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Horticultural Techniques in Hardwood Seed Orchard Management

Possibilities of improving hardwoods through genetics are documented in some of the first Southern Forest Tree Improvement Committee reports, but Committee sponsored activities and action programs of the "fifties" centered on pine rather than hardwoods. The chief reason was a practical one. Pines represented the major planting effort, and it is within the broad area of reforestation that general principles of improvement can best be applied.


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Author(s): Thomas G. Zarger

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1971