4. Inventories

Inventories consist of:

	Nov. 30, 2013		Dec. 1, 2012

Nursery stock	$	3,410	$	13,058
Materials and supplies		706		1,148


	$	4,116	$	14,206

In fiscal 2013, a charge of $10,400 to inventory was included in costs of landscape nursery sales to reduce Imperial's nursery inventories to fair value, which is the net realizable value based on the terms of the Imperial Sale (see Notes 1 and 2). Also during fiscal 2013, a charge of $500 was included in costs of landscape nursery sales to increase inventory reserves for plants that were expected to be sold below cost as seconds.

In fiscal 2012, a charge of $380 was included in costs of landscape nursery sales to increase reserves for unsaleable inventories and plants that are expected to be sold below cost as seconds.

In fiscal 2011, a charge of $1,187 was included in costs of landscape nursery sales and was comprised of the following: (a) $517 to reserve for plants with disease issues, mostly for boxwood plants that became unsaleable after being infected with boxwood blight, a fungal disease; (b) $370 to increase inventory reserves for plants that became unsaleable or were expected to be sold below cost as seconds; and (c) $300 for plants lost due to the collapse, from snow load during the fiscal 2011 first quarter, of some of Imperial's hoop houses in which the plants were stored.

These charges are included in the results of discontinued operations in Griffin's consolidated statements of operations. Imperial's inventories were sold to Monrovia, effective January 8, 2014, in connection with the Imperial Transaction (see Note 2).