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Performance of Some Non-Native Pines--Ponderosa, Pitch, Pinyon, Scotch, and Corsican

The success or failure of trial plantings with non-native tree species is of general interest to foresters working in either the region of the trial or the natural range of the species. Such plantings are made for one of several reasons--scientific purposes, the search for a foreign species that will perform better than local ones, or because a new species may have a particularly desirable characteristic of wood or some other trait (3, 5, 6). The trial reported here was made so that we could observe the growth of selected non-native trees. In February 1961, 24 seedlings each of 6 species or varieties (table 1) were outplanted on the George Walton Experimental Forest in south-central Georgia. All seedlings were 2-0 stock except pinyon pine, which was 3-0. They had been produced in nursery beds at Macon, Ga. Seed of both Scotch pine varieties were from central Europe; pitch pine seed, New York State; ponderosa seed, Coconino National Forest, Ariz.; and the Corsican and pinyon pine seed, sources unknown.


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Author(s): Earle P. Jones, Jr.

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 77 (1966)