Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit /

Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit / / Robert D. Wray.

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Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit is for anyone who enjoys being and working outdoors and is seeking a profitable hobby or small business venture. Robert Wray has updated this fourth edition to include the latest techniques and tools for harvesting trees, new methods of transport, the most rec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Wray, Robert D.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.) :; 51
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1. A Growing Business
  • 2. Selecting Land
  • 3. Species to Grow
  • 4. Where to Get Trees
  • 5. Choosing the Planting Stock
  • 6. Preparing the Ground
  • 7. When to Plant Trees
  • 8. Care and Handling of Planting Stock
  • 9. Planning and Managing the Plantation
  • 10. Spacing of Trees
  • 11. The Planting Job
  • 12. Keeping Plantations Clean
  • 13. Shearing
  • 14. Protecting the Plantation
  • 15. Grading Christmas Trees
  • 16. Harvesting
  • 17. Going to Market
  • 18. Other Products of the Plantation
  • 19. Profits—and Taxes
  • 20. A Parting Word
  • Suggested Literature
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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