Top-pruning bareroot hardwoods: A review of the literature

Tree Planters' Notes

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-40

  South, David B ^a,b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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