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Container Planting

The use of containers for the transportation of trees is not a new concept. Records indicate their use dates back at least 4,500 years. We have been using containers for many years to transport nursery stock. These containers being bags, boxes, open-end bales or whatever, give no protection to the trees during or after planting. Today we are considering individual seedlings growing in containers which hopefully should permit the normal continuance of metabolic processes of the seedling from nursery bed to the forest soil. After testing many types of containers, prior to 1968 we settled on a tapered linerboard container with a volume of 40 cubic inches. The linerboard is now being replaced by a styrofoam container which has the same external dimensions.


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Author(s): James A. Bryan