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Effects of Refrigerations and Shipping on Sugar Pine Field Survival

Field survival of sugar pine planting stock that has been held in refrigerated storage several months or more is often quite poor. Consequently, present nursery practice is to ship freshly lifted sugar pine directly to the planting areas, avoiding refrigerated storage whenever possible. The study reported here was designed to test for significant differences in survival between refrigerated and freshly lifted seedlings shipped from the nursery 2 weeks, 1 week, and the day before planting.


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Author(s): George M. Harvey

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