Stark Bro's: Two Centuries of Backyard Orchards The Red Delicious apple traveled from an Iowa farmstead to backyard orchards across the country through the catalogs of Stark Bro's, a nursery that has been shipping trees directly to American growers since 1816. When Clarence Stark encountered a chance seedling grown by …

Adams County Nursery Fruit Trees and Orchard Supplies Adams County Nursery traces its roots to the early 1900s, when founder H.G. Baugher recognized that Adams County, Pennsylvania — rapidly becoming one of the most important fruit-growing regions on the East Coast — needed a reliable source of high-quality nursery …