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In searching in vain for some photos of coppiced trees, I encountered the word "pollard". It is a severe pruning of tree, but means only cutting branches near tips high in tree. In the area where I live now, there are many trees that cannot expand their root system enough to properly serve a tree over thirty feet high. Untended the trees become susceptible to disease. So the tree surgeons cut off all of the limbs that are over three or four inches in diameter. When I first saw one, I thought the tree would die, but a year later there is a very healthy compact tree, again able to give ample shade and reasonably attractive in appearance. The word pollard in dictionary has first meaning a deer that has lost its horns. What is done to the tree is comparable. The branches that are removed bear similar proportion to horns on a deer.
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