removing all but the good trees. However, if one sets his 
standards of excellency high enough, this procedure may leave 
very few parents within pollinating range of each other. 
It is necessary, therefore, to bring together highly selected 
parents in special seed orchards. 
In the Spring of 1954, the firss MANINGSEED orchard 
was established in Western Washington. Within five years, 
small quantities of SELECT MANINGSEED should be avail- 
able from this orchard, which represents a pioneering venture 
in the production of selected American forest tree seed for the 
open market. 
One of the Plus Trees used for scion stock on Manning Seed 
Company Tree Seed Orchard. Tree located on McCleary 
Experimental Forest operated jointly by the Pacific 
Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Puget 
Sound Research Center and the Simpson Logging Company. 
