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ŠUMARSKI LIST 1-2/1966 str. 86     <-- 86 -->        PDF

selected. This work is being done already for several years by the Institute of
Dendrology and Körnik Arboretum of the Polish Academy of Science. So far
1144 trees have been selected, and they are presented in Table 2 according to
species within our major forest administrative units.


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Fig. 2. Distribution of pine seed stands presented cumulatively for each
climatic-forest region.


Presently plus trees are being sought in these parts of the country which
have little been searched to-date. In this work there is much cooperation
between the Institute of Dendrology and the employees of the Forest Administration,
who report prospective plus trees on small »survey cards« that are
being verified later by members of the Institute of Dendrology staff.


Accepted trees are then placed on an official plus tree registry, whereupon
such trees become protected against felling.


In the choice of plus trees, on the basis of phenotypic characters orriginally
Swedisch criteria were employed, however these had to be modified later,
particularly as regards the demands for crown form. At present the largest
number of selected trees are Pinus silvestris (337 trees), concentrated mainly in
the north-eastern part of Poland, on the Mazurskie Lake District and in the


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