Intro- duced by Stark Bro’s). The first big peach (as large as Elberta) that is ready for market. Bert Johnson, the Peach King of Arkansas, who harvested over 1,000 carloads of peaches from his 4,600-acre orchard this last year, despite country¬ wide frosts and freezes, received $4.00 to $4.50 per bushel for his Red Birds.
It has been a sensation almost from the year that we introduced it. Bright, glowing color “red as fire ' — with creamy snow-white flesh of fine firmness (unlike some extremely early peaches) which makes it a wonderful shipper. Exceptionally free from rotting. c onto the market (so very early) this magnificent peach
finds folks keenly hungry for fruit. The prices Red Birds bring are ph^omenal. Ripens 45 days ahead of Elberta. Very Hardy . EV77!ff Larly White Semi-Free (Introduced by Stark Bro's). j \\onderfully colored, white fleshed freestone. Sweet, juicy, luscious. We introduced Alton — and it has scored a sensational suc¬ cess. Tree extremely vigorous, hardy. Recently when 32 degrees be- low zero killed practically all peach crops, Alton made crop. “Alton trees have borne every year since they came into bearing. I know one ^ grower who has had Altons 8 or 9 years, which missed but one crop.”
— U. L. Coleman, a South Missouri orchardist.
Late White (Introduced by Stark % ^ ■ 1 7l M ill*! Bro’s). Our own strain of Heath Cling.
Michigan Experiment Station declared this peach to be more than 100 per cent more productive than the old Heath Cling.
. ^ ^ have been growing this strain for many years and use it exclusively in our own plantings. The fruit is tender, melting, juicy and most lus¬ cious. Ships splendidly. Ripens 40 days after Elberta. Hardy.
Early While Semi-Free (In- o» 1 o ,, , Mid -sea
troduced by stark Bro's). Mark bummer Heath iAtL
All Peaches Pictured ( 6 Big Trees) for Only $4
Red Bird
ifriB
Eureka
Hardie>t white freestone peach. Has even borne fair crop after 32 degrees below zero freeze totally destroyed all other buds. Beautiful, rosy-cheeked, with milk-white flesh of delightful flavor. Ripens 35 days ahead of Elberta. Hardiest.
Cling. Creamy white peach of Heath type. Snow white flesh clear to pit. Large, hand¬ some, luscious and sweet — a wonder for can¬ ning, requires very little sugar. Extremely hardy. Sure bearer. Ripens 7 days after Elberta.
Illinois -^id-season White Freestone (Introduced by Stark Bro's). Large, handsome.
Trade Mark ~ndu"C?ee pe?ch< pure ^lte flesh, juicy,. spicy, highest flavor. Exception- mara ally hardy, tree from rot. Ships splendidly.
OTHER WHITE VARIETIES
PEACH PRICES, PAGES 22 and 27 (Except Stark Early Elberta and J. H. Hale) RECORD BEARING 1st Class Stark Trees
Each 10 100 1000
rate rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . $ .90 $ .85 5 .75 $ .50
3 to 5 ft. “ . 75 .70 .60 .40
2 to 3 ft. “ . .65 .60 .50 .30
Prices F. O. B. Nursery
Less than 10 go at "each" rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; 300 at 1000 rate. Write Wholesale Dept, for Prices on 500 or more.
Belle of Georgia
Mid Season White Freestone. Large size, bright red blush, flesh rich creamy white, delicious. A big money maker. W’e propagate from a special Record Bearing-Tree that bears tremendous crops. Ri¬ pens 8 days before Elbert
— . . . . " " ^ . E-ioerta -
We also supply Giant Snowball, Carman, Champion Early Mamie Ross, Early Rose, Hyslop Cling (5c Extra), Rochester Heath, Martha Fern Cling (5c Extra), Mayflower, Old Mixon Free Improved
(5c Extra), Hiley (5c Extra), and
W'ashing- y' ■ ton. S.
Alton
Stark
Summer
Heath
Stark Heath cling
Illinois
ColIecfTBK^Io. 8
“SILVER MEDAL” Peache*
All 6 Varieties Pictured Only $4 — Largest Tr«
Page 28 Luther Burbank’s NEW Fruit Creations Obtainable ONLY From Stark Bro’s, Louisiana, Mo.
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^ The World’s Three Greatest Creative Minds ^
THREE men stand out in the modern world above all others as great mountain peaks o’er-shadow hills below. These three Master Minds are: LUTHER BURBANK, the gentle Genius of Horticulture and Floriculture, the Master Plant Breeder of all Time; THOMAS EDISON, the wizard of Electricity and Mechanics, the Master Inventor of the World;
HON. E. P. Powell declared: “If Burbank is the Creator, Stark Bro’s are the Saviours” — referring to the creation of new fruits and their introduction. Because, for a generation, Stark Bro’s had been first and foremost in acclaiming the merit of and providing the introduction of the best of Burbank’s New Fruits.
HENRY Ford, the Creator of the Modern Auto Motor the man who Revolutionized Transportation.
The creative genius of these three men has, in just a generation, developed more and greater forward movements for the betterment of life- enjoyment of mankind, than have been accom¬ plished by all the billions of men who have trod the earth since the days when the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans ruled the civilized World.
It was with a deep sense of responsibility that we, because of Luther Burbank’s dying request, took up his Life Work when the Master Plant Breeder passed on. Our determination to carry on that great work on the same exalted plane ta which he has raised it, was strengthened immeasurably by a historic statement made years ago by that beloved horticulturist,
E. P. Powell, whose name and fame are written high 1 n the annals of Horticulture.
THE THREE GREAT AMERICANS— LUTHER BURBANK, HENRY FORD AND THOMAS EDISON— WERE GREAT FRIENDS
So, we consecrate ourselves to this great and necessary work. We pledge ourselves to preserve and continue to carry on the great Burbank’s experiments and research work, so that we will keep faith with his ideals and be worthy of the public faith. We shall bring to the people of the world the New and Proven Better Horticultural Wonders created by this Genius of the Fruit and Flower Kingdoms just as fast as our exacting tests of each fruit and flower can be successfully completed — fruit and flowers the h ke of which never before grew on this Earth — colors, and sizes and odors of flowers and flavors, and beauty and • sizes of fruits hitherto unknown
' to Man.
,ii Some of these are for the FIRST
TIME brought before you in this cat- alog. Your trust in the New Burbank Fruits here introduced to you will f°und completely justified.
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See Bottom Page 30 for PRICES on ALL Burbank’s Fruit Creations
Luther Burbank — “World's Wizard of Horticulture
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LUTHER BURBANK, recognized in every country as the outstanding Plant Breeder of all time, was a man of almost Saint-like unselfishness.
For over half a century, with little promise of reward, he labored incessantly for the benefit of his fellow man. For financial returns he cated little — and practically every dollar that came to him went back into his Breeding Orchards and his Laboratories. He died a poor man — but he left as an inheritance untold wealth and health and
enjoyment for all the peoples of the earth and for the millions of men of generations yet unborn.
It is typical of this great man that he sleeps his last long sleep beneath the sheltering boughs of a tree he planted in the center of the garden he loved— and at his request no slab marks his grave. But hundreds of Marvelous Fruit Creations, the product of his patient labor, will build for him a monument more enduring than granite.
He always worked with a definite object in view. Take, for instance, the blood-fleshed plums — the tens of thousands of crosses made on this class of fruit for the purpose of securing highest quality, largest size and a succession of ripening. Elsewhere on these pages is shown these red-fleshed fruit marvels that resulted from years of breeding, selecting, testing and rejecting.
At the time of his death he had collected in his Mystery Orchard (where only a few privileged persons were ever permitted) hundreds of wonderful new
hybrid fruits of outstanding merit. In this Wonder Orchard, Burbank, the Wizard, had systematically evolved plums of every class, type and group that will probably make all other plums as antiquated and out- of-date within the next ten years, as is the old-fashioned ox-cart he drove, as a boy. back in Massachusetts.
He has created a whole family, covering the entire ripening season, of Huge, Delicious, Blood-Fleshed Plums. He has bred a family of absolutely NEW- TYPE Golden-Skin, Golden-Fleshed plums ripen¬
U. S. PATENT APPLIED FOR
ing all season long. He has created a NEW family of
immense Scarlet-Skin Golden Fleshed Plums for
all seasons. He ha^ produced a family of Blue- Skinned, Sugar-Sweet, freestone prunes and a family of Golden-Skin, Golden Fleshed Prunes. He has bred marvelous and unique hybrids like the small ’‘Cranberry” plum clusters on the limb like grapes on the vine. He worked a lifetime to create a Beautiful Purple-Leaf Plum that would bear Delicious Fruit and finally succeeded.
No. 15 — Burbank’s FLAMING DELICIOUS Plum
Half-Brother of ELEPHANT HEART— But 2 Weeks Earlier
BURBANK’S Great FLAMING DELICIOUS Plum — Early, Red-Flesh, Freestone. After years of careful testing, our experts agree that this is the outstanding variety of all the many hybrids of this type produced by Mr. Burbank — a hit EARL\ Team¬ mate for Elephant Heart which is its Half-Brother. Ripens
about two weeks ahead of Elephant Heart and should be planted with it to lengthen the season of plums of this type. FLAMING DELICIOUS and ELEPHANT HEART are the two largest plums we have yet discovered. One limb only as big around as a man’s thumb bore 28 huge Flaming Delicious — the size of tennis balls.
2 Weeks Earlier Than Elephant Heart
When we finally decided to introduce ELEPHANT HEART, our experts agreed that FLAMING DELICIOl'S was its equal, and an ideal team-mate if further test proved it hardy. Last winter, with thermometer down to 24J4° below Zero, FLAMING DELI¬ CIOUS came through in good condition, both young trees recently planted in orchards and older trees as well.
From a standpoint of hardiness FLAMING DELICIOUS will stand with ELEPHANT HEART and it can be safely planted almost anywhere that plums will grow. When Mr.
Stark first discovered this marvelous early plum he said: “This one huge, early wonder plum is worth more to fruit growers of America than all the time and money spent on the Burbank Gardens and Breeding Orchards.’’ This statement was made the first year we took over Luther Burbank s work. It will create a sensation wherever planted.
Fruit is enormous size — full grown speci¬ mens measuring to 2z/\ inches or more in diameter. Color beautiful waxy, shining red, while TITF. FLESH IS A GLORIOUS BLOOD
RED clear to the pit. (See illustration No. 15 on Center Spread.) The flavor is what the name implies — Delicious — Sweet — Rich — -and Juicy. A Perfect Freestone, has small seed, and unlike most plums, so firm that it ships and goes on the market in splendid condition. Tree in both nursery and orchard is a splendid, vigorous grower. A late bloomer — just with ELEPHANT HEART and other late bloom¬ ing kinds. Ripens two weeks ahead of ELE¬ PHANT HEART. The supply of trees this year is limited — Order Early.
(See No 15 on C, fnter Spread)
Actual
Size
Burbank’s FLAMING DELICIOUS Plum No. 15
“An Early ELEPHANT HEART’’
U. S. Paten Applied For
No. IS— FLAMING DELICIOUS— Illustration (Above) Actual Size Made From Official Plates Filed in U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C.
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Luther Burbank’s NEW Fruit Creations Obtainable ONLY From Stark Bro’s, Louisiana, Mo.
A fit companion for ELEPHANT HEART and FLAM¬ ING DELICIOUS — a. favorite with Mr. Burbank because of its richness, sweetness , size and beauty.
When we took over the Burbank Experimental Farms
A Delicious Crimson Flesh Mid-Season Blood-Flesh Freestone
this variety was literally loaded with Big Crimson Flesh plums nearly as large as Elephant Heart, but rounder — many 2J4 in. in diameter despite tremendous loads trees were carrying.
Mr. Burbank described it: —
“Big, crimson flesh — firm — small seed — • sweet as sugar, rich and full of Delicious Juice — bears annually. Tree a fine, strong grower." In a letter to us twenty years ago, he said: “I would not overstate the value of a variety
under any circumstances” — and we have always found this true. RED ACE is a wonderful shipper and maintains its firmness and wonderful quality for a long time. Fruit hangs tightly to the tree with no sign of rot three weeks after main crop has been gathered.
Very young bearer and hardy, has never winter killed, even after 24J^ degrees below zero. Fruit so beautiful and delicious that the markets will always take them at pre¬ mium prices.
C See No. 7 on Center Spread)
No. 3— JUNE BLOOD
Very Early Blood
the Earliest, Big Blood Plum among Bur¬ bank's Creations. Burbank says: — “A rich, delicious, deep purple plum. Sweet, juicy, rich. Largest of all plums ripening at this season. Flesh amber rosy-crimson (some¬ times variegated).” Great and regular bearer. Semi-Cling. After years of testing this superb, Extremely Early plum is the best of all the very early Blood-Fleshed kinds. Flesh dark red near skin, shading to light crimson or salmon near the small seed.
Excellent for home use, roadside market and local market.
(See No. J on Center Spread)
No. 10— PURPLE PLUMCOT
(Half Plum — Half Apricot)
Luther Burbank was the first man in all history to cross two distinct kinds of fruit. These he called Pluincots, because the cross producing this new fruit was between Plum and Apricot.
PURPLE PLUMCOT considered by him best of all Red-Fleshed varieties. Large size from IJ4 to 2 inches in diameter. Beautiful dark purplish red, flesh blood red clear to pit. Flesh parts from pit when fully ripe, but clings slightly while fruit is ripening.
Pronounced best of 66 varieties of plums and plumcots ripening at same time. (early) Bore after 24 Vi° below zero.
(See No. 10 on Center Spread)
No. 77— RED CANNONBALL
Early Blood-Fleshed Cling
Of enormous size and remarkable beauty — - a glorious red, with tiny dots and a distinctive bluish bloom. Flesh very deep red — one of reddest of Red-Fleshed sorts, very much resembling Color Plate No. 7, except that it is more round. Quality delicious — a pure plum flavor, with spiciness to make it an ideal all-purpose plum — for eating fresh, for pre¬ serves, jellies, pickles and marmalades.
Hold up well after taken from tree and good shipper. However, does not ship quite as perfectly as ELEPHANT HEART, FLAM¬ ING DELICIOUS or RED ACE— Sweet.
New Burbank GOLD-FLESH, GOLD-SKIN Plums
Plant a Very Early, an Early and a Mid-Season Variety of the GOLD-FLESH , GOLD-SKIN Family
No. 11 — GREAT YELLOW! No. 16- HEART-OF-GOLD I No.lll— ORANGE BALL
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u. s. patent applied for Early Yellow Mid-Season Yellow
Very Early Yellow Freestone
When our Superintendent paid his first visit to the California Burbank Orchards, he labeled this tree as largest and very most outstanding solid golden plum of all. He said: — “Large as an apple — huge, wonderfully beautiful pure golden plum. A Freestone when fully ripe, excellent quality and very tiny seed for such a large plum.” The name, GREAT YELLOW was given it by Luther Burbank himself. It is, in our judgment, the best of the Early Yellow Plums.
“The introduction of
GREATYELLOWSoundsDeath
Knell of Yellow Plums Now Grown”
An Early golden yellow plum of great size and surpassing beauty. Tree an immense cropper — fruit is uniform large size and hangs well to tree.
This golden heart shaped plum will be most popular, for there are very few really good yellow plums grown — and there is a great demand. HEART-OF-GOLD has superb quality, firm yet juicy, delicious sweet flavor. Bears extremely young, and bears heavy crops. Thoroughly hardy tree — no damage after 24J4 degrees below zero. (See No. 16).
Exceedingly large round orange-yellow plum, thick strong skin and golden orange Apricot flavored flesh— firm, juicy and meaty, with seed extremely small for a huge plum. Often measures 2l/i inches in diameter and a loaded tree is a glorious sight. In this great hybrid plum the best blood of both European and Japanese parents. A good shipper and keeps splendidly.
Tree hardy, most vigorous and a remark¬ ably heavy bearer. Resembles No. 16
No. 5— HONEY MOON— A Luscious GREEN GAGE Hybrid j
A Big Golden Plum ot Remarkable and Entrancing Flavor — MID-SEASON YELLOW
is the judgment of plum experts who have watched this splendid Giant Golden Burbank Creation. Top budded limbs only a year and a half old bore a splendid crop of huge plums in North Missouri, after 14 degrees below zero. The beauty of this huge translucent golden plum is beyond description, and its remarkable size will command instant atten¬ tion on any market or fruit stand. The flesh is very solid, and holds up remarkably well in shipping, having carried 2500 miles with¬ out refrigeration during hottest weather and arrived in excellent condition. There is no other really good early season Freestone yellow plum.
(See No. 1 Center Spread)
The Gages have long been the standard of excellence among plums — and their sweet alluring flavor has made them a great table delicacy — and now, Mr. Burbank has produced A GREAT GLORIOLTS GOLDEN YELLOW PLLTM with much of the Gage quality. Its name is HONEY MOON — of large size, pure (almost transparent) golden yellow with flavor very much like a perfectly ripened Green Gage. Every man, woman or child who eats one will want more. Mr. Burbank successfully combin¬ ed the delicious flavor of the Gages with the heavy bearing qualities of the Japanese Hybrids. Tree a strong grower, bears tre¬ mendous crops — and produces crops every year. Hardy — bore after 24 below zero, which insures success where any of the good plums will grow.
(See No. 5 on Center Spread)
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New Burbank RED-SKIN, GOLD-FLESH Plums
No. 13— MAMMOTH CARDINAL
U. S. PATENT APPLIED FOR
Early Red-Skin, Gold-Flesh
All who have seen this glorious plum unanimously pronounce it “A Winner" — the largest, Red-Skinned , Golden-Fleshed plum ever seen — as large as 2% inches in diameter. Because of surpassing firmness it is a wonder-
A Huge, Red-Skin, Gold-Flesh Creation of Surpassing Beauty
ful shipper. Probably very best of Red-Skinned, Yellow- Fleshed group. Its brilliant, striking Cherry- Red-All- Over color attracts the eye wherever it is offered for sale. Its huge size will sell it, its quality will satisfy, and its splendid shipping ability make it one of most profitable of all red plums.
Has very thick, rich, semi-transparent, creamy yellow flesh — firm, fine grained and solid. Quality most pleasing, with mild delicate flavor, and total absence of sharp acid. All experts say that because of curli¬ ness, huge size, remarkable beauty and splendid shipping qualities, this variety should rapidly
take a commanding place on commercial plum markets of the world. A plum expert writes: ‘‘Giant, huge size — very fine color. Meaty, orange flesh and brilliant red skin. Remark¬ ably early for such a monster plum.” An¬ other leading plum authority says “A wonder¬ ful shipper and undoubtedly one of the best
you have under test. By far the best plum in this shipment.”
Unquestionably there is a high place on the plum list for this immense and good red plum.
(See No. 13 on Center Spread)
No. 6— VANDERBILT
No. 12— JUNE RED-SKIN, Earliest Huge Red
Very Early Red-Skin — Freestone — u. s. patent applied for
Only Red-Skinned, Golden- Fleshed
FREESTONE Plum offered, of all the wonderful Burbank Creations. Ripens extremely early — about same season as JUNK BLOOD (Red Flesh) and GREAT YELLOW. These three will give home orchardists three best early plums. JUNE RED-SKIN great size, ripens extremely early — marvelously beautiful perfectly round fruit, pure red in color with golden yellow flesh. Perfect ireo- stone with small seed, firm flesh and delightful quality — sweet and juicy. Firm flesh and strong thick skin makes it remarkably good shipper, and should be most profitable commercial variety and also wonderful fruit for home orchard. Tree very heavy
bearer — exceptionally fine strong grower- and hardy — have stood temperature of 24J^ degrees below- zero without injury.
It was unanimously selected by our experts as one of the outstanding varieties amdng the many hundreds of Burbank varieties we are testing.
It will, within a few years, take its place at the top of the list of extremely early red freestone plums and will be a tremendously popular variety as it comes into full fruiting all over the country — and like several of these Burbank leaders will make other similar season varieties obsolete.
( See No. 12 on Center Spread)
An Aristocrat of Plums
A big Mid-season Red-Skin Orange- Yellow Flesh clingstone named for our en¬ thusiastic friend, N. F. Vanderbilt. Last winter with thermometer 24J4 degrees, came through without a single damaged twig. Clingstone of tremendous size — sometimes semi-free when fully ripe — pointed, rather egg-shaped — large as a hen egg — beautiful bright pinkish red on gold, shading to crim¬ son as it ripens. Flesh deep clear golden yellow; rich, delicate, sweet, firm. Trees bear young, prodigiously — full crop early.
(See No. 6 on Center Spread)
New Burbank PRUNES and Unique, Novelties
No^^GOl.DtN Sugar Prune^J No. 14— BUJF. RIBBOnTHT^Tno. 4 — ROYAL PURPLE Prune
Early, Pure Golden, Honey Sweet Prune
An attractive exquisite long shaped free¬ stone New Burbank Prune. Very large — some measure 2x3ff inches in length and with most delicious prune flavor. Skin golden yellow, flesh light transparent yellow, like liquid honey. Excellent shipper and perfect freestone.
Every home should have a few trees of GOLDEN SUGAR Prune, not only for eat¬ ing fresh, but for canning, for marmalades, jams, preserves, for roadside and local markets
(See No. 9 on Center Spread)
Late Blue Freestone Prune
Very large, Late Dark Blue Skin Prune — perfect freestone. Tree heavy bearer. Fruit has solid, meaty, yellow flesh — quality excellent — deliciously sweet. Good shipper. Trees scarce. Order Early.
( See No. 14 on C niter Spread)
No. 17— CRANBERRY Plums
Late Season Novelty Plum
Mr. Burbank named this “Crimson Cluster” and stated: — “Freestone — Most beautiful — Brilliant scar¬ let — Enormously productive — Fruit wreathed around the limbs — flesh almost white — very delicious.” When cooked, CRANBERRY Plums look like delicious Michigan Cranberries.
(See No. 17 on Center Spread)
No. 2— PURPLE FLAME— Brilliant Purple Foliage Plum
Early, Bluish-Purple Prune
Magnificent, big, beautiful, long shaped freestone prune — 2J4 x 2J^ inches long — ■ bluish-purple skin with beautiful light blue bloom. Flesh extraordinarily delicious and translucent golden yellow. Delicious, sweet, juicy prune, and a perfect Freestone. Seed very thin and exceedingly small for such a large prune. Far superior to ordinary prunes. Very large, high quality. An ex¬ cellent shipper, with strong skin that does not crack.
(See No. 4. on Center Spread)
No. 8 — HONEY DEW Gage Plum
Burbank’s “Latest Sugar” Green Gage Plum
Flaming Purple Leaves Combined With Delicious Fruit
This tree is both Fruitful and Ornamental — gorgeous purple foliage, and delicious fruit.
Mr. Burbank strove unceasingly to breed a beautiful purple foliage plum that would hold its beautiful purple tints until late Fall — and that would produce crops of rich, red, sweetly flavored edible plums. He finally succeeded in producing the most remarkable blood- fleshed, sugar sweet plum on a Beautiful Purple Leaf tree — and it has been named PURPLE FLAME.
Landscape architects and home owners are, everywhere, searching for flaming foliage trees and the supply is very limited. Because of the enormous demand you should have your order reserved without delay. ( See No. 2 on Center Spread.)
This New Sweet Burbank Gage plum is enormously productive. A late ripening offspring of the famous Green Gage or Reine Claude Family, which has always been recognized as the plum par excellence.
I'nlike most Green Gage, this variety is strong growing and vigorous. Fruit ripens when plums are practically off market. Wonderful for eating fresh and canning.
Very sweet, juicy, an excellent shipper.
(See No. 8 on Center Spread)
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Burbank’s NEW FRUIT Creations Obtainable ONLY From Stark Bro’s
“ELEPHANT HEART” PLUM
Burbank’s “ELEPHANT HEART” Plum
Amazing NEW Huge, Blood-Red-Fleshed, FREESTONE Plum
(See “Elephant Heart” Plums in Actual Size and Natural Color on opposite page)
FINALLY, after years of most exacting tests, we are ready to offer and recommend the most marvelous plum ever fruited since the world began — Burbank’s “ Elephant Heart ”!
This plum verily “seems too good to be true.” Even after you have held one of these huge blood-
red-fruits in your hand, reveled in its exquisite lusciousness and — eagerly reached for another, you find yourself ecstatically wondering, “Can This Actually be a Plum?” It is the crowning triumph of Burbank’s life-time endeavor to devel¬ op finer fruit for mankind’s delectation.
Burbank’s Supreme Achievement In Plum Cross-Breeding
The greatest triumph of all the Master Plant Breeder’s painstaking life work of striving to create a freestone blood-fleshed plum of enormous size and transcendent quality and flavor — a glorious success that came to light after his death and one that represents the first fruition of our experts’ continuance of his life work.
Starting ’way back half a Century ago with 12 little seedling trees that he had im¬ ported from an isolated section of Southern Japan, he worked diligently towards his goal. And — NOW — the triumphant climax, Bur¬ bank’s “Elephant Heart,” the supreme BEST of over 800 new varieties of great promise that were perfected and bequeathed to Stark Bro’s after his years and years of exacting selection and rejections, when we took over the Burbank Experimental Gar¬ dens. After Stark Bro’s years of tests of this plum and the tree that bears it — here in the Mississippi Valley, in California, in Mis¬ souri, in Illinois and in other localities where climates and soils and sectional conditions which would determine its adaptability — it deserves to be placed at the very peak of Burbank's horticultural creations. The out¬ standing Achievement of the Greatest Fruit Wonder Worker in the History of the World!
Hangs to Tree Very Long
Last year these plums in our Test Orchard were still on trees 3 weeks after ripe enough to pick. This char¬ acteristic allows growers to pick plums largely at convenience and still be sure of getting size, quality and good shipping plums. It will give fruit in home orchard over a longer season than any plum known.
Limited Supply!
ORDER QUICK!
The demand is certain to exceed our limited supply. Last year we sold out Extra Early. Get in your order QUICK.
First Freestone Blood Fleshed Plum Known to Mankind
Imagine a plum 2^2 x inches, big as a U. S. Standard apple, a huge, heart-shaped dark-red beauty! Then, realize with surprise that it is a per¬ fect freestone (that you can break and eat it like a peach), with blood- red flesh as exquisitely luscious as that of an Oxheart Cherry, possess¬ ing an alluring aroma never before owned by any plum! The first and only freestone blood-fleshed plum that has been discovered and introduced! As one expert grower said: “This NEW plum will place plums on a pinnacle in the choice fruit markets of the world!”
A Brand-NEW, Seductive Flavor
As the SANTA ROSA (Calif.) PRESS-DEMOCRAT stated, this NEW Plum combines “The flavor of an Oxheart Cherry, the size of a peach, smooth skin like that of a nectarine and a freestone like the apricot.” Absolutely free from sharp acidity. Flesh meaty like that of an Oxheart Cherry — solid and not watery. Really good to eat when only half ripe, with the quality vastly Improving as it ripens — a wonderful shipper and keeper.
A Wonderfully Hardy Young, Heavy Bearer
The “Elephant Heart” Plum has gone through severest tests, for hardi¬ ness and has come through with flying colors. In Missouri and Illinois and other sections where the bite of 15 degrees below zero weather is felt nearly every year, and even 20 to 30 degrees below zero frequently occurs, “Elephant Heart” trees have proven their splendid hardiness, have made vigorous growth and have borne young. They have shown remarkable adaptability to practically all kinds of soils. This variety is one which should make the best of its surroundings and give maximum returns under all sorts of conditions. And, despite heavy bearing, loaded limbs the fruit is uniform in huge size and attractive heart shape all over the tree.
A Very Remarkable, Superior Shipper
Shipments over long distance with¬ out refrigeration, by express and parcel post, show that “Elephant Heart” Plums are extraordinarily fine shippers. Strong, firm skin — does not crack. Flesh solid. Because it develops quality, color and size EARLY, it can be picked full colored 2 weeks before ripe, shipped to distant points and arrive in splendid condition. Stands up on fruit stands for weeks and ac¬ tually gets better quality every day! Has actually kept perfectly in warm room 42 days after picking and shipping 2647 miles without refrigeration.
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Page 33
ALL NEW Luther Burbank Fruit Creations Sold ONLY By STARK BRO'S
“Truly GIGANTIC — Four Cherries Weigh an Ounce!”
