Box-Pruning the Roots of Container-Grown Tree Seedlings
The use of planting stock with a box-pruned root system can reduce or prevent mechanical instability in plantations of susceptible pine species. It can also increase early height growth. This paper describes both chemical and mechanical root pruning techniques for the production of container stock with a box-pruned root.
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Author(s): A. N. Burdett
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Proceedings of the Canadian Containerized Tree Seedling Symposium
1981 - Toronto, Ontario