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THE FRONT OFFICE EVENTSOPINION PAGE

BRIDGING THE GAP AMONG SPORTS

w • ith the January issue, Golf & sportsTURFenters its seventh year of publication. Itseems like just a few weeks ago that

Denne and I were at the 1985 Sports Turf Instituteat Cal Poly Pomona talking about the need for apublication covering the entire recreational turfindustry.

Literally hundreds of people had voiced to usthe need for a magazine that recognized thecommon bonds between golf course superinten-dents and managers of other high-use, recrea-tional turf facilities. Stadium groundskeepers,

park superintendents, school maintenance directors, and college landscape super-visors wanted a voice in the turf industry equal to their associates in golf. Theywanted dialogue with others to help solve specific problems related to the stressplaced on turf by all types of sports.

At the same time, it became obvious that most golf course superintendentsare just as curious about what is required to deliver high-quality surfaces forfootball, baseball, soccer, polo, croquet, field hockey, horse racing, and lawnbowling. Superintendents don't live in ivory towers despite the high-scale imageof their sport. Most superintendents I've talked with are anxious to help out theircounterparts at other types of sports facilities. The brotherhood extends beyondone sport.

Every week I hear people remark that the athletic field industry today is wherethe golf industry was 20 years ago. That statement is usually directed at the safetyand quality of athletic fields. Everyone points to inadequate investment inknowledgeable personnel, equipment, and supplies. They know what is possiblewhen athletic directors, park superintendents, and other facility managers makea serious commitment to proper construction and maintenance.

Everybody learns by example. Superintendents improved their golf courseslargely in this way over the past two decades. If one course set higher standards,other superintendents responded to compete for golfers. Certain universitiesadapted their turf curriculum to fit changing standards in golf course maintenanceand manufacturers acted in kind with new products.

It's no different for the rest of the sports turf industry. New standards havebeen set and applied by a growing number of facilities. Quite a few were borrowedfrom the golf industry. Stadiums, racetracks, parks, polo fields, practice facilities,and universities have begun to learn from examples set by those committed tobetter, safer turf. Soon universities will be offering sports turf curriculum inaddition to their golf course curriculum. Manufacturers have already begun todesign and build specialized equipment and supplies.

Overall, the similarities between golf and other sports outweigh the differ-ences. It's not unusual for a superintendent of parks, a resort facilities manager,or a university groundskeeper to be responsible for both golf courses and varioussports fields. Furthermore, the number of former golf course superintendents incollege and professional sports is rising.

Cooperation between the golf industry and the rest of the sports turf industryis crucial to the future of the turf market. That was the principle on which Golf& sportsTURF was founded. It is clearer today than it was seven years ago. Isincerely hope that this magazine has helped all its subscribers by bridging thegap among sports played on turf.

CALENDAR

JANUARY~ 1 ^gy Midwest Regional Turf Confer-It L'lttJ ence, Adams Mark Hotel, India-napolis, IN. Contact Jeff Lefton, Dept. ofAgronomy, Purdue University, W. Lafayette,IN, 47907, (317) 494-9737.

^ - f^gy Michigan Turfgrass Conference,It ±"II<LJ Clarion Hotel, Lansing, MI. Con-tact Michael Saffel, 584G Plant and Soil Sci-ences Bldg., Michigan State University, EastLansing, MI 48824, (517) 353-9022.

Athletic Fields/Sportsturf Semi-nar, Parke Hotel, Columbus, OH.

Contact: Sue White, extension associate, Dept.of Agronomy, Ohio State University, Room202, 2021 Coffey Rd, Columbus, OH 43210,(614) 292-2001.

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"X^Jence & Show, Las Vegas ConventionCenter, Las Vegas, NV. Contact Golf CourseSuperintendents Association of America, 1617St. Andrews Dr., Lawrence, KS 66047, (913)841-2240.

Northeastern Pennsylvania Turf& Grounds Maintenance School,

Luzerne County Community College,Nanticoke, PA. Contact: William Pencek,Lackawanna County Coop Extension, 200Adams Ave., Scranton, PA18503, (717) 963-4761.

