Growing and Planting Hardwood Seedlings. 



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PRUNING. 



Pruning of the branches of trees in a plantation is usually unneces- 

 sary and, because of the cost of the labor involved; undesirable. If 

 spaced closely enough, most forest trees in plantations will prune 



FIG. 9. Blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) plantation, 28 years old. Trees 14 inches in diameter. 



Los Angeles, Calif. 



themselves. Sometimes it will be profitable, in a stand that is 

 intended to produce lumber, to prune the best trees by simply knock- 

 ing off with an ax such dead and brittle limbs as can be reached. 



