arboriculture
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Tree benefits
- Environmental benefits
- Ecological benefits
- Socioeconomic benefits
- Tree defects
- Common types of tree defects
- Codominant stems
- Included bark
- Dead, diseased, or broken branches
- Cracks
- Cavity and hollows
- Lean
- Taper
- Epicormic branches
- Roots
- Tree installation
- UK
- See also
- References
- External links
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Arboriculture (, from ) is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants. The science of arboriculture studies how these plants grow and respond to cultural practices and to their environment. The practice of arboriculture includes cultural techniques such as selection, planting, training, fertilization, pest and pathogen control, pruning, shaping, and removal.
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