~ 1 c%c% Landscape Industry Conference,It I" ' I t It Holiday Inn 1-70 East, Denver, CO.Contact: Associated Landscape Contractors ofColorado, 3895 Upham St., Suite 150, WheatRidge, CO 80033, (303) 4254862.

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GOLF GROWTH TO BLOSSOM THROUGH THE '90sGolf will thrive through the end of the

century, according to industry leaders atthe recent Golf Summit 90 in Palm Springs,CA. More than 600 golf industry executivesfrom across the U.S. attended the biennialleadership conference, which was the thirdin a series sponsored by the National GolfFoundation (NGF). The two-day event in-cluded eight general sessions, a"networking" breakfast, and luncheonspeeches by Deane Beman, PGA Tour com-missioner, and Patrick J. Reilly, PGA ofAmerica president.

A segment on golf industry growth inthe '90s consisted of three brief presenta-tions followed by panel discussions focus-ing on different aspects of industry growth.

H. "Terry" Williams, a director of McK-insey & Company, a management consult-ing firm which helped the NGF develop theindustry's "Strategic Plan For Growth ofGolf," stressed that although individualcompanies must continue to plot their ownstrategies, collective actions such as specialindustry task forces on specific issues arealso needed. He suggested that industrymembers could, for example, join forces to

to form a mutual fund that would under-write worthy golf course development pro-jects.

Dr. James Chalmers, a partner in theaccounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand,presented an analysis which focused on theinteraction of supply (number of golfcourses) and demand (players/roundsplayed). On the demand side, he empha-sized the impact of the Baby Boom gener-ation (born 1946-1964) on projections forthe 1990s. He said the most conservativescenario shows rounds played increasingfrom the current level of 474 million peryear to 540 million per year by the year2000. However, if rounds played continueto grow at their present rate, the numberof rounds played by the year 2,000 couldbe as high as 900 million per year.

Golf player development, particularlyamong women, minorities, and Baby Boom-ers, was addressed during the conference.The topics were discussed during two panelsessions.

"The industry has ignored women," saidShirley Englehorn, golf director atRedhawk Resort in Temecula, CA, and for-

mer LPGA tour player. "And our professionhasn't done enough to educate women golf-ers."

Dr. Betsy Clark, LPGA director of edu-cation, cited a study by the organizationwhich points out that while women are thefastest-growing group of golfers, a numberof them are also leaving the game. Thereport concludes that manufacturers andprofessionals could profit through in-creased attention to the women's market.

"Although our study shows that womentake more lessons than men, indicatingtheir desire to play better, women justaren't sustaining participation," said Clark.

The panel on minority participation ingolf was moderated by John Saunders, ahost of ESPN's "Sports Center" program.It focused on measures to assure continuedgrowth and success of minority player de-velopment. The panel stressed that stimu-lating greater minority participation beginswith juniors, and that access to courses isa key to success in junior golf programs.

"Role models don't mean a thing if a kidcan't get on the course," said Calvin Peete,

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a PGA star who recently founded the CalvinPeete National Minority Junior Golf Foun-dation in Atlanta, GA.

In a follow-up to this session, Beman, thePGA tour commissioner, issued a statementthat said the Tour will be "in the forefrontof developing programs that will provideaccess and will work with the private andpublic sectors to make golf affordable forminorities."

During an environmental session, LewisCrampton, associate administrator of theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency,said the organization's major concerns re-garding the golf industry are wetlands loss,impact of development, and concentrationof pesticides and fertilizers in groundwa-ter Jim Snow, director of the USGA greensection, pointed out that golfers need tostart changing their expectations of coursemaintenance standards. "Being green isnot going to be easy," he said.

The challenge of the 1990s is to controlgolf course costs while increasing availabil-ity, according to the progress and trendspanel which was moderated by Chalmers.Richard Norton, vice president and general

manager of NGF Consulting, concludedthat careful market analysis is the key toresponsible growth. Both supply and de-mand factors must be addressed for eachmarket area. Although macro demandtrends remain positive, golf developmentpotential must be earned by carefully bal-ancing income potential with an appropri-ate level of investment and selection ofappropriate markets.

William Sherman, president of Golf Re-alty Corp., focused on the need to makeappropriate investment decisions. He esti-mated that two-thirds of the golf coursesopening in recent years are being con-structed by real estate developers who carelittle or nothing about the operating profit-ability of golf courses.

