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THE autumn volume (No. 9) of the Journal of the Board of Greenkeeping Research contains a useful summary of experimental and practical results on the use of sulphate of ammonia and sulphate of iron as fertilisers and weed killers for lawns. It is interesting to note that the treatment has stood the test of several years' practical application, but its effects cannot be ascribed directly to increase in the acidity of the soil. Dr. F. T. Bennett describes a disease of turf known as Fusarium patch. The Director of the Board's Research Station at St. Ives, Bingley, Yorks, Mr. R. B. Dawson, contributes the fourth of a series of articles on “Common Weeds of Turf”, whilst other members of the staff write on “A Green-keeper's Guide to the Grasses”(Mr. I. G. Lewis) and “Composts and Fertilisers in Relation to Green-keeping”(Dr. T. W. Evans). A new form of steriliser for killing weed seeds in compost which is to be applied to weed-free turf is described by Mr. K. M. A. Enthoven, of Hilversum, Holland. The subject matter of the whole volume is of great interest—almost a necessity—to golf green keepers, but the more general horticulturist will find a great deal of definite teaching which will help him to make his lawns the beautiful stretches of green sward which he so earnestly desires.
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Greenkeeping Research. Nature 133, 135 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133135b0
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