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Chapter 2: Nursery-Site Selection, Layout, and Development
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Because no potenti al nursery site is perfect, site selection inevitably requires compromise. A three to sevenmember selection team should be given ...Frank E. Morby
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Chapter 2: The Target Plant Concept
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The first native plant nurseries in North America were gardens of plants transplanted from the wild by indigenous people. Specific plants were irrigated ...Thomas D. Landis
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Chapter 3 - Harvesting
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Container nursery managers wait anxiously until they can begin to harvest their crop because, once plants are graded and placed into storage, the amount of ...
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Chapter 3 - Light
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Role of Light in Tree Seedling Growth and Development, Optimum Light Levels, Modifying Light in Container Tree Nurseries, Light Monitoring and Control Systems, ...Tom Landis
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Chapter 3 - Nursery Design and Layout
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Types of Propagation Environments, Selecting a Propagation Structure, Designing a Propagation Environment, Service BuildingsTom Landis
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Chapter 3 - Regeneration Methods
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Southern pines can be regenerated naturally, by clearcutting, seedtree, shelterwood, or selection reproduction cutting methods, or artificially, by ...James P. Barnett and James B. Baker
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Chapter 3 - Seed Harvesting and Conditioning
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This chapter begins with what to consider in planning a seed harvest, how to harvest, how to temporarily store seeds, and how to extract, clean, and upgrade ...
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Chapter 3 - Sexual Reproduction
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The tree breeder must know typical or normal processes of flower and seed production so that he can understand variations in them. Exceptions to general ...
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Chapter 3 - Vegetative Propogation
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Stem Cuttings, Root Cuttings, Layering, Division, Grafting, Micropropagation, Summary, Literature CitedTom Landis
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Chapter 3. Growing Plants from Seeds
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You can grow your seedlings two ways: in the ground or in containers. Naturally, both have advantages and disadvantages. In general, seedlings in the ground ...
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Chapter 30: Nurseries in the Northwest - A Unique Opportunity
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Nursery management represents the greatest concentration of technology and investment in the forest growth cycle and rivals wood processing in capital and ...John C. Gordon
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Chapter 3: Equipment for Forest Nurseries
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Modern machinery and equipment can increase efficiency and productivity in all phases of nursery operations without sacrificing quality or safety. Seed ...Richard G. Hallman
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Chapter 3: Planning Crops and Developing Propagation Protocols
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Crop planning is an important but often neglected aspect of successful nursery management. Crop planning enables proper scheduling of the necessary ...Douglass F. Jacobs and Kim M. Wilkinson
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Chapter 3: Storage
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In discussing tree seed storage, we need to consider four principal factors: seed survival (i.e. viability, the ability of a seed to remain alive so that, ...Richard H. Ellis and Tran D. Hong
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Chapter 4 - Carbon Dioxide
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Role of Carbon Dioxide in Tree Seedling Growth and Development, Optimum Carbon Dioxide Levels, Modifying Carbon Dioxide in Container Tree Nurseries, Carbon ...Tom Landis
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Chapter 4 - Environmental Controls and Seedling Production Equipment
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Environmental Controls and Instruments, Benches and Supports for Containers, Handling Equipment for Materials and Seedlings, Seedling Production Equipment and ...Tom Landis
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Chapter 4 - Plant Storage
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Unlike other agricultural commodities that can be stored for extended periods without a decrease in quality, container nursery crops are living and have a very ...
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Chapter 4 - Seed Management
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Proper seed management is crucial to southern pine regeneration programs. Almost all seeds will soon be collected from the more than 4,000 ha of seed ...Franklin T. Bonner
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Chapter 4 - Seedling Development: The Establishment, Rapid Growth, and Hardening Phases
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The Establishment Phase, The Rapid Growth Phase, The Hardening Phase, Summary, Literature CitedTom Landis
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Chapter 4 - Storage of Seeds
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In the simplest form of seed storage, mature seeds are held for a short period until weather or other factors permit sowing or planting. In the more ...
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Chapter 4 - Vegetative Propogation
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Reproduction of pines through the union of the sperm and the egg was discussed in the preceding chapter, followed here by information on producing new ...
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Chapter 4. Growing Plants from Cuttings
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Many native plants can be grown from cuttings. Cuttings are portions of plants (stems, leaves, roots) that when treated and planted will develop into new ...
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Chapter 4: Assuring Seed Quality for Seedling Production- Cone Collection and Seed Processing, Testing, Storage, and Stratification
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This chapter summarizes current technology concerning cone collection and seed processing, testing, storage, and stratification for the six major conifer ...Y. Tanaka
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Chapter 4: Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds
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The seeds of many species cannot be classified as orthodox, and this is particularly so in the case of tropical tree seeds. The views presented here favor a ...N. W. Pammenter and Patricia Berjak
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Chapter 4: Propagation Environments
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An understanding of all factors influencing plant growth in a nursery environment is needed for the successful growth and production of high-quality ...Douglass F. Jacobs, Thomas D. Landis and Tara Luna
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Chapter 5 - Geographic Variation - Trees in Place
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As described in chapter 1, loblolly pine has the largest total volume of all southern pines and is exceeded only by shortleaf pine in area of natural range. ...
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Chapter 5 - Handling and Shipping
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Nursery plants are in a period of high risk from when they leave the protected environment of the nursery to when they are outplanted. ...
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Chapter 5 - Nursery Management
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Organization, Personnel and Supervision, Data Collection and Analysis, Nursery Problem Solving, Customer RelationsTom Landis
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Chapter 5 - Seed Testing
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Seed testing is the cornerstone of all other seed technologies. It is the means by which we measure the viability and all the physical factors that regulate ...
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Chapter 5 - Vegetative Propagation of Southern Pines
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Large potential genetic gains have prompted aggressive pursuit of cost-effective cloning methods for southern pines by both micropropagation ...Michael S. Greenwood, G. Sam Foster and Henry V. Amerson
