Griffing Nurseries, Beaumont, Texas 
DON’T Read This 
unless you are interested in buying Trees and Shrubs for resale. 
FOR THE TRADE ONLY 
LANDSCAPE MEN, NURSERYMEN, DEALERS IN TREES AND SHRUBS 
AND FLORISTS. 
p “GRIFFING’S LANDSCAPE BOOK- 
Often times YOU HAVE INQUIRIES for Trees and Shrubs you do not grow, or do NOT HAVE IX STOCK. 
Sometimes you want to show your customers A RETAIL CATALOG showing illustrations, CORRECT 1>ESCRIP- 
TIONS, and UNIFORM RETAIL PRICES. For this reason we are SENDING YOU OUR Retail Catalog. “GRIF- 
FING'S LANDSCAPE BOOK", hoping that YOU WILL USE IT to help establish a RETAIL PRICE FOK Stand¬ 
ardized Graded Stock, 
STANDARDIZED ORADINO 
We hope EVERYONE WILL STUDY the System of Grading WE USE. This is the system ADOPTED BY the 
American Association of Nurserymen, the Texas Association of Nurserymen, and MANY STATES have this system 
incorporated IN A LAW so that it is UNLAWFUL TO DELIVER any Stock without having EACH PACKAGE or 
individual plant LABELED, SHOWING ITS NAME, size, and QUALITY indicated BY X’s. We have used this 
system FOR Mx4NY YEARS, and our best customers order and know Avhat THEY WILL GET. We hope you can 
make USE OF THIS Retail Catalog to a GOOD ADVANTAGE. 
1939 WHOLESALE CATALOG 
We are also enclosing our 1939 Spring Wholesale Catalog, in which we LIST PRICES according to S'l’ANDARD- 
IZED GRADING. We also use ALPHABETICAL LISTING for the FAMILIES, by COMMON names, to nT:i< h each 
TREE OR SHRUB BELONGS. 
QUANTITY DISCOUNTS 
For a discount, we figure the VOLUME OF BUSINESS, whether it is ONE TREE of a KIND or flUAliE. or a 
hundred, and when the ORDER AMOUNTS TO $50.00 or more at the LIST PRICES Ave give discount*! from 4% 
to 15%, DEPENDING on the AMOUNT of the ORDER. 
S% CASH DISCOUNT -- FREE PACKING 
In order to SAVE TIME for looking up and establishing YOUR RATING for an OPEN ACCOUNT, and to SAVE 
expense of BOOKKEEPING, sending STATEMENTS, etc., we give 5% Discount FOR CASH with Order. «.t»d FREE 
PACKING. 
2% DISCOUNT-- 10 DAYS 
If you DO NOT KNOW the amount TO SEND with your order and we have had SATISFACTOR V' lUiSINESS 
DEALINGS before, we can ALLOW 2% for payment IN 10 DAYS, or 30 DAYS NET. 
PRICES Are Low Considering Quality 
Griffing’s have A REPUTATION of HIGH PRICES but GOOD QUALITY Stock, and large Specmien Nursery 
Stock with LARGE BALLS so that Stock ALWAYS GROWS and gh’es satisfaction. WE ARE PROUD OF I’HIS. 
We have LOWER PRICED stock (similar to stock offered BY OTHERS AT LOW prices) if custoyters want 
THAT KIND of stock. According to Standardized Grading, you can ORDER X STOCK, which is LOV PRICED, 
but if you want XXX SPECIMEN STOCK the prices naturally ARE MORE. 
WE HOPE THE TIME WILL COME 
When the Tree and Shrub Planting Public WILL UNDERSTAND and APPRECIATE Standardize^ Grayling of ^u^ 
sery Stock LIKE OTHER commodities and will help to GET A LAW PASSED where it ULSORY TO 
GRADE according to Standards the SAME AS Lumber, Peed, Meats, and hundreds of other COMMO.N COMMODI¬ 
TIES which are graded UNDER Government Inspection, and we ALSO HOPE the time WILL COML when we 
will be able TO SEE A UNIFORM RETAIL price, and members of the trade ivill not UNDERSELL ea< h (dher. 
WE DO NOT WANT ESTABLISHED 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
We believe the trade SHOULD HAVE the privilege of GROWING or BUYING whereye^ THEY CAN <iud leara 
ise HIGH QUALITY material, but DO NOT SELL to the Retail Trade or CONSLMERS for less (ban a LNI- 
to use 
FORM RETAIL catalog PRICE 
IS BEST! 
Thousands of OUR CUSTOMERS know where to buy GOOD 
Ag% and hope TO HAVE thousands more SATISFIED customers 
TREES. We solicit 
THIS YEAR. 
THEIR CONTINl ED patron- 
SUMMER PLANTING 
By USING Griffing’s Stock GROWN IN our 
Shrubes AT ANY SEASON of the year. We have 
August as ANY OTHER MONTH of the year. 
BEAUMONT BALLING SOIL, it is safe TO HANDLE Trees and 
had GOOD SUCCESS in planting LARGE ORDERS in July and 
TRY OUR STOCK AND BE CONVINCED! 
