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Volume 25, No. 1
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3 Table of Contents
4 News/Trends
8 Green Industry News
9 -Pro Gridders Say Real Grass Better
9 -New Lab for Ag Center
16 -Iron Reduces Chill Injury to Bermuda
12 Shortcuts
20 Landscape Profile
20 -The 'Super' Super: It Rains When It shouldn't. Equipment Breaks Down. Club Members Complain. The Modern Golf Course Superintendent Faces Problems from Every Direction
26 -Coming Back: Thanks to Super Efforts by Firestone Super Brian Mabie and Crew, Famed Firestone Country Club is Primed for Better Days and the Challenge from Fresh-Faced Newcomers
42 -Golf's Keeper of Legends: Walter Woods Maintains Ancient St. Andrews as a Continuing Challenge for Today's Golfer. He does It with Style
52 -Do-It-Yourself Irrigation Systems: Maple Bluff's Tom Harrison Improved His Course 100 Percent with an Irrigation System Combining Rain Bird Valves and Heads with Toro Controls. He Designed It Himself
56 -A Tulsa Treasure: You don't Need to be an Engineer to Figure Out That Southern Hills is a Top-Flight Golf Course
36 Wilt Treatment
36 -Superintendents Differ in Wilt Treatments
38 -Recognizing Bacterial Wilt
64 Everything's Coming Up Roses: Improved Drainage and Timely Renovations Allow The Rose Bowl to Head into Its 64th Season with Its Best Face Forward
72 From Greased Pigs to Pigskins: Pasadena's Annual Tournament of Roses Offered Unusual Entertainment Before Finding Football
74 Money Low as a Drought-Stricken Irrigation Pond?: To Fill the Coffers During the Off-Season, Landscape Managers Must Apply Fundamental Credit Strategies Before, During and After a Trip to the Local Bank
78 Management in Business: Dangling the Carrot: Incentive Plans: Whether or Not They're Right for You Depends on What Your Long-Term Goals Are
82 Water: That One Word Describes What Could become the Golf Course Superintendent's No. 1 Concern. A GCSAA Panel of Experts Recently Hashed Over the Intricacies of Water Usage. Here's What was Said.
86 Just Rust?: Pacific Sod Personnel Worry About Plenty of Turfgrass Pests Infecting Their Product. But, Since 1982, the Agronomic Staff has Not had to Worry About Rust
90 Doing It Themselves: Weed Control on Industrial Sites is Not Easy. Officials at an Illinois Chemical Facility Tried It a Couple Ways Before Settling on In-House - And It Finally Worked
94 A Monster of a Problem: A Country Club in Washington State has to Deal with Huge Insects Which, as 'Leather-Jackets,' are Up to One Inch Long and can Quickly Eat Up a Green
100 Weeds Trees & Turf: 1985 Article Index
104 Jobtalk: Synthetic Oil Resolves Most Two-Cycle Woes
106 Problem Solvers
108 Letters: Employer/Employee Relations: Walking the Two-Way Street
110 Products
118 Classifieds
124 Ad Index
128 Outlook: On Keeping Your Job


Volume 25, No. 2
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6 News/Trends
6 -Sport Turf's Brave New World
8 Green Industry News
12 -NFL Bending Injury Data on Fake Turf?
16 Shortcuts
16 -Mole Crickets Beware!
