Horticulture

This handbook covers all aspects of managing a native plant nursery, from initial planning through crop production to establishing trials to improve nursery productivity into the
future. The handbook is divided into four main sections: Getting Started, Developing a Nursery, Growing Plants, and Problem Solving

This manual brings together information on all phases of seed handling and presents the results of more than 20 years of studies. Forest Service field personnel at several experiment stations and regional offices furnished a backlog of source material for treatments of individual genera.

The Container Tree Nursery Manual consists of seven volumes that have all been published under the same series number: USDA Agriculture Handbook 674. The Container Tree Nursery Manual has been functionally organized to follow the normal sequence of nursery development, seedling propagation, and outplanting. Volume seven covers the time from when the crop is hardened-off and heady for harvest to when they go in the ground