Pennsylvania Tree Seedling Sales Have Begun

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Harrisburg, PA  While it might be winter, landowners can begin making plans to help wildlife this spring – and beyond – by planting tree and shrub seedlings offered by the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Howard Nursery.The 2016 seedling order form is available online, and sales began this morning. Most seedlings are sold in units of 25, but 100-seedling bundles also are available in mixes to benefit deer and birds, as well as to improve riparian and winter-thermal habitats.

The 2016 order form contains a wide selection of evergreens, shrubs and fruit- and nut-bearing trees. Most species are native to Pennsylvania, and with the exception of black locust, all of the available hardwoods are grown from seed collected from Pennsylvania sources and processed by Game Commission personnel.There are many new offerings this year. One of them is Eastern red-cedar, a fast-growing evergreen that produces a berry-like cone that’s used by many birds.

A unit of 25 seedlings is available for $8.75. Chinese chestnut, Douglas-fir and dwarf chinquapin oak seedlings – none of which were offered for sale in 2015 – are back on the 2016 order form.And also returning is an assorted standard apple pack – a 25-seedling mixture of yellow and red delicious, northern spy, rusty coat, winesap, Jonathon, McIntosh, Cortland, Rome, Tiedemann and unidentified heavy-producing seedlings. This is the first time since 2012 the bundle has been offered for sale, and it’s priced at $12.50.


The order form and information about the seedlings for sale will be available at the Game Commission’s website, www.pgc.state.pa.us. Place your cursor over “General Store” in the menu bar at the top of the homepage, then scroll down to “Howard Nursery” and select “2016 Seedling Order Form” from the drop-down menu.