The conference concluded with a ses-sion on the international market. Golf isplayed in 126 countries, according to GaryWiren, who moderated the session. How-ever, as in the U.S., there are not enoughcourses to meet the needs of the growingnumber of golfers worldwide. A recent sur-vey conducted by the Royal and AncientDevelopment Panel determined that in En-gland alone, 700 new courses are neededin the next ten years.

"There is a dearth of public courses,"said John Laupheimer, a vice president ofInternational Management Group and for-mer commissioner of the LPGA. "Demandfar exceeds supply."

FRED V. GRAU

The entire turf industry lost one of itsgreatest organizers in December when Dr.Fred V. Grau died after an extended illness.Grau's turf management career spanned 60years and touched all segments of the in-dustry.

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His list of achievements includes becom-ing the first extension agronomist in turf inthe United States, the first director of theUnited States Golf Association Green Sec-tion, first chairman of the American Societyof Agronomy's Turf Committee, and orga-nizer of the Musser International TurfgrassFoundation and the National Sports TurfCouncil. He participated in the develop-ment and release of Merion Kentucky blue-grass, Penncross bentgrass, Meyerzoysiagrass, Penngift crownvetch, and im-proved bermudagrasses for turf.

Grau collaborated in the initial design ofthe turf aerifier, seed harvesting equip-ment, and hydraulic seeder. He was also thefirst Golf & sportsTURF Man Of The Year.

Grau was born and raised on a farm inBennington, NE in 1902. He received abachelor's degree in science from the Uni-versity of Nebraska in Lincoln and master'sand doctorate degrees from the Universityof Maryland in College Park.

In 1935, Grau teamed up with ProfessorBurton Musser at Pennsylvania State Uni-versity to serve as the country's first exten-sion turf agronomist. His influence spreadfrom Pennsylvania across the country asdirector of the USGA Green Section from

1945 to 1953 and as author of hundreds ofarticles, publications, and books on turfmanagement. He spoke at conferencesaround the world about the benefits ofimproved turfgrasses and scientific mainte-nance practices.

Grau's home in College Park, MD,served as his base of operations for almost45 years. He also maintained a crownvetchproduction farm near State College, PA,with his son, Fred V. Grau, Jr.

"Finding Penngift crownvetch on ahighway slope in 1935 was the discovery ofa lifetime," Grau always said. However, hiscontributions far exceeded this discoveryand impact every golf course superinten-dent, groundskeeper, landscape contractor,and home gardener in the U.S. today.

ASGCA PRESIDENT SAYSEUROPE CAN LEARNFROM U.S.

Europe can accelerate its golf boom bylearning from the errors of its Americancounterparts, according to Dan Maples,president of the American Society of Golf

Course Architects (ASGCA), who made theremarks during a recent speech he deliv-ered to the Golf Course Europe Conferencein Paris, France.

Maples encouraged attendees to takeadvantage of the demand for new facilitiesby building more golf course. "Frankly, wein the U.S. were slow to take advantage ofthe situation and could have been in ourcurrent boom five years sooner if we haddone the necessary market research ear-lier," he said.

The demand in the U.S. was fueled,Maples explained, by the nine million golf-ers who took up the game in the 1980s,which represents a growth rate of morethan 60 percent. However, during thatsame period there was only a 6.6-percentincrease in the number of new golf courses.

The situation improved with the 188golf courses that opened in the U.S. lastyear, and 345 more are set to open thisyear. Maples urged Europeans not to waitfor a "golfer glut," as he called it.

Maples also noted the growing trend ofbuilding new courses in conjunction withresidential developments. Nearly half of theU.S. courses under construction are con-nected with residential developments.

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Shattuck Inn sits above its new golf course in Jaffrey, NH.

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s the great Scottish golf coursearchitect Donald Ross said nearlySO years ago, "The Lord made golf

holes. Golf architects merely discoverthem."

Brian Silva, a golf course architect in thefirm of Cornish & Silva, is an unabashedfan of Ross. He recently discovered 18 ofthe Lord's golf holes in the mountains ofsouthwestern New Hampshire. ShattuckInn Golf Course, which opens this spring,is the first phase of a 400-acre residentialcommunity in the rugged New Englandcountryside.

