Wanda then picked up a small twig, perched herself on a sapling branch, and poked her stick in a downward direction.
Sometimes the families request that a sapling be planted in the other tree's place.
Control methods include cutting the tree or sapling down and treating the stump with an herbicide to prevent resprouting.
No more than sapling tied to sapling, oak though they may be, makes an oak.
sapling shrubs benefited from the open canopy treatments more than sapling trees.
Promote development beyond the sapling phase by reducing grazing and conifer re-establishment.
The crown is dense and there is little or no understory, which means there is no pool of seedling or sapling-sized individuals.
British Dictionary definitions for sapling
sapling
/ˈsæplɪŋ/
noun
1.
a young tree
2.
(literary) a youth
Word Origin and History for sapling
n.
early 14c., from sap (n.1) + diminutive suffix -ling. This probably is the source of American English slang sap (n.3) "club, short staff" (1899) and the verb sap (v.2) "to hit (someone) with a sap" (1926).