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Criteria For Judging "Plus" Larch Trees

The larches are among the finest and most beautiful of forest trees - tall, straight, clean-limbed, fast-growing, resistant to natural hazards, long lived and of high aesthetic and commercial value. At their best, they delight the eye and warm the heart of the practicing forester. And while the forest manager will not try to carry as heavy a stocking per acre as he would with pine or spruce, he can -- with larch -- get bigger and better trees faster and cheaper. With genetically superior larch on a good site, he can get truly merchantable trees on a surprisingly short rotation.


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Author(s): David B. Cook

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Northeastern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1959