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 Hello All, 
A quick question...my parents recently were in 
France and I asked them to take pictures of orchards in Normandie so I could 
check out their pruning techniques over there.  Unfortunately, they didn't 
take as many pictures as I would have liked, but I was intrigued by what I 
saw.  The trees were pruned very high and it looked like there were 2'x4's 
on either side of the trunks with metal netting wrapped around the trunk.  
My guess is that they were letting sheep in the orchard to keep down drops and 
the grass.  Is this correct?  Or, were they using a type of rootstock 
that required that form of support?  Also, I might add that the canopy of 
the trees in the orchard seemed to be very small for the caliper of the 
trunks.  Although they didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked, 
they did bring back a few bottles of Calvados :-)   
BTW, did anyone see the article last week 
(Thursday? Friday?) in USA Today featuring artisanal micro-distillers?  
Interesting piece that featured a few folks here in the USA that are making some 
great eaux de vie from all different types of fruit.  
 
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