
ANNIVERSARY 
“From the Farr Nursery came an anniversary catalog of lilacs. They had been thirty- 
five years in business. My thoughts were a mingling of memories—remembrances of that 
splendid nurseryman and noble citizen, Bertrand H. Farr, and remembrances, too, of our 
first lilacs bought from him a few years after he had started his business. He held to the 
belief that lilacs mature best when grown on their own roots and we took his word for it. 
“The first lilacs to come to Sun House were from Farr and during the next few years 
they seemed not to add one inch to their stature. Then they started to shoot. Today 
they are 8’ to 10’ high, good shapely bushes. Other lilacs came through the years, many of 
them grafted on common stock, and I had my hands full keeping down the suckers. 
What’s more, they haven’t attained that rounded shape which makes the own-root speci- 
mens a delight to the eyes”... Richardson Wright, Editor, in House e* Garden, 1044. 
Copyright 1944, Conde Nast Publications, Inc. 
Famous FARR Lilac Collections 
Among our customers who possess outstanding collections of Farr Lilacs are the 
following: 
NAME AND ADDRESS 
Miss Marjorie Allison, Allentown, Pa. Mrs. Herbert P. Joyce, Roswell, N. M. 
C. A. Buck, Bethlehem, Pa. Laureldale Cemetery Co., Reading, Pa. 
Mrs. Edward E. Brown, Waupaca, Wisc. Linden Hall, Lititz, Pa. 
Mrs. R. M. Carpenter, Montchanin, Del. New York Botanical Gardens, New York 
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio New York Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 
Hayden G. Coldren, Sinking Springs, Pa. Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsburg, Pa. 
Mrs. Harold D. Cornwall, Beaver Falls, N. Y. Phoebe Home, Allentown, Pa. 
James E. Dearstyne, Loudonville, Albany, N. Y. Reading Museum, Reading, Pa. 
Mr. W. C. Dickerman, New York City Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, Canada 
Elizabeth Dilley, Chattanooga, Tenn. Mrs. W. A. Rinehart, Charlottesville, Va. 
Mrs. J. T. Dorrance, Radnor, Pa. Mrs. Louis Reinert, Defiance, Mo. 
Mrs. Pierre S. duPont, Kennett Square, Pa. William B. Sefton, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Mrs. Richard Greenwood, Rydal, Pa. Mrs. Arthur Scott, Media, Pa. 
Mrs. Thomas H. Hall, Newark, N. J. E. K. Shultz, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Mrs. F. C. Helwig, Kansas City, Kans. G. E. Smith, Lansing, Mich. 
Mrs. Robert Owen Horton, Lynchburg, Va. Ernest O. Wagner, Lakeville, Conn. 
Mrs. H. L. Iglehart, Elizabethtown, Ky. Mr. T. A. Whelan, Weston, W. Va. 
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