Situated amidst granite ledges, brooks,and wetland meadows below Mount Monad-nock in Jaffrey, NH, Shattuck Inn was apopular year-round destination resort dat-ing back to the Civil War. Wealthy business-men from Boston and other New Englandcities would take their families by train tothe inn for weeks of hiking, playing cro-quet, fishing, or reading in the fresh moun-tain air. Cows from nearby dairy farmsgrazed in the meadows and drank from thebubbling brooks. The low-pressure lifestyleof the resort was just hours from mostmajor cities.

Unfortunately, this type of retreat fadedafter World War II as motels and moretransient guests became common. Someresorts survived by appealing to skiers inthe winter. Shattuck Inn was not one ofthem.

The memory of summers in the moun-tains of New Hampshire lingered in theminds of those fortunate enough to haveexperienced them. Richard Bryant, an at-torney and successful developer of lightindustrial and office parks in Washington,

"The Lord madegolf holes. Golf

architects merelydiscover them."

DC, spent many summers as a child at hisparents' summer house on 100 acres nextto the inn property. The fabulous naturalbeauty of the area made an indelible impres-sion on Bryant. Eventually he decided totake a personal interest in the old inn andthe land around it.

In 1952, the Shattuck family sold the innto the Catholic Church to serve as a semi-nary. Twenty years later the inn was againfor sale. When Bryant heard this, he con-tacted the seminary to confirm the bound-ary between his parents' parcel and theinn's. Instead he ended up buying the 120-room inn and the 180 acres around it.

After a lease to a group operating theinn as a Christian conference center ex-pired, Bryant began to explore the possibil-ity of operating the inn with hiking, tennis,and swimming as its only amenities. He wasinformed by experts in the hospitality in-dustry that the building was too large andtoo remote for success without a majoramenity. That's when the idea of a residen-tial community surrounding a golf coursewas born.

His experience as a developer taughthim that there was one particular type ofattraction that could restore the area's pop-ularity: golf. People will drive a few hoursto enjoy golf in a beautiful location. Evenif they don't play, they like to live or relaxin golf communities. The drawing power ofthe game, as well as the New Englandcountryside, are well established.

However, a land planning firm discov-ered that the existing 280-acre site was notlarge enough to contain both homes and agolf course. Bryant purchased a neighbor-ing 120-acre farm to gain additional space.

More than 33 bridges span 3,000 lineal feet of wetlands, beaver ponds, and brooks.

The only way such a development couldfly in New Hampshire was by extreme con-sideration of environmental preservation.Bryant and his managing partner in theShattuck Inn project, Ed Pittman, had tocalm the fears of local residents, satisfy allenvironmental issues, and demonstrate atrue concern for the unique characteristicsof the area.

Pittman had spent much of his careerworking for the Bureau of Land Manage-ment, preparing and evaluating environ-mental impact reports. He had come toknow and value the area while developingbicycle routes for American Youth Hostels.The former park planner understood howto take an undeveloped area and make itaccessible to the public without harm.

One reason Cornish and Silva were se-lected to design the golf course was theircombined experience in environmentallysensitive projects. Silva had pioneered var-ious types of environmental impact moni-toring during the design of The CaptainsGolf Course on Cape Cod. He'd learned thecomplexities of obtaining permits for golfcourses. Cornish had gained a greatamount of trust and respect as the leadingarchitect of golf courses in New England.An important feature of Cornish and Silva'spractice is that both men were agronomistsbefore they were golf course architects.

Cornish, a Canadian by birth, taughtagronomy at the University of Massachu-setts in Amherst alongside Dr. LawrenceDickinson, a pioneer in turfgrass educa-tion. In 1952, he entered private practice asa golf course architect.

Silva, a Massachusetts native, taught atthe University of Massachusetts 20 yearsafter Cornish with Dr. Joe Troll. After com-pleting degrees in turf management andlandscape architecture, Silva became aninstructor at Lake City Community College,Lake City, FL. In 1981, he became thenortheastern regional agronomist for theUnited States Golf Association Green Sec-tion. Cornish invited Silva to join his prac-tice in 1983.

