Re: [Fwd: Acacia et al.]
>On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Charles E. Dills wrote:
>
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>> The problem is that many people buy a tree in a one or five gallon
>> container, "Oh isn't this a cute tree". Then they bring it home and plant
>> it as though it were a Shasta Daisy, three to five feet fron the house.
>> They haven't a clue what it's going to be like when it grows up!
>
>I think the ultimate in this vein was a dwelling I looked at when
>house-shopping several years ago. A house, less than 20 years old, had a
>Sierra sequoia planted on 18-inch center from the foundation. And the
>tree butt was an inch or so from the house when I saw. A living Christmas
>tree, and an owner who just couldn't bear to cut it down??
>
>I suppresed the desire to go by occasionally to see the house slowly
>tipping over..
>
>On "coppicing": yes, this is usually defined as cutting to a ground-level
>"stool". The reference was to what is called "pollarding" in the US.
>Every arborist I've ever met finds this cutting back to a lolly-pop
>hideous, and I'd certainly agree.
>
>Both coppicing and pollarding were practised as a means of croppinga
>season's growth for forage [or basketry], I believe. Here, it's only
>cropping for a landfill.
>
>loren russell, corvallis, oregon
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Thanks for the corroboration.
There actually is a good use for "pollarding". Some people down the
street have a fruitless mulberry. It is really too big for their yard but
apparently they wanted to keep it. An arborist cut the limbs back
dramatically till it looked like a desert relic. Now, several months later
it has aggressively returned and looks quite nice. It's still too big a
tree. I think they will have to bite the bullet one of these years and
remove it! And replace it with -----!! ---Chas---
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