Shaded crowns were overtopped by taller neighbours so that the entire crown was shaded when the sun was directly overhead.
At the same time, branches are overtopped by others resulting in reduced light and evaporative demand.
They were healthy individuals, not sprouts, and were not overtopped by plants with heights similar to the sample plant.
We have been talking about cut-off dates, overtopping and frozen entitlements.
A length of 200 yards of earthen embankment about one mile upstream of the city was also overtopped by a few inches.
To-day, there is one barrier which overtops all others, and that is the fear of war.
Worthing has a long, exposed shingle beach, but cannot obtain grant aid for the provision of splash walls to prevent flooding from overtopping waves.
He said that in all these cases there was a small tax but a large principle, and he said later that there was some principle which overtopped the tax.
