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Look carefully at the trunk and branch structure of the tree below. See the text below suggested to improve structure.

Architecture is excellent in the bottom half of the tree indicating that the nursery did a great job developing a dominant central leader. The tree divides into two equal-sized stems about half way up the crown, and then each of these soon divides again. The result is four apparent stems in the top half of the crown. The origin of these was at the position of the tree top when it was planted. Two very young, perhaps only one-year-old, stems were present at the time of planting. If one of these 12-inch-long stems would have been removed at planting, two stems probably would not have formed at this point. Pruning needed home | Back

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