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Oblique Root Prining Blade

More than ninety percent of the planting stock shipped by the Col. W. B. Greeley Forest Nursery is 2-0 which is commonly root pruned in the early spring of its second season in the seedbeds. Heretofore, root pruning has been accomplished with a blade oriented perpendicularly to the direction of travel. In 1954, on a visit to the Green Timbers Nursery of the British Columbia Forest Service at New Westminster, B. C., we observed a sledmounted root-pruning blade mounted obliquely to the direction of travel.


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Author(s): Rex Eide, John H. Grimm

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 31 (1958)