Thierry Ligonniere shows Neal Manly of Washington State, the high numbers of feathers on this knip tree. Unlike their counterparts in the United States, French growers commonly use knip trees when planting new orchards as a way to bring orchards quickly into production. The Davodeau-Ligonniere Nursery produces about 650,000 knip trees out of about 1 million trees produced annually, said Thierry Ligonniere, D.L. Nursery sales manager. The majority of their tree sales are in France, however, 40 percent of the trees are sold outside of the country. The knip tree, called knip-boom in some parts of the world, originated in […]