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I consisted of disking and/or mowing between trees two or three times during the growing season for the first 3 years, and an application of herbicide (roundup) sprayed around individual crees in June or July. After 5 years, sycamore survival averaged 93% and mean height average 13.6 ft for two plantations; cherrybark oak survival averaged 74% meam height and 6.4 ft for three plantations; survival and mean height were 48% and 2.7 ft for pecan and 46% and 6.8 ft for sweetgum. After 3 years, green ash had 97% survival and a mean height of 7.9 ft on one plantation. After 2 years bald cypress had 98% survival mhd a mean height of 4.1 ft. 18. Waldrop, T.A., E.R Buckner, and A.E. Houston. 1983. Suitable trees for the bottomlands of west Tennessee. Pages 157-160. IN Proceedings of the second biennial southern silvicultural research conference. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report SE-24 New Orleans, LA. This study examines three species: sweetgum, green ash, and sycamore: two seed sources for sweetgum and sycamore; and three cultural treatments (fertilization, disking, and mowing) to determine which combination(s) would be best suited to abandoned agricultural fields. The study site was on the floodplain of a tributary of the Wolf River in southwest Tennessee. The fields were farmed for soybeans until 1979~ flooding occurred less than annually, but enough to make soybean planting risky. The soils were silt loam, 5.4-6.6 pH, and lower in phosphorus and potassium than most soils used for agricultural purposes. Seedlings were planted in the spring of ].980. Five species/seed source ~ombinations (sycamore, green ash sweetg~n from the Virginia coastal plain, and sweetgum and sycamore from the Louisiana gulf coast) were tested, with fertilization as the main treatment. Disking and mowing were tested at the subplot level ~fter three growing seasons, survival was over 90% for all treatments, and there were no significant survival differences among the five species/seed source combinations. Survival was slightly lower in the fertilized plots (93% versus 95%), perhaps due to the exceptionally dry season following planting and fertilization in 1980. Seed source did not significantly affect height growth after three growing seasons. Sycamore grew the fastest (mean height of 9.0 ft after three growing seasons) followed by green ash (6.1 it) and sweetgum (5.4 it). Fertilization increased the height growth of green ash by 25%, sycamore, 19% and sweetgum, 16%. Disking improved growth significantly over mowing for all species. Response was greatest for sycamore (52%), followed by green ash (50%) and sweetgum (26%). Disking and fertilization both increased growth when applied alone but combining the two did not produce a significant growth advantage, especially for sycamore. 2130 7