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Publication Type:
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Author(s): | White, Ralph W. |
Author Affiliation: | Vice President, Golf Services, ISS Landscape Management Services, Inc. |
Title: | Who was Dr. G. C. 'Granny' Horn? |
Column Name: | Sifting the clippings Other records with the "Sifting the clippings" Column
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Section: | Postscripts Other records with the "Postscripts" Section
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Source: | Florida Turf Digest. Vol. 12, No. 4, July/August 1995, p. 45-46. |
Publishing Information: | Winter Haven, FL: Harvest Publishing Corp. for the Florida Turfgrass Association |
# of Pages: | 2 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Personal profile; Career growth; Blissus; Stenotaphrum secundatum; Pronamide; Poa annua control; Cynodon; Lolium perenne; Golf courses; Nematicides
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Subjects' Names: | Horn, G. C. |
Abstract/Contents: | Profiles G. C. Horn, Professor Emeritus of Ornamental Horticulture, University of Florida. States that "he was responsible for 1. chinch bug-resistant Floratam St. Augustinegrass (the most popular lawn grass in Florida, 2. the use of Kerb for the control of Poa annua in bermudagrass in the South, 3. early work on varieties, rates, and procedures for using perennial ryegrass for overseeding golf courses, 4. research on turfgrass nutrition, and 5. work on nematicides." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): White, R. W. 1995. Who was Dr. G. C. 'Granny' Horn?. Fla. Turf Dig. 12(4):p. 45-46. |
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