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There are 500,000 a cres of planted slash pine in the Georgia middle coastal plain and the Carolina Sandhills, with the oldest plantations dating back 25 years or more to early Civilian Conservation Corps days . Although the present plantation acreage is substantial, it is expected to expand considerably in the near future. Georgia, for instance, produced about 200,000,000 slash pine seedlings in 1958, many of which were planted in the middle coastal plain area. The management of existing plantations and the establishment of new plantations should be based upon the experience of the past...

When cull hardwoods are being deadened, frills or girdles must be complete. Even though a chemical is poured into the cut, the tree may survive if any of the cambium has been left unsevered.

Planting cottonwood trees can be a profitable investment, but to get the most for their money land-owners should consider the possibilities of pruning. At present, there are wide differentials in the stumpage value of cottonwood stands, primarily because of variation in log quality. By restricting knots to the inner core, artificial pruning of small open-grown trees can markedly improve the grade of future butt logs-and also improve the prices these logs will bring.

Pruning the roots of seedlings in the nursery bed is an easy way of increasing the survival of planted longleaf pine.

A BLIGHT OF UNKNOWN origin and cause has been very common throughout much of the range of sweetgum (Liquidambar styraci flua L.) since 1950. It is characterized by a gradual dying of the tree, often from the top down. The first visible indication is a thinning of a portion of the crown, caused when some buds fail to open and others produce only dwarfed, yellowish leaves. The ends of affected branches gradually die, often retaining the dead leaves for some time. Diseased branches may show up anywhere in the crown, but are most common in the upper part. Sometimes a tree with only a few...