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Wider Nursery Spacing Produces Larger Northern Red Oak (Quercus Rubra L.) Seedlings

The effect of initial seed spacing or density on seedling size at the end of one growing season was tested at the Tennessee Valley Authority's nursery at Clinton, Tenn., in 1964. Four nursery beds were used, each representing one replication. Each 400- foot bed was divided into three 130-foot sections with 5-foot buffer zones between sections. Eight rows, 6 inches apart, ran the length of the bed; the acorns were planted 2, 4, and 6 inches apart in the rows. These spacings represented densities of 12, 6, and 4 seedlings per square foot, respectively.


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Author(s): Kingsley A. Taft, Jr.

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 79 (1966)