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Comparison of Cotton Versus Sphagnum Moss as a Waterholding Medium for Baled Slash Pine Seedlings

A new product called "tree-wrap"1 was tested during the 1962-63 shipping season at the Florida Forest Service's Munson Nursery in Santa Rosa County. Tree-wrap is a layer of cotton between two sheets of tissue paper. It is in sheets 20 inches wide and 600 feet long and is rolled into a package approximately 20 by 20 inches. It takes about 8 to 9 linear feet to weave through one bale (2,000 slash seedlings). One roll is sufficient to bale 70 bales or 140,000 seedlings.


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Author(s): R. A. Jordan

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 64 (1964)