Published January 15, 2011 When ordering nursery trees, fruit growers often ask for large, tall, heavily-branched trees, and nurseries do their best to supply them. But Paul Tvergyak, marketing director with Cameron Nursery in Eltopia, Washington, said a ¾-inch caliper tree that’s six feet tall with numerous branches might not always be the best bet. Those big trees might look really good, but the nursery uses the same digger for the large trees as for the small ones, so the big tree will have a relatively small root system. At planting, the limbs will need to be pruned off to […]