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Inappropriate reduction

Click through photographs for examples of reducing the canopy inappropriately.

1 heading	2 topping	3 topping	4 more topping
5 too much	6 too much again	7 rounding over	8 over doing it
9 more rounding	10 close up	11 sprouting	12 topping more

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