CONTENTS - Continued 



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6 Lifting planting stock, Beaufort, 10 April 1972 28 



7 Beaufort tall transplanted at Snow's Cut 31 



8 Transplanting 38 



9 Effect of transplanting date on survival of 



S. alterniflova 41 



10 Effect of transplanting date on first-year growth 



of S. altevniflova 41 



11 Natural invasion by seeds 43 



12 Seed harvester 45 



13 Threshing seed 46 



14 Seed in spikelets mixed with pieces of stems, and seed 



heads coming from thresher 46 



15 Seeds being separated from broken stems and unthreshed 



seed heads using a motorized screening device 47 



16 Threshed and cleaned seeds in plastic containers; 



containers ready for filling with saltwater and 



storing in the cold room 47 



17 Location of seed collections in North Carolina 48 



18 Effect of storage treatments on germination of 



S. alterniflova seed from five locations 49 



19 Effect of harvest date on germination of 



S. alterniflora seed stored in estuarine water 51 



20 Effect of afterripening of S. alterniftora seed 



stored for various lengths of time 53 



21 Comparison of germination of S. altevn-iflova stored 



in estuarine water and distilled water 55 



22 Farm tractor incorporating seed on dredge spoil near 



Beaufort, North Carolina 56 



23 Broadcasting seed after preparing a seedbed with 



tractor and cultivators 56 



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