Abstract:An investigation at Youxi and Yangkou seed orchard of Chinese fir from 1991 to1994 has been made to study two cone crop prediction methods counting number of visi-ble cones in crown from an observation point and counting number of cones in certaininformative section of crown. Prediction models were developed for each method. The re-sults verified at different seed orchards showed that the models could be used precisely and easily .