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Broadfoot and krinard 1961 growth of hardwood plantations.
Growth of three hardwood species through 18 years on a former agricultural bottomland.
Diameters of pruned limbs measured 2 inches from the main bole ranged from to 3 inches on cottonwood and to 2 inches on the oaks.
Several weaknesses in the present study include the lack of stand level replication within and among the different plantation spacings.
The top 10 percent or 30 cypress trees per acre in this study ranged from 9 8 to 14 0 inches dbh and averaged 11 1 inches after.
About 100 branches some living and some dead were removed in each stand.
This medium to large southern oak with willowlike foliage is known for its rapid growth and long life.
Steinbeck found that while sycamore had greater initial growth after the first several years sycamore growth slowed while sweetgum growth rates increased such that at the end of 10 15 year rotations sweetgum plantations had higher yields 4 7 vs.
Hardwood suitability for and properties.
Species that are dominant during the early years of stand establishment tend to become subordinate.
Results reveal that plantation grown cy press may grow as well as or better than other hardwood species growing in loess soil in small unthinned plantings for a similar period of time broadfoot andkri nard 1961.
Growth of hardwood plantations on bottoms in loess areas.
Fagaceae beech family.
Plantations krinard and kennedy 1987.
Willow oak quercus phellos also known as peach oak pin oak and swamp chestnut oak grows on a variety of moist alluvial soils commonly on lands along water courses.
P y g gy p gy y broadfoot w.
Year 14 thinning 85t pulp 20m 3 small sawlog year 20 thinning 30t pulp 30m 3 small sawlog year 34 clearfell 10t pulp 15 m 3 small sawlog 335 m 3 sawlog veneer log unknown for plantations.
Recent work in even aged mixed species natural hardwood stands indicates changes in species dominance occurs over time oliver 1978 bowling and kellison 1983 clatterbuck et al 1985 clatterbuck and hodges 1988 johnson and krinard 1988.
Water tupelo nyssa aquatica also called cottongum sourgum swamp tupelo tupelo gum and water gum is a large long lived tree that grows in southern swamps and flood plains where its root system is periodically under water it has a swollen base that tapers to a long clear bole and often occurs in pure stands.
Further replicated pure plantings of each species are necessary to serve as.
The willow oaks were part of a dense second growth stand 25 to 30 years of age.
