French: écoleEnglish translation: stock bank 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | école | | English translation: | stock bank | | Entered by: | jonno |
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Botany / horticulture | | French term or phrase: école | here's the same question again, this time without accents, sorry, I don't know what happened there, it looked ok on the preview.
On nommait ecole, en horticulture, une collection qui reunissait dans un meme lieu les differents specimens des especes et varietes cultivees dans l’ensemble de l’exploitation. Ceci permettait de les conserver avec certitude, de les etudier et de les comparer ; les sujets de ces ecoles, arbustes ou arbres fruitiers par exemple, servaient aussi de pieds meres pour la production de boutures, de greffons et de graines.
I'm not so sure about arboretum as a possibility; arboretum is used elsewhere in the text as a separate entity. A spot more background: the text is talking about the Cochet nursery in Suisnes. In 1852, they also set up an "ecole" nearby, a separate core nursery, as it were, featuring specimen types from their commercial nursery, a kind conservation zone for testing and grafting.
cheers indeed, this one's been doing "me shed"! |
| | Clarification request(s) and responsejonno: 8:58pm Feb 12, 2006: Addendum - I realize I haven't put in the nature of the commerce: the Cochets were growing shrubs and mainly roses.
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| | tree bank (?) | Explanation:
As the article at
http://phytosphere.com/treeord/treebank.htm
suggests, the term is used loosely and could therefore possibly cover your case.
I don't think "nursery" is quite right, since a nursery is a place where trees are grown in the intention of removing and planting them elsewhere at a later date. In your case it is what might be called a "stock nursery", "stock bank" etc., where trees are grown to maturity, used to take cuttings and for purposes of comparison with the same trees planted elsewhere. |
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| Note from asker to answererSorry I didn't realize this one was still open. Better late than never. It was more specific than nursery - and the word pépinière, featured elsewhere to describe something different. So I went with "stock bank". Thanks very much indeed, it fitted the context nicely.
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| ecole (with acute accent on tree bank (?)
Explanation:
As the article at
http://phytosphere.com/treeord/treebank.htm
suggests, the term is used loosely and could therefore possibly cover your case.
I don't think "nursery" is quite right, since a nursery is a place where trees are grown in the intention of removing and planting them elsewhere at a later date. In your case it is what might be called a "stock nursery", "stock bank" etc., where trees are grown to maturity, used to take cuttings and for purposes of comparison with the same trees planted elsewhere.
| Bourth
France
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| Note from asker to answerer| Sorry I didn't realize this one was still open. Better late than never. It was more specific than nursery - and the word pépinière, featured elsewhere to describe something different. So I went with "stock bank". Thanks very much indeed, it fitted the context nicely. |
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