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The Forest Nursery Manual - a joint effort between the Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, and the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Division of State and Private Forestry - presents state-of-the art information about current bareroot-nursery practices and research. The Manual emphasizes all stages of seeding production from nursery-site selection throught outplanting. Twenty-one bareroot nurseries and eight seed-processing plants were surveyed with two in-depth questionnaires and the survey results interpreted and incorporated into chapters written by leading scientists and practicing nursery managers. Over 250 people previewed the Manual at the Bareroot Nursery Technology Workshop, held at Oregon State University in October 1982. The growing size and sophistication of the bareroot-nursery industry underscores the pressing need for an up-to-date synthesis such as this.
List of contents
1 Development of the Forest Nursery Manual: A Synthesis of Current Practices and Research.- Developing a Forest-Tree Nursery.- 2 Nursery-Site Selection, Layout, and Development.- 3 Equipment for Forest Nurseries.- Starting the Bareroot Seedling.- 4 Assuring Seed Quality for Seedling Production: Cone Collection and Seed Processing, Testing, Storage, and Stratification.- 5 Establishing a Vigorous Nursery Crop: Bed Preparation, Seed Sowing, and Early Seedling Growth.- Managing the Soil and Water.- 6 Physical Properties of Forest-Nursery Soils: Relation to Seedling Growth.- 7 Soil Fertility in Forest Nurseries.- 8 Soil and Tissue Analysis: Tools for Maintaining Soil Fertility.- Managing the Soil and Water (continued).- 9 Nursery Soil Organic Matter: Management and Importance.- 10 Cover and Green Manure Crops for Northwest Nurseries.- 11 Water Management.- 12 Irrigation in Forest-Tree Nurseries: Monitoring and Effects on Seedling Growth.- 13 Land Drainage.- Culturing the Bareroot Seedling.- 14 Plant Physiology and Nursery Environment: Interactions Affecting Seedling Growth.- 15 Nursery Cultural Practices: Impacts on Seedling Quality.- 16 Plug+ 1 Seedling Production.- 17 Genetic Implications of Nursery Practices.- 18 Weed Management in Forest Nurseries.- 19 Pest Management in Northwest Bareroot Nurseries.- 20 Mycorrhiza Management in Bareroot Nurseries.- Harvesting and Outplanting the Bareroot Seedling.- 21 Lifting, Grading, Packaging, and Storing.- 22 Nursery Storage to Planting Hole: A Seedling's Hazardous Journey.- 23 Assessing Seedling Quality.- 24 Planting-Stock Selection: Meeting Biological Needs and Operational Realities.- Improving Nursery-Management Style: Selected Topics.- 25 Sales and Customer Relations.- 26 Improving Productivity in Forest Nurseries.- 27 NurseryRecord Systems and Computers.- Upgrading Nursery Practices.- 28 Designing Nursery Experiments.- 29 Problem Solving in Forest-Tree Nurseries with Emphasis on Site Problems.- 30 Nurseries in the Northwest: A Unique Opportunity for Improving Forest Yield.- Appendix A: Questionnaire #1.- Appendix B: Questionnaire #2.- Appendix C: Conversion Tables.- Appendix D: Glossary.
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`The Manual is an outstanding contribution to the literature. All who have been involved in its production are to be congratulated.'
The Forest Chronicle (October 1984)
