Re: Royal Paulownia

Jim,
I think you know we were refering to ornamental, street-lining trees.  In
orchards, where trees are a commercial machine, appearance doesn't matter.
As to the practice of topping hastening demise of the tree, I would suppose
certain more technical pruning is applied that looks similar to topping to
the casual observer.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia


> Agree that topping ornamental trees is stupid. But avocado growers top
> their trees because who can pick fruit that are 60 feet in the air and
> Florida orange groves [can't speak to California's] have machines that
> top their trees to uniform height for the same reason--makes picking
> easier and faster.
>
> On Saturday, March 27, 2004, at 11:39 PM, Kitty wrote:
>
> > Ceres,
> > I couldn't tell from your post whether you thought topping and
> > coppicing
> > were similar practices or that one just brought the other to mind.
> > Coppicing is cutting the shrub to ground level and stooling cuts
> > generally
> > to  6-24 inches from the ground year to encourage lots of new growth.
> > (there is also pollarding, but I think people often use all 3 terms
> > interchangeably)  Topping is a stupid practice done to trees, much
> > higher
> > up.  Why?  Ignorance.
> >
> > From International Society of Arboriculture:
> > Topping is perhaps the most harmful tree pruning practice known. Yet,
> > despite more than 25 years of literature and seminars explaining its
> > harmful
> > effects, topping remains a common practice. This brochure explains why
> > topping is not an acceptable pruning technique and offers better
> > alternatives.  See:
> > http://www.treesaregood.com/treecare/topping.asp
> >
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Cersgarden@aol.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 10:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia
> >
> >
> >> In a message dated 3/27/04 8:12:49 PM, vldunn@widomaker.com writes:
> >>
> >> << I remember when just riding around
> >>
> >> Baltimore that I observed  row-house gardens that would have a single
> >>
> >> "coppiced" tree in the backyard. >>
> >>
> >> Verona, this made me think of the many trees I saw in the D.C. area
> >> which
> > I
> >> guess you might say they were topped or at least severly pruned.
> >> Anyone
> > know
> >> why?  This is a forbidded practice in our area.
> >>     Ceres
> >>
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