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["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to Toms finding the word 'pleach' ......here's the best 2 web sites 
from my hour of cruising before sunrise. one of the base words for pleach is 
'plait'  'to weave'.

<http://forests.org/ric/good_wood/livng_fs.htm>
<http://forests.org/ric/good_wood/pleachng.htm>

  I didn't realize the connection between espalier, inosculate (self 
gafting) and living fences. One of the historic uses of this phenonomen of 
grafting two (or two hundred) living trees together is the mutual shared 
feeding.....if ones' roots die or get momentarily wet etc. that tree is fed 
by the others.
  Of course the biggest plus of weaving and pleach grafting is the strength, 
and inpenetratable quality. Great possibilities for wind fences, deer 
fences, and even perimeter fences that don't rot.
  Apple is one of the trees that inosculate....could not this be used to 
make a self bracing, self supporting truss for a branch that is trained with 
a  weak crotch?
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