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Cold Hardiness Factors that Affect Nursery Production of Woody Plants in Southeastern United States

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The landscape plant industry is growing rapidly throughout the United States. Georgia and other southeastern states are no exception. Ornamental plant production in Georgia consists of about 6,500 acres of nursery stock with a farm gate value of $200 million and 21 million square feet of greenhouse floriculture crops with a farm gate value of $125 million (Snipes et al., 1992). Landscape services add another $300 million to Georgia’s economy. Forty-nine percent of the landscape firms and about 33% of the floricultural firms are located in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area (Hubbard, 1989).

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  1. Department of Horticulture, The University of Georgia, Griffin, Georgia, 30223, USA

    Orville M. Lindstrom

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  1. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

    Paul H. Li

  2. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    Tony H. H. Chen

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Lindstrom, O.M. (1997). Cold Hardiness Factors that Affect Nursery Production of Woody Plants in Southeastern United States. In: Li, P.H., Chen, T.H.H. (eds) Plant Cold Hardiness. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0277-1_30

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