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| Publication Type:
| Professional |
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| Material Type: | Booklet |
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| Monographic Author(s): | Beale, Reginald |
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| Author Affiliation: | F.L.S., Manager of Sports and Grass Department |
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| Monograph Title: | Lawns and Sports Grounds, [1922]. |
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| Publishing Information: | Raynes Park, London: James Carter & Co. |
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| # of Pages: | 40 |
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| Collation: | 40 pp. |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Grass: How to make a new lawn (Autumn sowing, Spring sowing, Digging and breaking up, Manuring, Preparing the seed bed, Seeding, After treatment of a new lawn, Akount of seed to sow, The renovation of a worn or poor lawn, To maintain a lawn in good condition, Carters complete grass fertilisers: their action and how to use them; The approximate amount of manure required, Chances of failure, Clover in lawns, Bowling greens, Crown greens, The Upkeep of bowling greens, Croquet, Cricket fields, Light crumbling soils, Heavy tenacious soils, The size of a wicket, Top-dressing for cricket pitches, How to prepare a wicket for play, Football and hockey fields, Lawn tennis, Car-Har-Courts (Carters Hard Courts), How to make a compost, How to prepare a compost for use, Amount of compost to use, Drainage (pipes), Levelling, How to keep level lawns true, Moss, Mowing, Rolling, Turf, Turfing, How to cut and trim turf, Watering grass, Weed seeds in soil, Weeds - cleaning ground, Weeds - cleaning turf, Weeding young grass, The destruction of daisies and other fleshy shallow-rooted weeds, The destruction fo plantains and other weeds of a similar nature, Weeds with long tap-roots, Wet,muddy lawns, Carters Worm Killer, Prices of Carters tested Grass seeds, Prices of Carters grass fertilisers, &c. |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Lawns; Turfgrasses; Athletic fields; Grounds maintenance |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also later autumn edition, 1923, R=220900. R=220900
See also later spring edition, 1924, R=202214. R=202214 |
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| Note: | Caution: Title conflict with some volumes of later Sutton & Sons publication series.
Oval cover photo pasted on (estate grounds with topiary)
Includes advertisements
Pictures, b/w
Figures
Tables
Includes photograph caption, p. 35, "Peter Lees watering in the "WORM KILLER." A few worms can be seen the foreground," as a part of a 4 photo series (without the barrow full of worms...).
Year of publication estimate based on p. 18 picture: Tilden and Norton at Wimbledon [who played in the 1921 Final].
On cover: "By appointment, James Carter + Co., Seedsmen to H.M. THE KING, Raynes Park, London, W.W. 20"
""THE PRACTICAL GREENKEEPER." All about Golf Greens and Courses. By Reginald Beale, F.L.S. Sent post free" (p. 40) |
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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 concerning the planting and culture of lawns and sports fields, including bowling greens, croquet lawns, cricket fields and wickets, and tennis lawns." p. 162 |
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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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| Quotable quotes | "The chief causes of a worn or poor turf are hard usage, poverty of soil, or want of proper drainage." p. 9
"Employ boys, girls, or women (girls or women by preference), placing them at intervals of, say, 5 yards apart, and instructing them to move in the same direction - from left to right. They are thus afforded ample room to work, at the same time that they are offered the smallest inducement to larking about." p. 31 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Beale, Reginald. [1922]. Lawns and Sports Grounds. 40 pp. Raynes Park, London: James Carter & Co. |
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