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To: AmericanMade1776

13 posted on 02/04/2007 7:03:48 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)

Moonman62 wrote: That's not pruning.

No that is EXTREME PRUNING

15 posted on 02/04/2007 7:06:26 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

No it isn't. It's pollarding. It looks like the branches have not been cut off at the correct angles or distances but the tree is not necessarily dead. It is winter, so it's not so bad. The tree may produce lots of young growth in about a year's time and nicely recover later on; it is then that you need to prune it regularly as the growth will be small and the branches may become too crowded, thus doing damage to themselves and the tree. This practice - normally executed more expertly - is practiced in the places where the size of a tree becomes a problem.

48 posted on 02/04/2007 7:52:10 AM PST by aliquis

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