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покупать сад на корню

English translation: фрукты на деревьях перед началом свое­временной уборки (standing crops)


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Russian term or phrase:покупать сад на корню
English translation:фрукты на деревьях перед началом свое­временной уборки (standing crops)
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14:55 Jan 4, 2012
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Russian term or phrase: покупать сад на корню
In a work of literary non-fiction - is this just buying the standing crops as opposed to the land itself?

Когда созревали фрукты, то он шел в сторожа к евреям, покупавшим сад на корню
Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 07:57
фрукты на деревьях перед началом свое­временной уборки (standing crops)
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T J
United States
Local time: 07:57
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5 +1фрукты на деревьях перед началом свое­временной уборки (standing crops)T J
4 -1buying the orchard before it will be cut down
Alexandra Taggart


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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
фрукты на деревьях перед началом свое­временной уборки (standing crops)


Explanation:
You understand it correctly

T J
United States
Local time: 07:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 12

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agree  cyhul
9 days
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1 day7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
buying the orchard before it will be cut down


Explanation:
The life span of a fruit tree is rather short, they stop to produce much when old, and it is a standard practice to cut old trees down in, say, 30 years before planting a new orchard. Cherry trees are planted in the place of apple trees, or peach trees in the place of the pears in order to retain nutrients for a different type: different types of trees do need different nutrients. Of course, not all trees can be of the same age, some can be still fruiting and the whole process of cutting the orchard down normally takes a few years. Their wood is valuable and used for smoking meat, fish and cheese.
So, that, which they had bought - were the trees. They were harvesting what they could for some years, they were cutting dieing trees down meanwhile and selling tree trunks to the smokehouse. The land where the orchard grew one time, most likely, was submitted for rent, someone else had started planting and growing young trees.
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ogegova/112690
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5854876_lifespan-flowering-crab-ap...

Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
Local time: 15:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 15

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Cilian O'Tuama: some of the sentences in your "reference" are almost English. // The English isn't that miserable that it warrants calling the police. /// okay, if you insist, this is "very baaad" English
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