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Practice pruning

Click through the photos to learn why trees were pruned in certain ways. See if you can determine what the tree needs before reading the paragraph at the bottom of each photograph.

1

maple
maple

2

zelkova
zelkova

3

oak
oak

4

ash
ash

5

sweet gum
sweet gum

6

crapemyrtle
crapemyrtle

7

topped tree
topped

8

ash
ash

9

ash tree
ash

10

poplar
poplar

11

poplar
poplar

12

honey locust tree
honeylocust

13

elm
elm

14

elm
elm

15

scholar tree
scholartree

16

bark inclusion
bark inclusion

17

maple tree
maple

18

oak tree
oak

19

oak tree
oak

20

weak trunk
weak

21

over lifted tree
over-lift

22

troubled tree
trouble

23

tree
big trouble

24

tree
structural