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In presenting this 1940 folder to the growing public we have tried to make it impres¬ 
sive and interesting. Read all of the pertinent items and look over the list of plants 
we offer. You will find the prices especially low and you may bpy with the assurance 
that you will get well-grown, sturdy trees and shrubs which will go right on growing 
for you. We have been operating our nursery for over forty years and have shipped 
Boyd Grown Plants to every state and to almost every section of the world. 
It is with sadness that we announce the death of Mr. Frank S. Betz, the man who has 
done so much to foster the planting of trees and shrubs. For several years before his 
death we have been carrying on his work and will continue our efforts to increase the 
interest so excellently fostered by him for many years. Read the special section on 
page two of this folder regarding Mr. Betz. 
Our terms are Cash with Order unless otherwise arranged. All quotations in this 
list are net for the plants packed and delivered to the express nffi^ce or post-office. Cus¬ 
tomers to pay the transportation charges. Light packages can go ^ parcel ^st and in 
such cases you should add 15% to the list price to cover this eo^st. ^certificate ot 
inspection will accompany each order. We guarantee all varieties tb be true to name 
and will replace any stock which proves otherwise. We will not be liable, however, for 
an amount greater than the original purchase price. 
Specimen Shrubs 
These plants should not be confused with smaller seed¬ 
lings; all have been given special care to form them into 
extra good shape and size. 
Each Per 10 Per 25 
Almond, pink.12-18 inch 
Almond, pink .18-24 inch 
Althea .18-24 inch 
Althea . 2-3 feet 
Arrow-wood . 18-24 inch 
Arrow-wood . 2-3 feet 
Barberry, Japanese .12-15 inch 
Barberry, Japanese ..15-18 inch 
Barberry, Red Leaf. 9-12 inch 
Barberry, Red Leaf.12-15 inch 
Butterfiy Bush .18-24 inch 
Butterfly Bush . 2-3 feet 
Beautyberry.18-24 inch 
Beautyberry . 2-3 feet 
Calycanthus .-.18-24 inch 
Calycanthus . 2-3 feet 
Coralberry . 18-24 inch 
Coralberry . 2-3 feet 
Cornus (Shrub Dogwood) 
Red Bark . 18-24 inch 
Cornus (Shrub Dogwood).. 2-3 feet 
Crape Myrtle, red & pink..18-24 inch 
Crape Myrtle, red & pink.. 2-3 feet 
Cydonia Japonica .12-18 inch 
Cydonia Japonica ....18-24 inch 
.. ..18-24 inch 
Deutzia .-. 2-3 feet 
Elder, American . 18-24 inch 
Elder, American . 2-3 feet 
Forsythia . 18-24 inch 
Forsythia . 2-3 feet 
Hydrangea Pee Gee...12-18 inch 
Hydrangea Pee Gee...18-24 inch 
Hydrangea Arborescens-18-24 inch 
Hydrangea Oakleaf..12-18 inch 
Hydrangea Oakleaf.18-24 inch 
Hypericum .....18-24 inch 
Hypericum . 2-3 feet 
Ilex (Winterberry) ......18-24 inch 
Ilex (Winterberry) . 2-3 feet 
Lilac, Persian .18-24 inch 
Lilac, Persian . 2-3 feet 
Bush Honeysuckle ..... .18-24 inch 
Bush Honeysuckle . 2-3 feet 
Sumac —Glabra, Typhina & 
Copallina . 2-3 feet 
3-4 feet 
Mock Orange .18-24 inch 
Mock Orange . 2-3 feet 
Moss Locust . 12-18 inch 
Moss Locust . 18-24 inch 
Fragrant Sumac . 18-24 inch 
Fragrant Sumac . 2-3 feet 
Purple Fringe . 18-24 inch 
Purple Fringe . 2-3 feet 
Spirea Thunbergi . 2-3 feet 
Spirea Van Houttei. 18-24 inch 
Spirea Van Houttei . 2-3 feet 
Spirea Van Houttei . 3-4 feet 
Spirea Callosa Rosea.15-18 inch 
Spirea Callosa Rosea.18-24 inch 
Spirea Anthony Waterer....l2-15 inch 
Spirea Anthony Waterer . .15-18 inch 
Stewartia Pentagyna .18-24 inch 
Stewartia Pentagyna 2-3 feet 
Tamarix . 18-24 inch 
Tamarix . 2-3 feet 
Common Snowball .12-18 inch 
Common Snowball ..18-24 inch 
Japanese Snowball .12-18 inch 
Japanese Snowball . 18-24 inch 
yitex . 18-24 inch 
Vitex . 2-3 feet 
VVeigelia Rosea .18-24 inch 
Weige'ia Rosea . 2-3 feet 
