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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Clouston, David |
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| Author Affiliation: | Agricultural Botany, The North of Scotland College of Agriculture. |
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| Monograph Title: | The Establishment and Care of Fine Turf for Lawns and Sports Grounds, 1937. |
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| Publishing Information: | Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son. |
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| Edition: | 1st |
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| # of Pages: | 121 |
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| Collation: | 121 pp. |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Establishment; Lawn turf; Sports turf; Bowling greens; Tennis courts; Renovation; Sodding; Seeding; Seedbed preparation; Fertilization; Aeration; Liming; Composts; Weeds; Fungi; Microdochium patch; Rusts; Fairy rings; Wireworms; Oligochaeta; Quality
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| Abstract/Contents: | "The object of this booklet is to cater for groundsmen in charge of sports fields, bowling greens, lawn tennis courts, and for professional and amateur gardeners, by setting before them certain known facts in more or less condensed form, that will help them to improve the quality of turf under their care." Chapters include: 1) Introduction, 2) Renovation and care of established turf - Spring/Autumn, 3) Turfing, 4) Turf from seed, 5) Preparation of ground for new lawn from seed, 6) aeration of turf, 7) Compost, 8) Manures and manuring, 9) Lime on lawns and sports grounds, 10) The acid theory, 11) Weeds, 12) Grasses for lawns and sports turves, 13) Leather jackets, 14) Wireworms, 15) Fungus diseases of grass: Fusarium patch, Corticium or Autumn Rust, and Fairy rings, 16) Worm killers, and 17) Fertiliser analyses. Includes pictures of weeds and a table of fertilizer analyses. |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Lawns; Grasses; Grasses -- Diseases and pests; Turf management |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also second edition (1939), R=83987 R=83987
See also precendent version, 19xx, R=33164 R=33164 |
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| Note: | M.S.U. copy belonged to Dr. Guy D. Morison, Entomology, who assisted the author with this book. Cf. ms. notes inside front cover and on p. [3]; also cf. preface. Inscribed: "With Compliments."
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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 very rare, small book on the establishment and care of turfgrasses for greens, lawns, and sport fields. It is oriented to the cool-season turfgrass conditions in the United Kingdom. Major emphasis is placed on descriptions of species of turfgrasses and weeds plus some insects and diseases. The publisher D. Wyllie & Son was a seedsmen and nurserymen company in Aberdeen. All drawings were prepared by John G. Taylor. Dr. Clouston discussed the use of ammonium sulfate (NH4SO4) in weed control as follows:
When the acidifying effects of sulphate of ammonia on the soil were first established, the tendency was to attribute the improvement to acid intoxication. An acid soil is undoubtedly advantageous in the production of a turf, since grasses such as Agrostis, Festuca, and others grow well naturally under acid conditions and can withstand a degree of acidity in the soil which is harmful to many of the broad-leaved weeds such as daisies, plantains and clover. Sulphate of ammonia has also a manurial effect which stimulates the growth of grasses and enables them to compete more successfully with weeds. There is also the further point that many of the common weeds in lawns are very low in carbohydrates and appear to be more susceptible than grasses to injury from ammonia compounds in the soil. These factors doubtless all participate to some extent in making sulphate of ammonia an efficient lawn or sports ground improver. The selective corrosive action of sulphate of ammonia on broad- leaved weeds appear, however, to be one of the most important assets of sulphate of ammonia. Sulphate of ammonia treatment by itself may not be sufficient to eradicate all the weeds in a lawn; daisies, plantains, clover, selfheal and mouse-ear chickweed generally yield to sulphate of ammonia treatment. Others such as pearlwort and moss may require treatment with sulphate of iron, which has also a corrosive action, and generally it may be said that weed eradication is hastened when a small proportion of sulphate of iron is added along with the sulphate of ammonia. In the treatment of lawns and sports grounds with sulphate of ammonia particular attention should be paid to points such as the following if good results are to be obtained:
(1) Sulphate of ammonia should not be applied immediately before or after mowing; if possible, it should not be applied during the period one to two days before and after mowing. If sulphate of ammonia is applied to freshly cut grass it may have a harmful scorching effect on the freshly cut surface and thus injure the grass as well as the weeds." p. 193-194 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Bibliography of books/monographs on turfgrass culture |
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| Beard Rarity Statement: | Very 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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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Clouston, David. 1937. The Establishment and Care of Fine Turf for Lawns and Sports Grounds. 1st. ed. 121 pp. Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son. |
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