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Status and Operating Costs of Selected, Municipally-Owned Tree Nurseries in the Northeast United States

Robert L. Tate
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) October 1984, 10 (10) 286-288; DOI: https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.1984.061
Robert L. Tate
Asst. Professor of Forestry, Cook College/New Jersey, Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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    Table 1 Size, age, tree inventory, and budget allocation of nurseries (13 cities).
    CategoryMinimumMeanMaximum
    City size (population)23,00053,000175,000
    Annual Tree care budget (dollars)20,000198,0001,000,000
    Nursery
       Size (acres)◀1.02.26.0
       Inventory (trees)2008304,000
       Age (years)32050
       Annual maintenance budget (dollars)*1,3005,50012,000
       Annual percentage of tree division—time spent on nursery operation1.03.87.0
    Annual percentage of municipal budget spent on nursery operations0.12.86.5
    • ↵* Costs and time allocations refer to bare-root trees only.

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    Table 2 Type of deciduous trees grown in nurseries (13 cities).
    Type% of nurseries planting
    Maple100
    Ornamental pear  85
    Oak  62
    Littleleaf linden  46
    Ornamental cherry  46
    Flowering crabapple  38
    Zelkova  38
    Sweetgum, Ash and Honeylocust  31
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    Table 3 Nursery bare-root tree production costs (13 cities).
    CategoryCost
    $%
    Purchase price12.5040.9
    Mortality factor   2.25  7.4
    Planting cost   .80   2.6
    Maintenance cost (3 years)10.2033.4
    Lifting cost   4.80   15.7
    Total30.55100.0
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