(See No. 24 in Natural Color Opp. Page 33)
Above are the words of Luther Burbank, Wiz¬ ard of Horticulture, who went on to say: “Firm, deep blackish crimson skin. Sugary sweet and delicious. Gigantic — 4 cherries weigh an ounce!” Pronounced by experts to be the top¬ most BEST of all the marvelous Burbank blood fleshed cherries.
Has proven an enormous bearer, yet, fruit is uniformly huge despite tremendous crops. Not subject to cracking. Flesh a mouth-watering blood red, almost purple around small pit — very firm and meaty — a splendid shipper. Shipped clear across continent from California in hot weather without refrigeration, reached destina¬ tion without a bad cherry in the box! Simply
perfect for eating — fresh and for fruit stands — - makes delicious pies and tempting dumplings — - delectable for preserves or canning.
Our tests strongly indicate hardiness of “Black Giant” Tree — defied Zero winter here. Huge Size, Wonderful Beauty and Entrancing Flavor of “Black Giant” Sugar Cherry makes it first favorite of the family and in market orchard. Its striking appearance, supreme quality, remark¬ able shipping ability and great crops of gigantic cherries will make commercial growers plant it for high-class, high-price markets.
Only a LIMITED STOCK of this great cherry. To get some this year — ORDER EARLY.
with a maz¬ ing fla¬ vor.
Young 1-yr. old “Flaming Gold” Nectar¬ ine trees in nur¬ sery loaded with bloom after most severe Winter. Ln_a._ge iteration.
(Freestone — See No. 23 in Natural Color Opp.
Page 33)
,HE perfect blending of a delectable White Nectarine and a wonderfully flavored Muir Peach. Burbank de¬ clared: “The very best of my Nectarines.” Big as a Champion peach. Waxy, Fuzz-free skin of flaming wine-red, blushed with vivid gold — its heavily laden trees are sights of gorgeous beauty. Rich golden orange flesh blessed with an enticing combination of Honey sweetness and Champagne sprightliness. Luscious to eat out of hand. Delightful “treats” canned or pickled. Stone is perfectly free and small. Flesh firm. Splendid shipper. A luxury fruit for the home — one that assures great profits to commercial orchard- ists. Ripens about 1 week before Elberta peaches.
Almost unbelievable young bearing ability: Young 1-yr.
trees in our nursery, after the hardest, longest winter in 20 years (often 14 degrees below zero) came through loaded with blos¬ soms (see photo at left) and set a tremendous crop. Will bear young and yield immense crops in Eastern and Mid- Western sections. This variety is very- resistant to disease, rot. etc. — and does not crack.
STOCK LIMITED THIS YEAR— early order placing advisable.
Burbank 8 “Black Giant** Sugar Cherry — note enor¬ mous
A Strangely Striped Cherry Phenomenon
(See No. 26 in Natural Colors Opp. Page 33)
Remarkable cherry novelty — a true bud sport, like Starking and Staymared — a Dark Red Lambert Cherry Tree with one
Photo below shows unique “Rainbow Stripe** Cherry. Photo by E. Remy, Washington, in whose orchard “Rainbow
nri tri na t prl a a a Imp hurl a nr\**t
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limb bearing White Lambert Cherries with a single Blood-Red stripe from stem to tip. A beautiful new fruit for home and market orchard — a cherry- novelty with tremendous profit possibilities to commercial growers.
Originated in Washington orchards of E. Remy — one limb on a true dark red Lambert Cherry tree sported and year after year bore White Lambert Cherries, each with Blood- Red Stripe. Tested out in Stark-Burbank Exp. Orchards by our experts. Huge size, delightful flavor, incomparable quality and ap¬ pearance is certain to attain for it first rank for eating fresh and canning. Shipped over 2000 miles in hot weather, these cherries opened up with not one spoiled cherry in the entire crate. Sure to be big favorite on fancy fruit stands, roadside stands and local markets. Will be a formidable competito,r of Napoleon and Royal Ann.
Tree hardy, fruit ripens in mid-season, bears abundant crops of uniformly huge cherries shaped identically like Lamberts. Ripens with and has all the good characteristics of Lam¬ bert.
ONLY A FEW HUNDRED TREES OF THIS VARIETY AVAILABLE THIS YEAR. WE advise EARLY ORDERING.
Burbank’s BLACK GIANT Sugar Cherry "4
No. 23 — Burbank’s “Flaming Gold” Nectarine
The Luscious LUXURY FRUIT
Unique RAINBOW STRIPE Cherry N2°s-
Page 34 ALL NEW Luther Burbank Fruit Creations Sold ONLY By STARK BRO’S
No. 20 — BURBANK’S GIANT Freestone Peach
“So HUGE That the Trees Look as Though Covered With Golden Tinted Toy BALLOONS!”
*2i ' Burbank’s JULY GOLD Peach
(See No. 20 in Natural Colors Opp. Page 33)
VERITABLE TRIUMPH of the genius of “The Master Horticulturist.” Tremendous in size — often 3V2 in. in diameter — with many as huge as 4 in. in diameter! In our tests, were as large and often larger than J. H. Hale peaches. One amazed visitor de¬ clared: “The trees look as though covered with golden-tinted toy BALLOONS!”
Luther Burbank devoted years and years to breeding up the old fashioned Muir peach (famous for exquisite goodness but unsatisfactory in size) until he achieved this triumphant suc¬ cess— BURBANK’S GIANT.
Fruited on l1/^ Year Tree — Only 2 V2 Feet Tall
These huge peaches, richly endowed with most deliciously flavored, thick golden-hued flesh, were borne last year on H/^-year tree only 2*/2 ft. tall in our nursery. This variety has definitely established its HARDI¬ NESS after one of hardest winters in 20 years — when thermometer here went down to 14 degrees below zero at times and hovered around zero for a long period.
It is extraordinarily BIG golden peach that will capture the eye and inspire desire — with a thick, luscious pure Golden flesh, brimming over with sugar-sweet juice, free from slight¬ est sharp acidity. Vastly more delicious and
juicy than old-fashioned Muir. Abso¬ lutely no trace of red at seed, which is a very unusual, light English-walnut- brown and extremely small. A genu¬ ine treat to eat out of hand and glori¬ ous when served sliced and smothered in cream. When canned with its pure golden juice it is wonderful.
A variety that will fill the home orchardist with pride — and dominate roadside, local afid city markets be¬ cause of its distinguished difference, amazing beauty, tremendous size and extraordinary flavor ! SMALL STOCK ! ORDER EARLY !
Bore good crop after longest, hardest winter in 20 years — with thermom¬ eter at 14 be-
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Photo at right shows one small branch of JULY GOLD only 1 foot long bearing 3 large gold, free¬ stone peaches 4 times as large as illustra tion.
Or UhSN # ^ ' July gold
Peaches
Earliest, Really GOOD Perfect Freestone Yellow
(See No. 21 in Natural Colors Opp. Page 33)
i URBANK strove for decades to create a yellow Freestone peach that • would ripen very early in summer — when yellow freestone peaches are unobtainable at any price. He succeeded most gloriously in JULY GOLD!
It is BIG (4 times as large as illustrations above) yellow-orange peach, averaging 2 to 3 inches in diameter, with rich golden flesh free from all trace of red at the pit. Flavor simply delightful — actually surpassing that of much later maturing peaches. It ripens about July 25th Nor. Missouri — about 3 weeks ahead of regular Elberta.
Very young, heavy bearer and hardy vigorous grower with healthy foliage. JULY GOLD 1-year trees in our nursery, some only 2 to 3 feet tall, were pink with bloom and. later, loaded with fruit, after passing un¬ scathed through an exceptionally hard, long winter, marked by frigid 14 below zero periods.
Bud? the size of a pencil set good crops.
(Photo above shows one 16 months old bud limb only 1 foot long bearing 3 large peaches.)
Will delight home orchardists who long to enjoy freestone peaches weeks before other vari¬ eties are ripe. Its beauty, size, quality and earliness (weeks be- fore other yellow free¬ stones can be picked) means top profitjprices for market grower.
Burbank’s New PEACH- AR1NF.
HONEY-HEART Cherry
(See No. 19 in Natural Colors Opp.
Page 33)
The “Master Horticulturist” de¬ scribed this pear-shaped Cherry as “Beautiful pale crimson, like Napoleon, but infinitely better. Tender flesh, transparent white (resembling that of White Clover honey) — amber and crim¬ son skin. Big — about % inch in diam¬ eter.” With ridiculously small pit. Fla¬ vor lusciously sweet and sprightly.
Ripens here about June 20th and be¬ cause of superbly attractive appearance, great size and delightful flavor sure to be home orchard favorite as well as in high price-demand on road-side and local markets.
We advise EARLY ORDERING.
Burbank’s New
PEACH-ARINE
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Less than 10 go at “each” rate; 30 to 209 at 100 rate. You must sign Pur¬ chase Agreement.
tSee No. 18 in Natural Colors Opp. Page 33)
UNIQUE, NEW fruit, combining yellow Muir Peach with White Nectarine — cre¬ ating entirely different delight for fruit lovers.
Big blush-less cameo-yellow', freestone, slightly oval in shape— nearly fuzzless. Flesh pure cream yellow, turning rich gold as it ripens — firm, fine-grained, saturated with rich juice, with delightful, indescrib¬ able flavor. Exquisite for eating fresh — wonderful when canned — can be preserved without peeling.
In North Missouri bore heavily in 2nd year. Strong, vigorous grower with healthy foliage. Ripens latter part August in Missouri. A gratifying novelty-fruit. Grow it to delight your family and friends. Supply limited — PLACE ORDER EARLY!
See NEW Luther Burbank Plums On Pages 29, 30, 31 and 32
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A branch of Abundance from H. B. Fullerton, Long Island Experi¬ mental Station
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GERMAN PRUNE. Late season . European. Largest, best, Heavy Bearing Strain. Ex¬ cellent for dessert and preserving; aark blue, juicy and delicious. Tree hardy and dependable. More Prunes should be grown in all sections — and this Stark Strain of the famous German Prune is unouestionably the best ar>H finest of the varietv.
America.
EARLY GOLD (Shiro). Very Early. Hybrid. A pure trans¬ parent golden yellow plum, large and handsome — a huge honey- drop; sweet excellent quality. Tree hardy, bears regularly, im¬ mense crops, and is satisfactory in every way. A tree loaded with this golden fruit is a wonderful sight. Propagated from a Heavy Bearing Strain on our own grounds. Another Bur¬ bank production that has made good. It is a great favorite in the South because of its high resistance to fungus diseases.
DAMSON SHROPSHIRE. Late season. Most widely known of D -msons — though smaller than Stark Damson. Our propagation from a Heavy Bearing Strain. Trees bear enormous crops.
LATE COOSE. Late Native. One of the best Hardy sorts k. of over 100 Natives tested in our Orchards. Introduced by ^ us. Larger, more valuable and ripens later than Wild Goose.
Early. Hybrid. Large, glossy, coral red. One of the most popular varieties, America, Indian Blood, Gold, Early Gold, Stark Green Gage and Omaha are the five best plums for territory east of the Rocky Mountains. Beau¬ tiful as a plum can be, quality unsurpassed. Always in demand and prices are always good. Tree is large, very vigorous, thoroughly hardy, comes into bearing extremely young (often at 2 years) and bears enormous crops every year. “The Plums of New York,” the greatest plum book ever published, says: “America is almost phenomenally free from rot.”
SANTA ROSA. Early. Hybrid. Produced by Luther Burbank; won Gold Medal at Lewis & Clark Exposition. One of the largest, most beautiful, most delicious and most valuable of all Plums. Glorious dark crimson, immense size, almost round, strong skin, holds up and ships perfectly. Our propagation from a great record tree.
INDIAN BLOOD (Duarte). Mid-season. Hybrid. One of our Big Leaders and grown from a Record Tree of finest type. Set more fruit on 2-year-old trees than any other Plum. Large, egg-shaped, flesh deep blood red. Quality delicious. Trees upright, fastest growth, hardy, highly recommended. Should be planted everywhere.
OTHER PLUMS. We can also supply: Compass, Underwood (Minnesota No. 91). All fine, thrifty Old Oak Process Whole Root Trees.
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America” Plum — Full Brother of Gold
Omaha
Record Bearing Plums
Gold
Gold
{Trade-Mark)
(Trade Mark). Our $3,000 plum Mid-season Hybrid. Our wonderful Gold Plum has created a greater sensation and made more friends among plum growers than any other variety every introduced. Of course, the magnificent new Luther Burbank plums now being introduced surpass it, as we consider these new plums the most marvelous fruits ever grown. Gold is very large, clear, semi-transparent, light golden yellow, later nearly overspread with Carmine blush. Succeeds best in Chicken yards and on moderately dry, thin clay soil. Healthy and Hardy Tree. Buy the genuine Stark Gold ONLY from Stark Bro’s, the exclusive introducers and owners, succeeds everywhere — an ideal all purpose plum.
Late season. Hybrid. “Ironclad Hardiness.” Originated in Nebraska by Theodore Williams. He considered Omaha best of all. Very large, dark rich red, pit small, flesh meaty, sweet and delicious. Tree sturdy, hardy, bears tremendous crops. Our propagation is from a Heavy Record Bearing tree that has been under observation for years.
Stark Damson
(Big Mackey). Late season. European. The largest and best Damson originated in Pike Co., Mo., as Big Mackey, and propagation is from a second generation tree that bears tremendous crops and extra size fruit. Deep purple, juicy, rich, small stone, fine for preserves.
Stark Green Gage
(Missouri). Late season. European. This Delicious variety was originated by us and propagation is from a Record- Bearing Tree on our grounds. The best, sweetest eating plum — a home or market orchard ic "nt complete without it. Should be grown everywhere.
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Stark Bro’s Nurseries at Louisiana, Mo., for 115 Years
t orchard of Capt. J. H. Shawhan, who says: Anjou commands high prices; less liable to blight than any other; 1% acres netted me $1400.00.” A well-cared for Pear Orchard Pays Big Profits. Lincoln is an Ideal Variety to Plant with Anjou.
LINCOLN — King of All Pears
VAN DEMAN QUINCE (Trade-Mark). Best ahd largest quince — “The Gplden Apple of the Hesperides .” Van Deman is our great $3,000.00 Quince secured from that greatest horticultural master — Luther Burbank, thirty years ago. Of superb flavor, immense size, a tre¬ mendous cropper, hardy, healthy, fine for baking, pre¬ serves. jelly and canning.
Late Summer. Our propagation came direct from the Original Lin¬ coln Tree on the grounds of W. E. Jones, Logan County, Illinois. Our Record- Bearing strain tree is a tree grown directly from Original Tree Buds, and has shown wonderful crops.
Fruit large, resembles Bartlett, clear, beautiful yellow, sometimes blushed — ideal shipper; quality superb — even better than Bartlett. Tree remarkably blight re¬ sistant, heavy cropper, long lived — original tree still bore when over 80 years old.
“I bought Lincoln trees from 3 nurseries and have 3 different pears, all labeled Lincoln. Yours are the only genuine Lincoln.” — Jas. Houselman, Platt Co., Ill.
Lincoln is Blight 'Resistant — “Lincoln more blight re¬ sistant than any other; equals Bartlett in flavor and texture. — J. W. Jones, Emmet Co., Idaho.
LINCOLN PEAR PRICES— Standard or Dwarf
RECORD-BEARING Strain Each 10 190
1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate
4 to 7 feet size . $ 2.50 $2.30 $2.00
3 to 5 feet “ 2.00 1.80 1.60
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
Less than 10 go at “each" rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; for 300 or more write Wholesale Depart¬ ment for Quantity Prices.
Stark Bro’s, Louisiana, Mo.
QUINCE PRICES
RECORD-BEARING Strain Each 10 100
1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . $1.75 $1.60 $1.40
3 to 5 ft. ” . 1.50 1.30 1.20
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
Less than 10 go at “each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; for 300 or more. Write Wholesale Depart¬ ment for Quantity Prices.
Stark Bro’s Louisiana , Mo.
ANJOU. Late Fall. We propagate from special Record- Bearing Mo. Tree selected as Parent Tree. Large, handsome, yellow pear blushed dull red; late keeper, rich flavor. Good bearer, strong grower, hardy, bears young, blooms late, remarkably free from blight.
STARK SECKEL (Sugar Pear.) Late Summer. Me¬ dium sized fruit, beauti¬ ful yellow with red russet cheek. Spicy honeyed flavor* — incomparable in quality. Resistant to blight. Our own select strain. Tree hardy, thrifty and long-lived. Should be in every home orchard.
OTHER PEAR VARIETIES
- such as Buerrc Bose and Honey Dew can be sup¬ plied by us. Also Dwarf Pear Trees in Bartlett, Anjou, Duchess and Lincoln varieties.
STELLA APRICOT. Party Summer. Lai ge improved hardy Russian variety. Propagated from best Parent Tree on record.
SUPERB APRICOT. Early Summer. Also a large hardy Russian variety. Tree exceptionally thrifty.
APRICOT PRICES
RECORD-BEARING Strain Each 10 100
1st Class Stark Trees rate rate rate
3 to 5 ft. size . $1.50 $1.30 $1.20
2 to 3 ft. ” . 1.25 1.10 1.00
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
BARTLETT. Summer. A great favorite. Large, rich, golden yellow with soft blush; juicy, melting, with a rich, indescribable flavor. One of best for canning and shipping. Tree strong grower, sometimes blights, bears^ young. A tree in our Test Orchard which withstood blight best, and noted for its immense crops of big Bartletts, is the Record- Bearing Parent Tree.
FAME. Late Slimmer. Juicy, melt¬ ing, sweet and rich. Seeds few, al¬ most no core; large, blushed yellow.
Hardy, strong, long-lived tree; young bearer. Blight resistant. Introduced by us. Our Original Tree Strain is hardy. 25c Extra.
DUCHESS (Angouleme). Fall. Ex¬ tremely large, often weighs over a pound; dull yellow, excellent quality.
Long lived, healthy, hardy, bears ex¬ tremely young, produces crop every year.
KIEFFER. Winter. Large, rich, golden yellow, sometimes tinted red.
Sure bearer. Fine for canning and baking.
STARK TYSON. Very Early Sum¬ mer. Looks like Seckel, medium size, sweet, juicy, excellent. Hardy, long lived, blight resistant.
A backyard Van Demart Quince Tree — as usual, loaded to the ground with immense fruit.
PEAR PRICES-Standard and Dwarf
RECORD-BEARING Strain 1st Class Each 10 100
Stark Trees rate rate rate
4 to 7 ft. size . $2.00 $1.80 $1.60
3 to 5 ft. “ . 1.50 1.30 1.20
Prices F. O. B. Nursery.
Less than 10 go at “each” rate; 30 to 299 at 100 rate; for 300 or more Write Wholesale Department for Quan¬ tity Prices. Stark Bro's, Louisiana, Mo.
black grape of great size — of the Concord type.
Rlnwert Everbearing. \ cry
mowers. ,arge jet black
fruit, extremely sweet. Hardy. rugged, good bearer, and fruit ships well.
Early Harvest. \ ‘r\y
Valuable because of early ripen¬ ing, excellent flavor, good ship¬ per. Medium size, glossy black, firmer than any other.
Eldorado. ‘d-season .
Enormous ber¬ ries, jet black. Plants strong growing, hardy, and rarely fail to bear big crops. Keep well after picking, ship well.
Mersereau.
glossy black. Resembles Snyder, but larger, better quality and less likely to turn red after picked. Fruit large, round, good quality and holds up well. We believe Mersereau the best blackberry.
Flaming Giant.
World’s Record Red Raspberry. Stands 15 degrees below zero without injury. Bears twice as much as Cuthbert and Sunbeam. Immense size, berries — often three-quarters inch across.
P f\]u Kl ow -If id-season
LoiumDian. PurpU Best
of purple raspberries, fruit large, firm, good quality. Plant hardy , bears big crops.
Cumberland.
black.
The most widely planted, black cap. extremely hardy, upright vigorous grower, productive, dis¬ ease resistant. Fruit very large, firm, excellent qualitv. ships well.
Redpath St°raTnfrof
Latham. Mid Se,ison Red. Best. Largest. New Red. Firm, juicy, sprightly, good quality. ships well. Plant vigorous, upright, hardy, bears tremendous crops.
St. RegisEverbearing
Early Red. A real everbearing raspberry. Produces big, luscious fruit all summer long. Berries bright crimson, rich, de¬ licious. firm for shipping; plant strong grower, up right, vigor ous, hardy.
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.25 20 175 |
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.30 25 220 |
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Delaware (red) |
25 20' 175 |
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25 20 175 |
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40 35 250 |
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30 25 220 |
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30 22 190 |
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.25 20 175 |
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25 20 175 |
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King . |
.30 25; 75 |
2 3 Size Flaming Giant Raspberry
Stark Delicioua Grape 1 4 Size
Stark Bro’s at Louisiana, Mo., for 115 Years
Big Luscious GRAPES
Stark Delicious* ^asnificent bright red sort. Sweetest, richest, best quality of all red grapes. Ripens in September. Berry medium to large size. Bunch large, long, shouldered, compact and goes on market in good shape. Most beautiful, best quality large red grape we have ever seen.
Moore Early 1 6 Size
MOORE EARLY — One of the
best black grapes ripening before Concord. Phot 1/6 size.
BLACKBERRY
Moore Early.
Black grape similar to Con¬ cord in appearance and qual¬ ity, but ripens two weeks earlier and is the leading standard black grape of its season. Bunch and berry large, quality good. Vine healthy. vigorous, hardy, heavy bearer. Succeeds ev¬ erywhere. Ideal for grape juice.
A big black grape ripening ahead of Concord — slightly ahead of Worden. Averages larger than Moore Early, but is hardly as valuable com¬ mercially. Should be in every home vineyard.
Worden Early Glorious black grape; as hardy, healthy vigor¬ ous and productive as Concord and larger, better quality and ten days earlier. Worden is recognized as one of the best commercial varieties grown. Both berry and bunch are large, bunches compact and quality excellent. One of the most popular market sorts.
Concord ®est known °f all Black grapes. Making money for * vineyardists everywhere. Healthy, hardy, vigor¬ ous, large bunch and berry. Will produce more year in and year out than any other sort.
Lucile. Early Red. A dark red grape, medium to large berry and bunch, excellent quality, keeps well and ships well. In vigor, health, hardiness, productiveness surpassed by no other variety and practically immune to fungus diseases. Very hardy.
L.Vltie ^ rich re<* SraPe everywhere and under all condi¬ tions; a favorite in New York Grape Belt and succeeds in the South. Seldom rots, always dependable. Bears enormous crops.
Diamond.
Niacrara Best known
Niagara. white grape>
Famed as “Grand Father” of Stark Delicious. Ranks with old reliable Concord in vigor and productiveness. Widely planted. Bunch large; hand¬ some, juicy, and a fine flavor.
(Moore’s D i a m o n d.) A magnificent white grape just earlier than Niagara. As de¬ pendable in vine and fruiting as Concord. High quality, early hardy, productive. Formerly America’s finest Champagne grape.
Hicks* ^ black grape, larger and a decided im¬ provement on Concord. A better grower and heavier bearer. Highly recommended by New York Exp. Sta. In¬ troduced by Stark Bro’s some years ago.
RASPBERRY
Stark Eclipse. ^rk'Y
Earliest black grape. Sweetest and best in quality. Ripens week or ten days ahead of Moore Early and Campbell Early. Markets take them readily at highest prices. Hardy, healthy, strong-growing, good foliage, bears well, hangs well does not crack in wet weather 01 shatter fruit from the buncl and a splendid shipper. Origi¬ nated with Mr. E. A. Riehl, orchardist, vineyardist and Di¬ rector of the Ill. Exp. Sta. at Alton, Ill.; For best results, should be planted with other varieties to secure proper pollenization.
DELAWARE.
sizebunch
and berry, but the standard by which the quality of othc-r grapes is measured. Most widely known red grape and should be planted on all home grounds.
GRAPE PRICES
STARK ECLIPSE— The earliest ripening black grape. Photo 1/4 size.
LUTIE — A great and popular red grape. Photo 1/4 size.
RASPBERRY
STARK RASPBERRIES
Each 100 1000 * Black Pearl (blk).$ .20 $ 9 $ 50
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STARK DEWBERRIES
*Lucretia . S .20 $10 •$ 50
Niagara 1,6 Size
NIAGARA — The best known of the white grapes. Photo 1/6 size.
Page 38
Beautify Your Home Grounds
YOU Can Easily, Quickly — at Small Cost — MakeYOUR Home Grounds Charmingly Beautiful
Home Planting “C”
(Before and After Above)
Only $15!
Look at the amazing differ¬ ence that only $15 worth of Stark Flowering Shrubs made in the beautiful Ne¬ braska home above! It in¬ cludes 28 Stark plants. To get its duplicate sim¬ ply write “Home Plant¬ ing C ” on your order — Price $15.
Charming Effects at Little Cost
These few examples on this page will show you how inexpensively you can beautify your home grounds ‘The Stark Way.’’ Go through the pages of illustrations and descriptions of Stark Flowering Shrubs, etc. that follow and remember ALWAYS that our prices, reasonable as they are, are based on the BEST OUALITY of plants.
Home Planting “D” (See Photo Above) Only $10! Home Planting
(See Photo Above) Only $10!
Home Planting “B” w|K||j
(at Right in Oval)
Only $20!
Another collection of 42 Stark beautiful Flowering Shrubs made this house at right a fcharming home. It is Home Planting “B" — price $20. Write or your order “Home Planting B.”
Home Planting “A”
(Above)
Only $20!
Note before and after photos of home above. This almost mag- . ical transformation was quick- M ly accomplished by 42 Stark U 3
hardy, big-rooted Flower ing Shrubs. This is our Home Planting “A" — price $20. Just write on: order Home Plant¬ ing “A.”
The 20 hardy Stark Flowering Shrubs that were used to beau¬ tify the home directly above are easy to plant and quick to grow — many will bloom first summer. To get them simply write “Home Planting D— $10’’ on your order.
See above for remarkable beautifying effect secured by planting “ Home Planting E ” — 19 hardy Stark Flowering Shrubs and 2 Climb¬ ing Roses. Just write “Home Planting E — $10” on your order.
STARK BRO’S, LOUISIANA, MO
Page 39
Use Stark Flowering Shrubs, Shade Trees, Roses, Hedges, Vines and Plants — And-
Plan and Plant Your Grounds YOURSELF This Will Add Value to YOUR Home
M'
rOST people beautify their home grounds themselves, because the size of their lots does not justify the expense of a landscape architect's plans. They find real pleasure in planning the planting. They derive a world of personal satisfaction from knowing that they did it all by themselves rather than hired someone else to do it. Everyone has more natural pride in and more enjoyment from that which they accomplish by their own efforts.
These people buy flowering shrubs, shade trees, hedges, vines and rose bushes from us, because our prices save them real money and they know that our growing methods assure them superior ornamental plants for their lawns.
No Need to Hire Architect to Plan the Planting
Look at the photograph of the attractive home in lower right hand corner of Page 38 opposite. Then note the planting plan at bottom of center column this page. This is the plan that brought about the beautiful result shown in the “after planting" photo — the photograph over “Home Planting E." Study this plan a moment. Each number in each circle represents one shrub and the number itself indicates the variety (See below). You can plan a simple planting like this for your home YOURSELF.
We Draw Plans for Larger Homes FREE for Customers
If your home grounds are large or if you have peculiar and complicated home grounds beautifying problems to solve, you should write to Stark Bro's Landscape Plan Department. This de¬ partment will give you its best expert advice and, on your order, draw an individually designed landscape plan for your home grounds. This Plan Will Be Furnished to You ABSOLUTELY FREE if you pur¬ chase from us the shrubs, shade trees, hedges, vines and rose bushes to beautify your home grounds. This Department is,composed of Gradu¬ ate Landscape Architects — men with the technical and the practical training necessary to make landscape plans for any size estate, public building, school, church, public playground or golf course.
