Relating pine seed coat characteristics to speed of germination, geographic variation, and seedling development

Tree Planters' Notes

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 38-42

  Barnett, James P ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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