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Seedlings as Good as Transplants For Cottonwood Planting

Interest in establishing eastern cottonwood plantations has emphasized the lack of information on the best methods for managing this species. Southern European foresters favor using 3-year-old planting stock, deep planted and intensively cultivated. In southern Illinois a study was designed to compare the growth and survival of 1-0 seedlings with 1-1 and 1-2 transplants on a well drained flood plain.


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Author(s): Richard C. Schlesinger, Clifford O. Nashland

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 22, Number 2 (1971)

Volume: 22

Number: 2