Arbre à haute futaie
English translation: a tree in the higher size class
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|  Selected response from: Clive Phillips United Kingdom Local time: 11:49 | ||||||
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| 3 +2 | a tall(ish) tree |
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| 4 | (a hornbeam hedge) fully grown |
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| 3 | a tree in the higher size class |
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| Le Grand Robert on futaie: |
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(a hornbeam hedge) fully grown Explanation: A hornbeam hedge which once fully grown (in other words not saplings) can be used for topiary. |
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a tree in the higher size class Explanation: Charmilles: Hedge [or tree border of an avenue/path/walk] of hornbeams, a tree in the higher size class and ideal for clipping [or pruning]. Hidcote Manor Garden: photo of a clipped hornbeam "hedge on stilts": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidcote_Manor_Garden Reference: http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/product_10215.html Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge |
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5 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2| arbre à haute futaie a tall(ish) tree Explanation: in the context - "a glossary of gardening terms", it seems to be what it means - hornbeam, a tall(ish) tree that is also useful ...etc. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2012-03-09 15:28:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Hornbeam "is extremely patient of the knife", as the great garden writer, John Claudius Loudon, put it, which is why it is so extensively used for hedges. At the Chelsea Flower Show this year, Tom Stuart-Smith stretched that patience to the limit by using 30-year-old hornbeams, cloud pruned so that only puffs of foliage were left, balancing at the ends of the branches in a way that I had never seen before. Like beech, hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) hangs on to its leaves through winter, so that though it's deciduous, a screen of it provides almost the year-round cover that an evergreen hedge of yew does. In leaf, it hasn't got quite the shine of beech, the leaves more deeply veined, but for gardeners it is a more forgiving plant. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/garde... |
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| Reference: Wiki gives these definitions: Reference information: Le Littré de 1872 précise : « Un bois de quarante ans se nomme futaie sur taillis ; entre quarante et soixante, demi-futaie ; entre soixante et cent vingt, jeune haute futaie ; de cent vingt à deux cent, haute futaie ; au-dessus de deux cents ans, haute futaie sur le retour. In your text it probably means just big/mature tree. |
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| Reference Reference information: http://pistehors.com/news/forums/viewthread/66/ the Charmille are a decidous tree (hornbean or Carpinus betulus) that presumably can be found in this spot. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 26 mins (2012-03-08 19:56:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- seems to be a favourite for hedges http://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/hornbeam_hedge.html |
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2 days 13 hrs peer agreement (net): +1 |
| Reference: Le Grand Robert on futaie: Reference information: "Les futaies sont des arbres auxquels on laisse prendre tout leur développement naturel avant de les abattre; aussi les appelle-t-on quelquefois bois de haut jet par opposition aux taillis. Le mot futaie a un sens très large; il peut s'employer quelle que soit l'espèce des arbres et quel que soit leur âge." cited from M. Planiol, Traité élémentaire de droit civil |
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