22 Landscaping's Elite: Weeds Trees & Turf Conducts Its First Survey of the Top Landscaping Contracting Companies in the Country, and Comes Up with Some Amazing Figures
26 Landscape Profile
26 -In Control: At 28, Mark Yahn is Writing a Youthful Success Story as President of Ground Control Landscape & Maintenance. Orlando, Fla., is the Right Market
32 -Straight Shooter: David J. Frank Landscape Contracting isn't Among the Top 50 Landscape Companies in the Country - Yet. But, with 60 Percent Annual Growth, It Might Show Up on the List Soon
36 -A Gold Medalist: Award-Winning Chapel Valley Landscape Company of Woodbine, Md., Continues to Gather the Accolades. Owner Landon Reeve Thinks That's Great but Not as Great as a Satisfied Client
58 -Instant Effect: Today's Landscapers Know That Clients can't Afford to Wait. The Results are Much More Mature Landscapes in Much Shorter Time Periods
86 -Small is Beautiful: Sunnybrook Super Bob Sowers Makes the Most Out of a Modest Operating Budget, Keeping the Course Maintained to Tournament Standards. Though Difficult, It's Not an Impossible Task
46 England
46 -Island of Games and Grass
50 -Protecting a Green Heritage
52 -Souter of Stirling
60 Disease Control Guide
60 -Warm Season: Sunbelt Syndromes: Landscape Manager's Guide to Diseases Cool and Warm-Season Trees and Ornamentals
72 -Cool Season: Tactically Speaking...
80 The Right Spruce: The Spruce Varieties can be a Unique Feature to the Commercial Landscape Providing You do Your Homework. Not All Spruce is Right for All Areas
84 Management in Business: Technical Perfection vs. Cost: Letting the Client Know What can be Done within the Budget, Coupled with Your Technical Knowledge, are the Keys to Maintaining Good Client Relationships
93 Bookstore
94 Jobtalk: Super Finds 'Instant Spring' with Grass Paint
96 Problem Solvers
98 Products
108 Classifieds
114 Ad Index
116 Outlook: The Readers Write...
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Volume 25, No. 3
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8 Green Industry News
20 Shortcuts
24 Landscape Profile
24 -The Big Boys: Cypress Gardens, One of the Most Beautiful Parks in the Country, Boasts More Than 8,000 Thriving Plant Species. That Makes Landscape Horticulturist Norm Freel Stingy with His Time
48 -A Star is Built: It doesn't Look Like Much Now - Just Rock, Dust, and Hills. By October, Star Pass TPC in Tucson Will Play Host to Its Pro Golf Tournament
54 -Weed Busters: Two Virginians Approach the Chemical Spraying Business Differently. They Go for the Industrial and Commercial Accounts, Those Who Usually don't Use the Custom Applicator for Weed Control
28 Spring Troubleshooting: As Winter's Ice and Snow Thaw, So do Irrigation Systems. Here are Some Suggestions on How to Avoid Spring Irrigation Problems, and What to do if You've Got Them
34 Water Management on Compacted Soils
44 Dutch Elm Disease: Your Elms have It, You don't Know How to Treat It. Though There's Still No Sure Cure, There are Treatments That can Help the Fight
60 Weed Control Guide
60 -Warm-Season Turf
64 -Suggested Timing for Preemergence Herbicides to Control Crabgrass and Annual Bluegrass
68 -Herbicide Directory
76 -Cool-Season Turf
82 -Right-Of-Way Weed Control
92 -Weed Control in the Landscape
98 -Aquatic Weed Control: Those Nasty Water Weeds Taint the Look of Any Landscape. Effective Control is Possible. Prudence on the Controller's Part is the Key
102 The Weed War: Those Hard-To-Control Weeds - Spurge and Oxalis to Name a Few - can be Controlled. Some New Formulations Show Promise in the Fight Against the Die-Hards
108 Management in Business: Seasonal Help
110 Problem Solvers
113 Products
120 Events
122 Classifieds
127 Ad Index
128 Outlook: Our Weapons are being Fired Upon


Volume 25, No. 4
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8 Green Industry News
15 -University Builds Turf Research Facility
12 Shortcuts
18 Landscape Profile
18 -Red Tape Mania: Landscape Superintendents at the Nation's Schools, Colleges and Universities are Responsible for a Wide Range of Services. For Most, However, the Worst Part of the Job is Cutting Through Miles of Governmental 'Red Tape'
22 -Case Closed: There's No Question That Award-Winning Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is One of the Finest Landscaped Urban Universities in the U.S.
