Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting / Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951

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Nursery Practices

Commercial nurseries have adopted various methods to discourage the normal tap-rooting habit of nut trees and stimulate lateral and fibrous root production. Planting seed over screen wire, undercutting the seedling each year in the nursery row, frequent transplanting, and root pruning are methods commonly used. Attention must be given to the production of an adequate root system to help the grafted tree withstand the shock of transplanting to its permanent location.