Specifications include, but are not limited to: 3.1 Plants must be nursery grown in accordance with good horticultural practices under climatic conditions similar toor more severe than those of point-of-delivery unless specifically authorized, in writing, by the City. 3.2 Plants must be of selected specimen quality, exceptionally heavy, symmetrical, tightly knit, and so trained or favored in . its development and appearance as to be unquestionable and outstandingly superior in form, number of branches, compactness and symmetry. 3.3 Plants must be sound, healthy and vigorous, well branched, and densely foliated when in leaf. 3.4 Plants must have healthy well-developed root systems.3.5 Plants must be free of disease, insects, pests, eggs or larvae. 3.6 Plants must be free from physical damage or any adverse conditions that would prevent thriving growth. No heeled-in plants or plants from cold storage will be accepted. 3.7 Plants must be freshly dug. 3.8 Plants must not be pruned before delivery. 3.9 Trees which have damaged, crooked or multiple leaders, unless specified, will be rejected. 3.10 Trees with abrasions of the bark, sunscalds disfiguring knots, or fresh cuts of limbs over three-fourth inches (3/4”), which have not completely calloused, will be rejected.