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BY the death, on February 11, of Dr. Charles Vancouver Piper, the United States Department of Agriculture loses a worker of wide reputation and long service. At the time of his death he was in charge of the Office of Forage Crop Investigations, and through his efforts many plants and grasses of much value to American agriculture have been introduced and established in the United States. He was best known to the general public through his work in developing the creeping bent grass for use on golf greens. In 1919 he discovered a particularly useful variety, propagated it by vegetative means, and distributed it throughout the northern section of the United States, where it is now found growing on thousands of golf greens. Dr. Piper was keenly interested in the game, and utilised his knowledge to the full to improve conditions for players everywhere.
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Dr. C. V. Piper. Nature 117, 459 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117459a0
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