YOU express your PRIDE in and your LOVE for your home when you beautify the grounds that surround it. Everyone who sees you doing this work will admire you for it. All who view the results of surrounding your home with attractive flowering shrubs, graceful shade trees, trim hedges and blooming beds of roses will envy your ownership of that home. Should you ever wish to sell that home, you will discover that you will be able to get A PRICE MUCH ABOVE THE COM¬ BINED COST OF THE LOT, HOUSE AND ORNAMENTALS, just because you were wise and farseeing enough to ornament those home grounds with shrubs, etc. To beautify your home grounds is a PAYING INVEST¬ MENT.
Most Popular Varieties of Shrubs for Average Homes
Low or Dwarf Shrubs
Anthony Waterer Spirea (see Page 45), Japanese Barberry (see Page 42), Slender Deutzia (see Page 42), Thunberg Spirea (see Page 45), Garden Snowberry (see Page 45), Snowhill Hydrangea (see Page 43), Lemoine Mockorange (see Page 44), and Double Kerria (see Page 43).
Medium Height Shrubs
How to Plan Your Planting
Let us explain this simple Planting Plan on the Right: — 1, in circles indicates a Shrub Althea — 2, Vanhoutte Spirea — 3, Japanese Barberry — 4, Border Forsythia — 5, An¬ thony Waterer Spirea.
You Will Enjoy Planting Your Home Grounds
Work and planning of this sort appeals to all home lovers. The grounds of the home form the “frame" of the picture that your home presents. To make that “frame" ap¬ propriately beautiful is a work of love. It is thought and labor of which you can justly be proud. And — it will be "just fun" doing it “all by yourself."
Plan an Outdoor Living Room
Here you may work to your heart’s con¬ tent among shrubbery and gay flowers, free from prying eyes. Here the children will spend happy hours in play, safe from the dangers of the street. Here the menfolk will find rest, contentment and, if they choose, the light, healthful exercise of “put¬ tering in the garden."
Go through the pages of this book and see how little it really will cost you to beautify your home grounds with Stark Flowering Shrubs, Shade Trees, Rose Bushes, Hedges.
Diagram Above Shows Plant Arrangement Illus¬ trated in “Home Planting E“ on Opposite Page
$10 Buys These 21 Plants
This collection includes everything in¬ dicated in the plan on this page and will quickly produce the charming effect to be seen in the photograph of home shown in lower right hand corner of opposite Page 38.
Regular Price
Three Shrub Althea (1) . $ 1.95
Two Vanhoutte Spirea (2) . 1.20
Two Japanese Barberry (3) . 90
Five Border Forsythia (4) . 3.25
Seven Anthony Waterer Spirea (5). 3.85
Two Excelsa Climbing Roses . 1.50
21 Fine Plants . Worth $12.65
Introductory Sale Price — $10
This plan can be adapted to many homes and this collection will make a fine start toward beautifying your home grounds.
Vanhoutte Spirea (see Page 45), Regal Privet (see Page 44), Border Forsythia (see Page 43), Jetbead (see Page 43), Hydrangea Peegee (see Page 43), Butterfly Bush (see Page 42), Coral Dogwood (see Page 42), Rugosa Rose (see Page 44), Weigelas (see Page 45) and Persian Lilac (see Page 44).
Tall Shrubs
Sweet Mockorange (see Page 44), Bush Honeysuckles (see Page 43), Shrub-altheas (see Page 45), Common Snowball (see Page 45), Devil’s Walking Stick (see Page 42), Cranberry Bush (see Page 42), Lilacs (see Page 44), and Shredded Sumac (see Page 45).
Every Home Should Have an Outdoor Living Room
YOUR home — is it in step with the times ? Have you a beautiful outdoor living room with carpet of soft rich grass? A place se¬ cluded from public gaze by lovely trees, shrubs and evergreens, which also serve to screen out objectionable views? A spot where color, fragrance and beauty of hardy flowers and comfortable shady nooks invite you to come out of doors ?
This is the outdoor living room of TODAY, which is everywhere supplanting the bare, unsightly rear yards of yesterday! No room within the house costs so little to furnish — none gives so rich a return in happiness, contentment and health.
Surround Your Home With a Lawn of Soft Velvety Green
Stark’s Evergreen Mixture
It is composed of the choicest lawn grasses — and is especially prepared to PRO¬ DUCE permanent, velvety lawns. This mixture is mixed by ourselves of only the finest, reclcaned seeds and CONTAINS NO TRASH OR FILLER. Op soil prop¬ erly prepared, this will make a quick green sward and be ready for the first cutting in about six weeks after seeding.
PRICE— SENT POSTPAID BY US— Lb.f 50c; 5 lbs., $2.35.
By Express or Freight — 5 lbs., $2.25; 20 lbs., or over at 40c per lb.
Our Shady Nook Mixture
This mixture is prepared of the grasses that SUCCEED THE BEST IN SHADED SITUATIONS. We use it under trees and on sunless sides of homes and buildings most successfully. It blends splendidly with our regular Evergreen Mixture. In sowing under large trees, we always advise an application of fertilizer. This almost invariably produces a good growth of velvety grass in places where many mixtures fail. Our customers praise it as best shadv placo mixture.
PRICES— SENT POSTPAID BY US— Lb., 60c; 5 lbs., $2.55 By Express or Freight: 5 lbs., $2.75; 20 lbs., or more at 45c per lb.
Stark Quality Shade Trees
Page 40
Bechtel Crab Flowers, (left)
White Ash
ASH, WHITE ( Fraxinus americana). An excellent, symmetrical tree of rapid growth and long life. The attractive open foliage allows lawn grass to grow nicely underneath this tree, and it will thrive even under city conditions. Equally good for lawn and street planting purposes. (See illustration above.) Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $1.00 each; 6 to 8 ft., $1.50 each; 8 to 10 ft., $2.00 ea.
ASH, EUROPEAN MOUNTAIN (Snrhu, aucuparia). A medium-sized tree of unusual beauty, with fern-like leaves. The clusters of white flowrers in spring are followed by large bunches of showy red berries which often remain on tree throughout winter. In fall the foliage of this tree turns to beautiful orange and red colors. Especially fine for use as an ornamental speci¬ men or in groups on lawn. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $1.50 ea.; 6 to 8 ft., $2.00 each.
BIRCH, CUTLEAF WEEPING {BeUla alba pen_ dula). A most graceful tree with long, slender, weeping branches of finely cut foliage. The bark of this tree is a silvery white color, which makes an exceptionally beau¬ tiful effect when planted in groups on lawn or in narks or cemeteries. Prices: 4 to 6 ft., $2.50 each; 6 to 8 ft., $3.50.
BIRCH, EUROPEAN WHITE {Belula alba)m A moderate-sized tree, with graceful, slender branches of semi-drooping habit. This is the Birch made famous in poetry and literature. Conspicuous white bark which makes it beautiful as a specimen or in groups. Prices:. 5 to 6 ft., $2.00 each; 6 to 8 ft., $2.75 each.
BOXELDER (Acer negundo). A rapid-growing tree with handsome, bright green foliage and nicely shaped spreading head. It is good for street or lawn planting and in certain sections of the country is used for wind¬ breaks. Will succeed in places where many varieties of trees will fail to grow, and withstands cold and drought. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., 75 cts. each; 6 to 8 ft., $1.10 each; 8 to 10 ft. $1.50 each.
CATALPA, UMBRELLA ( Catnip a bignonioides nana). A popular tree especially desirable for formal effects, and used extensively in park and cemetery plantings. It is a rapid grower and naturally forms the umbrella-shaped head without pruning. Succeeds in all soils and climates. Stark Bro’s Umbrella Catalpas are all specially budded to insure perfect heads. (See illus¬ tration page 41.) Prices: 1-year, $2.00; 2-year, $2.50; extra, $3.00.
WESTERN ( Calalpa speciosa). A rapid¬ growing tree with large, heart-shaped leaves, and large clusters of fragrant, creamy white flowers. A very hardy iree often grown for timber purposes; also valuable as lawn specimen. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., 75 cts. each; 6 to 8 ft.. $1.00 each.
CRAB, BECHTEL ( Malus ioensis plena). A beautiful medium-sized tree. In early spring it is literally
Lombardy Poplar
covered with large, double, rose-like pink flowers of wonderful fragrance. Effective as single specimen, in groups or massed in shrub border. (See illustration above.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., $1.35 each; 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each.
CRAB, PARKMAN ( Malus halliana parkmani). A dwarf Japanese tree bearing a profusion of fragrant, rose-pink flowers in the spring. Good as lawn specimen and in shrub border. Perfectly hardy. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., $1.35 each; 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each.
ELM, AMERICAN or WHITE {ulmus americanay Our grandest shade tree. A long-lived variety that is satisfactory everywhere. The George Washington Elm was famous in history. It is a rapid grower, forming a vase- shaped head, with graceful spreading, and droop¬ ing branches. Adapted to all purposes, for street plant¬ ing or on lawns, and unexcelled for planting near build¬ ings as its lofty branches permit air to circulate and grass to grow underneath (See illustration page 41.) Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $1.00 each; 6 to 8 ft. $1.50 each; 8 to 10 ft., $2.00 each.
ELM, MOLINE ( rj/mus nmerir.ann molini) . A valuable new type of upright habit of growth, with large leaves. Exceptionally rapid grower. Crotches do not form in this Elm, which prevents splitting. Ideal tree for street or lawn planting. Prices: 6 to 8 ft., $2.50 each; 8 to 10 ft., $3.00 each.
LINDEN, AMERICAN ( Tilia americana ). Some¬ times called the Basswood Tree. A stately native tree of rapid growth and spreading habit, with luxuriant heart-shaped foliage. The attractive, clover-scented, waxy, creamy white flowers are exceptionally fine for bees. A wonderful tree for either lawn or street plant¬ ing. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $2.00 each; 6 to 8 ft., $2.75 each; 8 to 10 ft., $3.75 each.
LOCUST, GLOBE-HEADED {Robinia pseudo. acacia bessuniana). This is an unusual formal tree, similar to Umbrella catalpa except that the head is globe-shaped and the Locust foliage gives it a much finer appearance. This tree was found successfully growing in Montana where the temperature often reaches 40 degrees below zero. A fine tree for planting in pairs in formal garden work, etc. Prices: $3.75 each. LOCUST, COMMON (% obinia pseudoacacia). A hardy native tree which was one of the favorite yard trees of the early American settlers. It is a medium rapid grower, with attractive foliage and beautiful clusters of pea-shaped fragrant white flowers. Also often planted for timber purposes. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., 85c each; 6 to 8 ft., $1.10 each.
Silver Maple
MAIDENHAIR TREE {Ginkgo biloba). One of the most unusual and interesting long-lived trees, and a medium rapid grower. It is the sole survivor of a race of trees which grew in prehistoric ages. In China and Japan this tree i§ closely connected with certain re¬ ligions, and this fact has saved the variety up to the present time as it is no longer found growing in the wild state. It is very hardy, free from disease and insects, and an ideal tree for lawn, park, or street planting. Some of the beautiful boulevards of Wash¬ ington, D. C., are lined with Maidenhair Trees. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $3.50 each; 6 to 8 ft., $4.50 each.
MAPLE, NORWAY (Acer platanoides ). One of the most beautiful shade trees. It is a rapid grower, with clean, deep green foliage, strong branches which re¬ quire no pruning, and a natural globe-shaped, compact head. Its clusters of bright yellow flowers are showy in early spring. This tree is popular for avenue, lawn, or park Dlantine. A long-lived tree, and reallv the best of the Maples. (Sec illustration page 41.) Prices:
5 to 6 ft., $1.75 each; 6 to 8 ft., $2.50 each; 8 to 30 ft., $3.00 each.
MAPLE, SCHWEDLER ( \cer platanoides schwed- leri). Identical in habit of growth with the Norway Maple, but the foliage is bright wine-red in spring. It makes an unusually beautiful specimen tree for the lawn. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $3.00 each; 6 to 8 ft., $4.00 each.
MAPLE, SILVER (Acer dasycarpum). Sometimes called “Soft Maple." It is an exceptionally rapid grower, long-lived and perfectly hardy in all soils and under all conditions. Especially fine where quick shade is desired, and should be allowed to grow naturally in order to develop its fullest beauty. Valuable for either street or lawn planting. Attractive red and orange foliage in fall. (See illustration above.) Prices: 5 to
6 ft., 90c each; 6 to 8 ft., $1.25 each; 8 to 10 ft., $1.75 each.
MAPLE, SUGAR or HARD (Acer saccharum). A beautiful, slow-growing, long-lived tree, gorgeously clothed in orange, red, and gold foliage in the fall. This is the tree from which maple syrup is obtained. Good for either lawn or street planting. Prices: 5 to 6 ft. $1.50 each; 6 to 8 ft., $2.25 each; 8 to 10 ft., $3.00 each.
MAPLE, WIER (Acer dasycarpum wieri). A rapid¬ growing variety of the Silver Maple, with finely cut. fern-like foliage and long, graceful, weeping branches. Excellent for specimen lawn trees. Prices: 5 to 6 ft.
$1.25 each; 6 to 8 ft., $1.75 each; 8 to 10 ft., $2.50 each.
MULBERRY, WEEPING (Alorus alba pendula). A grafted, weeping tree about 6 to 8 feet high that bears edible fruit. The branches weep to the ground and completely hide the trunk of the teee. Good for en¬ trance plantings, in lawns, parks, or cemeteries. Price: $3.50 each.
Hedges, Vines and Shrubs
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Norway Maple
Wisconsin Weeping Willow
White Eli
xamore
SHADE TREES, Continued
OAK., PIN (( Quercus paluslris). Considered by many The best Oak. It is a fairly rapid-growing pyramidal tree, with deeply cut, bright green, glossy leaves. If allowed to grow naturally, the long branches sweep gracefully dowm until they touch the ground. A valu¬ able tree for either 9treet or lawn planting. Prices: 4 to 6 ft.y $2.25 each; 6 to 8 ft., $3.25 each.
PERSIMMON, COMMON ( Diospyros virginiana). A native tree of medium size, with attractive, clean foliage. It bears edible fruit that ripens in early fall. Fine tree for planting, either as specimen or in groups
on lawn. Prices: 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each; 4 to 6 ft., $2.00 each.
PLANE TREE, EUROPEAN or SYCAMORE
( Platanus orientalis ). One of our best trees for all
purposes. It is a rapid grower, with bark mottled with large blotches of creamy white, making the trees un¬ usually attractive in winter. Ideal for city planting, as it withstands smoke, gas, and other similar condi¬ tions. Easily transplanted. Useful for lawm or streets. This is the famous tree of the Paris boulevards. (See illustration above.) Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $1.75 each; 6 to 8 ft., $2.25 each; 8 to 10 ft., $3.25 each.
PLUM, DOUBLE-FLOWERING ( prunus triloba plena). A very showy, small tree which is literally covered with double, rose-like pink flowers in early spring. This tree is sometimes referred to as the ‘ Rose- tree of China.” Attractive as specimen or when planted in shrub border. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 85 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., $1.00 each.
POPLAR, CAROLINA ( Populus eugenei). The most rapid-growing shade tree on our list. It is often planted with slow’er-growing varieties to furnish shade until the permanent trees have grown to sufficient size and then the Poplar can be cut out. Succeeds every¬ where. Bright green glossy foliage. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., 60 cts. each; 6 to 8 ft., 85 cts. each; 8 to 10 ft., $1.10 each.
POPLAR, LOMBARDY (Populus nigra italica). A tall, picturesque Italiantree of slender, upright habit of growth. It is valuable to use in formal gardens or
to give accent to plantings, and can be planted very close together to screen unsightly views and buildings. A hardy, rapid grower. It is extensively used along roads of European countries. (See illustration paw 40.)
Prices: 5 to 6 ft., 80 cts. each; 6 to 8 ft., $1.00 each; 8 to 10 ft., $1.50 each; 10 to 12 ft., $2.00 each.
SYCAMORE, EUROPEAN. See piane Tree.
TULIP TREE ( Liriodendron tulipifera ). A tall, rapid-grow’ing tree of unusual beauty. It has odd¬ shaped leaves and large, tulip-shaped yellow flowers with orange-colored centers. Makes a beautiful speci¬ men tree for any lawm. Prices: 5 to 6 ft., $1.50 each; b to 8 ft., $2.0U each.
WILLOW, WISCONSIN WEEPING {Salix blanda). Weeping Willow's have long been favorite trees. This variety is hardy and an unusually rapid grower, with long, slender, drooping branches and narrow green leaves. It is attractive for planting on the lawn, in parks or cemeteries, and will thrive in either moist or dry* ground. (See illustration above.) Prices: 4 to 6 ft., $1.00 each; 6 to 8 ft., $1.50 each.
HEDGE PLANTS
PRIVET, AMUR ( Ligustrum amurense). Hardy northern type. This variety will withstand severe winters (40 degrees below zero) without injury, and is, undoubtedly, the best Privet. It will stand any amount of trimming or shearing, and is also valuable in the shrub border when allowed to grow naturally. The fragrant white flowers are followed bv blue-black ber¬ ries. oee illustration page 45.) Prices: 12 to 18 in., 15 cts. each, $11.00 per 100; 18 to 24 in., 20 cts. each, $15.00 per 100; 2 to 3 ft., 25 cts. each, $20.00 per 100.
PRIVET, CALIFORNIA ( Ligustrum ovalifolium). Makes a most excellent hedge w’here winters are not too severe. Extensively used. Attractive dark green leathery foliage. Prices: 12 to 18 in., 12 cts. each, $10.00 per 100; 18 to 24 in., 15 cts. each, $11.00 per 100; 2 to 3 ft., 20 cts. each, $15.00 per 100. BARBERRY, JAPANESE (Berheris thunbergi See desrription under shrubs, page 42.
VINES
CLEMATIS, SWEET AUTUMN £Umaiis p.lni,u- lata grandiflora ). One of the best hardy climbing vines. It has fine foliage, and in early fall is literally covered with masses of spicy fragrant white blooms, followed by attractive feathery seed-pods. Prices: 55 cts. each; $5.00 for 10.
CLEMATIS, LARGE-FLOWERING. Stark Bros have thoroughly tested out many varieties of Large- flowered Clematis and have found the following three varieties to be the best and most dependable.
Mme. Edouard Andre. Large flow'ers of an un¬ usual red color.
Henry {Clematis henryi ). Large, beautiful, waxy white flowers.
Jackman {Clematis jackmani). This is a deservedly popular variety as it is a strong grower, with masses of large, rich purple blossoms over the entire vine. Often blooms second time in late fall.
Prices: Any of the above Large-flowering Clematis $1.25 each; $11.00 for 10
HONEYSUCKLE HALL JAPANESE {Lonicera japonica halliana). An all-purpose vine. It makes an ideal hedge when trained on a wire fence; also fine for covering steep embankments. Fragrant white and yel¬ low flowers are borne throughout the summer. Foliage practically evergreen. Prices: 50 cts. ea., $4.50 for 10. IVY, ENGELMANN (Ampelopsis quinquefolia en- gelmanni ). Large, “five-fingered” leaves, similar to those of American ivy or Virginia creeper, to which it is superior. Will grow on w’est side of buildings where other Ivy often burns out. Prices: 55 cts. each; $5.00 for 10.
IVY, BOSTON or JAPANESE CREEPER {Ampe- lopsis tricuspidata). A w'ell-knowm hardy vine that clings firmly to walls, posts, etc. Its handsome green foliage turns to bright scarlet and yellow colors in
fall. Prices: 70 cts. each; $6.50 for 10.
WISTERIA {Wisteria sinensis ). Long a deservedly’ tavorite vine, it is a rapid grower and the sw’eet-pea shaped lavender flowers are borne in long clusters, otten a toot in length. (See illustration page 45.)
Prices: 90 cts. each; $8.50 for 10.
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Stark Immediate-Effect Flowering Shrubs
Each Stark shrub or tree is given individual scientific attention so as to insure a perfect specimen.
BARBERRY, JAPANESE (Berber is thunbergi). A widely known all-purpose Barberry, useful as a hedge plant and shrub. It is thickly covered with small, bright green foliage and protective thorns which make it ideal for hedge purposes. The foliage turns to brilliant orange and red in fall, and the bright red berries are showy during the winter. Especially fine foundation sliruo. i^ee illustration above.) Prices:
1 to IV2 ft., 30 cts. each, 10 at 25 cts. each; IV2 to
2 ft., 40 cts. each. 10 at 35 cts. each.
BUTTERFLY BUSH ( Buddleia davidi). A popular plant of medium size. It dies to the ground each winter but w'ill grow to a height of 5 feet or more in a single season. A continuous bloomer from July until frost, bearing long spikes of fragrant, brilliant lilac flowers having orange centers and which attract large numbers of butterflies. (See illustration above. ) Prices: 2-yr., 50 cts. each, 10 at 45 cts. each.
CRANBERRY BUSH, AMERICAN ( Viburnum americanum ). A most beautiful shrub that is not as widely known as it should be, and far superior to the European Cranberry Bush. The large, flat heads of white flowers are followed by big clusters of bright red berries, which are edible and attractive to birds. Bright red and yellow foliage in fall. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 70 cts. each.
DEUTZ1A, LEMOINE (Deutzia lemoinei ). The Deut- zias are among our loveliest spring-blooming shrubs, and this variety is one of the best. It grows to medium height, and in spring is completely covered with large clusters of white flowers. Useful in shrub border or in foundation planting. Prices: 1 V2 to 2 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 70 cts. each, 2 to 3 ft., 90 cts. ea. 10 at 85 cts. each.
DEUTZ1A, PRIDE OF ROCHESTER ( Deutzia srahra). An excellent tall-growing shrub for borders. Its double flowers are borne in long panicles, and the outer petals are tinged with pink. Useful for cutting. (See illustration above.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 55 cts. ea., 10 at 50 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 65 cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each.
DEUTZIA, SLENDER (Deutzia gracilis). A dwarf Deutzia which blooms so profusely in May that its small, snow-white flowers entirely cover the bush. It is unexcelled for low foundation plantings, entrance plantings, or in front of taller shrubs. (See illustration above.) Prices: 1 to U/2 ft., 65 cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each ;l'/2 to 2 ft., 85 cts. each, 10 at 80c. each.
DEVIL’S WALKING-STICK (Aralia spinosa). An unusual, tall shrub of tropical appearance, with
enormous, finely divided leaves on tall, straight stems, and clusters of fluffy white blooms, followed by dark blue berries. Valuable for planting at corners of build¬ ings or in tall shrub plantings. (See illustrations above.)
Prices: 2 to 3 ft-, 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 70 cts. each.
DOGWOOD, CORAL (Cornus alba sibirica ). An all-purpose shrub of medium height, with stems and branches a bright red color during the winter months making them effective in any planting. The clusters of creamy white flowers are followed by blue-grav berries. Thrives in either sun or shade and is perfectly hardy. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 55 cts. each, 10 at 50 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 65 cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each.
^•^DER, GOLDEN ( Sambucus canadensis aurea). The foliage is bright golden yellow throughout season, making it most effective in mass plantings. Its very fragrant flowers are borne in large panicles. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 55 cts. each, 10 at 50 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 70 cts. each, 10 at 65 cts. each.
FLOWERING ALMOND ( prUnus glandulosa). A dwarf shrub, whose slender branches are literally covered with pink, rose-like flowers in early spring. Most effective when massed in shrub border. See illustration p. 43.) Prices: 1 */4 to 2 ft., 85 cts each; 2 to 3 ft., $1.00 each.
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Virginal Mock Orange. size
Rugosa Rose
Flowering
Almond
bpirea.
Anthony Waterer
Sweet
Mock Orange
Pussy Willow
Shredded Sumac
Lemoine Mock Orange
Beautiful Blooms From Spring To Fall
FLOWERING QUINCE {Cydonia japonic). A shrub of medium height. In early spring, its large, bright scarlet flowers give the entire bush a bright, fiery red appearance. Its quince-like fruits are sometimes used for flavoring jellies. Beautiful specimen plant, good for massing in border, or for flowering hedge. Prices: l'/j to 2 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 2 to 3 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 70 cts. each.
FORSYTH1A, BORDER ( Forsythia intermedia). The Forsythias are considered our earliest blooming shrubs. They are literally covered with bright yellow bell-shaped flowers before the leaves appear. The foliage is equally fine. This variety is of medium height and is useful for border, entrance, or foundation plant- See illustration page 42.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 65 cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 80 cts. each; 10 at 75 cts. each.
HIBISCUS. See Shrub-althea.
HONEYSUCKLE, RED TATARIAN ^onicera ta. . tarica sibirica). The bush Honeysuckles are among our most desirable and attractive rapid-growing, all-pur¬ pose shrubs. They are practically the first shrubs to leaf out in the spring, and are unexcelled for tall borders or screen plantings, thriving in either shade or sun. Often used for tall hedges as they withstand shearing. This variety, probably the most popular one, bears masses of deep pink flowers followed by showy red
berries. (See illustration page 44.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft.
60 c 1 8 . each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 80 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each.
HONEYSUCKLE, MORROW {Lonicera morroui). A good accent shrub or high foundation plant of medium height. The flowers, white when they first open, later turn yellow, and are slightly fragrant. (See illustration page 44.1 Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 80 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each.
HONEYSUCKLE, WINTER {LonUtr(1 fragra„,is- sima ). The flowers of this attractive Honeysuckle are delicate pink and very fragrant. They appear just as leaves are budding out in the soring. (See illustration page 44.' Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 80 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each.
HYDRANGEA PEEGEE ( Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora). A conspicuous showy medium- to tall- growing shrub which may be kept in bush form or can be trained to small tree form. It produces enormous bloom-heads during July and August, at first white and then changing to pink. Useful shrub for foundation nlanting or for massing in border, perfectly hardy. (See p. 44.1 Prices: 18 to 24 in., 60 cts., 10 at 55 cts. each; 2 to 3 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 85 cts. each, 10 at 80 cts. each.
HYDRANGEA, SNOWHILL (Hydrongea arboTes. cens grandiflora). Called the “Everblooming Hy¬ drangea,” as it starts blooming in June and continues until frost. The flower-heads often measure io inches across, and are pure white resembling the well-known Snowball. It is of medium height and especially useful around foundations or in border. Succeeds in either stiade or sun. (See illustration page 44.1 Prices: 18 to 24 in., 70 cts. each, 10 at 65 cts. each; 2 to 3 ft., 80 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each.
JETBEAD ( Rhodotypos kerrioides). A shrub of medium height with attractive foliage, and white flowers, resembling the Mock Orange, borne profusely in May and June and also in fall. Dark jet-black berries. Adapted to either sunny or shady locations. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 70 cts. each.
KERR1A, DOUBLE ( Kerria japonica flore-pleno). One of the best yellow-flowering shrubs. Its bright yellow, double flowers are borne profusely in spring, throughout the summer, and until late fall. The slender green branches make the plant very effective during the winter months. Good in foundation plant¬ ing, at entrances or massed in shrub border. (See illus¬ tration page 44.1 Prices: 18 to 24 in., 65 cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each; 2 to 3 ft., 80 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each.
Snowhill Hydrangea Y* Size
Dbuble Kerris
Hydrangea Peegee V\ o size
Regel
Privet
Berries and flowers of Red Tatarian Honey¬ suckle (left;
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Winter
Honeysuckle
Morrow Honeysuckle Flowers t)
Stark Shrubs Give Charm To Your Home
LILACS, FRENCH BUDDED (Syringa vulgaris). A great improvement over the common Lilac. They bloom even when very young and the colors range from almost a true blue through all shades of purple into a deep purplish red, both single and double- flowered forms. Our French Lilacs are propagated from parent plants which were brought over from France by C. M. Stark, late president of Stark Bro’s Nurseries. Stark Bro’s tested many named Lilacs and' have found the following varieties to be the best.
Belle de Nancy. The satiny rose flowers are borne in large clusters. A most beautiful variety.
Ludwig Spaeth. An unusual Lilac. Flowers are deep reddish purple, borne in extremely long clusters.
Marie Legraye. Handsome, fragrant, white flowers.
Mme. Abel Chatenay. A double white variety with very fragrant flowers.
Michel Buchner. Double, blue-flowered Lilac of unusual beauty.
President Grevy. The finest of all blue Lilacs; in fact, we consider this variety probably the finest of budded Lilacs. The enormous heads of blue flowers are borne profusely. (See illustration page 45.)
Prices on all above varieties of French Budded Lilacs: 2 to 3 ft., $1.50 each, 10 at $1.40 each; 3 to 4 ft., $2.00 each, 10 at $1.90 each.
