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Very, very cool.  Thanks for looking.  Thanks for sharing.

del stubbs wrote:
> 
> 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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