Cutting trees

[Felix]

Hanson addresses the various methods of damaging a tree, including burning and girdling, from his own experience and that of others. It seems girdling does not kill olive trees, and with older gnarled olive trees is isn't all that easy to do well. Olive trees don't spring back to normal in a year, that is perfectly true; but they do seem to come back faster from stumps than from seeds.