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Comments on Changes in Nursery Management in the Northern Region

In 1940 the Region planted ten thousand acres; now thirty-five to forty thousand acres are planted annually. The nursery output has expanded from about two million tree seedlings per year to around seventeen million. In this time sowing to match site and tree has meant that up to two hundred separate seed lots are sown a season rather than five or six as previously. In the same time the nursery budget has increased only ten percent in constant-value dollars.


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Author(s): S. E. Evans