LILAC, COMMON PURPLE (Syringa vulgaris)_ The old favorite purple Lilac. Clusters of fragrant purple flowers. Very hardy. Excellent for lawn speci¬
men, for groups or shrub border, also makes attractive hedge. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 85 cts. each, 10 at 80 cts. each.
LILAC, PERSIAN ( Syringa persica). A medium- height Lilac, with small leaves and graceful, slender stems. This variety may be used successfully in founda¬ tion planting, or makes a beautiful border or specimen plant. The delicately fragrant, lavender flowers are borne in great clusters. One of our best Lilacs. Prices: 2 t3 3 ft., 85 cts. each, 10 at 80 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 95 cts. each, 10 at 90 cts. each.
MOCK ORANGE, SWEET ( philadelphus coronari- us). This is the Syringa of grandmother’s garden, and a deservingly popular shrub. The large creamy white blooms, of orange-blossom fragrance, are borne pro¬ fusely in May and June. Useful as a lawn specimen, in shrub border or for tall hedge. (See illustration page 43.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 55 cts. each, 10 at 50 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 65 cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each,
MOCK ORANGE, LEMOINE {Philad elphus u. moinei). A dwarf Mock Orange having flowers similar to but smaller than the Sweet Mock Orange, with the same delicate fragrance. Fine for use in foundation planting. Perfectly hardy. (See illustration page 43.) Prices: U/2 to 1 ft., 70 cts. each, 10 at 65 cts. each; 2 to 3 ft.. 80 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each.
MOCK ORANGE, VIRGINAL (PhilaMphus vir. ginal). A new Mock Orange which is undoubtedly the best of the many new varieties of this desirable shrub. The double, fragrant flowers often measure to 2 inches in diameter and are borne over a long period. (See illustration page 4.1.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., $1.25 ea'ch; 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each.
PRIVET, REGEL {Ligusirum ibota rcgelianum). An all-purpose shrub of medium height that can be used as a hedge plant and is especially beautiful. Its attrac¬ tive dark green leaves are borne on slightly drooping branches. The fragrant, creamy white flowers in June are followed by dark blue berries. A distinctive plant that succeeds in sun or shade. (See illustration above.) Prices: IV2 to 2 ft., 50 cts. each, 10 at 45 cts. each;
2 to 3 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each.
PUSSY WILLOW (saiix discolor). A tall-growing shrub with silver-gray flower-buds that are most at¬ tractive for cutting. In early spring this plant is a great favorite with the children. L'seful as specimen or in shrill) border. (See illustration page 43.) Prices:
3 to 4 ft., 70 cts. each, 10 at 65 cts. each; 4 to 6 ft., $1.00 each. 10 at 90 cts. each.
KUSE, RUGOSA (Posa rugose). The Rugosa Rose is extremely hardy and can be used as a shrub in the border or as a flowering hedge. It is almost everbloom- ing, and its bright red flowers, often measuring 3 inches across, are followed by showy red seed-pods which remain on the olant practically all winter. Dark green crinkly leathery folige. (See illustration page 43-.) Prices: IV2 to 2 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 2 to 3 ft., 80 cts. each, 10 at 75 cts. each.
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Stark Shrubs Add Value To Your Home
SNOWBALL, COMMON (yiburnum opulus sterile). Also called "Guelder Rose." A tall-growing shrub, literally covered with enormous white flowers. Most attractive for Decoration Day as they are usually in full bloom at that time. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 75 cts. each; 10 at 70 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 90 cts. each, 10 at 85 cts. each.
SNOW BERRY. GARDEN ( Symphoricarpos race - mosus Icevigatus). A dwarf shrub that thrives in sunny, shady, or moist locations. The enormous clusters of white berries give the appearance of masses of white flowers. Good in shrub border or in foundation plant¬ ings. Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 50 cts. each, 10 at 45 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each.
SP1REA, ANTHONY WATERER (Spircea bumalda. Anthony Waterer). A most beautiful and desirable dwarf shrub. The bright crimson flowers are borne in clusters, often 3 inches across, and are borne almost con¬ tinuously. from June until frost. Fine for foundation planting, to face down taller shrubs or entrance, or makes an attractive low hedge. (See illustration page 43 ) Prices: 1 to l>/2 ft-. 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; I Vi to 2 ft., 75 cts. each. 10 at 70 cts. each.
SPIREA, BILLIARD (Spircea billia'di). A medium- height, upright-growing Spirea, with long spikes or plumes of pink flowers from July until frost; especially fine for using in bouquets. Succeeds even in dry loca¬
tions. (See illustration above.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 55 cts. each, 10 at 50 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 65 cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each.
SPIREA. THUNBERG t spircea thunbergi). Its attrac¬ tive. feathery foliage makes this one of the most beau¬ tiful Spireas. It is a mass of snow-white flowers before the leaves appear. A semi-dwarf, all-purpose shrub.
Prices: 1% to 2 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 2 to 3 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 70 cts. each.
SPIRE^JV^NHOiTTTE ( Spircea vanhouttei). Rightlv termed the one best shrub for all purposes, and sometimes called "Bridal Wreath.” Its graceful branches are completely covered in May with showy white flowers. Useful for foundation planting, as a flowering hedge, in the shrub border, or as specimen plant. Perfectly hardy. (See illustration above.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 35 cts. each, 10 at 30 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 50 cts. each, 10 at 40 cts. each.
SHRUB -ALTHEA ( Hibiscus syriacus). The Shrub- allheas are desirable shrubs of upright growth or may be grown in tree form. Often called “Rose of Sharon” or "Hibiscus.” They flower profusely from August until frost when few other shrubs are in bloom. Excel¬ lent in shrub border, for accent planting, in entrance or corner plantings, or can be used as flowering hedge. The following colors have been found to be tne most desirable ones. (See illustration on page 42.)
Colors:— Double Purple. Double Red. Double Rose. White. Prices: 2 to 3 ft. 55 cts. each, 10 at 50 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 65cts. each, 10 at 60 cts. each.
SUMAC, SHREDDED (Rhus typhina laciniata). A tall shrub with attractive, finely cut, fern-like foliage that is brilliantly colored in fall. The large clusters of showy reddish brown berries remain on the plant throughout the winter. Valuable in tall border or screen plantings. (See illustration page 43.) Prices: 3 to 4 ft.. 90 cts. each, 10 at 85 cts. each; 4 to 5 ft. $1.15 each, 10 at $1.05 each.
TAMAR1X, AFRICAN ( Tamarix africana ). A tall-growing shrub, with delicate, pale green foliage that gives the entire plant a fluffy or lacy appearance. The small pink flowers are thickly set along the graceful stems. Desirable in shrub borders. Prices: 2 to 3 ft. 45 cts. each, 10 at 40 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 50 cts. each, 10 at 45 cts. each.
WE1GELA, PINK (Weigela rosea). The Weigelas are among our most desirable flowering shrubs. They are of medium height and may be suc'essfully used in foundation plantings, in the shrub border, or as a lawn specimen. This bears a profusion of rosy pink flowers over a period of several weeks in May and June, and also bloom sparingly through summer and fall months. Thrives in sun or shade. (See illustration above.) Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 60 cts. each, 10 at 55 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., 75 cts. each, 10 at 70 cts. each.
WE1GELA, RED Weigela hybrida, Eva Rathke). A semi-dwarf shrub completely covered with dark red flowers during the spring, and has a tendency to bloom throughout entire summer. The best red Weigela.
Prices: 2 to 3 ft., 90 cts. each, 10 at 85 cts. each; 3 to 4 ft., $1.15 each, 10 at $1.05 each.
Stark 3886
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Gruss an Teplitz
Jonkheer J. I.. Mock
Sunburst
Mrs. Charles Bell
Wm. R Smith
Red
Radiance
Kaiserin
Auguste
Viatoria
EVERBLOOMING HYBRID TEA ROSES
Roses under this list are all of the everblooming type and furnish blooms continuously from June until frost. General MacArthur. A most beautiful bright crimson bedding Rose. Free bloomer. Prices: 90 cts. each, $8.50 for 10.
Gruss an Teplitz. Always in bloom. Roses are deep velvety crimson and sweetly perfumed. Hardy and vigorous. (See illustration above.) Prices: 90 cts. each, $8.50 for 10.
Jonkheer J. L. Mock, A magnificem Rose. Extra- large looms on long stems. Petals of silvery pink on inside and deep bright pink on outside. (See illustra¬ tion above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10. Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria. The mQst perfect white everblooming Rose. Flowers unusually double and fragrant. Continuous bloomer. (See illustration above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
Scarcely ever without deep pink, long- pointed, fragrant buds. A good bedder. (See illustra¬ tion above. ) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
La France, The 0i<jest Hybrid Tea. Large, long- pointed buds; silvery pink, fragrant flowers. Prices: 85 cts. each, $8.00 for 10.
Maman Cochet. Long-pointed shaded pink buds. Profuse bloomer. Prices: 90 cts. each, $8.50 for 10. Mme. Caroline Testout. The famous official Rose of Portland, Ore., the "Rose City." Plant vigorous. Large pink blooms. (See illustration above.) Prices: 90 cts. each, $8.50 for 10.
Mrs. Aaron Ward. Fragrant, pointed buds of rich yellow which open into double Roses. Blooms profusely and continuously. Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10. Mrs. Charles Bell. A sport of the Radiance Rose. The delicate salmon-pink color does not fade out. Beautiful for bedding and cutting. (See illustration above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
Radiance, The Radiance is rightly the most popu¬ lar pink everblooming Rose in America. It is never without blooms from spring until frost. The large fra¬ grant pink flowers are borne on long stems. (See illus¬ tration above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
Red Radiance. Flowers are a deep red color. Be¬ lieved by many to be even a better bloomer than its parent — Radiance. (See illustration above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
Sunburst. Extremely long orange-yellow buds of delightful fragrance. Free bloomer. (See illustration above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
William R. Smith. The long-pointed buds open into exceptionally double, fragrant flowers whose out¬ side petals are delicate pink with centers of creamy white. Continuous bloomer. (See illustration above.)
Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
HARDY HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES
Hybrid Perpetual Roses might be called the June- blooming Roses, as they produce their main crop at that time, although if given proper care they will bloom somewhat throughout the summer and in fall.
Mrs. John Laing. Large, pointed buds. Immense, clear pink flowers. Prices: 85 cts. each, $8.00 for 10. Prince Camille de Rohan. Flowers are a dark velvety red in color, almost black; fragrant. Blooms even in partial shade. Prices: 85c ea., $8.00 for 10.
Eugene Furst. Sweet-scented bright crimson flow¬ ers of velvety texture. A vigorous erower Prices:
85 cts. each. $8.00 for 10.
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Christine W right 2 size
Paul Ncyron
Vx
J. B. Clark. } 4 size
Ulrich Brunner
34 size
General
Jacqueminot
h size
Dr. W. Van Fleet
Climbing American Beauty
Dorothy Perkins
American Pillar
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES, cont.
Frau Karl Drugchki. Also known as “White American Beauty" and "Snow Queen." Best of its type. The pure white blooms are borne on long stems. Blooms throughout summer when properly cared for. (See illustration above.) Prices: 90c ea., $8.50 for 10. General Jacqueminot. A reliable favorite for many years. The bright clear red flowers are borne profusely during June. (See illustration above.) Prices: 80c each, $7.50 for 10.
J. B. Clark. most vigorous^rower. the canes often reaching 6 feet in length. Large bright crimson flowers. Has tendency to bloom the second time in fall. (See illustration above.) Price: 90c ea., $8.50 for 10.
Paul Neyron. probably the largest Rose. The beautiful bright pink blooms are often 5 to 7 inches in diameter and are borne on long stems, making it excel¬ lent for cutting. Often blooms during late summer and fall. (See illustration above.) Prices: 85c each, $8.00 for 10.
Ulrich Brunner. The fragrant bright red blooms are borne profusely. (See illustration above.) Prices: 85c each, $8.00 for 10.
CLIMBING ROSES
American Pillar. Qne Gf the most dependable and beautiful climbing Roses. The large, bright pink flowers have centers of golden yellow stamens, and are borne in enormous clusters. Extremely hardy. A late bloomer. (See illustration above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
Christine Wright. An ear]y bloomer. Large clus¬ ters of clear pink Roses hide the plant over a period of two weeks. Hardy. (See illustration above.) Prices: 85c each, $8.00 for 10.
Climbing American Beauty. A deservedly popular early bloomer producing a profusion of long-stemmed flowers often 3 inches in diameter and of American Beauty color. Perfectly hardy. (See illustration above.) Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
Dorothy Perkins. Succeeds everywhere. The clus¬ ters of bright rosy pink flowers convert this rose into a bower of beauty in late spring. Unusually hardy. (See illustration above.) Prices: 60c each, $5.50 for 10.
Dr. W. Van Fleet. Voted by majority of the Amer¬ ican Rose Society members as the most desirable hardy climbing Rose. The long-stemmed blooms of a lovely
apple-blossom color, are as good for cutting as those of any Tea Rose. A midseason bloomer. (See illustration above.) Prices: 90c each, $3.50 for 10.
Excelsa. “Red Dorothy Perkins/' The most de¬ pendable red Rambler, excelling in every way the old Crimson Rambler. Its flowers are borne in clusters in late spring and last for weeks. Hardy, disease-resistant, and vigorous. Prices: 75c each, $7.00 for 10.
Gardenia. An eariy bloomer, with small, deep yel¬ low, Tea-Rose shaped buds of unusual fragrance that open up into light cream-colored flowers. Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
Paul s Scarlet Climber. An early bloomer. The large flowers, in clusters, are of the brightest scarlet imaginable. Fine for cutting. Prices: $1.00 each, $9.00 for 10.
BABY RAMBLER ROSES
Baby Ramblers. Unexcelled for bedding, edging, or Rose hedges. Bloom continuously from June until frost. The flowers are borne in clusters similar to those of climbing Rambler roses. Baby Rambler Roses scarce¬ ly grow more than 2 feet in height. We can supply in Red, Pink, or White. Prices: 85c each, $8.00 for 10.
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LUTHER BURBANK'S NEW CREATIONS— SOLD ONLY BY STARK BRO’S
Aerial View of the Stark-Burbank Gardens at Louisiana, Mo., where the Treasure Chest’s Seeds were Successfully Tested— Scoring Wonderful Triumphs. Visit these Gardens (on U. S. Highway 54) This Year,
WHEN, in 1875, Luther Burbank left his boyhood home in Massachusetts to journey across the Continent to California, he took with him the old zinc-bound trunk belonging to his father..
During the following 50 years of patient research and painstaking experiment that gave him his fame and his name “Master Plant Breeder,’’ Mr. Burbank was known to have used this . i old trunk of pre-Civil War days, as a storage place for one separate package of the seed of each of his Most Prized Creations — the most successful plant breeding experi¬ ments with which he was supremely satisfied and properly proud.
This trunk became known as his “Treasure Chest,” carefully hidden away from those who might carelessly or ignorantly mix this precious seed. He was con- stantly perfecting so many new and better flowers, vegetables, fruits and plants of every sort that he had not sufficient time to introduce all of them to the world. So — -this “Treasure Chest” was to be his gift to be handed down to future generations.
But, before the ever busy Burbank could find time to further develop and introduce to the world these Priceless New Crea¬ tions, he was called by the Great Master of us all. Before his death, however, he had expressed the earnest wish and hope that Stark Bro’s would carry on and perpetuate his beloved plant breeding work.
This was arranged through the kind offices of Mrs. Burbank, and, then —
We Inherited This “Treasure Chest”
Its arrival at our Headquarters at Louisiana,
Mo., created a Genuine Sensation. The Stark Staff of Experts at once realized the untold pos¬ sibilities of that chest's contents. Rare, unique flowers never before seen — products of the pa¬ tient genius of this “Master Plant Breeder.”
New, different, finer flavored vegetables — -many of them hitherto undreamt of by the gardeners of the world — that this great experimenter had created in his Secret Trial Grounds in California.
Strange, amazingly beautiful plants of all sorts for lawn, garden, and orchard that Burbank’s master ability had produced. All these were the possibilities locked up in that old zinc-bound trunk.
The Treasure Chest was opened — its contents itemized and classified — and tests were started in our Stark-Burbank Gardens here at Louisiana,
Mo. The results at the end of the season were astounding. The news spread and thousands journeyed here to view these new Marvels of Floriculture.
The pick of the very best, the most attractive and unique are offered to you on the pages that follow in this book. A photograph of these Stark-Burbank Gardens, where these rare seeds were tested, is shown immediately to the right.
Visit Stark-Burbank Gardens at Louisiana, Mo. This Year
The photo at the right shows just a small portion of these wonderfully interesting, beautiful gardens where Burbank's newest anti best creations are on display. You Will Be Heartily Welcomed — The Gardens Are On U. S. Con¬ crete Highway No. 54 Just West of Louisiana, Mo.
(Photo Above) Stark Bro s Staff of Experts Amazed at Contentsof Luther Burbank Treasure Chest.
Burbank s SEED Treasure Chest
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(Phcrto Below) CIo.e-up View of Treasure Chest— Full of Rare Seeds of New Flowers and Vegetables.
LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW CREATIONS SOLD ONLY BY STARK BRO’S
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Burbank’s “GOLDEN TREASURE” Cantaloupe
Seed of Which Was Discovered in Burbank’s Far-Famed “Treasure Chest”
A TREASURE, indeed, from out of the ■TV “Treasure Chest” of rare, but untested seed from all over the world that Luther Burbank had preserved — and which he be¬ queathed to the world, through Stark Bro's.
After four years of intensive, most vigorous test we, and all who have eaten it, declare this “GOLDEN TREASURE” CANTALOUPE IS THE FINEST, MOST FLAVORFUL MUSKMELON EVER DEVELOPED! It has produced abundant crops of super-deli¬ cious melons in both the Middle West and Far West — under driest, most unfavorable conditions in
years.
This finest of all muskmelons is “football shape,” very uniform in shape, size (about 4 times larger than photos below) and amaz¬ ingly unilorm in their exquisite flavor — AL¬ MOST EVERY MELON ON VINE A DELIGHTFUL TREAT TO MELON CON¬ NOISSEURS! When ripe, a crack develops around stem and the melon comes off stem easily.
The thick rich orange yellow flesh is sat¬ urated with spicy sweetness — indescribable in its captivating flavor. Seed cavity is very small. As one expert says: “This is ALL melon — and WHAT a melon!”
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More Vigorous and Biggest Yielder Of Any Melon Ever Tested
Report from our experts, after 3 years of exacting tests: “This new cantaloupe is more vigorous and more prolific bearer than any we ever saw! Each plant averages from 10 to 18 FINE fruits — an extremely heavy setting! Very few, if any, depart from type — an unusually excellent melon!” EARLIER THAN ROCKY FORD — AND VASTLY BETTER FRUIT!
Very Limited Stock This Year
Only selected seed from picked specimens have been preserved for supply to a limited number of customers this year. Each packet, sown in drills 1 ft. apart will supply 100 hills of vines — sufficient to furnish hun¬ dreds of these exquisitely flavored melon - treats to those fortunate enough to get this seed this year.
$1 Per Packet
(Limited to 6 Packets to a customer)
Us
From Luther Burbank’s Treasure Chest
Just-Discovered BURBANK Flowers
Burbank’s Mixed Mexican Prickly
p A delightful Burbank flower creation!
- EHi. Bears LARGE silky, crinkled blooms of
pure white, sunrise yellow and dusk purple. Foliage very decorative, of light blue green and prickly. Resists frost. Blooms gloriously all Summer and until hard freezing weather. A charming novelty for your garden. EXTREMELY SMALL STOCK —25c PKT.
Burbank’s Giant Mixed Hibiscus Ane'v
■■ Giant
Mallow developed by Luther Burbank and proved by our Experts. Very vigorous, hardy, herbaceous perennial — strong growth — producing great quan¬ tities very large blooms, in colors from deep crim¬ son and reds and pinks to purest white. Planted early will bloom the first year FROM SEED! ONLY SMALL STOCK— ORDER EARLY! 25c PKT . ■ ( See Photo at Right.)
4 NewVegetables
Burbank’s Cross of Honor Marigold
A gorgeous improvement on the French medium dwarf Marigold. A beautiful deep dark green foliage plant during summer that bursts into a myriad of Golden Yellow and Bronze blooms in September. The different patterns and stripings of the flowers are most fascinating — an extremely showy flower for late Summer and early Fall. VERY SMALL STOCK! 25c PKT.
Burbank’s Pastel Colored Phlox An a"“
— — — - nual.
Photo at left taken in November in Northern Missouri — Phlox in full bloom still. A typical Bur¬ bank improvement. Soft pastel shades hitherto unknown to Phlox. Extremely delicate and artistic. Makes resplendent beds that bloom from early Summer until hard freezing weather. VERY LIMITED SUP¬ PLY— 25c PKT.
Burbank’s Mayflower Verbena en-
— - tranc-
ingly beautiful flower developed by Burbank. — EARLIEST OF ALL VERBENAS. Begins to brighten the garden with bloom when plants are scarcely 6 inches high. Fairly alive with bright flowers the entire Summer and until heavy frost. Gives you earlier flowers than your neighbor. LIMITED SUPPLY THIS YEAR — 25c PKT.
Burbank’s Darwin Poppy An amazing pop-
- py created by
the genius of Burbank. A DOUBLE mulberry bloom resembling a fine peony. Nothing to com¬ pare with it ever seen in America before. Similar to the gorgeous Black or Purple occasionally offered by foreign seedsmen at exorbitant prices. VERY SMALL STOCK— 25c PKT.
Burbank’s Giant White Flower Nicoti-
Burbank’s Golden Horn
Pepper
Very prolif \ SWEETEST PEPPER EVER GROWN!
Nothing like it ever known before. Fruit edible green or ripe. Golden yellow when ripe. Fruits 6 in long. Plants always LOADED! VERY SMALL STOCK— 50c PKT.
Burbank’s Yellow Egg
Tnmatn Preserving. Far better i than small pear or cherry
tomatoes. Golden, egg-shaped fruits of wonderful quality — far exceeding flavor of usual preserving tomatoes. LIM¬ ITED STOCK THIS YEAR— 25c PKT.
Burbank’s Orange Sun-
rise Tomato Preserving. Fruits
somewhat larger than Burbank's Yellow Egg. Beautiful color — splendid flavor — make handsome preserves. ONLY FAIR SIZED SUP¬ PLY— 25c PKT.
ana (Fl°wer'ng Tobacco) A gigantic plant that
- has amazed visitors to our Burbank Gardens.
Tall, stately, with fresh green leaves and tall spikes that branch out and are LOADED with huge, 4 to 6 inch tubular white flowers. Strong fragrance. Bloom throughout season. A genuine novelty. LIMITED SUPPLY— 25c PKT.
Italian Green Sprouting
Rrnrcnl i A vitamin vegetable now
prottun ; n Rreat favor Even bct. ter than Cauliflower, because Broccoli is green instead of blanched white. Blanched vegetables have less vitamins than green varieties. FAIR SIZED STOCK— 25c PKT.
Page 50 LUTHER BURBANK'S NEW CREATIONS SOLD ONLY BY STARK BRO S
After years of patient selection and breeding to create his ideal in Zinnias, which included blooms of wonderful size and unique artistic
1. Burbank’s Giant Pastel-Colored” Zinnias
A Corner in Stark-Burbank Garden
Mr. Burbank describes them: “These flowers challenge the re¬ sources of the palette of the pastel artist: saffron, yellow, coral, apricot, wine, pale yel¬ low, magenta, mauve, I maroon, copper, plum, bronze, ivory, flesh-pomegranate, dull vermiilion, dull lacquer red, peach, orange-gold, amaranthine, brick-red, purple, burnt sienna, old rose, lake. The plants are sturdy, they bear profusely and practically all summer long, and they require less care than many flowers not nearly so gratifying to the garden lover.”
In just one row of our Burbank Test Grounds, here at Louisiana, Mo., we counted 26 distinct color and form types of this beautiful flower. As to form of bloom, our illustration above from photographs taken in our beautiful Stark-Burbank Flower Garden shows very distinctly the prevailing type, which covers the range of curled, crested, incurved tips, twisted and spiral arrangement of petals, and many other variations which make such a mixture so interesting to grow. An established free-flowering habit brings these plants into bloom often when but a foot high, and since each successive stage of growth submerges the previous one the faded flowers are covered and the plants always present a fresh neat appearance. Mixture of Pastel Shades. Pkt., 35c; 3 for 90c; 10 for $2.50.
These friendly, jolly little Zinnias are an exclusive Luther Burbank production. He describes them: “They come in bright shades of red, yellow, gold and cream; low-growing, and bearing a blanket of blossoms almost from frost to frost. Nothing could be more entrancing in. a solid bed than these neat, tight, saucy, perky little rascals; they are splendid for borders; they cut to give you adorable old-fashioned bouquets, quaint and always intimate.”
(Baby Zinnia photo at bottom of this page taken in the Stark-Burbank Gardens, at Louisiana, Mo.)
The neat little Pompon flowers are pro¬ duced when the plants are barely 6 inches high. Visitors to our Stark-Burbank Gardens expressed great admiration for these little
Baby Zinnias which bloom continu¬ ously from the beginning of tl season until frost. In addition to all the solid colors named in Mr.
Burbank's description, we find oddly variegated types which include sometimes in the same blooms combina¬
tions such as scarlet, buff and yellow; rose-pink and white; yellow and white; or scarlet and yellow, in nu¬ merous odd combinations. Pkt. (Mixed Colors), 25c; 3 for 60c.
Burbank’s Baby- Dwarf Zinnias
2. Burbank’s “Baby Dwarf” Zinnias
LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW CREATIONS SOLD ONLY BY STARK BRO’S Page 5 1
37 Burbank’s “Hybri^^
Bur- VV bank’s
Giant ^ C orcopsis
The original Shasta Daisy was brought forth by Mr. Burbank about 36 years ago. Known las one of his most remarkable achievements. Unusual I hardiness and free flowering habits have given it wide spread popularity. However, Mr. Burbank was not satisfied and continued his work, still further* improving this beautiful perennial. The NEW Hybrid Shasta Daisies show how splendidly he sue 1 ceeded. In these new flowers, we offer many unique,'" distinct forms, from single white flowers with glowing,
'golden centers to extremely fanciful designs with curled, twisted s — many almost semi-double with additional white petal rows. Remarkable increase in bloom sizes, too. Note photos on left side of this page, which flowers were grown in our Stark-Burbank Gardens, at Louisiana, Mo. The photo showing a gorgeous bed of Shasta Daisies is from I he Burbank Gardens at Santa Rosa, Calif. Pkt. 30c; 3 for 75c.
3. Luther Burbank’*
“Hybrid Sbasta Daisy”
4. feurbank’s Giant Coreopsis Lanceolata
Illustration at .iglit shows the remarkable s.ze and perennial Vigorous growth, the first year producing style of bloom of the Burbank Giant Coreopsis. Many large, perfectly hardy crowns. Early following sprmg,
J . r»i a. orpat nnmhprg of uTif ii on?-8temmed chrome-
years of selection by Burbank the Master Plant
Breeder, were necessary to produce this improved stands supreme. Upright growth. Pkt. 25c: 3 for 60c.
5. BURBANK’S “FIRST PRIZE" DELPHINI¬
UMS- Delphinium breeders acknowledge Mr. Bur¬ bank's work to be outstanding. His habit of producing complex hybrids to combine as many desirable char¬ acters as possible gives remarkable results when hybrids grow to blooming size. An early start with Burbank "First Prize” Delphiniums assures bloom the first year, and, being hardy perennials, they will increase each year in size and beauty.
Mixed Colors. Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.25.
S. BURBANK’S ’’EVERBLOOMING’’ POPPY.
Mr. Burbank's own description: "Several years ago I
succeeded in crossing the Oriental (perennial) Poppy with the Paeony flowered (annual) Poppy. The result was a strain of single perennial everblooming poppies bearing enormous flowers on long 9tems. of various shades of scarlet, crimson and orange. Unlike all other poppies, these bloom all the time throughout the entire season." (Seed very scarce. Give second choice.) Pkt. 50c.
