Dutch cut

A sloping pruning cut used in top fruit trees which leaves a stub of a few millimetres on the lower (proximal) side but not on the upper (distal) side, encouraging widely angled regrowth from the downward-facing dormant buds in the stub.

dormant bud,
pruning (fruit trees),
stub (branch),
target cut,
top fruit

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