Table 1. Height, trunk and crown growth of leyland cypress, laurel oak and slash pine during 17 months of production in plastic containers (PC), directly in field soil (FG) and in fabric containers (FC).

Tree	Production method	Height increase^{^z} (m)	Trunk diameter increase^{^z} (cm)	Final crown width^{^z} (m)
Leyland cypress	PC	0.56c^{^y}	2.1b	0.85b
	FG	0.94a	2.9a	0.97a
	FC	0.81b	2.9a	0.94a
Laurel oak	PC	0.79b	2.2a	1.00b
	FG	1.22a	2.4a	1.11 ab
	FC	1.13a	2.3a	1.19a
Slash pine	PC	1.05b	3.8b	0.91b
	FG	1.60a	4.9a	1.18a
	FC	1.41a	4.7a	1.14a

↵^zMean of 16 trees. Height and trunk diameter (2.5 cm, 1 in from soil) at the beginning of the 17 month production cycle were 0.75 m and 1.0 cm, 1.1m and 1.1 cm, 0.61 m and 1.5 cm for leyland cypress, laurel oak and slash pine, respectively.
↵^yMeans for each species followed by different letters are significantly different from each other by Duncan’s MRT, P -< 0.05.