DATE:     12/10/02
CONTACT:  Bert McCarty; (864) 656-0120; bmccrty@clemson.edu
WRITER:   Diane Palmer, (864) 656-4741; spalmer@clemson.edu

New book on southern lawns
now available from Clemson

     CLEMSON -- "Southern Lawns: Best Management Practices for the
Selection, Establishment and Maintenance of Southern Lawngrasses" is
now for sale from Clemson University's Bulletin Room.
     The 566-page book provides complete information for selecting,
establishing and maintaining all lawn grasses cultivated in the
southern United States -- from New Mexico to the Atlantic Coast
including Florida and north to southern Kansas, southern Missouri,
Kentucky and Virginia.
     Bert McCarty, professor of horticulture at Clemson University and
one of the nation's leading authorities on turf and lawn grasses,
compiled and edited the book.
     Sections include Grass Selection and Adaptation, Lawn
Establishment, Maintenance Practices, Pest Management, Weed Control,
Insect Control (including fire ants), Turfgrass Diseases, Nematodes,
Other Lawn Pests, and Pesticide Safety (including formulation and
application).
     Grasses include bahiagrass, bermuda, buffalograss, carpetgrass,
centipede, fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass, seashore paspulum, St.
Augustine and zoysia.
     It also has 191 color photos and 66 black-and-white llustrations.
     Other Clemson University contributors to the book are Bob
Bellinger, pesticide safety specialist and entomologist; Candace
Cummings, wildlife specialist; Tim Davis, Richland County Extension
agent; Clyde Gorsuch, entomologist; Trent Hale, turf specialist; Bruce
Martin, plant pathologist; Bob Polomski, consumer horticulturist; and
Greg Yarrow, wildlife specialist.
     The cost of the publication is $45.
     It may be ordered by mailing a check or money order to the
Bulletin Room, Clemson University Public Service Publishing, Room 96,
Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 29634 or
on-line at http://cufan.clemson.edu/olos/cu4.htm with a credit card. It
may also be ordered by calling the Bulletin Room at 1-888-772-2665.
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