28 -Almost a Native: University of Arizona Grounds Supervisor Chuck Raetzman Left Chicago 30 Years Ago for the Sun of the Desert Southwest. After the First Winter, He Never Wanted to Go Back
36 -Tropical Arboretum: The University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., Boasts a Landscape Cornerstone of 25 Palm Tree Varieties. And the Landscape has Just Begun to be Taken Seriously
44 Turf Disease Guide
44 -Cool-Season Turf Diseases
66 -Diseases of Warm Season Turf
78 A Natural Carpet
86 The Patch Diseases: At Least 17 Exist and the Symptoms of Some are Similar. A Positive Identification is Necessary for Control and Treatment
98 Management in Business: To Train or Not? A Booming Green Industry is Becoming More Competitive. Those Who Train Employees May have an Edge. Or do They?
100 Events
103 Jobtalk: Upside-Down Harrow Saves Time, Money
104 Problem Solvers
106 Products
110 Classifieds
113 Ad Index
114 Outlook: The Right Stuff
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Volume 25, No. 5
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6 Green Industry News
12 Short Cuts
16 Dressed Up: Landscaping is Big Business at the Nation's Big Businesses. An Attractive Landscape Conveys a Positive Image
26 Insect Control Guide
26 -Turf Insect Control: Despite Research on Alternatives and Supplemental Methods, Insecticides Remain the Primary Means of Controlling Insect Damage to Turf
50 -Woody Ornamental Insect Control
36 Bookstore
59 High-Tech Overload: Computerization of the Irrigation Industry is Here to Stay. Now It's Up to the Individual Companies to Educate Their Clients on the Variety of New Technology
66 Landscape Profile: The Main Event: Landscaping at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., is Year-Round for One of Sport's Great Days: The Kentucky Derby
74 Take-All Patch: The Bentgrass Destroyer
82 Second of Three Parts: The Patch Wars: As the Temperature Rises, So does the Number of Patch Disease Problems. Identification if the Key to Control
88 Events
90 Problem Solvers
93 Products
94 Classifieds
99 Ad Index
100 Outlook: The Haunting


Volume 25, No. 6
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8 Green Industry News
14 Short Cuts
22 Landscape Profile
22 -One of a Kind: Unlike Its South Florida Neighbors, Jupiter Hills Golf Club Features Characteristics You Might Find on a Northern Course - from the Trees to the Bentgrass Greens
26 -Miles to Go...: Rights-Of-Way Landscape Managers, Who do Things on a Big-Big Scale, Favor Spraying Non-Selective Herbicides and Tree Maintenance
30 -Under Construction: Growth in the Booming Valley of the Sun and Surrounding Areas Presents a Challenge to the Arizona Dept. of Transportation's Highway Division. Another Challenge: Landscaping in a Furnace-Like Environment
36 -Weed Eradication: In Sunny San Bernadino, Bare Ground Next to the Roadside is the Aim of County Agriculture Workers
40 PGRs for Highway Turf: The Use of PGRs has Led to the Concept of 'Chemical Mowing,' the Idea being That Growth Suppression Will Minimize or Eliminate the Mowing Requirement
47 Weed Free: For Scenic Roadsides, Deeply-Rooted Plants are Needed to Successfully Battle Weeds for Water and Nutrients. That Means Developing a Sound Fertilizer Program
50 How much N, P and K?
54 Tough Marketplace: Woven, Nonwoven, or Spunbound? Polypropylene or Polyester? The Nation's Landscape Fabric Manufacturers are So Convincing in Their Claims That a Customer Really doesn't Know Who to Believe
60 A Crisis Situation
68 Third of Three Parts: Controlling the Patch Diseases: Warm Weather and Patch Disease Problems Go Hand-In-Hand. Accurate Diagnosis is a Must for Effective Treatment
74 Management in Business: Leasing vs. Buying
76 Problem Solvers
77 Products
80 Letters
82 Bookstore
86 Classifieds
90 Ad Index
92 Outlook: This 'Association' is Important
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Volume 25, No. 7
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8 Green Industry News
8 -O.M. Scott Introduces PGRs for Fairways
10 -Spartan Gets Its Certificate Number
10 Short Cuts
20 Down But Headed Up: The Outlook for the Equipment Industry is Down Slightly but Projected Figures to the End of the Decade are Positive. The Commercial Turf Equipment Market should Experience Steady Growth Through Decade's End
