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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Author(s): | Beale, Reginald |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Beale, Reginald |
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| Author Affiliation: | Manager of Sports and Grass Department, and Seedman by Royal Warrant to his Majesty the King |
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| Title: | The Practical Greenkeeper |
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| Monographic Source: | The Practical Greenkeeper, 190x, p. . |
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| Publishing Information: | London, England, United Kingdom: James Carter and Co. |
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| Edition: | 1st |
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| # of Pages: | 69 |
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| Collation: | 69 pp. |
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| Related Web URL: | https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/xK3UtwEACAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2v9SJqev9AhXdk4kEHQlDBF8Qre8FegQICxAI
Last checked: 03/20/2023
Notes: Item description page |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Composts; Cultivar recommendations; Drainage; Golf greens; Manures; Site preparation; Sports turf maintenance; Weed control
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: How to Make a New Lawn or Green; Renovating a Worn or Poor Turf and The Maintenance of a Lawn; Birds; Bowling Greens; Carterite, Prices of; Croquet; Drainage (Pipes; Shaft; and Boring); Fairy Rings; Floral Hazards; Grass Seeds, Prices of; Grass Seed, Sowing Machines; Grass Seeds (Amount to Sow; and Selection of); Levelling; Lawn Tennis; Mowing; Manures, Prices of; Moss; Putting Greens; Prices (Grass Seeds; and Wormkiller); Prices (Manures; and Carterite); Rolling; Sheep; Shaded Lawns; Turf; Turfing; Turf Nurseries; Watering; Wormkiller, Prices of; Worms in Putting and Other Greens, and How to Destroy Them; Weeds, all About Them and How to Destroy Them; Manures and Composts, and A List of New Golf Courses Sown With Carters' Tested Grass Seed. |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Greenkeepers; Golf courses -- Maintenance; Turf management |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See all records for known editions of The Practical Greenkeeper, search as MCODE=PRACG to isolate as a set or see records related to PRACG |
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| See Also: | See also chapter record from this work, Worms in putting and other greens, R=305979. R=305979
See also chapter record from this work, Manures and composts, R=305985. R=305985 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: Classic Reads in Turf |
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| Note: | Includes advertisment for Ransomes' Lawn Mowers (inside back cover).
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| Annotation from Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf, by James B Beard, Harriet J. Beard and James C Beard: | "A truly rare booklet that is a must for collectors of historical turfgrass books, as is the entire series of revised editions. It is an early booklet on the construction, establishment, and culture of turfgrasses for lawns, putting greens, croquet courts, tennis courts, bowling greens, and floral hazards. It is oriented to English conditions. The booklet contains sections on the pioneering worm control work for greens by greenkeeper Peter W. Lees and on manures and composts. The preface is by Horace G. Hutchinson. There also is a section on weed control. The book contains a listing of costs for various turfgrass establishment and cultural practices as they existed in the first decade of the twentieth century in England. There is a pictorial description of the original earthworm irritant, mowrah meal, used on greens as a control method, which was developed by greenkeeper Peter Lees. In 1908 Reginald Beale took a clear position concerning the use of sheep on golf courses in comparison to mechanical reel mowers:
Sheep, under certain conditions, will manure the grass, keep it short, and, by constantly moving about, help to give the turf a firm surface; this assists in saving expense of cutting, rolling and manuring.
Sheep may be grazed in the spring and early summer, providing they are cake or artificially fed; breeding ewes are seldom given much cake or roots till they have lambed. If not cake or artificially fed, sheep do little good other than keeping the grass short.
Sheep, even on old pastures, are apt to pull out the small grass rootlets. They should not be allowed on new grass under any circumstances until it is ascertained that the roots are strong enough to resist being lifted.
The droppings from the sheep are always more or less an inconvenience to those playing on a golf green, and in the dry weather sheep scalds are very frequent.
To sum the matter up briefly, if proprietors do not mind the expense of cutting, rolling and manuring, we see no reason why sheep should be introduced. We have explained the only good they can possibly do under the best circumstances; while, if not cake fed, they may impoverish the land, and in any case are of more or less a nuisance on grass that is being played upon, particularly on a putting green. On a garden lawn or similarly confined space their presence would be impossible." p. 160 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Bibliography of books/monographs on turfgrass culture |
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| Beard Rarity Statement: | Truly rare |
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| Beard Special Note: | Identified by James B Beard in Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf (2014) as being old and rare based on his experience. |
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Annotation from
Golf Course Design,
by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Michael J. Hurdzan: | "Articles by Horace Hutchinson on 'Manures and Compost' and Peter Lees on 'Worms in Putting Greens' are included. (Note: This paperback was published for many years until at least 1936. All editions are valuable additions to a library)." p. 115 |
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| Cornish & Hurdzan Ratings: | D2; C3; M4; H4 |
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| Quotable quotes | "Never sweep snow from greens and never play upon frozen greens." p. 57 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Beale, Reginald. 190x. The Practical Greenkeeper. In Beale, Reginald. The Practical Greenkeeper. 1st. ed. London, England, United Kingdom: James Carter and Co. |
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