Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1951 — Page 18

SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 They Grow Faster, Taller

Hybrid Trees. Sg +

1951

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U.S. Lumber Prospects

The boys at the U. 8. Forest Bervice have beeh fooling around with the sex 1if8 of trees. And as a result, they've produced a hybrid, in fact, quite a few hybrid types. ) These new kinds of trees grow faster, taller, with less branches, and show indications of tremendous resistance to usually fatal | diseases. As a result, the nation has prospects of two or three times its normal volume of lumber, This means several hundred million dollars more lumber business, During the. 408, the Forest Bervice experiments produced a dozen new varieties of pine alone. And they predict that there will soon be hybrid trees ready for harvesting in one third the time regular breeds require to reach the same growth. At the Institute of Forest Genetics at Placerville, Cal, breedings with 64 varieties of ‘ pine show 23 per cent success, By success, these boys mean: at three years, a hybrid tree .is| twice as high and three times as| heavy as the best of its parent species, And these ratios continue as

the trees grow.

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TO CREATE A NEW TREE by

contrelled breeding, the tree sciI entist selects -the pollen from a desired pine,(dusts it on the conelets of .the tree he wants to use as the “mother” and, in time, collects and plants the fertilized seeds. From these seeds the new hybrids sprout. - Many hybrid] plants will not reproduce themselves. But among all the hybrids produced to date in the tree laboratories of the world, every one has - reproduced itself when old “enough. Crossing the poorly formed jack pine of ‘the Lake States with the straight-growing lodgepole pine of the Sierras produces a newcomer as straight as the lodge-| pole but with 88 per cent faster growth at 10 years of age. As do all hybrids, vegetable and animal, hybrid trees assume an increase in vigor when the cross-breeding is successful. At 415 years, the cut-off top of a large

but not the largest hybrid weighed |

31; times more than the better parent. But fast growth is only one of the benefits of controlled tree

breeding. For many lumber uses’

and for veneers and plywood, wood free from knots is desired. The fewer the branches on the trees the better.

BY CAREFUL SELECTION, geneticists now develop trees) which can withstand the age-old enemies of our forests. The pine reproduction weevil kills young

trees in incredible quantities. Of,

one planting in Lassen National Forest it killed 95 per cent of a stand of 15-year-olds. But a backcross of Jeffrey pine and Coulter pine laughs at the weevil and has + improved wood qualities. (A backcross is a straight cross followed by a cross between the hybrid and one parent.) Against another enemy drought—the new hybrids making headway. The: knobcone pine and the Monterey pine of the West made a splendid pair. Their

progency combine in remariable!

degree the drought-resistant ahllity of the knobcone pine with the fast growth of the Monterey pine. At 22 years it grows to more than 70 feet. On the Institute's

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nursery grounds I was shown an |experimenttal baby tree which | promises to be proof against the | | dryest weather, A year-old hybrid | pine, Ponderosa - Apache, stood | {only a couple of inches high but| its root system already went 36! |inches into the earth. Every year blister rust kills; off unprotected young. American white pines by the thousands. The annual cash loss to the lumber industry is tremendous. The Balkan white pine is resistant to] rust. Crossed with the white pine, | it produces a desirable hybrid | apparently’ free from the rust | menace. This valuable discovery was made, in fact, not in Placerville, | but in the Royal Botanical Gar-| | dens of Denmark. : Each nation is specializing In| (the kind of wood it needs most; Swedish Scientists are working on

aspen for paper pulp and pine for |=

construction; the Danes on in-| door techniques for flowering and grafting imported scions on potted stock. Canada is deep in hybrid pine work, and poplar for pulp. Germany is doing research into speed of growth. Australia land New Zealand, which need trees, are interested in importing and acclimatizing foreign species. The eventual aim of the experimenters is to get seed of the new type of tree into the hands of big planters for reforesting. The |reforesting which goes on constantly in the United States is, tremendous. One company refor-! ests 5000 acres a year, another has planted 90 square miles in |Louisiana; members of the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association plant up to 15,000 acres yearly in their certified tree farms. All this planting is being done. with wild seed. No other has been available. Nor is the hybrid seed available in quantity now. “We're just about where the hybrid corn development was in the 1930's,” | said one Placerville scientist.!

“Principles and techniques have | been worked out, a number of

strains have been produced, and the next step is, to make the sead available,” “If we have put forth so much effort to develop the desirable | strains” of one-year crops,” said the late Director William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute] for Plant Research, “how much more attention should we give to developing the strains for crops like forest trees. The planting of a poor strain of an annual crop| means the loss of only one year’s investment. The planting of a poor strain of forest trees means the loss of 40 or more years’ investment.”

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64th St. and Dean Road. Co. -— One house 3940 E. 424 St.; ’ a C TION CO. Two houses ‘at GAUSEPOHL, & BAIER —One one house 4035 Marriston St. 1201 and 1207 E. 56th St. {house at 3348 Fall Creek Blvd. SAM KAGAN-—-Two houses at| FORD WOODS—One house at JOE GOLDSMITH — Two 7489 and 7499 N. Illinois: St. 7570 N. Meridian St., and one houses at 160 and 180 Pennridge J. B. KITTRELL—Project of house at 1136 Hawks Lane (Can79ig Pr: : three houses in 5700 block Carvel terbury). GOOD HOMES, INC. — One Ave.

: “house at 6021 Birchwood. [ H. A: LINDEMAN J BARRETT & WILLIS —One| A. H. M. GRAVES, INC.—One houses at 5208 1. oth m SS Xuree Garage Solves Space Problem

house at 948 N. Irvington Ave. house at 3700 N. DeQuincy; onelg ’ th, and 819 Lel JOHN A. BELCHER—F our house at 3300 Manor Court; one |" yo, Mo agnd ave: hos u VE w— Se, | | '/ No house ever has enough! space after a family lives in it a

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lable to find the houses of each builder participating in the|N. Oxford. fourth annual Parade of Homes: ——————— - NORMAN MILLER — One A. BC. CONSTRUCTION CO, houses at 1188 S. Post Rd. and house, 6950 Washington Blvd. two houses at 7312 Edgewater| (West); one house 1420 E. Kessler, Blvd.; one house 6187 Riverview | LAWRE NCE 8. EATON —One Dr.; one house, 6175 N, Delaware d.. house at Deas N. Illinois St. | St. =

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—Two houses at 3630 and 3636) St. another at 4705 E. Kessler Riley Ave; one house on E. 13th(6500 E. Fall Creek near Water he covered with asphalt tile, | Blvd. |Alkali and moisture in concrete|

St., between Ritter Ave. and Irv-|Co. dam. CASE CONSTRUCTION. CO~—|ington Ave., and project of seven] SCHMIDT & CO.—One house have no effect on this material] | Three houses at 7923 .Meadow- houses at 1240 Irvington, 5426 at 3645 N. Linwood. and the car cannot hurt it. Its brook Ave. 7924 Barlum Ave, Wayne Dr. 1202 and 1208 Ritter| SOOTS & SONS—One house at wide range of colors will help! 8655 Carrallton Ave. |create a gay, attractive interior.|

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