traditional orchard

An orchard consisting of standard trees large enough to be grazed beneath (the base of the crown being out of reach of the animals), the usual design until the advent of dwarfing rootstocks in the mid-part of the 20thC.



This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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