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.

According to the late Dr. G. C. Horn, as relayed by Mr. Howard Barnes, Quality Dwarf was given to Dr. Horn by me, Phil Busey at UF-Fort Lauderdale.  I remember Dr. Horn visiting twice in the mid-1980s, and if I gave him any grass, it would have been authentic foundation Tifdwarf which I obtained from Dr. Earl Elsner, Georgia Seed Development Commission.  The exact origin of this grass is a mystery.  It has been grown commercially by Quality Turfgrass of Florida.   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.

Overall Quality Dwarf bermudagrass performed:  Excellent (8.4)