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Ten-year Results on a Cooperative Loblolly Pine Seed Source

Loblolly pine, although native only to a portion of the Tennessee Valley is being planted extensively in the region. Survival and growth of plantings made between 1939 and 1946 were so outstanding that by 1950 fifteen million loblolly pine seedlings were being produced in TVA nurseries (60 percent of total production that year). Much of the planting was on sites formerly planted to shortleaf and Virginia pine, and on most of these sites loblolly outgrew the native pines.


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Author(s): Thomas G. Zarger

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1961