On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:26:26 -0700,
(paghat) wrote:
so do check out a pruning book or
book chapter from the library, paying especially attention to advice on
large rapid-growth maples; advice will be totally different for fruiting
trees or evergreens or for deciduous trees without profuse amounts of
flowing sap.

-paghat the ratgirl
But be sure you check the date on that book--our library still has
books recommending flush cuts and painting wounds--big no-nos for a
few decades now . . . better to get up-to-date info from the ISA, as
paghat also suggested. check teh link in my sig below.

Keith
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