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Rolled Tree Seedlings

Seedling survival through the first critical years has long been maintained by application of soil and nutrients. Downs (1) describes a method used since the late 1930's by the Soil Conservation Service Nursery at Albuquerque, N. Mex. Seedlings were potted in tar paper liners at the nursery for 1 year before fieldplanting. Johnson (2) describes a similar pot developed about 1936 at the U.S. Southern Great Plains Field Station of the Agricultural Research Service. In 1953 Miller (3) planted root rolled seedlings of Scotch pine near Lafayette, Ind., and obtained good results.


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Author(s): John A. Pitcher

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 72 (1965)