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The Doe Valley seed source and fertilizer experiment

• HF-ID: HF1938-04
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Gast, P. Rupert

• Associated Person:
  • Snow, E. A.
  • Winsor, Charles P.

• Date: 1938 to 1940
• Location: Petersham MA
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Cabot Nursery (Greenwood, Doe Valley) plans and data, correspondence. 1 accordion folder.

• Keywords: cabot foundation, genetics, pine, seeds
• Abstract:
  • Extensive nursery tests and limited field trials of a large number of collections of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) seed at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, provide information on the early development of this species as related to locality of seed collection, the tree from which the collection was made, and seed weight.
  
  
  • (Project NG38)

• Related Items:
  • Publication: Seed Source Trials of Eastern White Pine
  • Map: Location of Gast's white pine collections, Petersham
  • Map: Prospect Hill IX - Wilder Woodlot White Pine
  • Research file: HF1937-04 Miscellaneous Cabot Foundation research

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