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Square Pots for Transplants

Soon after the Albuquerque Soil Conservation Service -nursery was established in 1935, it became apparent that the usual method of handling evergreen stock for field use by farmers would not be successful. High quality open-rooted evergreen stock was being sent to the field and turned over to farmers for planting in windbreaks. The survival of this bare-rooted stock was exceedingly low. About five percent of the farmers obtained good survival, but the remainder had either a poor survival or a complete loss.


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Author(s): Joe A. Downs

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 16 (1954)