Pine and hawthorn barks were used to obtain procyanidin standards by a simple method. At first oligomeric procyanidin powder was prepared by a previously patented method yielding 450 mg and 120 mg, respectively, írom 100 g of hawthorn and pine fresh bark. These preparations were then fractionated into monomers, dimers and trimers with Fractogel TSK HW-40 (S) column (28 x 2.5 cm) and methanol as the eluent. The purity of five procyanidin standards was more than 90%. The hawthorn contained (-)epicatechin and its derivative procyanidins as principal phenolics and pine (+)catechin and its procyanidin dimers and trimer.