BARR’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY 
TO OUR PATRONS AND FRIENDS 
In presenting our catalogue for the 60th. year, we wish to express our thanks and 
&ppreciation to our many friends and patrons for their generous patronage which we have 
enjoyed in the past, and to assure you that we will use our every effort to merit the con- 
tinuance of your good will and orders this year, and the years to come. 
You will find we featured in this catalog newer and improved varieties of plants for a 
complete landscape planting—Evergreens, Roses, 
and Shade Trees and Lawn Seed. 
Chrysanthemums, Perennials, Shrubbery 
pe Lhep best cultured, fresh dug plants obtainable practically all of our own growing that 
will produce outstanding results wherever they are planted. 
See index, page 34. 
THE NEWER AND BEST TRIED 
HYBRID TEA ROSES 
Top Size 2 Year—Finest Rose Plants 
Guaranteed to Bloom or Money Refunded 
_ You will have the fullest degree of pleasure 
in planting any of the varieties listed, for 
Barr’s “Will Grow” Roses are guaranteed to 
grow and to bloom the first season, or will be 
replaced free. Full planting and cultural di- 
rections furnished with each order. 
ORDER EARLY to receive your plants in 
time to plant at the earliest date your soil is 
in condition to set them out. We pre-pay par- 
cel post on orders for dormant plants quoted 
of $4.00 or more. Under $4.00, please add 35c 
for packing and postage. 
POTTED ROSE PLANTS 
On and after May first we offer Rose Plants 
established in pots, in leaf and bud. It is then 
usually too late to plant dormant plants. 
For potted plants, please add 50c each to 
catalog prices. 
SHIPPING ORDERS. Please add 10 cents 
each for packing potted rose plants. All potted 
Roses are sent by express collect. 
Ami Quinard. Blackish maroon, opening into 
semi-double flowers of rich velvety red, with 
blackish luster—brilliant and unfading; has 
old-time fragrance. Strong, upright grower 
and fine producer. $1.50 each; 3 or more 
$1.30 ea. 
Applause. Pat. 829. A descendant of the well- 
known Charlotte Armstrong. Large, double 
crimson blooms, abundantly produced; spicy 
fragrance. High centered, with petals rolled 
outward. A vigorous, freely branching plant. 
$2.00 each; 3 or more $1.75 ea. 
Blanche Mallerin. Pat. 594. A. beautiful 
white rose with a satiny sheen on the petal 
surface. Long, well-formed buds to 4 inches 
across when open; pure snowy white. $2.00 
each; 3 or more $1.75 ea. 
Capistrano. Plant Patent Applied For. The 
color is a rich, clear rose-pink that really 
lasts; tight buds are a little deeper pink 
approaching a bright cherry red. The 
glowing rose-pink color remains rich and 
unfaded. It has good, lasting fragrance, 
also, flower stems are strong on the tall, 
shapely, well-branched plants. $2.25 each; 
3 or more $2.00 ea. 
Charlotte Armstrong. Pat. 455. Blood-red 
pointed buds; magnificent long-stemmed, 
open flower, cerise in summer heat; richly 
fragrant. Very prolific and a continuous 
bloomer. Disease-resistant foliage. An All- 
B. F. Barr & Son, Lancaster, Pa. 
Yours for better quality, 
B. F. BARR & SON 
FRED HOWARD (See description next page) 
Fred Howard and Helen Traubel, Two All 
American Award Winners for 1952 are de- 
scribed on page 4. These two new varieties 
are a must in every rose lovers garden. 
American Rose. $2.00 each; 3 or more 
$1.75 ea. 
Christopher Stone. lolol). Scarlet-crimson. ° 
Damask fragrance and almost continuous 
bloom. Vivid scarlet in June, becoming 
deep crimson with velvety, blackish shad- 
ings in the fall. One of the long-popular, 
dependable, deep red roses. $1.50 each; 3 
or more $1.30 ea. 
Chrysler Imperial. (Lammerts, 1952) The 
newest Hybrid Tea to win the All-American 
1953 award. Long, tapered buds and very 
large blooms of exhibition form. Vivid 
crimson with deeper overtones. A glorious 
new Rose of compact, sturdy habit. Pat. 
app. for. $3.00 each; 3 or more $2.75 ea. 
Condesa de Sastago. Bicolor. Delightfully fra- 
grant flowers of yellow and raspberry-red 
are produced profusely on vigorous. healthy 
plants. $1.35 each; 3 or more $1.20 ea. 
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