' i t 's funny," said Silva. "All I everwanted to be was a golf course architect.My father was a feature shaper [bulldozeroperator] for golf courses. I marveled at theway he could take raw land and a set ofplans and turn them into golf holes. He'dlet me study the plans and try my own luckpushing dirt into shapes. When I was nineyears old, I met Geoffrey on a course whilewatching my dad work. From then on hecounseled me on how to become a golfcourse architect.

"I was pretty exasperated when I gradu-ated and couldn't find a job with a designfirm. But as things worked out, I wouldn'tchange a single thing. I got to see nearlyevery great golf course in the Northeast andSoutheast. I learned more teaching andworking with superintendents than I wouldhave if I'd gone straight into practice."

The Captains, Brian's first project, wasselected by Golf Digest as the Best NewPublic Course of 1985. In the next six years,he designed many more courses, includingthe new West Course at Firestone CountryClub in Akron, OH, and remodeled or

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Shattuck Inncontinued from page 17

added to 32 other golf courses from Mis-souri to Maine. But the Shattuck Inn GolfCourse is the one he looks upon withgreatest wonder.

It was snowing heavily when he firstwalked the site with Pittman in Decemberof 1986. "The ground was covered withsnow and it continued to snow heavilyduring our four-hour walk," Silva recalls."It was rocky, wet, and thick with trees,pretty severe topography for a golf course.We had to navigate around brooks, largewetlands, and steep ledges. I just hopedthat Ed knew how to find our way back tothe inn without a compass."

Silva and Pittman found it impossible toview any clearing larger than 50 feet. Theycould see however, that the greatest poten-tial for 18 corridors for golf holes werethose areas wrapped around ledge outcrop-pings, beaver ponds, and streams.

Over millions of years, soil and materialeroding from the slopes lined the base ofthe valleys. Dairy farmers had cleared partof the forest for grazing their cattle. Over acentury, maples, white pine, birch, beech,and oak reclaimed the meadows. The wet-lands were actually a recent developmentcaused by beavers building dams in thebrooks. The only remaining workable landsurrounded the wetlands in between therock ledges.

Silva's job was to find corridors for golfholes in the maze of rock, streams, andwetlands. He had to make the area accessi-ble for recreation without disrupting itsspectacular nature. All the time he had toconsider problems with construction andpermitting.

"The course had to be set into the landto moderate construction costs and reduce

The golf course opened up spectacular views of Mount Monadnock and created new wildlife habitat.

permit difficulty," Silva states. "The ulti-mate goal for the golf course was playabilitywithin the parameters of reasonable costand obtaining permits."

The site required a great deal of backand forth between Jaffrey and Silva's officein Uxbridge, MA. "We did seven differentpreliminary layouts," he remarks. "Ed [Pitt-man] had the hard job, negotiating with thepermitting authorities. He worked literallyseven days a week for two years to workout compromises. He fed us their require-ments and we came back with three morelayouts." After choosing one of them, Silvastill didn't want to go to final drawings.

"Brian wanted part of the fairwayscleared so he could get accurate readingson the terrain in relation to the wetlandsand ledges," Pittman explains. "The SoilConservation people wanted all clearingdone in the winter when the ground wasfrozen so we wouldn't disturb the subsoil.The Corps of Engineers insisted that webuild silt fences to protect the wetlandsfrom eroding soil during spring rains."

Pittman got the go-ahead to clear two-

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The fairways were capped with six inches of sand to improve drainage and speed establishment ofthe bentgrass.

thirds of the fairways from several local andstate agencies. Starting in November 1987,tree removal began, opening up entirelynew vistas of the dramatic mountains. Thetrees were fed through a whole-tree chipperand sold to a wood energy plant. By Decem-ber, more than seven miles of silt fence and11,000 bales of straw were in place. Jack-hammers were needed to bury the fence inthe frozen soil.

In the early 1800s, the area had beencleared and sectioned off with rock walls byfarmers to create pastures for their dairycows. Pittman wanted to save as many ofthe walls as possible. The combination ofrock walls and ledges further complicateddesign.

Now able to see all the site's featuresclearly, Silva went to work on the plan thatwould be presented to the Wetlands Com-mission and the Corps of Engineers. A soilscientist and wetland biologist were alsohired for their advice on the layout.