Weigelia Hendersonia .18-24 inch 
Weigelia Hendersonia . 2-3 feet 
Witch Hazel .18-24 inch 
Witch Hazel . 2-3 feet 
.25 
$1.75 
$3.50 
.35 
2.75 
5.50 
.20 
1.50 
3.00 
.25 
1.75 
3.50 
.25 
1.75 
3.50 
.35 
2.75 
5.50 
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1.75 
3.50 
.35 
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5.50 
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1.75 
3.50 
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2.75 
5.50 
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2.75 
5.50 
.45 
3.50 
7.00 
.25 
1.75 
3.50 
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2.75 
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.20 
1.50 
3.00 
.30 
2.50 
5.00 
.40 
3.25 
6.50 
.50 
4.25 
8.50 
.25 
1.75 
3.50 
.35 
2.75 
5.5C 
,25 
1.75 
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.35 
2.75 
5.50 
.25 
1.75 
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When you think of a park you associate it with a place 
of beauty, trees, .shrubs and other plantings. We give spe¬ 
cial attention to our park orders in regard to quality stock, 
as such idanting will be on display to represent their lihe 
kuids in our nursery. 
CHRISTMAS DECORATION 
We are offering some of these small trees to you at very 
low prices so that you can grow them into large trees and 
you will then cut off the branches, sell them and still have 
the trees left for the same thing next year. Cutting off 
the branches does not mar the tree. 
American Holly 
American Holly . 
American Holly . 
Hemlock Spruce 
Hemlock Spruce 
Hemlock Spruce 
Red Cedar . 
Red Cedar . 
Red Cedar . 
Per 2.50 
Per 1000 
6-12 inch 
$ 4.75 
$17.50 
12-18 inch 
7.00 
25.00 
18-24 inch 
8.00 
30.00 
6-12 inch 
4.00 
15.00 
12-18 inch 
6.00 
20.00 
.18-24 inch 
7.00 
25.00 
6-12 inch 
3.75 
12.00 
12-18 inch 
4.75 
17.00 
.18-24 inch 
7.00 
25.00 
CAPE JASMINE or GARDENIA. 
This is the exquisitely fragrant, waxy white flower that 
everybody likes. It is half hardy and can be grown out¬ 
doors in summer and as a pot plant in winter in the north. 
Eacli Per 10 
' 8-10 inches ..$ $6.50 
10-12 inches .-.... 
Pfitzer Juniper 
DENUDED LAND INCREASES 
The original pineries of the South covered approximately 
130,000,000 acres supporting a stand of 650,000,000 board 
feet of timber. Approximately 30,000,000 acres of this 
original pine timberland is now classed as denuded land, or 
37 per cent of such land in the United States. 
NOTICE! 
Hand this special price list to your friends, but do not 
do so until you have sent in your own order. Your friends 
will thank you for it, and we will THANK YOU TOO. 
Or better yet, when you send in your order send to us 
the names of those whom you think will want one of our 
catalogues and we will gladly mail them one. 
If you are one of the millions who enjoy growing things 
as a delightful hobby you will be interested in listening to 
“The Old Dirt Dobber” who broadcasts garden information 
every Saturday morning over the entire network of the 
Columbia Broadcasting System. The time is 10:30 to 11:00, 
Eastern Standard Time. He is an intimate personal friend 
of ours and you can depend on his advice and instructions. 
ACRES BY THE MILLIONS 
klichigan has 37 million acres of land area. Farm man¬ 
agement specialists at Michigan State College estimate 
that about half of this is in the state’s 196,000 farms. 
The remainder is in cutover land, woods, cities, towns, 
roads, streams and lakes. The southern six tiers of coun¬ 
ties in the state have the largest proportion of the land 
in farms as compared with land usage in other counties in 
Michigan. 
FRUIT TREES ■ 
Everyone that possibly can should, by all means, 
have at least a few fruit trees or a home orchard. 
