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Early Attempts To Vegetate Coal-Mine Spoils With Container-Grown Seedlings

Afforestation attempts in Pennsylvania, with Ontario and other plastic tubelings, indicate that frost-heaving can be extremely detrimental on bituminous coal-mine spoils. Of the containers tested, peat pots and Jiffy-7's were found to be most resistent to frost-heaving.


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Author(s): Walter H. Davidson, Edward A. Sowa

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 1974

Event: Proceedings of the North American Containerized Forest Tree Seedling Symposium
1974 - Denver, CO