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Tree:

To remove a plant from one location and plant it in another location. A woody perennial, having a single main trunk.

Tree Pit:

A pocket or pit excavated to permit the introduction of sufficient fertile soil to support a tree; a common practice in planting street trees in city streets. The surface of the soil in the pit should be sufficiently lower than the surrounding area so that much of the rain falling on the surrounding area will flow to the pit, and the bottom of the pit must be well drained to remove excess water. Trench:

V. To spade ground so deeply that the digging of ditches is necessary; hence to spade ground to two or more times the depth of a spade. In landscape work trenching is usually done for the purpose of saving good topsoil that has been buried under useless subsoil and also for the purpose of mixing manure and fertilizers into soil to a depth of one or more feet, especially in the vicinity of large trees and Turf: garden areas.