A nursery guide for the production of bareroot hardwood seedlings
By: editor, Ken McNabb ; coordinating editor, Carolyn C. Pike
Series: Agriculture handbook -- 733; Agriculture handbook (United States. Department of Agriculture) -- no. 733
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Hardwoods; Bareroot Seedlings; Handbooks, manuals; Forest nurseries
Notes: "November 2019."

"This publication is extensively revised from the Hardwood Nursery Guide originally published in 1976 (U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook No. 473)"--Page 4 of cover.

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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Ken McNabb; title: 2. Seed acquisition, conditioning, and storage / Robert P. Karrfalt, Carolyn (Carrie) Pike; title: 3. Fundamental soil concepts and soil management in hardwood nurseries / Lawrence A. Morris; title: 4a. Seedbed preparation and sowing : a northern hardwood nursery perspective / Robert A. Hawkins; title: 4b. Seedbed preparation and sowing in southern hardwood nurseries / Randy Rentz; title: 5. Irrigation management / Jackie Robbins; title: 6. The management of seedling nutrition / C.B. Davey, Ken McNabb; title: 7. Hardwood seedling growth and development and the impact of pruning and environmental stresses / Tom Starkey; title: 8a. Chemical weed management in northern hardwood nurseries / Jim Wichman, Richard Garret; title: 8b. Weed management in southern bareroot hardwood nurseries / David B. South; title: 9. Pest management of bareroot hardwood seedlings / Scott A. Enebak; title: 10. Inventory methods / Tom Starkey; title: 11a. Bareroot hardwood seedling lifting, packing, and storage at the Wilson State Nursery in southern Wisconsin / Joseph M. Vande Hey; title: 11b. Bareroot hardwood seedling lifting, packing and storage at the Missouri Department of Conservation George O. White State Forest Nursery / Gregory A. Hoss; title: 11c. Seeding lifting, packing, and storage at the ArborGen Bluff City Nursery / Chase Weatherly; title: 11d. Seedling lifting, packing, and storage at the ArborGen Georgia Nursery / Robert E. Cross, Jr.; title: 12. Essentials of nursery administration / Ken McNabb, Tom Starkey, Jeff L. Sibley, Dan Bremer.