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| Material Type: | Book |
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| Author(s): | Murray, C. M. |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Murray, C. M. |
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| Monograph Title: | Greenkeeping in South Africa: A treatise on Scientific Methods for the Establishment and Maintenance of Turf for Sporting Purposes and Garden Lawns, 1932. |
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| Publishing Information: | Cape Flats, South Africa: South African Golf |
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| # of Pages: | 104 |
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| Collation: | 104 pp. |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Establishment; Golf courses; Soils; Composts; Maintenance intensity; Weed control; Soil amendments; Talpidae
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| Geographic Terms: | South Africa |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Provides methods used in order to establish and maintain turf within the climate of South Africa. Discusses past failures and successes in order to gain the knowledge necessary to grow turf contingent on the climate and conditions available. Also details management and maintenance of the turfgrass a few years after the initial establishment. Includes: Turf; Soil; Fertilizers; Turfing new greens and fairways; Compost; Maintenance of established greens; Maintenance of established fairways; Weed control; Note on Lime in relation to turf culture; Moles. |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Golf courses; Lawns |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also related pamphlet of the same title, R=50865 R=50865 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: Classic Reads in Turf |
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| Note: | "May, 1932"
Includes advertisements p. 102-104.
"A reprint in book form of a series of articles which appeared in South African Golf Magazine." (McEwan, 2000, #21, item 991)
Pictures, b/w |
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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: | "This is a truly rare book that is a must for collectors of historical turfgrass publications. It is the first turfgrass book published in South Africa and in the southern hemisphere. It covers the establishment and culture of turfgrasses for golf courses under the climatic conditions in South Africa. This book represents the observations of Dr. Murray over a 25-year period. It is a reprint in book format of a series of articles that had been published in South African Golf. The foreword is by Robert Craig. Dr. Murray summarized his early observations on turfgrasses with a creeping growth habit as follows:
When I commenced to take an interest in turf, I felt we laboured under a disadvantage in being unable to make use of the seed-sown grasses as used in England. My first consoling discovery was made at North Berwick in 1907. There were some particularly pleasing greens close to the seashore. I dug up a small slip of turf from the edge of one of these greens, and found to my surprise that it was composed of a branching creeping grass (creeping bent). The turf was so much superior to that produced from the various mixtures sown for turf that it has always been a puzzle why more use was not made of this type of grass. The interest which has been aroused in turf research in recent years in England enabled me in 1930 to see a very wide range of turf grasses under observation in test plots. All I can say is, what I saw more firmly endorses what I thought in 1907. Turf has been defined as a mat of grass in which the old are constantly being replaced by a growth of new shoots. Creeping grasses fulfill this better than any other, in that properly cared for they go on forever. From our South African Cynodon grasses it is possible to form a better sporting turf than I believe is possible elsewhere than where the same type of grass will grow." p. 293 |
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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: | "A collection of articles that appeared in South African Golf magazine. Several of them assisted courses in converting from sand to grass greens." p. 121 |
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| Cornish & Hurdzan Ratings: | D1; C1; M2; H4 |
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| Quotable quotes | "It may be confidently stated that far more harm is likely to arise in turf culture from the use of lime, than good can be gained. In a long experience I may say that whilst I have seen many greens ruined by the use of lime, I have never seen one in which it brought about any improvement." p. 100 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Murray, C. M. 1932. Greenkeeping in South Africa: A treatise on Scientific Methods for the Establishment and Maintenance of Turf for Sporting Purposes and Garden Lawns. 104 pp. Cape Flats, South Africa: South African Golf. |
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