. Stark fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Fruit trees; Fruit. COPYRIGHT, 189 S \>1 STARK BROS LEGAL TENDER, most valuable of all long keepers- excepting only Apple of Commerce. Very large, larger than Ben Davis, but don't drop—still hanging well Oct. 21 st, when Ben Davis and others had fallen. Good color. Good seller. Quality fine. Long keeper—while cutting cions Mar. 1, found apples that, after lying all winter on the ground under the trees, were perfectly sound. Tested 21 years
. Stark fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Fruit trees; Fruit. COPYRIGHT, 189 S \>1 STARK BROS LEGAL TENDER, most valuable of all long keepers- excepting only Apple of Commerce. Very large, larger than Ben Davis, but don't drop—still hanging well Oct. 21 st, when Ben Davis and others had fallen. Good color. Good seller. Quality fine. Long keeper—while cutting cions Mar. 1, found apples that, after lying all winter on the ground under the trees, were perfectly sound. Tested 21 years. Tough wood, hard to break; not so good a grower as Ben Davis but bet- ter bearer—" bears to beat Ben Davis and M. B. Twig all to pieces, don't drop, almost as good quality as Kinnaird, and KEEPS like Limber ; The six new N. W. Ark. apples we believe surpass anything now in cultivation. As compared with each other, we value them in following order : Apple of Commerce, Legal Tender, Senator, Black Ben Davis, Shannon Improved, Champion—and even the latter pays better than Mo. Pippin, Ben Davis, Willow Twig, etc. Sold ONLY Under PAT'D TRADE MARK. HFFor 70 years parts of N. W. Ark. have been an actual Vast Experiment Station, people planting seeds of the best apples they knew—hence so many valuable new sorts—literally thousands, many of them good, some better than good, a FEW SUPERLATIVE. But we paid no attention to any sort that lacked any one of our five absolutely essential requisites: Size, Color, Quality, Vigor, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark Bro's Nurseries & Orchards Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Louisiana, MO. : Stark Bro's Nurseries & Orchards Co.
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