Deciduous Tree Seedling Response to Nursery Soil Amended with Composted Sewage Sludge1

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Francis R. Gouin Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Received for publication August 16, 1976. Joint contribution of Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) and ARS, USDA. MAES scientific article No. A2240, Contribution No. 5229.

Formerly, Soil Scientist, ARS, USDA, Beltsville, MD 20705; and currently, Advisor on Waste Application to Land, Office of Research and Development, USEPA Region V, Chicago, IL 60604, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. The authors gratefully acknowledge helpful assistance from Dr. E. Epstein and his assistants in the Biological Waste Management and Soil Nitrogen Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, who supplied the compost, performed tissue analyses, and measured water holding capacities of the soils. Also, we acknowledge the assistance by technicians at the Buckingham State Forest Nursery in growing and harvesting the plants and express our gratitude to technicians at the Soil Testing Laboratory, Department of Agronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, for making soil analyses.

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