7. BURBANK’S "SNAPDRAGON HYBRIDS.’’
Every one knows the Snapdrag > l, out few know the
wonderful Burbank hybridized Snapdragons that pro¬ duce new forms of flowers and n w and rare color com¬ binations: Pale gold, soft blush pink, amber, white as well as soft dark colors such a- brown, ochre, old gold, mauve, rose, bronze, and oth-.-r interesting shades. Mixed Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
8. BURBANK’S "NEW HYBRID’’ COLUM¬
BINE. These NEW Columbines have rare loveliness, soft, charming colors; tall straight stems, fern-like leaf arrangements, and a value as a cut flower that only a few know but that the few use to delight and make envi¬ ous their guests. They range in color: red. yellow, or¬ ange, rose, blue, purple, cerise, white, salmon and mauve. ( Seed scarce. Give second choice.) Pkt. 35c.
9. BURBANK'S “PERENNIAL SWEET PEAS-’’
The Burbank strain hardy Sweet Pea favorite at the
Burbank Farms for over a third of a century. Growth vigorous, producing profusion of lovely formed, brightly colored flowers. Mixed Pkt. 30c; 3 for 75c.
10. BURBANK’S “FOXGLOVE HYBRIDS. ’’
Another achievement of Luther Burbank which is ex¬ ceptionally fine. The Foxglove is well known as a dec¬ orative plant with silvery-green foliage with flower spikes five or six feet high. Many beautiful colors and combinations — especially, in crimson, rose and white. Foxgloves are especially suited to partially shaded conditions which are found among shrubbery and should be included for color effect among shrubs. Mixed pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
11. BURBANK'S "TR1TOMA HYBRIDS. ’’ Mr.
Burbank changed the red spikes of the old-fashioned "Red Hot Poker" plant into golden torches and yellow flares. This new Hybrid presents colors from pale citron yellow to the richest orange scarlet. The tall spikes shoot up to a height of as much as 5 to 6 ft. : they bloom constantly from June to the late fall. They are hardy throughout most of the United States. .Seed verv scarce. Give second choice.)
Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.25.
Page 52 LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW CREATIONS SOLD ONLY BY STARK BRO’S
Stark — Burbank Gardens
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Above— Burbank’s Marigold, Phlox, Four O’clock and Celosias
18. BURBANK’S “SUMMER- BLOOMING” COSMOS.
The Burbank plants from which these seeds were saved bloomed 2V2 months before other Cosmos and actually bloomed until frost, which is the time ordinary Cosmos just begin to be at their best. They have 3J4 times as long blooming season as others. All colors and tints from white through pink, lavender, rose and crimson. Im¬ mense flowers — 5 or 6 inches wide. Much larger and more striking than ordinary Cosmos. Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.25.
19. BURBANK’S “FLUFFY-GIANT” ASTER
_ A Burbank selec¬ tion of giant flowering Asters. Entrancing pastel shades of pink, rose, purple, blue, etc. Sturdy growth and extravagant powers of blooming. Packets are mixed seeds only, containing all the desired and worthy colors and all in graceful, fluffy-petaled forms. Mixed Pkt. 30c; 3 for 75c.
20. BURBANK’S “ANNUAL-DELPHINIUM” (LARKSPUR).
The Burbank strain of Annual Delphinium gives a wealth of flowers for a long blooming season. Many colors, single and double mixed.
Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
21. BURBANK’S “VELVET-BLUE” PETUNIA
Velveff Blue
Burbi
aa-nra?
_ A luminous,
DEEP BLUE — a clearer, more delicate blue than ever before in Petunias. Each individual petal like velvet. Best of all, it has a delightful, unusual fragrance that permeates the whole garden. One of the most eenerous bloomers of all the hardy, .hrifty annuals we know. Pkt. 30c; 3 for 75c.
22. BURBANK’S “ROSY-MORN” PETUNIA.
_ One
of the most beautiful flowers known for solid mass treat¬ ment in gardens, large or small. Bright pink, white throated blooms cover the ground for weeks and weeks. Sturdy and requires little care: sDreads widely. Pkt. 25c: s for 60c.
23. BURBANK’S “PETUNIA-HYBRIDS” MIXED
_ Will give you Petunias of
almost every named variety in all colors and combinations of color. Not less than So heavy-blooming kinds were included in the beds from which these hybrids were grown. Pkt., 30c; 3 for 75c.
Graceful, dainty flowers of most delicate colors, tints and shades with petals crinkled and fluted, display a degree of beauty found in very few other flowers. Your bed of Burbank Art Poppies will be a delight during the entire blooming season. One of Burbank’s greatest Poppy achievements. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
25. BURBANK'S “ROSY-GIANT” DOUBLE POPPY.
_ . _ NEW, fresh, fair and
beautiful. Immense, rosy, peony-flowered poppies in great abundance on long, stiff stems carried well above clean-looking gray-green foliage. One of the finest of all the double poppies. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
26. BURBANK’S "SUNRISE MIXTURE” CALIFORNIA POPPY.
* With the
original Burbank Crimson self-color described in paragraph below, we offer a carefully blended mixture of all the fine shades and tints of the California Poppy as now devel¬ oped, based upon the original selection work performed by Mr. Burbank. To name a few of the distinct colors represented in this mixture is sufficient to suggest the wide range of colors now available in the species Eschscholtzia Californica, one of Cali¬ fornia’s most abundant flowers. White, amber-yellow, orange, butter-cup yellow, rose- pink, mauve, orange-scarlet, reddish-purple, carmine, crimson, copper, claret red, royal purple, and many others. Pkt., 25c; 3 for 60c.
27. BURBANK’S “CRIMSON BEAUTY” CALIFORNIA POPPY. 0ne of the
most beautiful original selections made by Mr. Burbank during his work of developing new colors from the common yellow California Poppy. Exceedingly satisfactory as a bedding plant and continues to furnish exquisite bloom throughout the season. Pkt.
25c; 3 for 60c.
28. BURBANK’S “CANTERBURY BELLS.
_ Charming biennial plants with tall showy flower spikes loaded with beautiful bell-shaped flowers. A New and Lovelier Strain which Mr. Burbank created. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
29. BURBANK’S “IMPROVED” OLD-FASHIONED PINKS.
_ _ Very unusual
variety petals fringed, frilled and ruffled — colors, deep glowing crimson, rose, salmon pink, and white, mottled and blended in various shades. You must have at least a small bed. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
30. BURBANK’S “IMPROVED” FOUR O’CLOCKS MIXED.
Bushy plants of
quick growth and bloom. Delightfully fragrant, brightly colored flowers opening late in afternoon. Colors include white, yellow, crimson and variegated. Golden Foliage variety about 18 in. high with more of the pure white and clear yellow flowers than the Green. Also curious stripings, splashes and featherings. (30) Green Foliage Four O’Clock (31) Dwarf Golden Foliage — either variety: Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
Burbank’s tour O’Clocks
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Page 53
Burbank’s Wonderful Hybrid GLADIOLUS
12 (See illustration above) Burbank’s Plumed Knight Celosias have far surpassed our fondest exportations. Our customers actually RAVE over their amazing beauty and graceful forms. Their growth under almost. ANY Condi¬ tions is amazingly vigorous — the shapely plants often reaching almost 5 feet high at maturity. Very showy for group or individual planting. The many colored plumes of these improved Celosias provide an amazing assort¬ ment of rich yellow, orange, copper, bronze, maroon, etc. throughout the summer until killing frost. When gathered as cut flower bouquets, the colors blend most harmoniously and provide as rich color effects as those of the finest Oriental tapestries. Beautiful as fresh cut flowers and gorgeous as dry bouquets, retaining their graceful forms and brilliant colors for months. Pkt., 30c; 3 for 75c; 12 for $2.50.
13 Burbank’s “Combustion Plant’’ (Amaranthus)
An even MORE GORGEOUS colored foliage plant than Plumed Knight Celosias. Mr. Burbank’s owm words: “A bush 4 feet high and 3 feet across at the base like a gigantic dahlia of a surpassingly brilliant, iridescent, fiery, rosy crimson, increasing in size and abundance until the whole plant is illum¬ inated with huge, poinsettia-like tufts of flaming fire which can be seen for half a mile.” It is very grown, requires no care, and is so striking and effective as a hedge, a border, in masses or as mi¬ nts that it would be difficult to make the reader believe the words. Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.25; >.
32 Burbank’s Beautiful “Newest Hybrid” GLADIOLUS
A medley of exquisite NEW colors, tints and shades. The mixed bulbs we offer are from a most amazing assortment of hybrids produced in 35 years by Mr. Burbank. Endless succession of colors, types and habits of growth. A score of different hybrids of extraordinary merit and beauty. Mixed bulbs, blooming size, 50c each $4.00 per dozen. 33. Cormels (small bulblets), 25 for $1.00.
34 GLADIOLUS— “The Luther Burbank”
The variety Mr. Burbank deemed most worthy of his name. He pronounced it his finest creation in Gladiolus, — really amazingly beautiful. The finest bedding Gladiolus for large effects. One of the best individual cut flowers. Spikes me¬ dium height, stiff, sturdy stems, standing upright in all sorts of weather. Large blooms in double trusses, producing a continuous color display from end to end of spike. Mr. Burbank stated: — “Delightful pure cherry-pink with crimson shadings, and primrose yellow throat feathered with deep purplish crimson.” Price $1.00 each; $10.00 per dozen. 35. Cormels (small bublets) 25 for $2.00.
OTHER RARE BURBANK CREATIONS 36 BURBANK’S “HYBRID SCABIOSA”
Burbank improvement of the Pincushion Flower which has delighted with its soft beauti¬ ful colors. Long stems of this new improved strain carry flowers upright and wonderful effects obtained both as bedding plant and for cut flowers. Beside soft shades of blue, lavender and purple, there are several shades of pink, almost black maroon, salmon-rose, cop¬ pery-red, white and other variations. Mixed pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
38 BURBANK’S “GIGANTIC” EVENING PRIMROSE.
Enormous NEW’ Primrose bloom of purest white, 5 inch in diameter. Open their snowy loveliness in late after¬ noon and only close when sun gets hot in morning. Very vigorous. Require practically no care. Pkt. 30c; 3 for 75c.
39 BURBANK’S “ICELAND” CUCUMBER. Burbank's successful cross between a delicious South American cu¬ cumber and the native long, green, variety. Clear Ivory- white, wonderful flavor and a most PROLIFIC BEARER, often having 300 cucumbers nearly foot long in one hill. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
40 BURBANK’S “HYBRID ARTICHOKE.” Produces largest heads in greatest quantity and finest quality. Has gray-green leaves of fine decorative effect. If allowed to bloom, produce gorgeous lavender blue, thistle-like flowers
12 to 15 inches in diameter. Pkt. 50c; 3 for $1.25.
41 BURBANK’S “ROSY GEM” RADISH. Outstanding radish in Stark-Burbank Gardens. Perfectly round, clear rosy-pinkish red shading to a distinct white tip near slender tap root. Superb quality. Pkt. 35c; 3 for 90c.
Burbank’s
Hybrid
Gladiolus
% Actual Size
¥M
37 BURBANK’S “CALENDULA CORONA”
New improvement on ordinary Calendula. Striking colors. Large single and double flowers. Distinctive
and unusual — you can buy it ONLY from us. Flower heads produce secondary flower buds spread out in circlet or crown, opening up for another bloom period after original flower fades. Thus, the name of Corona or Crown. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
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Page 5 4
Select Flowers From Stark Seeds
Giant Comet
ASTERS One of the most popular cut
- — — - flowers, also highly esteemed for
bedding effects. Modern types unusually effective and pleasing. We list popular mixtures in several dis¬ tinct types of flower and the seed is of the very best.
American Rpantv _ Lar8e round blooms, 4 to
American Beauty 5 inches in diameter on
long stems. Plants 2Yi to 3 feet. Mixed. Pkt., 10c; Ys oz., 35c.
American Late Branching— Jtnyot^erryla^e70r;
b'edding and cut flowers. Mixed. Pkt., 10c; Vs oz., 25c.
Most popular type, flowers resembling Chrysanthe¬ mums in form and size. All the beautiful Aster colors mixed. Pkt., 25c; Vs oz., 40c.
Improved strain of Comet Crego Mammoth type> nowering in midseason. Mixed. Pkt.. 10c; Vs oz., 25c.
Antirrhinum (Snapdragon) Candytuft —
A beautiful old fashioned flower, won¬ derfully improved in variety of colors and size of flowers. Delightfully fra¬ grant, long season of bloom, hardy with some protection, blooming again early in spring. Mixed. Pkt., 10c; XA% oz.,
30c; Pink Perfection — Finest named variety, with long perfect bloom spikes.
Exquisite Hermosa pink. Pkt., 25c.
Anemone Coronaria —
nial). Flowers many brilliant colors on stems 8 to 10 inches above foliage.
Pkt., 10c.
A aura him _ (Floss Flower)
ftgeraium Blooms abundantly from early summer until frost. Colors: blue, lavender, and white. Mixed.
Pkt., 5c. Blue Perfection (Dwarf) —
8 to 12 inches high, dark blue flowers.
Pkt., 10c.
Alveenm Best known and
most popular bor¬ der plant, s to 12 inches high. Masses of small white flowers. Pkt., 5c;
Vi oz., 15c; oz., 25c.
Alyssum Saxatile— jg**
perennial plant with golden yellow flowers in early spring. Pkt., 10c.
Anuilania _ The Columbine in im-
Aqunegia proved type. Hardy
perennial, flowering early spring in many beautiful colors. Single Mixed, pkt., 10c; Double Mixed, pkt., 10c.
Asparagus Fern— ^,raan '9e ffaJ
hanging baskets.
Sprengeri— (Emerald Feather)-
Pkt., 15c
Queen of the Market — Aster blov°m‘
ing before any other
types. Low branching plants, large double flowers.
Pkt., 10c; l/s oz., 20c.
NEW ASTER COLORS
Del i c a t e flesh pink.
Pkt.,
September Beauty
Pkt., 10c; y8 oz., 25c.
A7Urp Rliip _ Late branching type
Azure Blue 10c; 1/g oz 25c
Soncafinn ( 1 Reddest of red Asters.
Sensation (.14; Pkt., lOc; y8oz.,25c.
Sulnhur Yellow _ 0nly yellow Comet.
auipnur lenow Pkt ( 10c. i/8 0Z )25c.
White King— ?„“"glI)“Sc'vhite- Pk* •
Heart of France (12)-™' fX
Pkt., 10c; Vs oz., 35c.
Plumosus
foliage. Pkt., 25c.
Long drooping branch-
Nanus— F.inlfeathery
rich green
Cypress Vine
Centaurea Cyanus — £ Bu\c^ 1 ° > ®
Early flowering with abundant double flowers in blue, pink, lavender and white. Pkt., 10c.
Centaurea Imperialis —
(Sweet Sultan). Flowers larger than Cyanus. Fringed, double, same colors, including purple. Pkt., 10c.
RaUam — (Lady Slipper). Quick unuam growing plants with num¬ erous spike9 of flowers in many delicate colors. Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Bean, Scarlet Runner (15) —
Interesting climber adapted to cool moist locations. Flowers intense flam¬ ing scarlet. Young pods edible. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c.
Bean, Hyacinth (16) — |pI;enj
climber, with clusters of pea-like flowers, purple, lavender and white. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c.
Calendula iPot Marigold). , A
fine bedding plant noted for its bright yellow and orange shades. Orange King (5) — The best double type. Pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 35c. Ball — (Orange, light center). Lemon Queen — (Sun-flower yellow). Meteor —(Creamy white striped orange.) Each 10c per pkt.; oz., 35c. Mixed Calen¬ dula — Finest improved. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.
Gourds — - (Ornamental). Vines of
- - rapid growth; fruits of
many colors. Fine mixed. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.
red Aster.
(Annual Iberis) — r. , ■ . ,, . ,
plants resembling fcuphorbiii M«irgin&ui-
(Snow on the Mountain) Vigorous, 2 to 3 feet high, nicely branched, terminal foliage margined pure white with brilliant effect very easy culture. Pkt., 10c.
■ Popular flower easily grown
imillrii seed. Many produce flowers a fine as named varieties. Many interesting types may be expected.
Collarette Mixed— fc,e0ntwere rofs uera_ch
rounded by small florets like a collar.
Pkt., 10c; Vs oz., 50c.
Cactus Flowered— fndalt9wcius[ed.
Many colors. Pkt., 20c; Vs oz., 75c.
Double Mixed — Seed from choicest double flowers. Pkt., 10c; Vs oz., 50c.
Single Mixed — Many prefer this to Double Flowered type. Pkt. ,10c; Vs oz.,25e.
Daisy (Shasta) Perennial—
Masses of dark green foliage with beauti¬ ful white, yellow centered flowers on long stems, 12 to 18 inches high. Pkt., 10c.
na:sv _ (English). Low-growing peren-
L/ala* nial, one of first to bloom in spring. Excellent for borders. Red, pink and white. Double mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Improved types of many interesting colors and color combinations often with delightful fragrance; very beautiful for bedding or cut flowers. Bloom first sea¬ son but produce finest flowers early in following spring.
Heddewigi - g"d'
named varieties of Pinks, all double.
White, purple, blood red, violet, pink, deep scarlet, orange, scarlet, deep maroon with white edge, salmon and pure white. Pkt., 15c; Vs oz., 40c.
Double China Mixed — Pkt., 5c.;
Vs oz., 15c. Single Mixed — Pkt.,
10c; Vs oz., 25c.
Gaillardia ( 1 7} (Blanket Flower).
yjalllttlQla V l « / Numerous flowers
in yellow, orange and red. Plants two feet high. Entirely hardy. Pkt., 10c.
Sweet Alyssum but somewhat larger. Numerous beautiful colors. Giant Flowered Improved Mixed. Pkt., 5c; oz., 25c.
fandvtiifF _ (Iberis Gibraltarica)
vanaytun —Clusters of - large lilac colored flowers in early spring.
Pkt., 15c.
Cannae _ Many interesting types
vaanaa both in plant and flower. We offer mixed seed saved from the finest named sorts. Roots may be stored for planting next year. Large Flowering Mixed. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.
Carnation Marguerite — Pneniaj
form of this popular flower, hardy with slight protection. Early plants flower first year. Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Camnanula — — (Canterbury Bell). campanula Bell-Shaped flowers
in a number of interesting colors. Double Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Cardinal Climber — aItod<jry
vigorous climbing vine. Numerous small intensely red flowers, resembling Morning Glories. Leaves finely cut, very decorative. Pkt., 10c.
Coreopsis (Annual) — F a‘ rn, *
bedding plant. Blooms very freely many shades of yellow, red and brown.
Pkt., 5c.
Coreopsis Perennial — 0(Eaan Ta
Grandiflora.) Showy bright yellow flowers resembling Cosmos. Long slender stems as much as 2 feet high. Entirely hardy, very easily grown from seed. Pkt., 10c.
.Quick growing vine, feathery foli¬ age. Flowers star-shaped, scarlet and white. Pkt., 5c.
Chrysanthemum Carinatum(Annual)
— Single flowers produced in great pro¬ fusion, displaying wonderful variety of colors in yellows and reds as well as white. Many flowers zoned in contrast¬ ing colors. Pkts., 10c.
Chrysanthemum Coronarium—
Doubl - - -
COSMOS
Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
One of the finest late summerand fall flowers, always satisfactory. Various shades of red and pink, as well as pure white.
Extra Early Anemone-Flowered
Large proportions of plants produce double flowers in usual Cosmos colors Mixed. Pkt., 15c; Vi oz., 50c.
Mammoth Early Flowering — M;nxfde
Pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 20c.
Double Crested— eLarrgwuwi
double centers. Later than Anemone Flowered. Pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c.
Giant Flowered Mixed — geatrof
single flowering type and most satis factory of the varieties. Pkt., 10c.
Convolvulus Minor— !Dwaid M°rn
_ _ ing Glory) —
True Morning Glory. Plants 12 to 18 inches high, many colors, easy culture mix-d, Pkt., 10c.
Cai-aniiim _ Easily grown from seed
ueramum producing many types of plants and flowers. Seed from large- flowering varieties. Choice mixture
Pkt., 15c.
Geum Coccineum — LT
perennials, intense orange-scarlet flowers on long stems. Pkt., 15c.
Gypsophila Elegans—
10 to 12 inches high, with "cloud” ol small flowers. Rose and white. Mixed.
Pkt., 5c.
.(Straw Flower).
_ Very popular for winter
bouquets. Bright fresh colors remain un changed for months. Finest select mixture. Pkt., 10c; Vi°2- ,30c.
Hibiscus (Mallow)—
Immense
Helichrysum-
Plants 4 to 6 feet high, flowers many beautiful shades pink, rose, crimson and white. Entirely hardy.
Pkt., 10c.
FcAerlinltTia — (California Poppy).
Lscnscnoitzia Free flowering bed.
ding plants developed from the orange- yellow California Poppy in great range of colors. Our Hybrid Mixture includes many new shades and tints. Pkt., 15c;
Vi oz., 30c.
For8el.Me-Not-»»,g„/g£..
ers; hardy with slight protection. Pkt., 10c.
Pn.irlnvn _ Hardy perennial; silvery-greer,
roxgiove leaves. Tall stately spikes of flowers in many colors. Mixed. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c.
Hnllvhnrlr - Hardy perennial.
noiiynocK Double. Pkt.,ioc.
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Page 55
iDIOLUS of Wondrous Beauty and Size
EARLY FLOWERING VARIETIES
A new and better race of Sweet Peas — the strains that florists use to grow their finest and highest priced early Sweet Peas. We recommend them highly to all wanting “the first Sweet Peas in their neighborhoods.’’
F nrlv FlnwAri rt a ^nonrer _ A selected mixture of the finest named sorts described below. A in -.ad of colors.
ivnxea c.ariy r towering jpencer shadeg and tints Pkt 10c. ,/2 oz 20c; oz 35<;. l/t lb ,100. Ib S3 50
(s) Orange King— (?) Enchantress
est orange-colored sweet pea yet intro- mense, beautifully duced. Produced four on stiff stems. Pkt., 15c; Vi oz., 30c.
Pkt., 25c; 3 pk*., 60c. /^) Chevalier _ Won two certificates
Bright rose pink. Flowers i m - waved and frilled.
® Early King-Glow
great size, perfect form, superb bril¬ liancy of color. Pkt., 15c; V2 02., 30c.
Glorious — Very larSe* waved
VJIUf 1UUS fluted petals Warm rosy
purple. Pkt., 10c; V2 oz., 20c.
Glitters Rich- living orange scar-
- let with wings deep orange.
Pkt., 15c; V2 oz., 30c.
(s)C
right — iwprs ShOW.
of Merit at Flower Magnificent true rose color, faint lemon-yellow tinge. Pkt., 15c; V4 oz., 50c.
Gorgeous
V2 oz., 25c.
Lavender King— Jrue degP laven-
& der. Flowers large, borne in threes and fours on long stems. Pkt., 10c; V2 oz., 30c.
Salmon-cerise-a charm¬ ing color. Pkt., 10c;
S ) Sweet Lavender
.Early flowering lavender self - <
Pure olor .
beautifully frilled, four very large flowers to stem
Pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c.
Peach Blossom— Free flowering^ Pale
_______ _ amaranth pink. Pkt.,
10c; V2 oz., 30c.
Snowstorm Improved
white flowers, waved petals.
V2 oz., 30c.
.Immense,
purest
Pkt., 10c;
Maroon Prince
Very free-flowering, 30c.
_Deep rich reddish maroon — unique.
Pkt., 10c; */2 oz.,
SUPERB SUMMER FLOWERING VARIETIES
S )Glory Mixture — K 1 n e s 1
(S)( - .r . . varieties
of Gladiolus including many choice ruffled varieties. An opportunity for every lover of Gladiolus to obtain these wonderful bulbs at a very moderate price. Thous¬ ands of varieties used in making this mix¬ ture. Doz. Bulbs, $1.35; 50 for $6.00;
100 for $10.00.
Be
Stark’s “Blaze-of- eauty” Mixture-
.Besides planting
separate colors, many plant large masses of mixed varieties to get cut flowers and add color to the garden. Include this mixture in your order, plant them in odd j corners. 55c dozen bulbs, 50 or more at 4c each.
!®Q
to the <
Orchid Mixture
. A" Com¬ panion”
dory' Mixture consisting of a great number of the finest Primulinus varieties. Wonderfully' artistic effects can be ob¬ tained. Amazing array of most popular colors. Dozen bulbs, $1.25; 100 for $9.00.
GORGEOUS RUFFLED GLADIOLUS
Blushing Beauty _^{fstda}“®y
throat markings. Each, 25c; doz. $2.50.
E. J. Shay lor — Beautiful.
J deep, rose
pink, large flowers. Each, 15c; doz. $1.50
Golden Glory -R£hiy j
vellow. Each, 25c; doz. $2.50.
White Glory—0"'; °J fi"est
J ruffled whites. I
Each, 25c; doz. $2.50.
.Purest white, faint pink in lower pet
Marie Kundred
als. Extra fine. Each, 35c; doz. $3.50.
Orange Glorv - Rich salmon-orange.
orange vjiury lighter throat. Strik-
ing. Each, 20c; doz. $2.00.
Purnle Glorv — Large ruffled type. r urpie vjiury Deep velvety ma_
roon-red, dark blotches. Each, 25c; doz., $2.50.
Rose Glory -?uf-est rose-pink.
Each, 20c; doz., $2.00.
Violet Glorv Barge, ruffled v luier. vjiory Howers deep vio.
let. Each, 30c; doz. $3.00.
Ruth Huntington -R .* \ 'e •
lilac flowers. Each, 25c; doz., $2.50.
Scarlet Glory
_Very flue red.
tinct. Each, 25c; doz., $2.50.
Violet Beauty
doz. $1.50.
EXQUISITE PLAIN PETALED VARIETIES
Alice Tiplady — Primulinus Hybrid.
r Large flowers, fine
form, brilliant orange - saffron with golden throat. Each, 15c; doz., $1.50; 25 or more at 10c each.
Anna Eberiu$— Pte'> velvety purple
flowers on fine tall spikes. Each, 20c; doz., $2.00.
Baron Hulot (Blue King)-
as Goliath but darker, violet purple petals pansy violet. Each, 15c;
$1.60; 25 or more, 12c each.
Fairest White— Pu/est w,hitg with
sof t pink t hroat
Not
large
lower
doz.,
lines. Each, 10c; doz. $1.00.
Golden Measure
.Best yellow. Large. Free
blooming.
Goliath-
Each, 20c; doz., $2.00.
Flowers extra large, rich, dark purple. One of the largest of this color. Each, 15c; doz., $1.60; 25 or more at 12c each.
Loveliness
15c; doz.,
10c each.
Peace — " hite-
— .1 $1.00.
Petals cream. Throat suffused apricot. Each, $1.60; 25 or more, at
Each, 10c; doz..
Pink Perfection — Peach bios-
som pink.
Each, 15c; doz. $1.60; 25 or more at 12c each.
Mrs. Frank Pendleton — s a 1 *
. m o n -
pink, blood-red splashed in throat.
Each, 10c; doz., $1.00; 25 or more at 7c each.
Scarlet Princeps _ Beautiful long
r spikes of glow¬ ing, bloom. Each, 15c; doz. $1.50.
War _ Rich blood-red with shading
___ deepest crimson. Each, 15c; t doz., $1 .60; 25 or more at 12c ea.
Regal Lilv _ Wonderful new Lily from China. Perfectly hardy. Giant clusters beautiful white Lilies tinged
5 y lemon in throat with pink .shadings outside. Delightfully' fragrant. Each, 75c; 3 for $2.00^
doz., $6.00.
(?) Spencer’s Mixed — A select mixture of all the glorious Spencer Sweet Pea varieties of every color, - - - color-combination and form. We sell more of this mixture than all else com¬ bined. Pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; lb., $1.00; lb., $2.75.
©
Amprira _ Distinctly striped
_ nlllctlL<1 with brilliant red on ivory white ground. Pkt., 10c; oz., 40c.
®Dobbi£sCream-0;iea™°J
color, large, finely waved flowers, long
stems. Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c.
RIha _ P ure blue
DIUC self-color.
0 Mary Pickford -.^hy^o f
Sweetheart." Dainty faint tinge of salmon.
pkts., 50c.
Perennial Sweet Peas- lbi **
,and various
owers immense, four on stiff stems.
Pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c.
(?) King
Edward— ^\rge deep
rich carmine
scarlet. Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c.
cream pink.
