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Hormones & growth regulators can be useful to foresters

Informally Refereed
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Abstract

Trees, like other plants, contain many natural chemicals of the sort that we call hormones. Research is gradually revealing that, in the behavior of a tree, these chemicals may be almost as important as the basic influences of heredity and environment.

Citation

Snow, Albert G., Jr. 1959. Hormones & growth regulators can be useful to foresters. Station Paper NE-130. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 14 p.