Champion status.Deborah Gangloff: I am glad to see Gary Moll's "Trees, Environment, and Genes" (Summer), which hopefully will clarify for lay readers that a tree doesn't become a champion through its inheritance, as claimed by the imitation imitation, in music, a device of counterpoint wherein a phrase or motive is employed successively in more than one voice. The imitation may be exact, the same intervals being repeated at the same or different pitches, or it may be free, in which case numerous types neochampion tree groups that have sprung up over the past 10 years. My experience is that champion trees are mostly of average genotypes that happen to be growing in locations favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. for huge crowns to develop over long periods of time. Big crowns and old age translate into large boles from whence whence adv. 1. From where; from what place: Whence came this traveler? 2. From what origin or source: Whence comes this splendid feast? conj. come most of the points. Bob Zahner, Coordinator Arizona Register of Big Trees Tucson, Arizona Tucson (pronounced /ˈtusɑn/, Spanish: Tucsón [tuk'son] |
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