Execution dock

Following the notices of 28th April 2010 and 5th April 2012 in the other place, and interest in matters woodland & coppicing  notwithstanding, the regenerating chestnut tree has now been convicted of, and executed for, gross proximity to the compost heap. An experiment which needs to be conducted in a field rather than a suburban garden.

Haircut, as is proper in the better circles, preceded execution.

I note in passing that the trunk, which had been reported as two inches, and does indeed look to be about two in its portrait, now seems to be between three and four, an unlikely amount of growth in the period in the circumstances. But the camera never lies, so I suppose it must have done it.