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too much soil on root ball

The arrow indicates where the top of the root ball was when the tree was dug from the nursery. The installer removed some soil that was above the point where the top-most root emerged from the trunk, but not enough was removed. Roots are still too deep in the ball since the top-most root is more than two inches below the surface.