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Survival and Early Growth of an Eastern Cottonwood Plantation on the Piedmont

This note records initial survival and height growth of an eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides Bartr.) plantation in a river bottom of the Georgia Piedmont. There have been few, if any, eastern cottonwood plantations in the southeastern states until the past several years and no known plantings in the lower Piedmont. This lack of interest has prevailed even though the species grows well naturally, individual trees attaining as much as an inch of diameter growth per year. A 1/2-acre area in an overflow bottom along the Oconee River near Greensboro, Georgia, was disc-harrowed in the fall of 1955. Unrooted cuttings obtained from the Delta Research Center, Southern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. F. S. , were planted in January 1956, with approximately 14 inches of cutting underground and 6 inches above the soil. Spacing was 9 x 9 feet. Two cultivations were made during the 1956 growing season.


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Author(s): Thomas C. Nelson

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 28 (1957)