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Virginia Chain Fern Control in Cranberry Bogs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

William V. Welker Jr.*
Affiliation:
Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Abstract

Virginia chain fern (Woodwardia virginica (L.) Smith) was controlled by 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile (dichlobenil) in cranberry bogs on a St. Johns soil at Chatsworth, New Jersey, in experiments conducted during 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, and 1964. The treatments were applied at emergence of the weed. Stalk counts of the fern were recorded the year following treatment. Excellent control was obtained at either 4 or 8 lb/A of dichlobenil. No re-growth occurred in subsequent years.

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Brief Papers
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 Weed Science Society of America 

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