26 The Equipment Report: WT&T Asks: 'How does the Future Look?'
28 Mowing for Dollars: The Right Mower for the Right Job can Mean Savings for Your Mowing Operation
32 Help Wanted: According to an Exclusive WT&T Survey, Today's Cemetery Manager Faces a Large Problem in Finding Capable Help. Low Wages Resulting from Low Budgets Put the Manager in an Unenviable Situation
36 Landscape Profile: Cemeteries: A Different Type of Landscaping
36 -Oakwood Memorial Gardens
41 -Rose Hills
44 -Hillcrest/West Lawn
46 Curing Water Woes: Many Methods Exist for Control of Undesirable Water Weeds. Your Choice Depends on Your Individual Situation
54 Alternatives to Chemical Water Weed Control
58 Management in Business: Judging the Efficiency of Your Planning Program
62 Bookstore
66 Products
70 Classifieds
74 Events
75 Ad Index
76 Outlook: Dawning of a New Age?


Volume 25, No. 8
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6 News/Trends
8 Green Industry News
12 -Do Lawn Chemicals Contaminate Our Water?
14 Short Cuts
18 Disneyland: Large Scale Landscape Management:
24 1986 Guide to: Turf, Tree & Ornamental Fertilization
40 The Deciding Factor: Water. Its Availability May be the Deciding Factor When Choosing a Turf Variety. Your Choice should Reflect Water Availability in Your Area
48 Landscape Profile: Idyllic Inverness: Superintendent Tom Walker Keeps His Course, Host of This Year's PGA Championship, in Superb Shape with a 'Light and Frequent' Maintenance Program
54 Jobtalk: Emergency Access Roads can be Attractive; Porous Pavement is Cost-Effective Solution
60 Products
66 Bookstore
70 Classifieds
74 Events
75 Ad Index
76 Outlook: Giving the Readers What They Want
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Volume 25, No. 9
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8 Green Industry News
36 Short Cuts
40 The Athletic Turf Manager's Role in Keeping Fields Safe
40 -The Killing Field: The Scott Halbrook Story is a Worst-Case Scenario. It Should be Required Reading for All Athletic Turf Managers. In This Exclusive Weeds Trees & Turf Interview, Scott's Dad and Lawyer Reveal the Grim Details of Death on a Bad Field
50 -An Act of God?: You've Heard It Before. Injuries are Beyond Your Control. But Experts Tell WT&T That the Athletic Field Manager can Make His Field Safer. Here's How
56 -For Safer Turf...
58 -Are You Liable?: The Courts are Taking a Broader View of Liability, So Conscientious Athletic Field Managers should be Taking Daily Walks Around Fields
60 -One Wheelchair is too Many
62 -Preventing, Not Promoting, the Injury
67 High Speed: The Ever-Popular Hydroseeding Technique is a Fast and Economical Method of Seeding That can Save You Money
72 Buyer's Guide
72 -Table of Contents
72 -Equipment
106 -Equipment Companies
122 -Chemicals
129 -Chemical Companies
132 -Seed Companies
135 Problem Solvers
136 Products
137 Jobtalk: Conversion to Dual Fuels can Mean Savings
138 Classifieds
141 Ad Index
142 Outlook: Images of Grief
   
 
A Guide to Landscape Management: Cool-Season Edition
1 Cover
3 Table of Contents
4 Disease Control for Golf Course Greens and Tees
6 Weed Control for Golf Course Fairways
8 Weed and Disease Control for Home Lawns
16 Weed and Disease Control for Ornamentals
18 Weed Control for Ponds and Lakes


Volume 25, No. 10
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6 Green Industry News
12 Short Cuts
16 The Seed Report: Although Yields are About Average for Most Grasses, Demand is High. Carryover from Last Year's Harvest is Light. It All Adds Up to a Tight, but Not too Tight, Seed Market for Late 1986 and Early 1987
22 -Pirates on the High Seeds
28 Landscape Profile
