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  • From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] columnar form
  • Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:07:41 -0000




>From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>

>I would call that strong apical dominance, not necessarily columnar. An
>adult columnar apple has a very upright growth habit, rather like a
>Lombardy
>poplar, with few limbs and narrow crotch angles. The limbs themselves are
>covered with spurs, top to bottom.

Lon, the prunifolia had nearly horizontal crotch angles, so apically
dominant they are. Del







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