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Machine For Lifting Transplanted Hardwood Seedlings

Except for container grown stock most forest tree seedlings, both pine and hardwoods, are usually lifted from seed beds as 1-0 or 2-0 stock. Our hardwood silviculture studies have proven that in order to realize satisfactory initial and continued growth of hardwoods, a large seedling with a well developed root system is required. To realize satisfactory growth of oaks and hickories a 1-2 or 2-2 transplant is preferred.


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Author(s): Dwight L. Brenneman

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 29, Number 2 (1978)

Section: General

Volume: 29

Number: 2