Very good Margaret, you always have the answer, it is pollardizing. I have no idea where I got the impression that it started with a ch. Thank you so much. Jane -----Original Message----- From: Margaret Lauterbach [mailto:melauter@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:58 AM To: gardeners@globalgarden.com Subject: RE: [gardeners] Bradford pear trees 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