At the very low prices these fruit trees are offered 
you we feel sure that you will want to order some 
trees right away. In a year or two you can have 
fruit from your own orchard and it is much nicer 
and more economical than going to the market for 
them. Consider this offer and send in your order 
now while our stock is complete. 
APPLE TREES. Red June, Early Harvest, Yellow Trans¬ 
parent, Yellow Horse, Winesap, Stayman Winesap, Red 
Delicious, Limbertwig, Yates, Jonathan, Winter Banana, 
Yellow Delicious. 
Per 10 
Per 25 
Per 100 
18-24 inches, 1 year... 
.$ .75 
$1.50 
$ 5.50 
2-3 feet, 1 year. 
. 1.25 
2.50 
8.00 
3-4 feet, 1 year. 
.. 1.50 
3.00 
10.00 
3-4 feet, 2 year. 
. 2.00 
4.00 
12.50 
4-5 feet, 2 year. 
... 2.50 
5.00 
17.50 
PLUMS. Abundance, 
Burbank, Kelsey’s Japan, Blue Dam- 
son, Wickson. 
Per 10 
Per 25 
Per 100 
18-24 inches . 
.$1.50 
$3.00 
$12.50 
2-3 feet ___ 
..... 2.00 
4.00 
17.50 
3-4 feet .. 
.... 2.50 
5.00 
22.50 
PEACHES, J. B. Belle of Georgia, Carman, Champion, 
^ Crawford’s I^ate, Crawford’s Early, Elberta, EaHy Rose, 
J. H. Hale, Hiley, Heath Cling, Giolden Jubilee, South 
Haven, Red Bird, Indian Blood, Shipper’s Red, Shipper’s 
Late, Greensboro, Mayflower, Rochester, White June. 
Per 10 
Per 25 
Per 100 
18-24 inches ... 
.$1.00 
$2.00 
$ 7.50 
2-3 feet ... 
. 1.25 
2.50 
10.00 
3-4 feet ..... 
_ 1.50 
3.00 
12.50 
PEARS, Garber, Kieffer, Bartlett, Pineapple. 
Per 10 
Per 25 
Per 100 
18-24 inches .. ■. 
.$1.50 
$3.00 
$12.50 
2-3 feet ...... 
. 2.00 
4.00 
17.50 
3-4 feet ..... 
. 2.50 
5.00 
22.50 
GRAPES. Agawam, Catawba, 
Campbell’s Early, 
Concord, 
Moore’s Early, Niagara, Worden. 
Per 10 Per 25 Per 100 
2 year . ^ ....-.$1.25 $2.50 $10.00 
Write for our catalog on other fruits. We carry a full 
line of fruit and berry plants that we are unable to list 
in this bulletin. 
WOULD WE FIGHT? 
We Certainly Would 
IF A FOREIGN NATION CAME INTO THIS COUN¬ 
TRY AND ROBBED US OF OVER 400,000,000 worth of 
top black soil which required 1,000 years to build up one 
inch and made paupers of millions of our farmers as soil 
erosion has in the past fifty years ? 
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE for the loss of over ONE 
HUNDRED MILLION ACRES of what was our best farm 
land by erosion ? Over one hundred and twenty-five million 
acres practically destroyed by dust storms west of the 
Mississippi. Flood losses over one hundred million for 
the lack of trees to hold the water back and THOUSANDS 
of LIVES LOST. 
Under the circumstances what could the Government 
»do to save the farms still producing crops from being 
totally ruined but put 375,000 men planting trees, building 
dams, etc. ? 
We know what happened in Europe in the 15th century 
when no man was allowed to marry until he had planted 
so many trees, and the same thing that happened in China, 
India, and other treeless countries, would eventually hap¬ 
pen here. 
TAXPAYERS will pay billions for doing work farmers 
would gladly do themselves if NEWSPAPERS AND BUSI¬ 
NESS MEN WOULD EXPLAIN WHAT TREES MEAN 
TO A COUNTRY and encourage the work. 
IF half our original softwood timber owned in 1900 was 
cut before 1930 as the Government claims and more trees 
were destroyed by prairie fires in 1932 on FIFTY-TWO 
MILLION ACRES than were planted by all forestry de¬ 
partments the past fifty years, and as it takes from 60 to 
259 years for trees to grow large enough to make the 
assorted sizes of lumber we require, what will children 
of today use for lumber when they grow up 
BOYD NURSERY CO 
McMinnville, Tennessee 
