école

English translation: national collection (of plant species)

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French term or phrase:école
English translation:national collection (of plant species)
Entered by: Rachel Fell

18:40 Feb 12, 2006
French to English translations [PRO]
Botany / horticulture
French term or phrase: école
We're talking the area of botanical gardens and horticultural collection housing a collection of specimen types. Here is the explanation from the text.

On nommait école, en horticulture, une collection qui réunissait dans un même lieu les différents spécimens des espèces et variétés cultivées dans l’ensemble de l’exploitation. Ceci permettait de les conserver avec certitude, de les étudier et de les comparer ; les sujets de ces écoles, arbustes ou arbres fruitiers par exemple, servaient aussi de pieds mères pour la production de boutures, de greffons et de graines.

Many thanks!
jonno
Local time: 08:31
national collection
Explanation:
not sure, but that's what comes to mind

national plant collection of a given family

An explanation and description of an NCCPG National Plant Collection. ... Our main conservation vehicle is the NCCPG National Plant Collection® scheme where ...
www.nccpg.com/Page.Aspx?Page=5

The RHS and National Plant Collections. The National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens ... National Plant Collections in the RHS gardens ...
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plant_groups/natcolls.asp

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or if for fruit trees, the national fruit collection
The Apple Collection is thought to be the most comprehensive authenticated ... maintenance of the Collections, which form part of the UK National Heritage. ...
www.webvalley.co.uk/brogdale/entry.php

other trees may be in an arboretum and may contain a national collection of one or more species

Bedgebury Pinetum (Kent) - © Gardens-Guide.com - OPEN GARDENS UK ...
The collection has over 7000 tree specimens growing in 320 acres, including rare, ... or critically endangered species and five NCCPG National Collections. ...
www.gardens-guide.com/gardenpages/_0335.htm
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Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:31
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2national collection
Rachel Fell
1 +1arboretum
John Speese


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
arboretum


Explanation:
I am guessing arboretum from what I can read of the context; something happened with all of the letters with accents to make much of it illegible, including the target term; try resubmitting without the accents, cedilles, etc.

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How do I switch to unicode view? I don't know how.

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Now that I know that ecole was the target word, let me amend my answer somewhat to aarboretum foundation, which is a support organization for such a collections which performs the functions listed in this text. I worked in one as a summer job while I was in college. See this reference:
http://www.volunteersolutions.org/uwkc/org/220608.html
The one I worked at was the Henry Foundation in Gladwyne, PA and they have a small website:
http://www.gladwyne.com/henry_foundation.htm

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excuse the typos!

John Speese
United States
Local time: 02:31
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Rachel Fell: Hi John: try it in Unicode view
1 min

agree  Jennifer Levey: the source term is 'école' = arboretum (plus général que 'national collection')
15 mins
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
national collection


Explanation:
not sure, but that's what comes to mind

national plant collection of a given family

An explanation and description of an NCCPG National Plant Collection. ... Our main conservation vehicle is the NCCPG National Plant Collection® scheme where ...
www.nccpg.com/Page.Aspx?Page=5

The RHS and National Plant Collections. The National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens ... National Plant Collections in the RHS gardens ...
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plant_groups/natcolls.asp

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Note added at 19 days (2006-03-04 10:02:35 GMT) Post-grading
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or if for fruit trees, the national fruit collection
The Apple Collection is thought to be the most comprehensive authenticated ... maintenance of the Collections, which form part of the UK National Heritage. ...
www.webvalley.co.uk/brogdale/entry.php

other trees may be in an arboretum and may contain a national collection of one or more species

Bedgebury Pinetum (Kent) - © Gardens-Guide.com - OPEN GARDENS UK ...
The collection has over 7000 tree specimens growing in 320 acres, including rare, ... or critically endangered species and five NCCPG National Collections. ...
www.gardens-guide.com/gardenpages/_0335.htm

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:31
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 36
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agree  PFB (X): might well be - or specialized nursery?
21 mins
  -> Thak you Philippe:)

agree  Gina W
19 days
  -> Thak you gad:)
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