Chdrop crotching? Chpollardizing? Chpomandering? I wonder if you're not really thinking of pleaching...not cutting off the top of the tree, but interweaving it with another tree...Margaret L At 10:34 AM 7/9/01 -0600, you wrote: >For days now I have been trying to think of the word that I think starts >with a "ch" that means cutting off the top of the tree. Any body know what >that word is? > >Jane