Pkt., 20c; 3
®R F Felton — Popular English va- r- renun riety Rich soft lav.
ender. Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c.
®Warrinr _ Flowers of great size per-
Y¥amor fectly formed, well waved. Reddish maroon color, tinged bronze. Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c.
Woriownnrl Most distinct blue sweet
TTCUgwuuu pea Bright delphinium blue, very large, beautifully waved and crimped. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 35c.
shades pink and red. Long period of bloom, hardy. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c.
Rpnnwn _ New English variety.
- large flowers clear car¬ mine rose. Pkt., 15c; oz., 65c.
Royal Purple-*™*
35c.
s) White Spencer — Large- pure
and frilled. Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c.
white, waved
Page 56
You Can Obtain Burbank Seeds FROM STARK ONLY
ZINNIAS
GOLDEN STATE Pure Gold
Dahlia-Flowered ZINNIAS
(I) Special Gold Medal Mixture: — A
- h(,i
line assortment including the colors described below among the named varieties as well as a myriad of other entrancing shades and color-variations. Zinnias are easily grown. Everyone should include them in flower plantings. Planted 12 to 18 inches apart these plants fill a large space and their continuous blooming habit assures an entire summer and fall supply of beautiful blooms. Pkt., 20c; J4 oz., $1.25; % oz., $2.00; Postpaid.
S) Twelve Superb Separate Colors
Canary Bird— deTtcfte
primrose yellow.
Crimson Monarch —
Largest, best of reds — im¬ mense, showy flowers.
A rare shade of deep lavender turning to purple.
Exquisite— "ie“cfeel3
light rose with deep rose centers.
Dream
Golden State — gioMfng
orange yellow. (See illustration.)
deep red.
deep ros O striking.
popular * flashing
Old Rose
shade of old
rose — lovely.
Oriftlp _ A novelty combin-
i unc iug orange and gold — showy.
Polar Rpar Very lar8e*
ruidr oear pure white.
Very rare Zinnia color.
Purple Prince— fG rw
deep Royal Purple — very large.
Scarlet Flame — f/ir'ie"1.
shot with orange.
PRICES — Any Separate Color — 20c Per Packet — Any 3 for 50c; Any 7 for $1. 00- ALL 12 for $1.75.
Other Fine Types of Zinnias
S jPicotee Mixed
Zinnias remarkable for their peculiar colors, blooms being various Zinnia edged with a « ontrasting color. Pink edged with chocolate, purple with yellow, cream with crimson and so on. Plants same size as Giant Flowered type. Pkt., 20c; y oz., 70c.
tnrir Ouillorl _ Special strain of peculiar quilled petals almost tubular. All Zinnia colors. Mixed colors. Pkt.,
Yiciury vuiueu 20c; ^ oz 60c; oz $2 00
Gorgeous Blooms from Stark Seed
LARKSPUR
Dwarf Emperor Mixed Lark-
_ (Delphinium) Early flowering.
Spur dwarf and tall. Long spikes beauti¬ ful flowers. Mixed pkt., 10c; oz., 30c.
Giant Hyacinth Flowered Lark-
2 to 3 ft. high. Mixed pkt., 5c;
spur — oz<t 20c.
Perennial Larkspur — J:aan
colors — Hybrid Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Lupin
Plants 2-3 ft. Spikes of many colored pea-like flowers. Pkt. 10c
Various colors, delicate
ivilgnoneue odors. Large Flowering Strain — Mixed. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.
MORNING GLORIES Common ClimbingET “i ?!dt eC°ben
shaped flowers in many colors and stripL gs. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c.
Japanese Giant— ffrr8mo?eOVbeautifnudi
than common Morning Glories — Mixed. Pkt., 10c.; M oz., 25c.'
Heavenly Blue—
ered with 4-in. sky blue flowers. Pkt., 20c; H oz., 40c.
Nirntiana _ (Flowering Tobacco). Fra-
liiiuiiaiia grant tubular white blooms.
Pkt., 5c.
Ice Plant-
Icy appearing. Pkt., 5c.
MARIGOLD
Lemon Queen MarigolddoFu bil‘
soft, lemon yellow, very showy. Pkt. 10c.
Orange Ball MarigoldTo^^or!
ange colored blooms. Pkt. 10c.
Double African Marigold —
orange colors. Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Double French Dwarf Marigold
— Assorted yellows and browns. Pkt., 10c.
Marvel of Peru Marigolds —
(4 O’Clock). Bright yellow, red, white flowers — fragrant. Mixed. Pkt-, 10c; oz., 20c.
I ilium Roonlo- (The gorgeous Regal Lllium ixegaie Lily.) Can be success¬ fully grown from seed. Often bloom second eear. Pkt., 25c.
NASTURTIUMS
Radiant Dwarf Mixed Nastur-
Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; M lb.,
Pkt., 5c; oz., 1 Hums - 45C; lb., $1.25.
45c; lb., $1.25.
"15c; lb.,
MJ_.1L _ (Love in the Mist) — 8 to 10 in.
INI guild tall. corn flower blue blooms. Best variety — Miss Jekyll. Pkt., 10c.
Verbena — ^j*‘ure- Pkt" 10c:
PANSIES
Pkt., 20c; 3 Pkts., 50c.
pansy. Mixed.
Orchid Flowered Pansy — delicate
tints and shades. Pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c.
Steele’s Mixed PansieF-Ppkt’., zsc!
PETUNIAS
Hybrid Bedding Petunias —
plain petaled. Mixed Colors. Pkt., 15c.
Balcony Petunia— PoGrr e V.
Mixed Colors. Pkt., 20c.
Giants of California Petunia —
Immense ruffled or fringed flowers — amaz¬ ing variety of colors, markings and stripings.
Mixed. Pkt., 15c.
Dwarf Mixed Petunias — pkoi:|®f<; Rosy Morn Petunia — wi?hseX?ry
throat — semi-dwarf . Pkt., 15c; fo oz., 25c.
Carmen Sylvia Petuniaviotetarnwith
white throat. Pkt., 10c.
Howard’s Star Petunia^°eewhUe
star. Color varies with weather conditions.
Pkt., 10c.
PHLOX
PLlsw Brilliantly colored border flower.
I niOX Grandifiora Mixed. Pkt., 10c; y oz., 25c.
Odd, pretty shaped flowers. Mixed. Pkt.,
Star Phlox
10c; \i oz., 35c.
Psvrti«los»o Double Mixed (Rose Moss) T OriUlaCa 6 jn. high — spreading — bril¬ liant color. Pkt., 10c.
Single Mixed Portulaca — pck 1 ‘ ’
rose color. Pkt., 15c.
POPPIES
Single Mixed Poppy^ancoio^sin^le
poppies. F ne for beds. Pkt., 10c; 14 oz. 25c.
Shirley Poppy— snkyflowers
ad colors. New Double Hybrid. Pkt., 10c; y8 oz., 25c.
American Legion Poppy— Lp^oVed
Flanders Poppy — dazzling orange-scarlet.
Pkt., 10c.
Iceland Poppy— r5c.perennIal- Perennial Poppyi^1™^36 flow?r8e.
Pkt., 10c; y8 oz., 30c.
Carnation Flowered Poppy—
— Large feathery double blooms. Mixed colors. Pkt., 5c; y8 oz., 20c.
Peony-Flowered Poppy”^ rea«rac-
tive variety having peony-like blooms. Pkt., 5c; y8 oz.. 20c.
Red Spire Castor Bean — lusf—
Something new. Red stems and spikes, crimson flowers. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.
_ (Painted Tongue) — Vel-
OaipiglOoMo vety flowers, rich colors. Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
SALVIA
Salvia-Red-
ding or borders.
Salvia-Blue
_ (Scarlet Sage) Intensely scarlet flowers, for bed- Pkt., 10c; oz., 40c.
_ Tall, with sky blue
flowers. Pkt-., 15c.
STOCKS
Early Giant Imperial Stocks—
Finest of all Stocks. Mixed Colors. Pkt., 10c; l/8 oz., 40c.
SCABIOSA
Srahinca _ (Pincushion Flower) Colors
Jiauiudd white to deepest maroon. Finest Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Scabiosa Caucasica— K, ,^r'dy
perennial — 2 ft. high. Pkt., 10c.
Sweet WilIiam-^“Harfc?yr tS:
nial. Bloom second year. Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
SrliiTanl-Iiiic — (Butterfly Flower) Oddly
OCniZaninUSyhaped blooms of many
very attractive colors. A Fine Mixture — Pkt., 10c.
Statice-Latifolia - Sundance of delft"
blue flowers. Hardy perennial. Pkt., 15c.
Summer Forget-Me-Not7h(,''a)nA
perennial that grows 4 feet tall and covered with bright blue flowers. Pkt., 15c.
Mow Annual _ Hybrid but ween China
iiCW Annual Pinks and Sweet Wil¬ liam. Bloom first year. Mixed. Pkt., 10c.
Pf>riurinlrla (Vinca Roses) Bloom
1 cmviuivic midsummer to frost.
Mixed Colors. Pkt., 10c.
Sunflnwpr _ (Helianthus)
junnower Chmanthef
Double Chrysanthemum Flow¬ ered — extremely double golden yellow flowers. Best sunflower. Pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.
Red Sunflower-
-Pkt., 10c.
Dwarf Zinnias
Lilliput Dwarf Double — de”saeiy
double pompon flowers on compact plants. Mixed pkt., 10c; oz., 50c; y2 oz., 75c.
(s) Coccinea — small &.yH°2^i7t
flowers. Pkt., 10c; K oz., 40c.
LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW CREATIONS— SOLD ONLY BY STARK BRO’S Page 57
44. “The NEW Burbank” Tomato — Earliest of Earlies
NEW BURBANK TOMATOES
The New
Burbank Tomato — World’s Earliest of Earlies
7 to 10 days Earlier than all other very Early Tomatoes
The -performance of the NEW Bur- - bank in our trials has been outstanding.
warn Illustrations (from Stark-Burbank Gar-
W dens) show the amazing productivity
' of this greatest of all early varieties. In our tests it emphatically proved itself to be at least one week earlier than any other extra early tomato — though it was tested side by side with 50 other distinct varieties claimed to be extra early (several heretofore considered
Earliest of All) — including the earliest northern selections of the Earliana type. The first ripe tomatoes in our Tests were produced on Burbank plants about 10 days earlier than those on any other variety ever tested by usl Pkt., 30 cts.; 3 for 75 cts.: oz.( $1.50.
Immense
Crops
THE MOST PRODUCTIVE EARLY TOMATO
And— WONDERFUL IN QUALITY, too — fruit being bright crimson, thick, solid, heavy, smooth, medium to large in size, unusually heavy and continuous bearer throughout season; good keeper. Unlike other tomatoes the skin peels freely from the rich, firm, sweet flesh.
Another very valuable habit is that the lower clusters of the plants set exceedingly heavy crops of fruit as indicated by the illustration on the right. This is a very important consideration from both market grower’s and home gardener’s standpoint because it means that the first, very earliest pickings are very heavy, bringing you a good part of the crop while market prices are
highest. This means better, quicker profits to the market gardener — and lower cost of living to you home owners just when you and your families are hungering for fresh ripe tomatoes. Pkt., 30c; 3 for 75c; oz., $1.50.
The Photographs. These were taken of plants trained to two stems and tied to stakes This limited the crop to some extent as we might have had almost double the yield from the same area by allowing four stems to develop. Reports from our California Burbank Farms indicate even better results than these and we feel that we are making a distinct contribution to tomato culture by bringing this to the notice of garden¬ ers throughout the country.
Frost Resistant in Calgary, Canada. Mrs. W. S. W. wrote: “ In spite of the fact that we had frost every month of that year. I had a wonderful crop of beautiful, even, red toma¬ toes."
Earliest Of All. W. K. B-, Newbern, X. C., reports:— "I had Burbank tomatoes ripe and on my table 15 days before anyone else here had any tomatoes. It bears here until frost and the fruit is the very best."
45. BURBANK’S "SANTA ROSA" TOMATO. This is another selection by Mr. Burbank of a type intended for main-crop planting. The plants are more vigorous than those of the early variety and the average fruits are considerably larger. Here again high quality becomes apparent when these fruits are prepared for the table. A rich, red color with unusually meaty flesh and a sweet, rich flavor recommends this variety to all who desire Superb Quality. Pkt., 25c; 3 for 60c.
See How Meaty They Are
NEW BURBANK
Page 5 8
LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW CREATIONS— SOLD ONLY BY STARK BRO’S
CORN
,y «
Hr
Burbank” — World’s Wonder ^ Sweet Corn
w* 11$ A*v> v i Us ■
-“Burbank” — World’s Wonder Sweet Corn-
Mr. Burbank persisted in his work of plant-breeding and selection for 18 years before he finally developed this wonderful new sugar corn! The foundation of his experiments was Golden Bantam, gen¬ erally considered for years an exceptionally fine corn. His objective was to increase the size of the ear, and to increase the number of rows of kernels. He achieved both desired results.
The “Burbank” World’s Wonder 59-Day Sweet Corn averages 12 rows of uniformly, fat, deep, sweet kernels on very small cobs. Conceded by those who have tried it to be the earliest and largest of all truly sweet corns — even earlier and MUCH LARGER EARS than Golden Bantam and SUPERIOR TO GOLDEN BANTAM IN QUALITY. This improved variety is a sturdy, stocky plant, averag¬ ing about 5 feet high. Matured ears ready for the table in 59 days in Stark-Burbank Gardens at Louisiana, Mo.
When we use it in “approved American fashion” cooked on the ear, the wonderful quality becomes most noticeable. Tenderness of texture and richness of flavor are really remarkable. The Bur¬ bank corn has given us even better results under Missouri conditions
than have been attained under California conditions. We do not hesitate to state that this is the best early yellow sweet corn.
The extra large size of this great new variety can be observed in our illustrations which show a 12-row ear. This is the usual size for well developed ears of the Burbank Sweet Corn. Two ears per stalk are often produced. One of our Missouri seed fields ma¬ tured ears ready for table use in 59 days from planting the seed. Note the appreciation expressed by Mr. Burbank’s customers in the extracts from their letters we reprint below:
St. Norbert, Manitoba, Canada. “ I have had a great success with The ‘ Burbank’ Corn and ‘ Burbank’ Tomato, both the earliest and best in the world. Our Manitoba is a very cold country; however, I have had the pleasure to taste the first ears of ‘ Burbank’ Corn at the end of August. It is the best corn I ever tasted and everyone who tasted it says the same.” Trappist Fathers.
Detroit, Michigan. "I have had great success with your seeds, particularly the ‘Burbank’ Sweet Corn. Last summer my crop was earliest by one week among the 1,000 Ford Gardens. Seventy-five per cent of the ears were twelve-rowed, a few fourteen, and several sixteen.” F, E. S. (Name on Request.)
Supply Limited — Order Early. Pkt. 25c; 1 lb., $1.25; 5 lbs., $4.00. Postpaid.
47. BURBANK’S “SORGHUM-POP” POPCORN. 48. BURBANK’S “RAINBOW” CORN. Mr.
Beginning with a RARE HYBRID between Australian Hulless popcorn and the Gooseneck Kaffir Corn from which only a very few grains were produced, the selection was continued until a distinct type, of pop¬ corn was produced. The ears are medium to large, of a. compact “chubby” form, filled with grains which are crowded on the ear. This corn is of remarkable popping quality and being of the Hulless type, the — popped product is entirely satisfactory. The popped grains are extremely large, pure white, and of excel¬ lent flavor. The plant is of vigorous growth, very resistant to drought and usually produces two good ears per stalk, sometimes three or four. Pkt. 35c; V4 lb., $1.00.
Etna Mills, Cal. "The ‘Sorghum Pop’ I ordered of you Is really a surprise to me as to how it pops. There is absolutely no hard portion of the kernel left. Considering its quality, earliness and productiveness, I think most of the varieties of Pop Corn should be discarded.” J. P. V. (Name on Request.)
V
Burbank could see ornamental possibilities in any plant. From the original Japanese Striped Maize he selected desirable types until he had a plant which would display not only white and green but various shades of yellow, orange, even red, maroon and purple — often all these colors in the same plant. Our illustration below shows some young plants when about 18 inches high and plainly indicates the striped character of the foliage. The colors appear almost with the first leaf and continue to increase in brilliancy until the time When tassels are produced. Average height of the plant is perhaps 7 or 8 feet in good soil. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 60c.
JE
Burbank s “Rainbow” Corn
MELONS
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS OF BURBANK SEEDS
Page 59
STARK’S QUALITY WATERMELONS
A Harvest of Stark
©Stark’s Honey Giant
Watermelons for Seed
“Most Delicious Huge Watermelon Grown!”
A most amazingly sugary-sweet melon! Developed by a Pike Co., Mo. family that has specialized in watermelon growing for 3 decades!
and know they are of wonderful quality. Melons weigh 25 or 30 lbs., of fine oblong form, smooth, uniform dark green color of rind, and very productive. Flesh rich red and the flavor absolutely unexcelled.
Grown in our own county 30 years, and the finest, Big home-market melon in the whole list. We know the history of this melon and the men who have grown it. The Stark families have eaten many of these melons
Seed obtainable only from Stark Bro’s. Big pkt. 25c; oz. 60c; lb. $1.75; lb. $5.00.
(T)Champ Clark
-A Pike County, Missouri creation which is the result of years of selection. Earlier than Honey Giant and equally as large with an attractive green and white striping of the rind. First early among the large oblong varieties. Quality surpasses that of any other early melon and when grown as a field crop is very productive. Range in weight from 25 to 35 pounds. Be sure to plant Champ Clark if you wish to grow early melons of large size. Seed is unusually resistant to unfavorable weather. Yields good crops in bad seasons. Big pkt., 25c; oz., 60c; Vi lb-. $1.75,1^., $5.00.
© Giant o i Giants,,
often weighing one hundred pounds. Fine quality. Round-oblong. Rind medium green with flesh deep red color. Very luscious. Big pkt., 25c; oz., 60c; Vi lb., $1.75; lb., $5.00.
Irish Gray )Ve11 1‘nown variety
f'-*r shipping and home market. Melons large, oblong, uni¬ form. light grayish green color, flesh dark red and high quality. Big pkt., 15c; oz.. 25c; V4 lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
(?)Tom Watson — New
Kleckley Sweet 0Nuerar^e\e
riant. Has Deen planted in nearly every melon growing section. Fine for home use. Preferred by many growers above all other varieties. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
-A decided im- 'm provementobtained «,■■■. o l, , o. • by selection from
Cut-Red Strain the old type of Tom
Watson. Entirely free from the "white center" fault of Tom Watson. This strain of Watson is the very best obtainable and all growers for home garden as well as local shipping markets should plant this strain of the Watson for the best results. The melons are very large, dark glossy green, frequently weighing from 50 to 60 pounds. Fruits 18 to 24 inches long, 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Plant this “ Cut-Red" strain instead of ordinary Tom Watson. Big pkt., 20c; oz., 50c; Vi lb., $1.25; lb., $3.00.
(s)Halberts Honey Early ob-
long mel¬ on of medium size, dark green rind and crimson flesh of especially good flavor. Has been a favorite for many years. Big
pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; V«lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
Stark’s Luscious Spicy Muskmelons
(T\Golden Champlain — The earliest
- habit of setting
fine, muskmelon. Its habit of setting fruit very near base of vine gives this variety the “lead” over all other melons. The first setting of fruit is followed by a second, and if conditions are favorable a third setting of fruit often matures. This makes it amazingly pro¬ ductive.
Considerably larger than Rocky Ford, distinctly netted and ribbed. Flesh thick golden yellow, very tender, juicy, sweet and finely flavored.
Succeeds everywhere. It matured a crop in Northern North Dakota, where muskmelons had never been successfully grown before.
Price — 20c per pkt.; oz., 40c; J/4 lb., $1-25; 1 lb., $4.00.
©Hearts of Gold —So named because
- of its golden orange
flesh. Melons medium size, produced in large numbers. Firm texture of flesh and rind makes it a great shipper and its high quality are desirable for both home use and market.
Ripens a little later than Rocky Ford. Big pkt., 20c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., 75c; lb., $2.50.
(O Rocky Ford — Best known muskmelon
'w-' - - because of its having been
grown in the Rocky Ford district of Colo¬ rado. Fine quality for table use, adaptation to shipment for long distances and a heavy yield of melons per acre are reasons for Rocky Ford popularity. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c;
V. lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
S Stark’s Golden
Combination — Originated brid
a hy- combination of
fs'lHoney Dew —Remarkable for its
- honey sweetness. Rind
smooth and pale green. Our strain is green fleshed. Need a little longer season than Rocky Ford for full maturity. Vines are vigorous, resist disease and insects better than other varieties. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Vi lb., 50c; lb., $1.75.
fs)Tip Top — Most popular large size main-
N-'' - crop melon. Extensively grown
everywhere. Its attractive size and heavy yielding make it a valuable market melon and its uniform high quality makes it very satis¬ factory for home gardens. Big pkt., 10c; 20c; 1/4 lb., 60c; lb., $2.00.
two other golden fleshed varieties. When cut open the surprisingly thick golden flesh occupies about two-thirds of the diameter of the melon with only a small seed cavity. The eating quality is unsur¬ passed and the flavor sweet, rich and pleasing. Melons are large to very large, often weigh as much as fourteen pounds. Vine is of vigorous growth with large dark green leaves which resist leaf diseases. The melons begin to ripen about as early as Rocky Ford. Supply limited. Pkt., 25c; 6 pkts., $1.00.
©S
©I
A1
(sjlmproved Osage —One of finest large — - fruited muskmel¬
ons. Thick salmon col¬ ored flesh and very sweet in flavor. A favorite main-crop melon. Big pkt.,
10c; oz., 20c;
1/4 lb., 50c; lb., $1.75.
Banana — Distinct melon often fifteen to
- eighteen inches long and five or
six inches in diameter. Rich yellow flesh of smooth texture and high flavor. Big pkt.,
Three Best Peppers
JGIANT PIMIENTO — Much earlier ripening the 'first fruits than other Pimientoes. Much larger in size and maintains thick flesh and crisp texture of the Pimiento. Flavor i9 absolutely sweet. The Giant Pimiento is the very best of its type. Big pkt., 25c; 6 pkts., $1.00; oz., $2.00; V« lb., $5.00.
IMAMMOTH PROLIFIC— Product of nine years /of work by a market gardener of northeast Ohio to develop a large-fruited early sweet pepper. Earliness, extreme large size, productiveness and excellent quality are its prominent characters. Fruits often four inches across by six inches in length and weighing Vi pound. Absolutely sweet in flavor. Big pkt., 25c; 6 pkts., $1.00; oz., $2.00.
® GIANT NEAPOLITAN— Our special strain of Neapolitan early sweet pepper. Extreme earliness, great productiveness, fine color and sweet flavor.
Fruits almost as large as
Ruby King. Plants re unusually vig¬ orous. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c; oz., 50c; Vi lb., $1.50.
Golden Champlain
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STARK BRO’S SOLE DISTRIBUTORS OF BURBANK SEEDS
® GOLDEN BANTAM— Very popular everywhere. New varieties like .1 uml>o Gold. New Sunshine and Burbank's World Wonder (see Page 581 are better. Golden Bantam produces small to medium ears, with broad grains of creamy yellow color. Flavor rich and sweet. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lb., $1.60.
®
lOWLING MOB — Most popular
(s>’
' — /white sweet corn. It i' the right size and is best flavored white corn on entire list. Plant growth vigoro is. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 50c; 5 lbs., $2.00
GOLDEN GIANT — Second early, large ears. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lb., $1.60.
EARLY SURPRISE— Earliest white variety. Ears medium to large, pure white grain and cob. Best flavor of first early white. Stalks S1^ feet high. Big
pkt., 15c; lb., 50c; 5 lbs., $2.00.
©Country Gentleman — The standard of quality because of its narrow deep grains and its tenderness. Makes finest grade of canned sweet corn. Big pkt., 15c; lb., 55c; 5 lb., $2.50.
' eisi OWLLL’S EVERGREEN— Stand- V^/ard main-crop sweet corn. Big pkt., 10c ; lb., 40c; 5 lb., $1.60.
POP CORNS
QUEEN’S GOLDEN — Very productive. Large creamy white popped grains, rich flavor. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 35c; 5 lb. $1.50.
AUSTRALIAN HULLESS — Very desir¬ able. Small grains pop to snowy white. No hulls. Fine flac'or. Big pkt., 10c lb., 35c; 5 lb., $1.25.
T
tark s “Blight-Resister” Tomato
HE marvelous NEW Tomato that is making such great records everywhere. Th Improved Norton that our customers have found so Wonderfully Resistant to Wilt and Blight. The Norton proved itself in wilt-infested ground in worst afflicted states, like Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, Texas and elsewhere. By growing our test tomatoes under severest conditions, we succeeded in developing an even better and improved strain of the Norton — Stark's “ Blight- Resister.” “I lost all my 7 other varieties of tomatoes through Wilt disease but my Stark’s ” Blight-Resister” stayed green and bore until frost.” — E. Funder, c/o Underwood Type. Co., Washington, D. C. C. H. Travis, Senoia, Ga., writes: — ‘‘Not one of my 90 vines of Blight-Resister ever showed blight.” Prices — Big pkt., 25c; oz., $1.00; V4 lb., $2.50; lb., $6.00.
(s) Stark’s New Marglobe
— Earliest Successful Wilt Resistant Variety. A cross between Marvel and Globe — a big second- early tomato, combining scarlet color of Marvel and the globular shape, fine texture and splendid mild flavor of the Globe. So WILT-RESISTANT that will bear fruit and retain green foliage even when planted on wilt-infested soils. These Marglobes sold for N. J. grower at S2.30 a bushel when Earliana sold for only $2.00! Has actually YIELDED 21 TONS TO ACRE! One plant has been known to bear 107 tomatoes! Prices — Big pkt., 25c; 1 oz., $1.00; V. lb., $2.50; lb., $6.00.
(S) Stark’s “100-to-l”
“Blight
Resister
Tomato
® Giant Ponderosa^^ff
Red Ponderosas. Our seed is a special strain. Huge, fine flavored fruits. Bears heavily. The large, rich red, meaty slices make it great home table favorite. Big
pkt., 10c; *4 oz., 35c; oz., 60c; Vi lb., $2.00; lb., $7.00.
S') Golden Ponderosa-5^™^
So named because of EXTRAORDINARY BIG CROPS OF BIG TOMATOES. Very meaty, with few seeds. Wonderful flavor — a superior salad tomato. Somewhat flat in shape, but VERY LARGE, smooth and round. Ripens a glorious scarlet red about the same time as Chalk's Early Jewel." lOO-To-l” is greatest of all EARLY to¬ matoes except BURBANK (see Page 57). Vines grow 7 ft. high, thickly covered with tomatoes set in clusters of 3 to 5 targ'e sized tomatoes. Plant is vigorous grower — healthy and resistant to leaf diseases. “Some of my ’ 100-To-l’ Tomatoes weighed 2'/, { and 3 lbs. each. Hereafter, I will send to YOU for my seed." — W. C. Shaffer. North Point. Penn. Prices — Big pkt., 25c; oz., 75c; Vi lb., $2.00; lb., $6.00.
®
Pon
■VSnderosa except Golden Yellow Color. Milder flavor than the red. More popular than red in some sections — grow both for fine combination. Big pkt., 15c; V2 oz., 40c; oz., 70c; Vi lb-, $2.25; lb., $7.00.
Ui Ant Large fruited,
Lrwarr vjiant red tomato_golid
meaty flesh of mild flavor. Dwarf growing — very productive. Fine for small gardens. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 35c; oz., 60c; Vi lb., $2.00; lb., $7.00.
— Standard main crop to- __mato for years, but now Blight Resister is better. Produces abundance large, smooth, scarlet fruits, solid and meaty. Big pkt., 10c; V2 oz., 30c; oz., 50c; Vi lb., $1.50; lb., $4.50.
(s^John Baer~
. — Leading second- early scarlet variety. More vigorous and productive than Earli¬ ana. Large size, fine flavor. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c; oz., 40c; Vi lb., $1.25; lb., $4.
Earliana — Earliest of scarlet varieties. _____ Our strain is especially fine — permitting closer planting and increasing yield. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c; oz., 40c; Vi lb., $1.25; lb., $4.00.
