Nantucket Pine Tip Moth Caused Flower and Conelet Mortality
The seed orchard program in the South is of particular interest to me historically. My first assignment as an entomologist with the U. S. Forest Service in 1958 was to work with the Georgia Forestry Commissions' Arrowhead and Horseshoe Bend seed orchards at Cochran and Glenwood, Georgia. At that time these orchards were in their infancy and work was concentrated with establishing stock trees and grafting of superior scions. Today these orchards, many others throughout the South, are producing annual crops of seed.
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Author(s): Harry O. Yates, III
Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1971