28 -Going All Out: European Design and Lots of Irrigation Make the New Grand Champions Resort in Palm Springs a Haven for Travelers Who Want to Escape Winter
30 -Turbulent Sea Pines: From lawsuits to hurricanes, the landscape at Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island has Nonetheless withstood the Test of Time
32 -A Cool Breeze in Texas
38 Coming Back: A Pest of the Past, the Green June Beetle, in Once Again Causing Headaches for Many in the Eastern United States. The Pest was Silent for 30 Years
46 Giving Water a Helping Hand: Two Golf Courses on the West Coast Find a Handy Tool for Helping Conserve a Precious Resource, Saving Big Bucks at the Same Time
52 An Alternative: Integrated Pest Management is Drawing Raves from Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., Where Some 350 Acres are being Effectively Managed
58 A Home for the Prairie: Natural Landscapes are becoming a Practical Alternative for the Low-Maintenance Landscape Manager
60 Management in Business: First of Three Parts: Motivation: Having Trouble Getting the Most Out of Your Employees? First, You should Learn the Theories of Motivation
64 Jobtalk: Anti-Transpirant Helps Prevent Landscape Losses
68 Problem Solvers
70 Products
82 Classifieds
87 Events
87 Ad Index
88 Outlook: The Pesticide Issue
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Volume 25, No. 11
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6 Green Industry News
6 -'Black Layer' Damaging Nation's Greens
12 Events
16 Give Us Your Best: Major Mower Manufacturers Tell What is Their Strongest Product and What Features Make the Product Their Best Seller
26 Into the Future: Here's What to Expect from Major Mower Manufacturers in the Future
32 The Golf Car Game: An Improving Economy and the Maturing 'Baby Boomer' Generation Create a Growing Need for Golf Cars. The Industry has Responded
36 Landscape Profile
36 -The Lawn Care Crises: Chemical Lawn Care Companies Face Pressure from Media and Law-Makers. But Their Friendly Insurance Agent Might Pose the Most Urgent Problem
37 -Lawn Care...Carefully: Hilton's Head's Veteran Landscape Management Company Exercises Extra Care When Applying Chemicals to the Island's Fragile Environs
42 -Liqui-Lawn Keeps Rolling: Like the Neighboring Mountains Near Lewiston, Idaho, Liqui-Lawn's Profit Line is Rock-Like. It's Also Painted Black
44 -Standing Tall: The Owners of Chem-Turf Also Stand Behind Their Work and Behind Their Customers. That's Unique
48 Management in Business: Locating the Customer
50 Job Talk: Geomatrix Products Demonstrate Versatility
52 Problem Solvers
54 Products
56 Classifieds
71 Ad Index
72 Outlook: Athletic Turf...Revisited


Volume 25, No. 12
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6 Green Industry News
12 -Plant Stress Monitor Measures Turf's Health
11 Short Cuts
15 It's No Joke: The Numbers are Growing...and Women Golf Course Superintendents are Not Only Surviving, but Thriving, in What was Once Considered a Man's Job
18 Turf's Grandame
20 All Systems Green: The Green Industry is Growing in All Directions. An Indication of This Positive Trend is the Magnitude of Chemical, Equipment and Seed Purchases. So the State of the Green Industry, Judging by a Recent Survey, is 'Green and Go' for 1987
25 1987 Calendar of Events
40 Management in Business: Second of Three Parts: Motivation Tips
44 The Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer: A New Insect Pest is Threatening California's Eucalyptus Trees. So Far, There aren't Many Solutions to the Growing Problem
46 Jobtalk: County Stadium Gets a New Water Supply
48 Problem Solvers
50 Products
53 Classifieds
54 Bookstore
59 Events
59 Ad Index
60 Outlook: A Final Note on Women
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