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To store dormant or quiescent bare-rooted trees outdoors in winter, after lifting but prior to planting out, by digging a shallow trench, laying the trees cross-wise with their roots in the trench, then loosely back-filling.



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