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Mulching Coniferous Transplant Beds with Sawdust

Mulching coniferous transplant beds with sawdust is a fairly common practice in many nurseries. It may, therefore, be of interest to review the results from some of the work done by the staff of the Syracuse Experiment Station of the State University of New York College of Forestry. Mulching was developed primarily in a effort to learn whether conifers could be transplanted in the fall without heavy losses from heaving during the following winter under the soil and climatic conditions of Syracuse, New York. As is true in most nurseries, the work that should be done during the spring is greater than the station staff can manage, consequently the possibility that some of the work of transplanting could be done in the fall was attractive. Past experience had shown that the mortality from heaving during the winter was usually high for fall transplants.


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Author(s): C. E. Farnsworth, R. V. Lea, John Engelken

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 25 (1956)