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Grafting Northern Conifers With Special Reference To White Spruce

I wish to discuss with you the grafting of northern conifers. My comments will be limited to techniques that might be useful under the climatic conditions of the Lake States. Much of what I have to say will specifically refer to spruce grafts, since spruce is the group with which we at the Institute of Forest Genetics have had the greatest experience. My talk will cover four major subjects. I shall discuss first, the place of grafting in a tree improvement program; second, the advantages and disadvantages of grafting; third, the techniques that we have found most successful with the spruce, with emphasis on the do's and don'ts; and finally, the type of crews we have found handy in our grafting program, and the outputs you can expect.


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Author(s): Hans Nienstaedt

Event: Region Nine Nurserymen's Conference
1965 - Duluth, Minnesota