Experiments in Borgie Forest

Date Added: 18 January 2018 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1953 Picture No: 3790

Photograph is courtesy and copyright of Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Roslin, and provided with help from Glen Brearley. FR Photo number No C1157 taken by M V Laurie.

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‘Effect of phosphate manuring on Japanese larch planted in deep peat. P40 JL 12 years old 4 - 7 feet high in background , manured, 6 inches to 2 feet with many casualties in foreground where unmanured, Expt 6 Borgie’

This could well be replanting after a fire many years previously had wiped out much of the very early plantings.

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Groups: Caithness and Sutherland, Forest Research, Forestry Areas

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