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Cooperative Eastern White Pine Tree Improvement Program University of New Hampshire and New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development

This year the Department of Forestry of the University and the Division of Resources Development of the State's Department of Resources and Economic Development entered into a cooperative agreement to establish and maintain an experimental eastern white pine clonal seed orchard. At this stage the University will be responsible for locating and grading plus white pines and for collecting scions. The Division will be responsible for the grafting of scions and for establishing and maintaining the orchard. In time the University will be responsible for collecting half-sib seed for progeny testing the initial selections and for making crosses among the select trees to obtain seed for producing trees for second generation selections, The Division will grow progeny material and help in the establishment of progeny test plantations. The Department will make the necessary measurements of progeny material.


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Author(s): Harold W. Hocker, Jr.

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Northeastern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1964