Acme — Standard early pink-fruited to- mato. Delightful mild flavor. Strong, vigorous plant produces abundant¬ ly. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c; oz., 40c; Vi lb., $1.25; lb., $4.00.
Bonny Best” similar t0 John
Cs)
Y3/ _ - _ Baer and same sea¬
son ripening. Great favorite. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 30c; oz., 50c; Vi lb., $1.50; lb., $4.50.
Chalk’s Early Jewel- A?u_
* periof
strain of this old favorite. One of the best second early scarlet varieties. John Baer is better, however. Big pkt., 10c; V2 oz., 25c; oz., 40c; Vi lb., $1.25; lb., $4.00.
Cs) June PinlcTE.ar!i®st p)nk'
' — / fruited tomatoes.
A great favorite with home gardeners. Very fine mild flavor. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., $1.25; lb., $4.00.
Livingston’s Globe —
Standard main-crop tomato. Purple
fruited, globe shaped. Plants vigorous and very heavy yielding. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., $1.50; lb., $5.00.
Preserving Tomatoes —
Small-fruited varieties such as Red
Pear, Yellow Pear, Red Cherry and Peach. Big pkt., 10c; V2 oz., 25c; oz.. 40c.
© Stark’s New Hybrid “3_EAR” Corn
So named because its produces 3 large white ears to a stalk. A hybrid sugar corn of fine size and marvelous sweetness. Illus¬ tration at right shows ear and stalk with 3 ears. Cross between Stowell's Evergreen corn and Money-Maker. Absolute uniformity of ear and stalk characters of this hybrid is a guarantee that all our customers will get fine results. Limited supply. Prices: 25c per packet; 6 pkts., $1.00. Also— Limited supply GOLDEN " 3-EAR "—cross between Money-Maker and Jumbo Gold- same prices. The remarkable drought resistance of the Money-Maker appears in BOTH of these varieties.
® Stark’s New Jumbo Gold 7^;^
to produce extra large ears as sweet and sugary as Golden Bantam. As a second early variety to succeed Golden Bantam.
Jumbo Gold is extremely desirable. Stalk medium height, vig¬ orous in growth. Price: 25c per packet. Supply limited.
Give second choice.
(pStark’s New Sunshine-
-A great discovery
_ _ _ — earlier than Golden
Bantam. Developed by Prof. A. F. Yeager of Nor. Dak. Agric. Exp. Sta. Days earlier than Golden Bantam and consider¬ ably larger ears. Because of gain in earliness, quality and size, we highly recommend it. Big pkt., 25c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., 75c.
BEANS
STARK BRO’S, LOUISIANA, MO.
Page 61
Stark’s Selection of Best BEANS
BUSH BEANS
(?) Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod (?) Improved Golden
— Standard by which other green pod snap beans arc ’ ldged. Vigorous growth, high yield, fine appearance, entire freedom from strings and best table quality. Pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
(?)Giant Stringless Green Pod ^ar ge^
than Burpee’s Stringless but not quite as rich in flavor or smooth in texture. Strong growing plants. Entirely stringless. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
Penn — Also named Wax Pod
^5 ; jure irop Bountiful Plants of strong
growth, very productive. Large waxy yellow pods absolutely stringless and of the best flavor. The most desirable mid-season wax pod bean.
Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Post¬ paid.
less wax snap beans. Early, entirely stringless, attractive appearance and excellent table quality. Golden Wax deserves a prominent place in list of bush beans. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
Stringless Green Refugee- Entirely
Amazingly productive late crop bean. Big
pkt., 10c; lb., 50c; 5 lbs., $2.25. Postpaid.
RnKnct Navv — Best of small navy or pea ixODUsi niavy beans Very disease resist_
ant. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. Postpaid.
Stark’s New White Pearl- 1 strong stiff,
•upright stalk.
© ReJ VaknHne-
sistant to unfavorable weather than other varieties. Pods fleshy and brittle, with excel¬ lent flavor. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. Postpaid.
®Bountiful~“Most Productive green 1 podded snap bean of fine qual¬ ity. Set pods freely over long season if picked regularly. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
Pencil Pod Black Wax — Round podded
stringless snap
supporting heavy crops long pods. Pearly- white, kidney beans finest table quality both green and dry. Big pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c; 1 lb., 50c. Postpaid.
bean. Very productive. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. Postpaid.
Dwarf Horticultural- ,BrU3h. . ^7" ?f
_ Horticultural
bean. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
Red Kidney beansf 1 B*
10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.80. Post¬ paid.
(?) Kentucky Wonder-Bv^^
lar green pod pole bean. Tremendously productive and pods and beans of fine succulent quality. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. Postpaid.
POLE KIDNEY BEANS
S Kentucky Wonder Wax —
Fine long waxy pods, closely resembling Kentucky Wonder in form and size. Enormously productive. Big pkt.,
10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. Postpaid.
Horticultural— (Wren’s Egg) —
A favorite variety for years. Excellent flavor and highly satisfactory for use green, shelled and for winter use. Big
pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. Postpaid.
Fordhook Bush Lima
-BUSH LIMA BEANS-
(?)Fordhook Bush Lima, J„he
producing very large, plump, meaty beans of superb quality. Delicious served with green corn. Plants husky and heavy yielding. Big pkt., 15c; lb., 50c; 5 lbs., $2.25. Postpaid.
s Improved-Produces gr<-at abund-
_ •_ _ ,ance of very large pods
(T)Stark’
s Quick Meal Pole Lima-
flavored arid most productive pole lima bean we know. Viues extremely vigorous. Plants resist unfavorable weather. Fine as shell bean either in green or dry state. Big pkt., 15c; 3 pkts., 40c; lb., 60c. Postpaid.
p w r. w , ance 0f very large pods packed with finest quality, succulent white lima beans. For use green, shelled or for winter use. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 50c; 5 lbs., $2.25. Postpaid.
POLE LIMA BEANS
@ Improved Giant Poddedz^f snVt1”le^?°
long. Big pkt., 15c; lb., 55c; 5 lbs., $2.50. Post¬ paid.
Farlv I p via than — Well known variety — good
cany leviaman producer Big pkt., 10c.
45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
(?)lmproved Henderson Bush — Bar’ie,st of
- all bush limas.
Succeed better than larger limas in sections where limas are hard to raise. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. Postpaid.
(?)King of The Garden — Standard large podded
v— ✓ - ■ ■ - — ...... variety, excellent quality.
Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
Challenger or Potato Lima- Short- wel1 fiI,ed
. pods — plump beans.
Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. Postpaid.
Stark’s Best CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER & KALE
Yellows Resistant Cabbage —
Cabbage " Yellows" is the most serious disease of this vegetable. Plant breeders have worked for years to develop strains resistant to this disease. The most resistant sorts developed by anyone anywhere are those listed below. They are also very fine market types.
(?) Wisconsin Allhead Select —
Very best. Big pkt., 25c; Vi oz., $1.50; oz., $2.50.
(?)Wisconsin Marion Market
— (Copenhagen type). Big pkt., 25c; V2 oz., $1.50; oz., $2.50.
Wisconsin Hollander- Largelate
- type. Big
pkt., 15c; Vi oz., $1.00; oz., $1.50; V« lb., $4.00.
Wisconsin All Seasons- B * e
i/2 oz., $1.50; oz., $2.50.
(?) Golden Acre- B<\st ,early/,our
N. — y , headed. Muc
r round ich
like Copenhagen but much earlier in maturity. Will displace Early Jersey Wakefield to large extent. Fine, smooth heads when mature. Big pkt., 25c; Vi oz., 75c; oz., $1.25; Vi lb., $3.50.
(?)Penn
State Ballhead- °7g'
mating
(?) Allhead Early;
-Somewhat of LFlat-Dutch type, large solid heads, uniform size. One of best second early varieties. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 20c; oz., 30c; Vi lb., 90c; lb., $2.75.
S) Surehead”
1 — Best late Flat Dutch
_ _ Ztype. Especially large
heads. Fine for late crop and for kraut. Table quality excellent. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 20c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., 90c; lb., $2.75.
from selections by' Prof. C. E. Mey'ers, Pennsylvania Experiment Station. Very uniform heads and popular in markets. Plants decidedly resistant to Black Leg. a serious cabbage disease. Splendid winter keeper. Big pkt., 25c; 6 pkts. for $1.00.
(?) Copenhagen Market-
ond early variety to follow Early Jersey Wakefield. Heads medium to large globe form. Excellent quality. Good succession crop to Golden Acre. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 20c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., $1.00; lb., $3.00.
Danish Railhead- Large heads, uanisn Danneaagloh||lar in form
compact and very firm. Fine for winter storage. Penn State Ball- head better because more disease resist¬ ant. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 25c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., $1.00; lb., $3.00.
(?)Early Jersey Wakefield
— Standard first early. Small conical heads. Plants may be set close to¬ gether. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 20c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., $1.00; lb., $3!00.
CAULIFLOWER
(?) Early
Snowball- Most ;videl>'
planted and
most satisfactory cauliflower, always reliable for home garden and market.
Big pkt., 25c; Vi oz., 80c; oz., $2.50; Vi lb., $7.50.
©
s ) Perfectionc,onibin1es g°od po*n‘3
_ / ol Early Snowball
with habit producing leaves that curve in over head, promoting proper blanch¬ ing. Big pkt., 25c; Vi oz., 80c; oz., $2.50; Vi lb., $7.50.
Dry Weather- Head®, larger than
_ i - Snowball, more resist¬ ant to drought. Big pkt., 25c; Vi oz., $1.00; oz., $3.50; Vi lb., $10.00.
CHINESE CABBAGE
Fine oriental vegetable rapidly in¬ creasing in popularity. Has a mild, pleasing cabbage flavor. Particularly fine for salads. Heads often mature 50 days after planting seed.
p„ T.,: — A little later in the season L___!than Wong Bok Chinese Cab¬ bage variety but larger heads. Unex- , celled quality. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 20c; oz., 30c; Vi lb., $1.00; lb., $3.00.
KALE
Dwarf Green Curled-1 ^.gpk/ ;
1 15c; Vi lb., 35c; lb., $1.00.
Brussels Sprouts- Prodl'ccd on
- main stem. Min¬ iature cabbage heads. Best variety
Long Island Improved — Big pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; Vi lb., 85c; lb., $2.50.
Collards — ^uch used for greens.
Georgia or Creole. Big pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; % lb., 30c; lb., $1.00.
Kohl Rabi — Turnip Rooted Cab- bage. Produces enlarged stem at base of leaves somewhat like a turnip.
White Vienna Kohl Rabi- Big
_ ___ _ pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; Vi lb., 75c.
CABBAGE PLANTS
Frost Proof Cabbage Plants —
grown where winter freezing hardens plants. Can be planted long before home grown plants can be set out in open. Enables you to harvest mature heads 2 weeks earlier.
Order large quantities shipped by express as they will arrive in better condition than if sent by Parcel Post.
VARIETIES; Early Jersey Wake¬ field, Copenhagen Market, Charleston Wakefield. Early Flat Dutch and Suc¬ cession.
Prices: Postpaid. 100 of any one variety for 50c; 500 an oi e variety. SI 60; 1,000 any one variety for $3.00.
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CELERY
s') Golden Plume
©
Dian
blanching celery, earlier than Golden Self -Blanching, and resistant to dis¬ ease. Large golden stalks, finest flavor, tender and crisp — hearts blanch pearly- white. Big pkt., 20c; V2 oz., $2.00; oz., $3.00; V4 lb., $8.00.
Cnfiimhia -Fine-flavored. Short, bmunmid stocky growth, crisp stalks, creamy-yellow hearts. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 30c; pz., 50c; Vi lb., $1.50; lb., $5.00.
Golden Self-Blanching ^ n a-
Large growth, finely blanched, crisp stalks and hearts. Big pkt., 10c; x/i oz., 35c; oz., 60c; Vi lb., $2.00.
CELERIAC — Giant Smooth
Prague — Turnip-rooted celery. Fla- ‘ a° vors soups, stews, and for boiling like parsnips. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; >/i lb., 75c; lb., $2.50.
EGG PLANT
S ) Black Beauty
— Early medium sized, very pro- uctive. For home use. Big pkt., 10c;
V2 oz., 35c; oz., 50c; XA lb., $1.75.
CARROTS
S) Danvers Half Long- Smooth
1 °<~> range-
qual
lb., 4llc ; lb., $1.Z5.
® Chantenay
length, fine color, very
yellow roots. Vlediuin length. Highest quality. Big pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; XA lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
ellow-fleshed car- Roots medium very tender, excellent quality. Big pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; x\ lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
(s) 0x heart -®est short-rooted
\ y _ early carrots. Big
pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
Improved Long Orange
rot Big pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; x/\ lb., 35c; lb., $1.00.
to. k
n g .
Big pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; XA lb., 30c; lb., 75c.
Large Yellow Belgian — ^
MANGEL WURZELS
(® Mammoth Prize Long , ^r*d
est stock beet — often 25 lbs. each. Big
pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; XA lb., 25c; lb., 60c.
®) Golden Tankard
cylindrical roots. Big pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; X/A lb., 25c; lb., 60c.
Leading CUCUMBERS
0 Early Fortune ^^popuiar
cumber. Fine for pickles. Produces medium sized cucumbers for slicing.
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; x/\ lb., 35c; lb., $1.10.
Davis Perfect ^°enecuc0Lbers
producing finely formed fruits of good color and large size often 12 inches long.
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; x/\ lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
(s}Arlington White Spine
Best of White Spine varieties. Somewhat later than Early Fortune. Fruits me¬ dium size, fine color. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; x/4 lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
(s) White Wonder
y ~ J ot cucumber.
Vines vigorous, resistant to disease, very productive Attractive waxy white fruits. Retain edible quality longer than green sorts. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; x/\ lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
Everbearing —Very desirable piek-
5 ling cucumber, very productive, continues bearing until end of season if no fruits are allowed to ripen. An all-season cucumber. Big
pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; \\ lb., 45c; lb., $1.25.
(s) London Long Green f
fruited cucumber, producing fruits of¬ ten foot in length, tapering slightly toward the ends. Very satisfactory variety. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; V4 lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
Extra Early Green Prolific "Very
J i) r O -
ductive pickling cucumber, best sort for small or medium sized pickles Very early. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; */4 lb., 35c; lb., $1.10.
West India Gherkin —Very small
___ spiny fruit used for pickling. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; V4 lb., 45c; lb., $1.50.
ONIONS
(s)N
ew Sweet Spanish — New
_ _ _ develop¬ ment large sweet onion. One of finest globe-onions. Clear, light yellow skin and white, tender, very mild flesh. Many 5 in. in diameter. Big pkt., 15c; oz., 45c; y4 lb., $1.25; lb., $3.50.
SOUTHPORT
ONIONS
Probably most popular all round va¬ riety.
® Southport Yellow Globe
— Medium size, good keepers. Big
pkt., 10c; oz.-, 30c; XA lb., 80c; lb., $2.25.
(sTjSouthport White Globe
Little larger than Southport Yellow — milder. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 40c; XA lb., $1.00; lb., $3.00.
® Southport Red Globe- ZhS-
gest crop Southport. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; »/4 lb., 90c; Ib.} $2.25.
®Prizetaker TYery larg,e y£,low
______ globe-shaped. Same
type as Sweet Spanish. Extensively planted for large onions for summer and fall use. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; 1 4 lb., 80c; lb., $2.50.
®Ebenezer
winter keeping quality. Easily best ol large onions for winter. Our seed Spe¬ cial Strain. Big pkt., 15c; oz., 40c; y4 lb., $1.20; lb., $3.25.
TABLE BEETS
(s) Crosby’s Egyptian
— Very
_ early,
smooth, round, dark red roots. Foliage short and plants may stand closely in row. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
0 Boston Crosby
form size, shape and color and fine table quality recommend it. Big pkt., 15c; oz., 25c; y4 lb., 60c; lb., $1.50.
Detroit Dark Red -Mid season
_____________ variety. Large
round, deep red. Best canning beet. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
/c\Frlin«o — Valuable first earlv ^ beet. Brightly colored, glossy red roots, uniform shape and size.
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
Crimson Globe ^bargem“ilY‘L?p
10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25. ”
SUGAR BEETS
— Largest sugar beet.
Lanes’ Imperial Klein Wanzleben ^“tl
age sugar. Either Variety: Big pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; XA lb., 25c; lb., 60c.
ASPARAGUS
Established asparagus produces for years. Washington varieties (below) are most Rust Resistant.
0 Mary Washington - Jn [ ? »
closed longer than other varieties. Big
pkt., 15c; oz., 30c; XA lb., $1.00.
®) Martha Washington “Large
Fine quality. Big pkt., 15c; oz., 30c;
Vi lb., $1.00.
CHARD
Lucullus r7S,w;i8® ChardJ3 one of
_ best leaf vegetables. Not¬ ed for vitamin content. Makes best "greens." Grows luxuriantly all sum¬ mer and may be cut for use almost con¬ tinuously as the new leaves form. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 35c; lb., $1.25.
ENDIVE
Broad Batavian (Escarolle)
—Preferred to Green Curled. Leaves
larger and more crisp. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; XA lb., 40c.
CreSS — Fine Curled. — Can be
_____ grown anywhere. Big pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; XA lb., 30c.
Finest LETTUCE
(0New York or Wonderful
— Heads often 12 inches across, finely blanched on inside, very crisp, tender and rich flavor. Our strain very best.
Big pkt., 15c; oz., 40c; XA lb., $1.20; lb., $3.00.
Bio Boston — Wel1 known head Vf / p‘g POSton lpn,|rp piants uni¬ form and heads beautifully formed and well blanched inside. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Vi lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
-Finest early but-
_ ter-head. Uniform.
medium to large heads, fine texture, ex¬ cellent quality. More resistant to Tip Burn than other butter-head varieties. Big pkt., 15c; oz., 40c; Vi lb., $1.20; lb., $3.00.
California Cream Butter
i-arge mid-season variety, dark green, tinged reddish maroon, well blanched inside. Flavor rich. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Vi lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
®)Wayahead
Ohio Yellow Globe
low Globe, highly esteemed by onion growers. Uniform type, a little earlier than Southport Yellow. Spelndid keeper. Our strain is very superior to common sorts. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; 34 lb. 80c; lb., $2.50.
s)Stark’s New Trio
_ onion
ITscovered in southern Indiana. Re¬ produces itself in three distinct ways: large bulbs divide into smaller ones; also produce top sets like Egyptian onion; small subdivisions when planted produce large onions. Single Mother bulb, 10c; dozen, 75c.
Mammoth Silver King t aYegry
flat silver white onion, tender flesh. Grown for early market. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; Vi lb., $1.10; lb., $3.50.
White Portugal —Medium sized YYtme roriug.n flat white oniolli
grown for early bunching. Fine pickling variety. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; V< lb., $1.10; lb., $3.50.
Extra Early Red -^ZYAime
to reach maturity. Valuable for early planting. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; lb., 80c; )b., $2.50.
White Italian Tripoli ^
white onion, mild flavor resembling
Mammoth Silver King. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; M lb., $1.00; lb., $3.00.
Onion Sets — MaV be planted as union jets goon as the soil can be
worked. Will start growth very first growing weather and make onions for table use or to be bunched in very short time. Prices on White. Red, Yellow and Ebenfezer varieties: lb., 35c; by express, 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
0 Grand Rapids
ties, rich green leaves finely curled. Flavor excellent. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; ‘/4 lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
Black Seeded Simpson-Ourstrain
r very uni¬ form, plants medium to large, very finely curled and light green color.
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; XA lb., 50c; ” $1.50.
<5
Sl Mav Kin? —Earliest butter- ZJ y S head lettuce. Small to medium heads, excellent quality. Somewhat resistant to Tip Burn. Big
pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; XA lb., 50c; lb., “1.50.
&
SjPrizehead
gieen with reddish maroon in outer portion leaves. Excellent quality.
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Vi lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
Irolipro — Crisp-head variety. Big
U-CUCtg pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; Vi lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
PEPPERS
See Page 59 for 3 NEW Peppers not listed here.
AT) Chinese Giant — Ve.ry lar^-
V~7 - sweet pepper.
Big yield. Quality very good. Big
pkt., 10c; x/z oz., 40c; oz., 75c; XA lb., $2.00.
(T) Sunny brook
to medium sized solid fruits. Flavor so sweet that fruits are eaten as one would eat an apple. Big pkt., 25c; 1/2 oz., 70c; oz., $1.25; Vi lb., $3.50.
®Bu!l Nose — Mediu m s^ed
__ ____ sweet pepper, more
productive with larger sorts. Big pkt., 10c; V2 oz., 30c; oz., 50c; XA lb., $1.50.
Golden Queen
sweet. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 30c; oz., 60c; Vi lb., $1.75.
favpnnp — Very pungent. Big
uayenne pkt 10c. 1/2 oz 30c. oz
50c; >/« lb., $1.50.
Sweet Upright -Thi.ck fleshed
" 5 sweet pepper, large. Big pkt., 10c; Vi oz., 30c; oz., 60c; Vi lb., $1.75.
TabaSCO -.H35c;BoLg,P60tc-: *
VEGETABLES
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Page G3
GARDEN PEAS
— Most productive early peas. Abundance medium pods 1 Ul-t ° A packed with quality peas. Most satisfactory of dwarf varieties.
Bears for long time if picked regularly. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75; By express,
10 lbs., or more at 20c per lb.
(?) Champion of England
— Most popular
late variety. Extremely vigorous, sometimes grows six feet high. .See photo at left. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
(?) Hundredfold- Recetlt devel°p-
V^/. _ -ment Laxtonian
type resembling Blue Bantam. More productive. More satisfactory than any other large podded dwarf varieties. Mid-season variety. Remarkable record in our Experimental Farms. Big pkt., 15c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00; By express, 10 lbs. or more at 25c per lb.
Marvel — Equal t0 Nott’s Ex¬ celsior in popularity.
s Blue Bantam— Extremely vigorous
■ 1 second early variety.
Produces unusually large pods filled with delicious peas. Larger growth than Nott’s Excelsior with heavier foliage. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
(?) Early
GradllS — LarSe podded, early, —tall, very productive
and excellent quality. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
(?) Little
Dwarf vines produce great crops medium to large pods. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express 10 lbs. or more at 16c per lb.
Dwarf Gray Sugar— Entirepod used-
_ - — \ ines medium growth
extremely productive. Seed hardy. Can be planted very early. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
American Wonder— Early wrinkled.
i ■■ ■ . ..dwarf growth. Big
pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By ex¬ press, 10 lbs. or more 20c per lb.
(?) Bliss
Everbearing vines medium
growth. 3 or 4 ft.
high. Very heavy foliage and large pods.
Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
(?)TelephoneTaU-gro'ving vigorous
's*— ^ heavy foliage. Pods 1;
and
•heavy foliage. Pods large as Blue Bantam, well filled. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 45c; 5 lbs., $2.00. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
Extra Early Premium Gem— Dwarf
1 . - i. ■ growth
very productive, pods light green, well filled.
Big pkt., 10c; lb. 40o; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 20c per lb.
@A 1 a s k a-Yery early . r0l/nd /eeded
variety Can be planted much | earlier than wrinkled peas. Will endure un- ■ favorable weather. Plants tall, slender growth. Big pkt., 10c; lb., 40c; 5 lbs., $1.75. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 16c per lb.
INOCULATE YOUR PEAS FOR BETTER CROPS
Garden Peas. Beans and Sweet Peas should be INOCULATED to insure surest and best crops. We recommend McQUEEN INOCU¬ LATION — Garden size Combination Culture (enough for 10 to 15 lbs. seed) — 20c per pkg.
PUMPKINS
(?)Genuine Mammoth— L a r g e,j * 1
_ pumpkins, often
7S pounds. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; V4 lb., 50c; lb., $1.75.
(?) Small Sugar — Very best yellow pie
_ 2— .pumpkins. Big crons.
Excellent quality. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; V4 lb., 50c; lb., $1.25.
( s) Striped Cushaw- ( c,r.° ° k " e c k
_ _ ' _ - _ pumpkin.) Small
seed cavity at one end. Neck solid flesh.
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $L25.
\ C ) Ricr Tom — Field planting and stock Y t — i _ feeding. Very large, yellow.
Big pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 35c; lb., $1.00.
STARK’S SUPERIOR SPINACH
of England
Natural Size (sjPrinCeSS
Juliana — Best °f new varieties. Me- a dium-sized plants, heavy dark green crumpled leaves. Fine flavor and texture, standing even longer than King of Denmark before going to seed. Big pkt., 20c; oz., 30c; */< lb., 75c; lb., $1.60.
SALSIFY
Sandwich Island Mammoth
— “Vegetable Oyster" — root crop, easily grown. Makes "oystery" soup. Big
pkt., 10c; oz., 30c; % lb., 90c; lb., $2.50.
Mushr00mS-ELnest African anawn. Brick, 45c; 2 bricks, 85c; 5 bricks, $2.00. Post-
MUSTARD
(?) Fordhook Fancy reDaa[kh8erere"
leaves, curled. Best. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 35c; lb., $1.00.
Elephant Ear -v^riz6:,!^
»/« lb., 30c; lb., 80c.
Southern Giant Curled ~ Ea’g*
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 30c; lb., 80c.
®¥i
irginia Savoy— Develop^d at
— — * Virginia Exp.
Sta. by crossing a Manchurian spinach with ordinary Savoy, and selecting for resistance to Spinach Mosaic or Yel¬ lows. Very early to mature, especially when sown in the fall. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Vi lb., 30c; lb., $1.00.
PARSNIP
©Guernsey— Fine' Iong sraooth
i ■■ i . roots. Improve with
winter freezing and best if left in soil where grown, digging early in spring. Richly flavored. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.00.
OKRA
Okra or “Gumbo”- wonderful
■ vegetable for soup flavoring. Easiest culture and very productive. Varieties: Dwarf Green and White Velvet. Big pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; V4 lb., 25c; lb., 80c.
Leek — Onion-like plant, very hardy.
■ .. Large American Flag. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 25c.
(?) king
of Denmark — T h ®
largest of
the long standing varieties. Very satis¬ factory for a late crop. Slow to go to seed. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; l/4 lb., 30c; lb., $1.00.
PARSLEY
Extra Curled Dwarf— Fipe fop
.. flavoring and garnishing. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 1/4 lb., 40c; lb., $1.00.
Hamburg— (TlI™ip roo‘ed)- ,,
.1 —.pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 50c; lb., $1.00.
RHUBARB
Rhubarb- Poplllar perenaial vegf
. . table. Sow seed liberally
and select best plants for permanent location in rich soil. Best variety is
Linnaeus. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c.
TobaCCO-'>rie“es . Big Havana, WR.f » Burley, Missouri Broad Leaf, Improved Connecticut Seed Leaf, Sweet Oronoko. Prices,
any variety. Big pkt., 10c; V2 oz., 35c; oz., 60c; Vi lb., $2.00.
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SQUASH
S)True Hubbard — Large warty
- - _squash, deep
green color, thick orange yellow flesh. Excellent for all winter use. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; »/4 lb., 50c; lb., $1.50.
White Bush.- (£ym’V
, ling Squash).
(?) Early
STARK’S BEST RADISHES
® White Icicle- Most popular
” mte lclcleradish. Fine straight white root, tender brittle texture. Big
pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
® Crimson Giant -Lna/gem idglpbae
son. Excellent quality. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 45c; lb., $1.25.
<3
fT'lRanid Red— Earliest turni
^SJIXapiQ I\eashanpd mature quickly. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c Vi lb., 50c; lb., $1.60.
Winter Radishes^,™™,,. ‘sVore
like turnips. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
S) Scarlet Globe- IT.!,1
ig pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
(?) Special Scarlet Globe— E!,n;enst
developed from single select root. Big
pkt., 15c; oz., 30c; Vi lb., $1.00; lb., $3.00.
French Breakfast ^°p“larriehtyf
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 35c; lb., $1.00.
White Chinese or Celestial and Round Black Spanish-^ n ^
pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
Call
s) Cincinnati Market J*ers^
v. ailed "Glass Radish" because of clear whiteness and brittle texture. Big
pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
(?) Scarlet Turnip White Tip
— Large scarlet roots, white tips. Quality excellent. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; V« lb., 60c; lb., $1.50.
