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Volume 23, No. 1
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2 Table of Contents
6 News/Trends
8 Green Industry News
8 -Pay Attention Now, or Go Out of Business
12 Golf Update
16 Landscape Update
20 Government Update
20 Correction
22 Superintendents in the St. Louis Area are Finding Zoysia may be the Closest Thing to a "Wonder Grass" for Maintaining Quality Turf During the Summer Stress Period: The St. Louis Solution
24 -St. Louis Solution: Choosing a Zoysia Establishment Program
30 Multi-Course Management and the Super-Intendent: A Few Superintendents Manage a Number of Courses as Economics Favor Contract Golf Course Management and Leasing
36 Landscape Management
36 -The Golf Superintendent: Time, Money and Personnel Present Greater Problems to Today's Superintendent Than Anything Mother Nature can Dish Out
40 -Pinehurst: Grooming a Champion Takes Experience, Long Hours and Meticulous Care -- Three of Wayne Maples' and Lew Metts' Specialties
48 -Milwaukee Country Club: Dan Quast Delegates Responsibility and Encourages Ideas to Turn Turf Graduates into Great Superintendents
54 -Illahe: Nestled in the Shadow of Mt. Hood, a Salem Country Club is becoming More Picturesque and Efficient with Bill Swancutt's Renovations
58 Unionization: Whether or Not a Union is in Your Best Interest Depends on Several Factors for Both Employer and Employee
68 Problem Solvers
70 Jobtalk: Moving Big Trees Texas Style: The Massive Hydraulic Tree Spade can Move Trees with 24-inch Trunks, 60 to 70 Feet Tall
73 Products
82 Events
88 Classifieds
89 Ad Index
92 Outlook: Old GCSAA Staff Now Runs All Major Turf Associations


Volume 23, No. 2
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6 News/Trends
8 Green Industry News
8 -Lawn Care Overall Gets Good Marks
12 Golf Update
16 Landscape Update
20 Government Update
22 Landscape Log: March Efforts Save Time, Profits Later
24 Azaleas: Undiscovered Color for Northern Gardens
32 The Biggest Race of All: L.A. Coliseum Turf Team Races Against Clock to Solve Turf Problems at 1984 Olympics Site
34 Sewage Compost Use Suffers Information Gap
38 Landscape Management
38 -Design/Build May Dominate in Future: Three Survey Findings Indicate a Shift Toward Firms with Both Design and Construction Capability
48 -Courting Success: "Growing People," a Commitment to Quality and Delivering What the Client Wants are Specialties of the Brickman Group -- One of the Largest Design/Build, Maintenance Companies in the Nation
56 -Riding the Tide: Bill Orr is Young and Ambitious. His Landscape Contracting Business, Houston Landscape Associates, is Steadily Growing While Many Area Landscape Contracting Businesses are Falling by the Wayside
62 -Environmental Industries Inc. Grows as Fast as Its People can: Large West Coast Company Avoids Publicity and Concentrates on Building a Company Around Its Employees
66 Problem Solvers
66 -Yellow Nutsedge Control
70 Jobtalk: Pruning: A Practical Approach
75 Products
84 Events
102 Classifieds
106 Ad Index
106 Letters
108 Outlook: EPA Oversteps Bounds Claiming Public Domain of Safety Data
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Volume 23, No. 3
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6 News/Trends
8 Green Industry News
14 Golf Update
14 Correction
18 Landscape Update
20 Government Update
28 Landscape Log: Start the Year in Control
30 Problem Solvers
30 -Tilling Wakes Up Dormant Weeds
35 Weed Control Guide
35 -Table of Contents
36 -Turf
66 -Landscape
70 -Aquatic
76 -Directory
98 Tournament Speeds Push Greens to the Limit
102 Simplified Calibration of Boom Sprayers
106 Practical Guide to Flowers in the Landscape
107 -21 Popular Annuals for Landscapes
112 Jobtalk: Flowers, Fans and Football
114 Products
126 Events
127 Letters
129 Ad Index
130 Classifieds
132 Outlook: Under the Influence...


