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It could also be the case that the arborist missed the graft and told her to expose the roots.  Ginda is smart enough to know a graft when she sees one.  If she didn't see the graft, and knows she planted the tree with the graft above the soil line. and knows she didn't mulch over the graft, then the arborist just exposed the tree's roots.  If she deliberately planted the tree deep, then she wanted the scion to root, and exposing roots is no good.