Christmas trees for pleasure and profit
Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit offers useful, up-to-date information for anyone who enjoys being and working outdoors and is seeking a profitable hobby or small business venture. This updated fourth edition by Robert D. Wray now includes the latest techniques and tools for harvesting trees,...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- A growing business
- Selecting land
- Species to grow
- Where to get trees
- Choosing the planting stock
- Preparing the ground
- When to plant trees
- Care and handling of planting stock
- Planning and managing the plantation
- Spacing of trees
- The planting job
- Keeping plantations clean
- Shearing
- Protecting the plantation
- Grading christmas trees
- Harvesting
- Going to market
- Other products of the plantation
- Profits and taxes.