During the few months it took the groupto produce a revised plan, the guidelinesused by the commission and the Corpschanged. Now a greater portion of the sitewas considered wetlands and could not befilled in during construction. Silva wentback to the drawing board for yet anotherrevision, changing half the holes to meetthe new rules. By February 1988, Pittmanhad all local approvals. The final approvalfrom the U.S. Corps of Engineers didn'tcome for another year. More than 20 differ-ent permits were required just for the golfcourse.

"There are holes where you must hitover wetlands to reach the fairway andagain to reach the green," adds Pittman."More than 33 bridges totaling 3,000 linearfeet were required to preserve the wetlandsand satisfy the Corps."

As the ground froze in the fall of 1988,

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Golf Course Builder Vinnie Bartlett and hisFallbrook Landscaping crew moved ontothe site to clear the remaining trees in thefairways and to begin the process of blast-ing out the areas for greens and tees. "Eachhole has four or five small tees," explainsSilva. "We wanted to keep blasting to aminimum and lay the course into the exist-ing terrain as much as possible. The multi-ple tees also make the course playable fora wide range of golfers. Still, some of thecarries bother me. But you have to drawthe line somewhere when you're faced withpermitting."

One of the most difficult hurdles to clearin the rocky terrain was the installation ofthe irrigation lines. Pittman wanted thecourse to be a year-round source of recre-ation by using its trails and cart paths forcross-country skiing in the winter. Thismeant water had to be available for snow-making equipment. White Turf Inc. ofBarre, MA, was assigned the challenge ofinstalling the multipurpose irrigation sys-tem.

A five-acre brook-fed pond was built asan irrigation reservoir. Water from thepond would be pumped throughout thecourse for both golf and snowmaking by avariable-frequency-drive Best Equipmentpump station. Since the system had to beactive year-round, ductile iron mains had tobe buried five feet deep in the rocky soil.That required large equipment and a greatdeal of dynamite.

Silva knew the importance of having thegolf course superintendent on site early inthe construction process. The constructionof The Captains was still fresh in his mind.He had been fortunate to have two skilledsuperintendents on hand in Cape Cod -Sherwood Moore and his assistant, DavidRobinson. The two were a team, havingworked together at Winged Foot inMamaroneck, NY, before taking on TheCaptains.

Robinson visited Pittman and Silva atJaffrey on a crisp winter day in early 1989."The site had just been cleared," Robinsonremembers. "It was beautiful, but I knewgrowing grass there was going to be achallenge. The Captains was all sand. Thiswas all rock. Jaffrey also seemed like anideal place for my family to live."

Robinson signed on in the spring of1989 and went to work alongside theFallbrook specialists on building the greensand tees, finishing the irrigation system,and constructing the bridges. Irrigationlines had to cross the brooks and wetlandsby the bridges. "We strapped poly pipe

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At Scott we may offer a lot of exclu- the most stringent requirementssive seed varieties. But we have only and controls for clean seed in the in-one set of standards. The highest. dustry. From grower selection all the

And those high standards begin way through cleaning, testing andwith our breeding and varietal devel- packaging, our standards are uncom-opment. We not only work closely with promi sing. In fact, we pioneered theuniversities and other seed developers, seed business over 100 years ago.we have our own extensive in-house And only our seed comes equippedbreeding program, with our own test- with a Scott Tech Rep. They're trueing facilities all over the country. agronomists, who can make recom-

The result? Seed to meet any mendations and develop completerequirement. Exclusive varieties like seeding and fertility programs to fitour Coventry, Abbey, Bristol and Victa your specific needs and problems.Kentucky bluegrasses; Accolade, Car- Of course, we still aren't content,avelle, Loretta, Applause and Ovation We're constantly working harder toperennial ryegrasses; BannerChewings fescue; and Chesa-peake and Aquara tall fescues.

But seed development isonly part of the story. We have

develop even better seedvarieties.

Although you can restassured, we're going to stickwith the same old color.

COVENTRY* Abbey • Bristol • VICTA-Accolade • CaravelleLoretta • Applause • Ovation • Banner • Chesapeake • Aquara

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