English Dictionary

quenouille training

noun

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

She used a quenouille during her training.

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.