PLANTS FOR USE ON THE OREGON AND WASHINGTON COASTAL PLAIN : Page 1059
An incision or several incisions which sever the cambium layer of awoody plant to the woody tissue and for the whole circumference of thestem. It may be a circular cut, a spiral cut, or may consist of sev-eral cuts more or less widely separated, but whose horizontal projectionwould form a closed circle, v. To kill a tree by girdling it.
Small plants or vines, usually growing not more than a foot high, whichwill spread out and conceal the surface of the ground from view.
Clipping and digging out roots, stumps, etc. Turning over andbreaking up the sod with a grub hoe or mattock.
Placing wires or stays on trees or portions of trees to prevent them'being blown over or broken by the wind; more especially the placing