Classic Dwarf bermudagrass
The photographs were taken under cloudless conditions the afternoon of 13 July, using a 35-mm lens, with Kodachrome 64 film, F-stop=11 and 1/125th of second.  Transparencies were scanned to 4-MB TIFF files with a Polaroid Scanner, and the digital images opened in Adobe PhotoShop, tilted to parallel, brightness-adjusted +35 units, contrast adjusted to +30 units, uniformly cropped, and sized to 380 pixels width, and black plot borders added.  PhotoShop files were optimized with Ulead SmartSaver to JPEG quality level 60, no smoothing.

Originating in Florida, this greens grass was implied to be closest to the original Tifdwarf.  The grass originated through Mr. Phil Horn.  It appears to have been grown commercially in the early 1990s.  These four replicated plots were planted at University of Florida - Fort Lauderdale in May/June 1993.  Throughout most of their evaluation they were mowed at 1/8 inch.  Plots were aerified the week of 21 June 1999 and were treated with excess rates of herbicides 29 June 1999 and again 7July 1999, thus the cumulative rates were actually 2X, 4X, 6X, 8X, and 10X.  Mowing was suspended as soon as treatments began.

Classic Dwarf bermudagrass performed overall:  Good (7.9)

Basagran T/O (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  One of the better grasses in the replicate.
Basagran herbicide effect on Classic Dwarf bermudagrass
Illoxan 3EC (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  Tight dwarf, slight injury.
Illoxan herbicide effect on Classic Dwarf bermudagrass
MSMA 6.6 (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  Outstanding.
MSMA herbicide effect on Classic Dwarf bermudagrass
Primo (top row 0X, 1X, and 2X; bottom row 3X, 4X, and 5X).  Nice grass.
Primo PGR effect on Classic Dwarf bermudagrass
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