pix would really help ...

ken

I had to lay white shirts on the ground to make the tree show up.

Wow...looks like you've given it a fair bit of fertilizer this year. Is that a single cutting or multiple ones planted together?

As for species...it looks to me like Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa) more than any of the other Dogwoods. Gray Dogwood is typically a multi-stem thicket forming shrub.

It was a single branch when I planted it last summer. It grew the extras last year and this year. I probably used fertilizer at least once last year but none this year.

I wouldn't go slicing on something that young/small. Let it go for a couple seasons as it needs all the leaves it can get at this stage. As smivies says, some dogwoods want to grow like this -- my red-osier dogwoods do to some extent:

Thanks everyone. I think I'll just leave it alone and see what happens.

This looks like honeysuckle, but maybe I'm missing something.