Volume 23, No. 4
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8 Green Industry News
12 Golf Update
15 Landscape Update
16 Government Update
22 Landscape Log
24 Street Trees: We Need to Constantly Rethink and Update Street Tree Programs Giving Emphasis to Trees That Tolerate Urban Conditions
32 Winter Damage: Cold Temperature This Winter Struck Normally Temperate Regions of the South Causing Widespread Damage
36 Mower Wounds Kill Trees: Seemingly Small Bumps or Scrapes by Mowers can Cause Severe Damage to Valuable Shade Trees. Operators Need to Understand What Mower Injuries do
44 Landscape Management
44 -Time to Specialize: Government Agencies Reap New Benefits from Computers and Specialized Landscape Managers
48 -The Parks Maintenance Department in Oak Ridge, TN, Encourages Citizens and Workers to Grade Its Work: Report Card for Parks
52 -Arlington Cemetery: Maintaining a National Landmark Takes a Combination of Horticultural Expertise and a Respect for the Ritual and Prestige of the Nation's Most Renowned Cemetery
60 -The "Second" Mission: Keeping the Grounds of the Johnson Space Center in Top Flight Condition Takes Streamlined Planning and Patience with Fickle Houston-Area Weather
66 Going Computer: Computerized Records Help Park Superintendent with Planning, Budgets and Reports
68 Problem Solvers
72 Jobtalk: Grass Fields Save Hand Work for Grand Island Foreman
74 Products
81 Events
96 Classifieds
98 Advertiser Index
100 Outlook
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Volume 23, No. 5
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6 News/Trends
8 Green Industry News
8 -Beard Says Future Depends on Efficiency
10 Golf Update
15 Landscape Update
16 Government Update
20 Landscape Log: Insects and Diseases Attack in June
22 Trimmer Makers See Trend Toward Gas, Blades Over Line
27 Insect Control Guide
28 -Turf
36 -Fire Ant Spread Continues, Millions Bitten Monthly
50 -Landscape
62 -Insecticide Directory
34 Bookstore
64 Earl Crane, 50 Years of Equipment
66 Plant Tips: Dawn Redwood and Baldcypress
68 Problem Solvers
68 -Preemergents Questioned
70 Jobtalk: Stopping Ocean Erosion Dead in Its Tracks
72 Products
90 Events
92 Classifieds
94 Advertiser Index
96 Outlook: The Future of Golf


Volume 23, No. 6
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8 Green Industry News
12 Golf Update
14 Landscape Update
19 Government Update
20 Landscape Log: Get Ready for Renovation Work
22 Turf Disease Guide
22 -Northern Turf Diseases
38 -Southern Turf Diseases
44 -Directory: Turf Fungicide Directory
46 Kentucky Bluegrasses and Their Culture
64 Building Self-Preservation into Turf Equipment
72 Problem Solvers
72 -Summer Fertilizer Safety
75 Events
76 Letters
82 Classifieds
83 Advertiser Index
84 Outlook: Thirsting for Answers
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Volume 23, No. 7
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8 Green Industry News
16 Government Update
18 Part One: Thirsting for Answers: A Storm is Brewing. Within the Next Few years, the Green Industry could be Facing One of Its Biggest and Toughest Challenges Ever - Finding Enough Water to Keep Itself Afloat. The Problems are Very Real and the Clock is Ticking...
20 -Thirsting for Answers
22 -California: Losing a Water Source, but Gaining Reclamation Momentum
30 -Florida: Water, Water Everywhere, but Quality is Poor
32 -Texas: Salt and Supply Make Water Problems as Big as the State Itself
34 Landscape Manager's Guide to Perennial Ryegrasses
48 Winterseeding: The Greening of Inverrary
62 Classifieds
63 Ad Index
64 Outlook: That Silver Lining


