MODERNIZE YOUR GROUNDS THE GRIFFING WAY 
KINC MIDAS SAID 
Unless we take pains to grow better and better, we shall become more 
,and more foolish. And unless we have a well-defined plan of improve¬ 
ment and home beautification, the home and grounds will depreciate more 
and more. Much refreshing beauty can be added with Shrubbery and Trees 
and Nature will enhance its beauty, without charging you an upkeep fee. 
FIRST IMPRESSIONS 
are usually pretty well remembered. Do you want your home to give a 
welcome to passers-by and guests or repel them with an unforbidding ap¬ 
pearance? The home grounds that look well from the street, not only bring 
reward in the form of beauty, but also show an actual increase in market 
value. 
TANGIBLE CASH VALUE 
as a marketable product, have Shrubbery and Trees, but this value is many 
times multiplied when plants are artistically arranged in plantings about your 
home and grounds. 
YOUR HOME 
may be softened, refreshed, accentuated and beautified, almost beyond 
recognition, through the judicious selection and arrangement of Shade Trees, 
Evergreens and Flowering Shrubs. 
NO NEED TO WAIT 
several months to plant Trees and Shrubbery, if your home is just com¬ 
pleted, for you can have planting done NOW and enjoy its beauty in com¬ 
pleting the setting for your home. 
FASCINATING TOO 
is the building of your garden and watching it as you proceed; in seeing 
each portion of it develop. If you are unable to get away from family 
duties and business exactions during the summer, planting your grounds 
will give you the needed diversion. It is healthy exercise and imparts pride 
of personal accomplishment. 
DON'T ENVY 
your neighbor’s garden when you can have one of your very own this sum¬ 
mer and display it with pride to friends and neighbors. There is nothing 
quite so interesting and attractive as the building of a rock garden or a 
lily pool, and you will be surprised how the children will enjoy helping you 
plan and develop every detail. 
DESIGN SKETCHES 
for your PLANTING 
No matter where you live, our Landscape 
Department will gladly make and submit to 
you without charge, a Design Sketch for 
planting your home grounds. Often, in the 
case of small home grounds, planting may 
be carried out from this very Sketch Plan 
without further detailed drawings. 
In order that we may prepare suitable 
sketches, we must have complete infor¬ 
mation from you as to size and orienta¬ 
tion of your lot, plan of house, location 
of permanent buildings, drives, walks, 
trees and shrubs, and contour of the land. 
Such a rough drawing as shown to the left 
will give us the picture of your property 
and enable us to make up a Design Sketch 
for you. 
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS RECOMMENDED 
By no means do we want to discourage securing the services or consultation of 
a competent Landscape Architect for his advice and the preparation of detailed 
surveys, plans and specifications; for the location of buildings, walks, drives, service 
areas and the location of planting of shrub groups. 
We are always glad to recommend competent Landscape Architects who will 
prepare, at reasonable fees, development plans for the more pretentious home 
grounds. 
How it Looked Before 
just After Planting 
