English Dictionary

quenouille training

名詞

古語 不可算名詞

(archaic) A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

日本語の意味

枝を縛って剪定することにより、樹木や低木を円錐形または撚糸器（distaff）の形に整える、古風な育て方の方法

As a horticultural historian, she demonstrated quenouille training on the old orchard's pear trees to show how gardeners once shaped them into elegant cones.

園芸史家として、彼女は古い果樹園のナシの木で円錐形に仕立てる方法を実演し、かつて庭師たちがどのように木を優雅な円錐形に整えていたかを示した。

意味（1）

(archaic) A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

The French quenouille training is performed with dwarf stocks, but the trees are mor thrifty and durable when grafted on their own stocks, and kept within proper bounds by root pruning, after Mr. Rivers' method, explained in a previous page.