Half Long Deep Scarlet ~
long radish. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; »/4 lb., 35c; lb., $1.00.
Ruta BagasL-p'r J^ wYh?t'e°~
Best, large roots, good keepers. Big
Rkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Vi lb., 30c; >., 90c.
' ery productive. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; >/4 lb., 45c; lb., $1.25.
(?) Giant Summer Crookneck
— Best squash of this type in yield and quality. Should be used when 8 to 10 inches in length, while shell is soft.
Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; V4 lb., 45c; lb., $1.35.
Fordhook— Best sma" hard shelled
_ squash for storage. Buff
with yellow flesh. Fine baked. Big
pkt., 10c; oz., 25c; >/4 lb., 75c; lb., $2.25.
® Banana— Long' smooth nuash.
i/rav-orppn color, ft or 8 in. in diameter and 2 ft. long. Fine quality. Big pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; Vi lb., 60c; lb., $2.00.
TURNIPS
Prices — All Turnips— Big,
V4 lb., 30c; lb., 90c.
(?) Purple Top White Globe
very satisfactory, especially when grown in late summer for winter use.
S ) Purple Top Strap Leaf
— Same color and quality as Purple Top White Globe. Better for early planting.
Early White Flat Dutch—
planting. Matures quickly. Mild flavor.
White Egg — Round pure white. Seven Top— Thrifty ,eaf growth, for
roivtinm — Long roots penetrate soil v,ownurnHppnlv often p!anted for
soil improvement.
Amber Globe— Largest yellow
An UCt uluul:;tiirmn. Good keeper.
C.nlrlpn Rail — Finest; yellow table UOiaen Pa»f„rnin Beautiful
amber color.
Page 64
INDEX
STARK FRUIT TREES
PAGE
Free — Special Offers. . . IB Fruit Tree Collection.. 64B
Planting Plan Page . 64A
Order Blanks . 1A-1B
Stark’s “Record-Bearing
Strain” Trees . 2-3
APPLES
Assorted . 6-19
Apple Ripening List . 4
Double-Life Grimes Golden
Apple . 15
Golden Delicious Apple. 6-9 Stark Red Delicious Apple 14
Starring Apple . 10-13
Staymared Apple . 16
Crab Apples . 19
Apricots . 36
Rerries . 37
Cherries . 20-21
Garden Roots
Grapes . . 37
Peaches . 22-27 and 34
Peach Ripening List . 25
J. H. Hale Peach . 23
Stark Early Elberta Peach24-25 Hal-Berta Giant Peach ... 22
Plums . 29-32 and 35
Pears . 36
page
Pears (Dwarf) . 36
Quinces . 36
SHRUBS, ROSES, ETC.
Hedges . 41-42-45
Landscape Plants . 38-47
Flowering Shrubs . 42-45
Roses . 46-47
Shade Trees . 40-41
Vines . 41
NEW BURBANK FRUITS
Elephant Heart Plum . 32
Flaming Gold Nectarine. . 33
Black Giant Cherry . 33
Rainbow-Stripe Cherry. . . 33
Burbank's Giant Freestone
Peach . 34
July Gold Peach . 34
Honey-Heart Cherry . 34
Peach-Arine . 34
Flaming Delicious Plum. . . 29
Red-Ace Plum . 30
June Blood Plum . 30
Purple Plumcot . 30
Great Yellow Plum . 30
Red Cannon Ball . 30
Heart -Of-Gold Plum . 30
Orange Ball Plum . 30
Honey Moon Plum . 30
Mammoth Cardinal Plum. 31 June Red Skin Plum . 31
page
Vanderbilt Plum . 31
Golden Sugar Prune . 31
Blue Ribbon Prune . 31
Royal Purple Prune . 31
Cranberry Plum . 31
Purple Flame Plum . 31
Honey Dew Gage . 31
SEEDS
LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW CREATIONS IN FINER FLOWERS
See Pages . 50,53,60
LUTHER BURBANK’S NEW CREATIONS IN VEGETABLES, ETC.
See Pages . 49,57,58
STARK’S
VEGETABLE SEEDS
Asparagus . 62
Beans . 61
Beets . 62
Cabbage . 61
Cabbage Plants . 61
Carrots . 62
Cauliflower . 61
Celery . 62
Corn, Pop . 60
Corn, Sugar . 58 and 60
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Parsnip . |
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Peas . |
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Swiss Chard . |
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Tobacco . |
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Turnip . |
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McQueen’s Inoculator |
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Stark’s “Prize-Size” Baby Chicks
10 Per Cent Chick Bonus For QUICK ORDERS In January, Feburary, or March!
We will deliver to you 55 LIVE CHICKS for the price price of 500 — IF you order during January, February or of 50 — 110 for price of 100 — 220 for price of 200 — 550 for March.
SEND NO MONEY— You Pay
Postman for Chicks on Delivery
We ship chicks by Parcel Post Prepaid or Express Prepaid By Us — delivered to your door, the same as first class mail.
You need not pay in advance, unless you choose to do so. You can pay for the chicks when delivered.
We notify you exactly when to expect the chicks.
In ordering tell us what your second choice in breeds is. If we are short of the breed at the time you want chicks shipped, we can ship what we consider the next best. This shortage will not occur once in a hundred cases, but we wish to get your chicks to you just when you want them.
Stark’s “Prize-Size” Chicks are true to type and color. They are always of pure, bred-to-lay stock — big, strong, vigorous, fluffy, healthy, quick-growing youngsters.
Hatched to Lay and Pay.
A Ton of Broilers Can Be Raised in 10 Weeks
Most everyone is familiar with the money¬ making possible with egg-laying flocks, but the “Early Broilers” end is by far the quickest and most profitable part of the poultry business.
Here is an instance that we know of and it shows conclusively the Big Profits reaped by the “Early Broiler” raiser.
Out of 1,500 February hatched chicks, 1,310 weighed \.x/i pounds each on April 29th and sold for 60 cents a pound
— a total of $1,179.00.
The cost of raising the chicks including cost of baby chicks, brooders, coal and feed came to $708.00. This left a net profit of $471,001 All this was done by May 1 — plenty of time to begin raising chicks for winter layers.
Why not buy a good sized flock of Stark’s “Prize-Size’ Baby Chicks and Go Into the Early Broiler Business?
Chicks Sold Only in 50, 100 or More Lots
We can accept no order for less than 50 chicks. If you order 200, 300, 500 or more, we ship each 100 in a separate shipping case — a strong, perfectly ventilated box, made especially for us.
Send No Money — Prompt Shipment
We ship chicks by parcel post. We pay the postage. The chicks are delivered to your home by the carrier, just the same as first class mail.
We will ship chicks C. O. D. — you to pay postman on delivery. Or, you can pay in advance, if you wish. Place your order early!
We Will Ship C. O. D. at These Prices — If you wish to specify Date of shipment. Write it in your order.
PRICES FOR DELIVERY DURING JAN., FEB., MAR., APR. AND MAY
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500 Chicks |
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S. C. (English') White Leghorns . |
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$14.00 |
$65.00 |
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7.50 |
14.00 |
65.00 |
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S. C. Brown Leghorns . |
7.50 |
14.00 |
65.00 |
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S. C. Buff Leghorns . |
8.50 |
16.00 |
75.00 |
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Rhode Island Reds . |
8.50 |
16.00 |
75.00 |
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S. C. Black Minorcas . |
8.50 |
16.00 |
75.00 |
PRICES FOR DELIVERY DURING JAN., FEB.. MAR., APR. AND MAY
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Please Hand This Catalog To A Friend After You Have Sent Us Your Own Order Page 64 -A
SAVE HALF BY BUYING 125 TREES NOW
If you are ever going to plant a 5, 10, 15 or 20 or larger acre orchard THIS IS THE YEAR TO DO IT! Here is your chance:
Here are LOW PRICES on Demonstration orchards of 125 trees to encourage the planting of large orchards of these varieties in each community. Customers to agree to care for these trees and give them a fair chance to show the superiority of Stark trees.
Write “Demonstration Order” on Order Blank — and do not fail to Sign The Agreement on Order Blank for either Golden Delicious, Starking, Staymared Apple Trees, Hal-Berta Giant Peach Trees or any new Luther Burbank Fruit Creations.
Not Less Than 125 Trees of a variety at these Special Low Prices — But you may order more than 125 trees — if ordered at the same time. For over 500 Trees write our Wholesale Department.
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Starking, Golden Delicious or Staymared Demonstration Orchards — of not less than 125 Trees of a variety. 4 to 7 ft. Trees . 65c each 3 to 5 ft. Trees . 55c each 2 to 3 ft. Trees . 50c each |
Hal-Berta Giant Peach Trees Demonstration Orchards— of not less than 125 Hal-Berta Giant Trees. 4 to 7 ft. Trees . 58c each 3 to 5 ft. Trees . 48c each 2 to 3 ft. Trees . 42c each |
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Stark Delicious Apple Trees Demonstration Orchards — of not less than 125 Stark Delicious Trees. 4 to 7 ft. Trees . 48c each 3 to 5 ft. Trees . 36c each 2 to 3 ft. Trees . 28c each |
J. H. Hale — Stark Early Elberta Trees Demonstration Orchards — of not less than 125 Stark Early Elberta or J. H. Hale Trees. 4 to 7 ft. Trees . 38c each 3 to 5 ft. Trees . 28c each 2 to 3 ft. Trees . 22c each |
Little Money Buys Fruit Tree BARGAINS
Order collections by number. No changes in varieties permitted. All ^‘RECORD-BEARING” Strain Stark Trees, 1st Class and Highest Quality. Advertising Offers to Prove the Superiority of Stark Trees.
STARRING— Collection No. 11
20 STARKING TREES AT NEW LOW PRICE
So growers who have space for only a few trees may secure Starking Trees at a special introductory price, we make the following New Low-Priced Offer: (Not less than 20 trees.)
20 (or more) 1st Class 4-7 ft. Starking Trees 90c Each 20 (or more) 1st Class 3-5 ft. Starking Trees. .80c Each Sign Starking Agreement when ordering Starking trees, or trees cannot be shipped.
20 GOLDEN DELICIOUS TREES AT NEW LOW PRICE
So growers who have space for only a few trees may secure Golden Delicious Trees at a special introductory price, we make the following New Low-Priced Offer: [Not less than 20 trees.)
20 (or more) 1st Class 4 to 7 ft. Trees . 90c Each
20 (or more) 1st Class 3 to 5 ft. Trees . 80c Each
Sign Golden Delicious Agreement when ordering Golden Delicious Trees or trees cannot be shipped.
GOLDEN DELICIOUS Collection No. 12
12 FINE TREES FOR THE PRICE OF 10 Both Golden and Red Apple Selection 12 trees, size 4 to 7 ft., for $10.00
Ideal Home Orchard Collection — fine Golden and Red Apples from earliest to latest.
Collection No. 1
GOLDEN APPLES— Price $5.00
1 Henry Clay (T. M.) i Yellow Transparent 1 Sweet Bough 1 Golden Delicious
1 Maiden Blush (Sign Contract)
1 Banana
One Golden or Red Apple Selection 6 trees, size 4 to 7 ft., for $5.00
RED APPLES— Price $5.00
1 Early Red Bird 1 Jonathan
1 Early McIntosh 1 Starking (T. M.)
1 Stark King David (Sign Contract)
1 Staymared
Collection No. 3
ry For $10.00 Worth of Fine 4 to 7 Foot Size Apple Trees
When ordering, just write “Collection No. 3, $8"
1 Stayman Winesap 1 Winesap
1 Mammoth Black Twig
1 McIntosh Red
1 Stark Delicious 1 Henry Clay 1 Stark King David 1 Yellow Transparent 1 Jonathan
BIG LEADER Collection No. 4
$10 For $15.75 Worth of 4 to 7 Ft. Trees
(These Varieties Are the Cream of Our List)
When ordering , just write “ Collection No. 4. 5io**
1 Starking Apple ^ 1 J. H. Hale Peach
1 Golden Delicious I Sign 1 Stark Early Elberta Apple pAgree- 1 Stark Green Gage
1 Staymared ment. Plum
Apple d 1 Stark Gold Plum
1 Lincoln Pear 1 Stark Gold Cherry
1 Mont. Stark Cherry
Collection No. 6
For $25.50 Worth of 1 O Best Varieties of Big
4 to 7 Ft. Trees
When ordering just say — “Collection No. 6, $15”
Our best varieties, ripening from early to late. An ideal back yard orchard.
No change can be made in varieties 1 Starking Apple Sign 1 Golden Delicious ^Agree-
1 Mont. Stark Cherry 1 Gold Plum 1 Omaha Plum 1 Early Rose Peach 1 Stark Ey. Elberta 1 J. H. Hale Peach
1 Eureka Peach
2 Concord Grape (2 yr.)
2 Lutie Grape (2 yr.) 2 Campbell Early
Apple
1 Staymared Apple)
1 Ey. Red Bird Apple 1 Henry Clay Apple 1 Early McIntosh Ap¬ ple
1 Jonathan Apple 1 Stark King David 1 Stayman Winesap 1 Blk. Tartarian Im¬ proved Cherry 1 Stark Gold Cherry
$7 For 12 Best Peach Trees
* Big 3 to 5 Ft. Size
Both Gold and Silver Medal Peach Collections (12 Trees — see below) — 3 to S ft. trees — for $7.
Collection No. 8 — “Silver Medal"
$4 For 6 Big 3 to 5 Ft. Peach
The 6 Best creamy white-fleshed peaches, ripen¬ ing from early to late. 1 Stark Summer Heath 1 Eariy Rose 1 Illinois
1 Eureka 1 Mammoth Heath
1 Alton Cling _
Collection No. 9 — “Gold Medal”
$4 For 6 Big 3 to 5 Ft. Peach
The 6 Best golden fleshed peaches, ripening from early to late. 1 J. H. Hale
1 June Elberta 1 Elberta (Stark
1 Stark Early Elberta Strain)
1 Elberta Cling 1 Krummel October
Collection No. 7
Big Farm Orchard And Vineyard
53 Trees, Vines, $52.10 Worth for
This is a truly great col¬ lection of highest quality trees — lusty, healthy trees with big roots. It is truly a Bargain Collection at this low price and because it sells very fast every year, we advise you to ORDER EARLY. We will ship the trees any time you say. Big 4 to
7 ft. Size Trees.
1 Starking Apple (T. M.) (Sign Con¬ tract)
1 Stark’s Golden De¬ licious Apple( Sign Contract)
1 Stark Delicious Ap¬ ple
1 Early Red Bird Apple
1 Henry Clay Apple
1 Yellow Transparent Apple
I Early McIntosh Ap¬ ple
1 Wilson Red June Apple
1 Jeffries Red Apple
1 Maiden Blush Apple
1 McIntosh Apple
1 Jonathan Apple
1 Stark King David Apple
1 Cortland Apple
1 Stayman Winesap Apple
1 Duchess, Double- Red
1 Paragon Winesap Apple
1 Summer Champion Apple
1 Stark Gold Cherry 1 Blk. Tartarian Im¬ proved Cherry 1 Dvehouse Cherry 1 Early Richmond Cherry
1 Montmorency King Cherry
1 Lincoln Pear 1 Fame Pear (T. M.) \ Stark Early Elberta Peach
1 J. H. Hale Peach 1 Early Rose Peach 1 Elberta Peach 1 Late Elberta Peach 10 Concord Grape (2-yr.)
10 Lutie Grape (2-yr.) 1 Santa Rosa Plum 1 Gold Plum 1 Big Mackey Dam¬ son Plum
Order a Stark Orchard Guide for Planting Information — When and How to Plant, Etc. Price 25c
Page 64-B
Red and Gold Cherry Orchards at Half Price!
BUT — You Must Order Before April 1st.
STARK GOLD — the fine Sweet Cherry that is really hardy. We discovered the original tree in the orchard of M. Thomas in Richardson Co., NEBRASKA, and introduced it to the world. He states: “This Cherry surpasses in hardiness any cherry on my place. Thermometer often registers 40 below zero here. Stark Gold never misses a crop and the fruit sells for 3 times the price of other cherries.” See Page 20.
MONTMORENCY STARK Cherry (See Page 20) is the VERY BEST, most productive, with largest fruit of all the tart cherries. One of the hardiest cherries grown.
NOW— THIS NEW OFFER BRINGS YOU THESE WON¬ DERFUL TREES AT HALF PRICE! But you must order at least 20 Stark Gold or 20 Montmorency Stark Trees (or more) —AND YOU MUST ORDER ON OR BEFORE APRIL 1st.
Buy 20 Gold Cherry — Get 20 Grape Vines FREE
We will also give you FREE 20 big, thrifty Grape Vines with EVERY Gold Cherry Tree Demonstration Orchard (20 or more trees) you buy.
Modern Orchard Planting Plan
Ideal Filler Plan For Greatest Profit
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Permanent trees are apple. Semi-permanent trees are usually young bearing apple. Fillers may be either peach, cherry, plum or preferably young bearing apple. The trees are planted at 20 ft. intervals giving 109 trees per acre.
After The Temporary Fillers Have Been Removed
This diagram shows the permanent trees and the semi-permanent trees after the fillers have been removed. The removal of the fillers usually takes place when the orchard is from 15 to 18 years old. Fifty-four trees now remain on each acre and all trees are 28 ft. apart.
A filler trees is only temporary and planted to produce quickest, most profitable fruit crops until growth of permanent trees requires the room the fillers occupy. During life of fillers they should produce from seven to ten or more profitable crops. The double filler method means that there are four trees to bear instead of one tree and this results in big, profitable production at a young age, thus putting your orchard on a big dividend paying basis very much sooner. Also, when the orchard is very young, culti¬ vated crops can be grown between the rows.
Removal of temporary fillers may be done in the manner the diagrams here suggest. The semi-permanents will not need to be removed for twenty-five or thirty years. The removal of tem¬ porary fillers will change the direction of the rows (see diagram) hut this change of direction of rows will make very little difference and may he a real benefit on account of stopping erosion or washing. The semi-permanents also are valuable, during this period, to prevent erosion of soil. At a time when the permanent apple trees have reached large size (at 25 or 30 years of age) and need more room, the semi¬ permanent trees should he cut out, leaving the permanent trees forty feet apart each way on regular square system.
Permanent Trees Only
This step shows the final orchard plan with the semi-permanent trees removed and the permanent trees 1)0 feet apart — 27 trees to the acre. Removal of the semi-permanent trees may be delayed until a great many profitable crops have been produced by them.
Golden Delicious — The Ideal Filler
In selecting fillers it ds of paramount impor¬ tance to choose varieties which will bear young. Apples are recommended for the permanent trees, because of their longer producing life. The fillers and semi-permanents, however, may be of apple, peach, cherry or plum.
As the ideal filler, we recommend Stark’s Golden Delicious (equally good as a permanent) because it bears heavily at a very young age, produces crops which demand highest market prices, and has many other excellent points which make it “The Money Apple of America.’’
Other apple varieties suitable for fillers are Stark King David, Jonathan, “Double-Life" Grimes, Dark Red Rome Beauty, Black Ben, Wealthy and early apples such as Early Red Bird, Yellow Transparent, Duchess, Wilson Red June, Summer Champion, etc.
Number of Trees to the Acre
20 feet apart . 109 trees
28 feet apart . 54 trees
40 feet apart . 27 trees
Planting Distances
APPLE — 20 to 40 ft. apart. We advise 40 feet as most satisfactory when fillers are used. (See ideal filler arrangement.)
APRICOT — 20 to 24 ft. apart.
CHERRY — (sour sorts) 18 to 24 ft. apart; (sweet sorts) 20 to 27 ft. apart.
GRAPE — 8 ft. apart in rows 10 ft. apart.
PEACH — 16 to 20 ft. apart (Commercial peach growers all over the country consider 20 ft. apart as the best distance).
PEAR — Standard, 20 to 27 ft. Dwarf, 10 to 16 ft.
PLUM — 15 to 20 ft. (in rich soil, Japanese plum should he planted at least 20 ft. apart).
QUINCE — 10 to 16 ft. apart.
BLACK RASPBERRIES OR BLACKBERRIES — 3 ft. between plants, in rows 6 to 8 ft. apart.
ASPARAGUS — 1 to 2 ft. between plants, in rows 3 to 3)4 ft. apart.
MULBERRIES — 22 to 28 ft..
PECANS— 35 to 40 ft.
Number of Trees to an Acre
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. 60 |
8 ft. apart. . |
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. 76 |
6 ft. apart. . |
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. 90 |
5 ft. apart. . |
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Stark Guide Book to |
Profitable Orcharding — 25c
Complete simple instructions on every step in Growing and Spraying a Money-Making Orchard.
Stark Bro’s
Nurseries & Orchards Co.
Louisiana, Mo.
Office of
President E. W. Stark
Louisiana, Mo.
Amazing NEW Fruits For 1951.
Dear Friend:
Your interest in our NEW Fruit Offers for 1931 is indeed gratifying and I feel confident that the information given you in this Stark Bro's 1931 Year Book will REPAY YOU for writing us.
The New Stark Year Book "speaks for itself",
of course - but I know that you will allow an old man
who has devoted all his business life - over Half a
Century — to fruit and fruit tree betterment, to here point out to you some of the "high spots" in this year's Book.
18 Great NEW Burbank Fruits "Make Their Bow" on P. 28 to 34.
Whether you are a little or a big fruit grow¬ er, you are going to be keenly interested in Pages 28 to 34 inclusive. Here's where no less than 18 ABSO¬ LUTELY NEW LUTHER BURBANK FRUIT CREATIONS are offered to the public for the very first time!
The Luther Burbank heritage to Stark Brous is becoming more amazing every year. Here are 18 glor¬ ious new and better fruits that remained "hidden" in the Private Experimental Orchards of Luther Burbank (the section to which the public NEVER had access) . Years of tests and variety selection by our Experts and actual growing trials under many and severe soil and climate conditions NOW justify us in introducing thenrto you.
NOW — finally — YOU can have a truly won¬ derful orchard of Burbank's Newest and Best Fruits on your own property - one that will be the envy of all your neighbors and the center of admiration of all your visitors.
HUGH PEACHES WEIGH A POUND EACH — On P. 22
MONEY-CROP FACTS TO "OPEN YOUR EYES" — Pages 4 and 5
$45,000.00 Apple Crop On 200 Acres 1
It is my duty to you, however, to WARN you that we have only LIMITED STOCKS of these New Wonder Fruit Trees — and, because the demand will be tre¬ mendous, YOU MUST PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY to be sure to GET the New Varieties that you are sure to want.
Another New Fruit to make its "debut" in 1931 is our Huge "HAL-BERTA GIANT" Peach — discovered in Illinois — and bought by us for THE HIGHEST PRICE EVER PAID for A PEACH TREE! The facts about this new peach are sensational — and may be read by you on Page 22.
In these days filled with problems of "how to make the farm PAY", it will be inspiring to you and every thoughtful land owner to read the simple but actually STARTLING stories of the SUCCESS that growing HIGH GRADE FRUIT on Stark "Record-Bearing" Strain Trees has brought to land owners. The FACTS given on pages 4 and 5 ALONE will persuade many a farmer and his sons to STAY ON THE FARM AND DEVELOP THE FULL PROFIT POSSIBILITIES OF THAT FARM!
It is a TRUTH that farmers fortunate enough to have an orchard on part of their land THIS PAST YEAR made real money — enjoyed incomes that were the ENVY of farmers who foolishly relied on general farm crops ALONE. Just yesterday I learned, for in¬ stance, that our good customer, BYRON COLEMAN, down in Lawrence Co., MISSOURI, got $45,000.00 for this years apple crop alone off his 200 acre orchard — while general farmers "across the fence" didn't make a nickel!
Read EVERY WORD of pages 4 and 5 if you do not read one other word in this 1931 Year Book! They are TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT !
Better farm profits can. only be secured by growing better farm products and marketing them in better ways. "Take a leaf from the book" of SPENCER WALDRON of Calhoun Co. , ILLINOIS who tells you in his own simple, direct way (on Page 5) what he has discovered and DEMONSTRATED AS TRUTH in regard to fruit growing and FRUIT GROWING PROFITS.
NEW
and BETTER APPLES For GREATER Profits
After reading his story, you will, I know, want to know more about Golden Delicious, the Queen of all Yellow Apples. The marvelous record of this variety EVEN LAST YEAR is of genuine IMPORTANCE to you — and you will read Pages 6 to 9 with profit to yourself if you plan to plant a Golden Delicious orchard.
Then, too, Pages 10 to 13 present vital facts to you about STARRING, the Sensational NEW "Double-Red" Delicious apple. This is the reason why "THE BIG Y" (Yakima Fruit Growers Association, Yakima, Wash.) recently ORDERED 10,000 STARRING TREES, stating, "Starking is THE Superior Delicious" — in preference to all other red strains of Deli¬ cious.
The entire book is crammed with interesting information and will prove a trustworthy guide in helping you select the MOST PROFITABLE VARIETIES TO PLANT THIS SPRING.
LUTHER BURBANR'S NEW Melon See P. 49
Those who plan to plant gardens will be as keenly interested in the offerings of this book as will the orchardists, too. If you are ambitious to raise the BEST Muskmelons in your neighborhood, for instance, turn to Page 49. There you will dis¬ cover the supreme limit in muskmelon perfection, LUTHER BURBANR'S New "GOLDEN TREASURE" CANTALOUPE— never before offered. I personally "sampled" many of these melons last Summer in our Burbank Seed Gardens here at Louisiana and I NEVER TASTED MELONS HALF SO GOOD IN ALL MY LONG LIFE BEFORE ! They were simply WONDERFUL — DELICIOUS!
Unique, NEW Vegetables and Flowers Created By Burbank Pages 49 to 58
The other remarkable NEW Burbank Vegetables and Flowers will DELIGHT you, also. They are faith¬ fully described on Pages 49 to 58 and will interest every one who loves FINER FLOWERS and BETTER VEGE¬ TABLES. Only the very best (by test) of all the tens of thousands of Burbank Creations are given an honored place in this Stark Year Book — and EVERY ONE of them is worthy of your faith and confidence.
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Spring Beauty Brought To Your Home - Pages 38 to 47 |
You who are animated with pride of home and keenly ambitious to Beautify Your Home Surroundings, will revel in Pages 38 to 47. There are presented hundreds of suggestions on how to add Charm to the Home Grounds— INEXPENSIVELY AND QUICKLY! These pages will fill your heart with yearnings and your mind with plans for Bloomful Spring and Colorful Summer. |
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Special LOW PRICE OFFERS Opposite page 64 |
Furthermore, everywhere you turn in this Year Book, you will find SPECIAL LOW PRICE OFFERS! These are made especially to meet the conditions of 1931, BUT — Quality is never sacrificed for mere price. That would be a violation of the Stark Century-Old Tradition — and would be against your BEST interests. However, your sense of TRUE ECONOMY will be gratified by the Special Price Offers on the yellow page opposite P. 64 — and also on Pages 64-B, 39, 26 and 27. |
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MAY I SERVE YOU WITH MY HALF CENTURY'S EXPERIENCE? |
Now — after you have given yourself the pleasure of reading this "Breath of Spring and Hope of Summer", as a good friend has called our Stark Year Book, may I not hope that you will give me the pleasure of filling your order for your needed Fruit Trees, Shrubs or Seeds? I promise you that you will be gratified with our manner of serving you - and with the Traditionally HIGH Quality of our nursery products! I await the pleasure of Your Commands, |
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EWS-EK |
President STARK BRO’S N. & 0. CO. K, 1_ |
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P. S. |
I almost forgot to tell you that you will find the FREE VINEYARD and FREE BURBANK GLADIOLUS |
OFFERS ON YELLOW PAGE 1-B, right opposite Page 1.
Stark Gold hardy as English Morello — stood 22 below zero; big, unblemish¬ ed, beautiful fruit; bore when 2 years old.” — H. L. Sanderson , West Austintown , Ohio. “Stark Gold brought 50 cents a gallon; beautiful, splendid flavor. Wonderfully hardy; bears regularly — bore when 2 years old. None have diseases or insect troubles.” — E. Rahr- baugh, Clearville, Pa. “Very hardy; bore second year. Big, Golden color, flavor fine; trees healthy.” — V ester Mathis , Karnak, III.
2-Year Old
STARK GOLD
Cherry-
Bearing Good Crop
OVER 115 YEARS OLD