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' THE PRO AND CON OF ZOYSTA a } 
Let us state in summary form the handicaps that have delayed the popular 
acceptance of Zoysia: 
It is very slow in growing. 
It must be planted by sprigging, for there is no seed. 
It is difficult to establish, requiring much care during the first year 
of its growth, 
It is not an evergreen and does not accept winter grass seed so readily 
as Bermudagrass,. 
It can be killed by covering completely for a few weeks. 
It is expensive to ship any great distance, 
It is not a quick money=maker for real estate promotion. 
It is not a money-maker for most nurseries, 
It is tough to mow with a hand mower when allowed to grow long. 
It is slow to recover from a serious setback (as when an airplane crashes 
on your lawn). : 
But in spite of all this, Zoysia matrella grass is winning acceptance as 
a lawn grass in the same irresistible way that it takes over ground against 
weeds and other grasses, ~-very slowly, but inevitably. For a mature Zoysia 
lawn ~ is the most beautiful of all lawns; 
is permanent; 
is constantly improving; 
is free from weeds; 
is free from disease and insect enemies 3 
is drought~resistant; -€- 
is the best shade grass in the South for a permanent lawn; 
stands hard use better than any other grass; 
stands neglect of a sunmer vacation without tolerating invading wecds$ 
is an evident luxury, setting off the house and garden more effectively 
than a Cadillac or Lincoln car parked in the driveway; 
Saves time by forcing the use of the power mower, an efficiency step 
never again to be surrendered; 
CHARACTERISTIC GROJTH 
If you have never. seen'a piece of mature Zoysia turf dug from its place of 
growth and the soti shaken or washed out of the roots, you will be astonished 
at your first sight of it. The fine’ blades of the grass are a true green 
easily distinguished from the blue ‘green of Bermudagrass, ami are many times 
more numerous in a given area than are those of other grasses, The roots form 
a dense mass that shows at first glance why weeds cannot invade Zoysias There 
is absolutely no bunching of tho plants as in so many of our grasses, which 
leave spaces between the bunches no matter how long they have been growinge 
In this characteristic root growth--a dense uniformly tangled mass, two to 
four or five inches thick, sepending upon the age and the soil, the water and 
the sunlight--is the secret of Zoysiats ability to crow luxuxiantly in almost 
any soil. The grasses generally are the best soil factories that nature pro= 
vides. They form hurms at a mich faster rate than do the =rees of a forest. 
The annual death and decay of the grass roots built the great prairic soils of 
our Mid West. Zoysia, slow growing as it is, has a far heavicr mass of roots 
ina given area than have most grassese This makes it one of the best of humus 
producers.) Plant it,.in red clay-and note the change to black soil underneath 
just a few years laters — % gh Gage hg ie 
COSTUME es Fey a Teo ¢ 
‘ Every transplanting job is a compromise. It is the prodess of remaking the 
ideal procedure into the feasible, the desirable into the practicable, Ideally 
a tree to be moved should have none of its roots disturbed; the whole mass of 
soil containing those roots should be moved into an excavatlon large enough to 
contain it. In most cases such procedure is impossible. The ~rocedure adopt= 
ed is simply the result of trial and error,--of experimental tesecarch, if you 
prefer it so stateds What size ball of earth can be dug and transported and 
planted at reasonable cost to give reasonable certainty of healthy growth in 
the new location? 
So with Zoysia. While one would like to make the new lawn by sodding with 
Zoysia turf whose roots are undisturbed in the transfer, such procedure is pro~ 
hibitive in cost. A Square yard of Zoysia turf, with all the soil in the roots 
