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Field Survival of Cold Stored Loblolly Pine Seedlings

There are varying reports in the literature concerning the effect of cold storage on subsequent survival of out-planted forest tree seedlings. In a recent paper, Stone and Schubert2 reported that date of lifting from nursery bed and placing in cold storage affected survival of ponderosa pine seedlings. Ruth3 has reported that date of lifting and cold storing did not affect survival of Douglas-fir and Port -Orford -cedar. If pine seedlings could be lifted in late fall or early winter and placed in cold storage, a "rush" period in spring could be avoided and permanent labor better utilized. To determine the optimum time of lifting seedlings from the nursery bed and placing them in cold storage, an experiment was conducted over a 2 -year period by the Illinois State Division of Forestry and the University of Illinois.


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Author(s): L. H. Kahler, A. R. Gilmore

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 45 (1961)