It had needed a dozen rows of seed stitch to top it off. That’s all.
I don’t love knitting seed stitch; I just like how it looks when I do.
There, that wasn’t so hard, was it?
(A detail I added this time: on the first round of pines, I started each tree one right-side row later than the one to its left in order to give a sense of the hilly topography. I liked how it came out a lot better than the original flat-across version.)