Volume 23, No. 8
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8 Green Industry News
10 Golf Update
14 Landscape Update
19 Government Update
20 Plant Tips: The Planting Hole: Research has Shown Absolutely No Benefit from Adding Organic Amendments to the Planting Hole Backfill
24 Going for the Green: The XXIII Olympic Fields
28 Part Two: Thirsting for Answers
29 -Research is Kingpin in Ebbing Water Woes
38 -Irrigation: Putting Water Where It's Needed When It's Needed
40 -Associations Add Money, Support to Research
44 Landscape Managers' Guide to: Tall Fescues
64 Problem Solvers
66 Events
68 Products
70 Classifieds
71 Ad Index
72 Outlook: A Spirit of Compromise
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Volume 23, No. 9
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8 Green Industry News
10 Golf Update
14 Landscape Update
16 Government Update
19 Landscape Management
19 -Changing, Even in Good Times: Competition Causes Manufacturers and Distributors to Rethink the Green Industry's Marketing Chain
24 -Selling Service: From Humble Beginnings, Michigan-Based Distributor Don Benham has Built a $3 Million Company on the Premise That Service, Not Volume, is the Key to Staying on Top of the Heap in the Highly Competitive Chemical Market
30 -Jenkins Machinery Co.: One of Two Original Ransomes Distributors, Partners Howard Jenkins and Ben Fuller Switched from Big Equipment to Turf
33 -B. Hayman Co., Inc.: Frontiersmen in Turf
35 Weeds Trees & Turf: 1985 Buyer's Guide
36 -1. Equipment
64 -2. Equipment Companies
84 -3. Chemicals
93 -4. Chemical Companies
97 -5. Seed Companies
106 The Learning Season
109 Products
112 Advertiser Index
114 Classifieds
116 Outlook


Volume 23, No. 10
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8 Green Industry News
16 Government Update
20 Shortages of Proprietary Kentucky Bluegrasses, Bentgrasses, and Turf-Type Tall Fescues are Very Likely This Coming Spring: Don't Wait for Spring to Buy Turf Seed
22 Landscape Management
22 -A Simple Formula: Condominium and Apartment Maintenance Managers have Found the Key to a Successful Working Relationship is as Old as the Hills - Keep the Lines of Communication Open. In the Rapidly Growing Condominium Field, It is an Integral Ingredient
26 -Making Heads Turn: Steve Bizon is an Aggressive 28-Year-Old Who Knows It Takes Innovation, Commitment and New Ideas to Make a Fledgling Maintenance Company a Winner. The Condos at Charbonneau are a Testament to the Kind of Service Bizon Delivers
28 -One Man Show: Organization is Joe Dallorso's Best Friend to Help Him Manage the Grounds and Buildings at the Hitchin' Post, a Condo Development in a Rapidly Growing Condo Area on the Outskirts of Boston
30 -Condos in Sunriver: Oregon's Recreational Mecca Braces for Major Growth
34 1984 Guide to Turf, Tree and Ornamental Fertilization
74 Classifieds
75 Advertiser Index
76 Outlook: The Relandscaping of America
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Volume 23, No. 11
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6 News/Trends
13 Green Industry News
24 Government Update
28 Snow Removal: A Big Part of Full-Service Landscape Management
32 Landscape Management
32 -A Bull Market
38 -Gentleman Jim
40 -Ever-Green's Gold: The Largest Lawn Care Company in Colorado Attributes Its Success to Knowing Its Territory and Delivering a Quality Product
44 -The Black Box: An Iowa Contract Applicator has Improved His Company's Image and His Spraying Accuracy by Using a Sprayer Controller. This "Black Box", Rod Foster Thinks, could Change the Lawn Care Industry
48 Landscape Manager's Guide to: Fine Fescues
58 Turf Vehicles Spurred by Healthier Market, Demands for Luxury Cars
68 Putting It on the Line for Customers, Architects, and Suppliers: Garden Shows
76 Back to Basics
80 Problem Solvers
84 Products
94 Events
96 Classifieds
97 Advertiser Index
97 Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
98 Outlook: The Repackaging of Lawn Care


Volume 23, No. 12
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8 Green Industry News
12 Government Update
18 Landscape Management
18 -Yearning for Recognition: Maintaining College Fields is Not Well Understood. Grounds Managers are Asked to do Much More Than Just Keeping the Gridiron Neat
22 -Pennant Winning Turf: Historical Detroit and Chicago Fields Prove Inspirational to Pennant Winners
34 -Notre Dame, Penn State Proud of Their Roots: They don't Design the Plays and They don't Write the Schedules, but Knowledgeable Athletic Field Managers do Their Part to Keep Traditions Alive
42 -Only the Best for Our Kids: Safety is a Big Concern with the Best High School Sports Program. Natural Grass Playing Surfaces are Usually the Choice
32 Big League Groundskeepers, Dirt of the Sports World?
46 Poa trivialis: A Specialty Use Turfgrass
50 Weeds Trees & Turf: 1984 Article, Author Index
56 Problem Solvers
56 -Fungi Culprit in Fairy Ring
57 Products
57 Events
58 Classifieds
59 Advertiser Index
60 Outlook: Short People Got Nobody
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