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Facing A Drought, J A C Smith Jan 1985

Facing A Drought, J A C Smith

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This booklet is aimed at helping you decide on strategies, in this and future droughts, in relation to money flow, animal management and cropping. It highlights the technical problems associated with different strategies and how to combat them.


The Performance Of Gazania Splendens Cultivars Under Kentucky Conditions, Ellen Sue Justiss Jan 1985

The Performance Of Gazania Splendens Cultivars Under Kentucky Conditions, Ellen Sue Justiss

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Gazania splendens is a tender, herbaceous perennial that belongs to the Compositae family. The leaves are green and glabrous above, white tomentose beneath, toothed, simple and/or pinnatifid, 4”-6” long tapering to a winged petiole, lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, and arranged in a basal clump. The flower heads are large, showy, 2”-3” in diameter, and range in color from white to yellow, orange, pink, purple, ruby, and bronze with a dark ring or spot at the base of most.

Twelve cultivars of Gazania splendens were to be evaluated to determine which would perform the best under Kentucky conditions. A seed germination test …