crown shaping

A pruning operation that changes the shape of the crown in silhouette, for instance the reduction of part of the crown only, for some good arboricultural reason.

crown,
crown reduction,
cultivated tree form,
pruning,
pruning (fruit trees),
topiary

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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