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Modifying Nursery Stock to fit Modern Planting Methods

Nursery practice underwent considerable development in many places before there were any effective machines for planting forest trees. Development was most pronounced where it was stimulated by active constructive thought and experimentation on the part of the men in charge of nurseries. It is a continuing process. Those nurserymen who contribute most are the ones who not only produce ingenious and practical gadgets to further their nursery culture of trees, but who also manage to modify planting stock to make it highly suitable for restoring productivity on different sites in the forests. Planting poor stock on difficult sites is throwing good money after bad.


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Author(s): W. G. Wahlenberg

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 14 (1953)