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Forestry 1953 26(2):111-122; doi:10.1093/forestry/26.2.111
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE GROWTH AND FORM OF YOUNG BEECH AT GARDINER FOREST, WILTSHIRE

A. D. MILLER

Forestry Commission

The record of an intensive study of young beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) which had been introduced by planting into an area of old hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in 1946 using different sizes of strips and groups. One object was to find out which of the environmental factors, e.g. soil, root competition, light intensity, frost, wind, and humidity, were responsible for the very marked differences in growth. The same beech were also classified according to their form and their tendency to fork. The conclusions reached are enumerated at the end of the paper. Among the more important are that, up to this stage at any rate, the depth of soil over the chalk has no effect on growth; root competition with dense hazel is not injurious; even quite appreciable reductions in light intensities have no ill effect; hazel hedges provide considerable shelter from wind, which is likely to be of value where water is scarce, and the number of forks is closely related to leading shoot damage of which Lammas shoots are an important source.


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