How To Use Orchard In A Sentence
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The wellingtonia in Orchard Close is thought to be 360 years old and part of an extended avenue planted to mark the route taken by the defeated King Charles after the Battle of Edgehill.
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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She had waited here in the orchard since dawn and she was prepared to go on waiting until moonset if necessary.
The Night Of the Solstice
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Another glass passed, quietly, as Fifteenth Company followed the scouts down the southeast road and circled away Tom Fynhaven Estate, only to return to the lane bordering the casaran orchards on the south.
Alector's Choice
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Grandfather sold the russets and the codlings and the pippins from his orchard, and those he didn't sell he stored in his pristine white-washed cellar, where huge black hams and sides of bacon were hanging from black hooks.
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In this case, it is not a mark-to-market, it is a mark-to-model or to assumptions that may or may not be reflective of what Orchard would be worth in a market transaction, were it for sale.
Sears Chairman Unleashes 15-Page Manifesto About Um, Everything - The Consumerist
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My kitchen sink view is to the north, up the hill that crests our property, to a small apple orchard and the run my husband put up for our dogs (we call it their "playpen" and whenever they hear that word, they go crazy!)
Posy
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The castle stood on the point of a hill and sloping down on all sides were verdant hayfields, olive groves, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, and vineyards.
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A fitful breeze stirred the pale foliage over her head, now and then showering her with pink petals from the lingering blossoms; from beneath her rose the damp sweet fragrance of soft earth and green grass, nearby a meadow-lark sang plaintively; somewhere a robin called arrogantly to his mate in the nest; from the valley, stretching below the sloping orchard, a violet mist lifted.
Red-Robin
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The heritage orchard has a variety of different breeds of pears and the community uses the pears for wine, jams and all sorts of yummy things.
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Cherry blossoms were in full bloom while orchards started producing the fine small red fruits.
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Organic managers adhere to the same basic principles when it comes to selecting a site for a new orchard, choosing rootstocks, pruning, and staking or trellising trees.
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As expected given low levels of wild codling moths, release of sterile males, and treatment with pheromone, there was no detectable codling moth damage in any orchard.
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The dika nut matures in seven years and although exploitation is still limited to self-planted trees the dika seems suitable for planting in hedges, wooded areas, mixed orchards and pure groves.
1. Lost crops of the incas.
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There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
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When Leila was seven years old, her stepfather ran out of fuel when mowing, leaving a large rectangle of unmown orchard grass.
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Paddy fields and orchards have given way to shopping plazas and industrial buildings.
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The first day took me through beautiful vineyards, apple orchards, wild flower meadows and deserted villages along a wide valley.
The Sun
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Henry VIII's gardener, Richard Harris, had an orchard in Teynham producing cherries, pears, and pippins (eating apples), said to have been ‘the chief mother for all the other orchards of those kind of fruits’.
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Outside, you can explore a fragrant herb garden, orchards and lawns or take a circular walk through the parkland.
The Sun
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The first day took me through beautiful vineyards, apple orchards, wild flower meadows and deserted villages along a wide valley.
The Sun
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The reserve contains the remains of an apple and damson orchard.
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In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity?
The Common Reader, Second Series
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That defence thou hast, betake thee tot: of what nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end.
Act III. Scene IV. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
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The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams.
Local Color
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Environmental monitoring of Archips podana (fruit tree tortrix moth) in Bramley apple orchards in Northern Ireland
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Multiple species windbreaks can be a habitat for owls, mopokes and other predatory birds which will eat the rats, mice and other vermin that cause havoc within an orchard.
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Outside, you can explore a fragrant herb garden, orchards and lawns or take a circular walk through the parkland.
The Sun
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The peacemaker was the last woman in Orchard Glen to be chosen for such a task, and yet a real peacemaker Joanna proved herself.
In Orchard Glen
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It's set on a hill and the land has an orchard.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a variety in our orchards called the winesap, a doubly liquid name that suggests what might be done with this fruit.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
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Crunching such a delectable treat as a Pitmaston Pineapple, an old "sweetmeat" -- or small, sweet apple -- is the most enjoyable exercise I've come across, and I'm ready to plant a whole orchard of my own, if I can find a place to put it.
Chicago Reader
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He used to have a seventh thrall, an ex-stripper named Ebony, but Eric packed her and her two kids up and sent them to live out at Orchard Lake with the werewolves, then released her from thralldom.
Crossed
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I had a lucky break a couple of years ago down here when a local orchardist planted some Spanish hazelnut trees.
At My Table
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South African farmers will now have a five year grace period to find replacement products for methyl bromide, which is presently used for soil fumigation in nurseries, flower and vegetable production, replanting of apple and other orchards and tobacco seedbeds.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Blue orchard bee on a California five-spot flower (Nemophila maculata).
Everybody's Science -- America Needs... Your Back Yard!
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The cocoanut-palm, date-palm and orange orchards contrasted their rich foliage in the sunshine with the pineapple, banana and the rich soft turf of the mesquit-grass.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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Pro-Russian billboards -- "Russia and Abkhazia: together for prosperity" -- dotted the streets of Sukhumi, which is nestled among vineyards and orchards on the Black Sea coast.
News on www.kyivpost.com
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The island is beautiful, with vineyards covering the rolling hills and orchards of olives and fruit trees texturing the mountainsides.
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Fruit, nut and berry orchards will be expanded as will the vegetable, herb and flower gardens.
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She could see apple orchards with ruby red fruit hanging from yellowed leaves.
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Here we plant a mixture of alfalfa and timothy, or alfalfa and orchard grass, as hay for horses or dairy cows.
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The community of over 7,200 is surrounded by apple orchards and is the home of the national tree-planting holiday, Arbor Day.
Archive 2006-01-01
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Only one or two openly professed what may be called anarchistic views, and these were young students, recent arrivals, who looked more like robbing an orchard than threatening a throne.
From Paris to New York by Land
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Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle.
Times, Sunday Times
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He pointed out a kind of thickset tower which crowned a pretty village set in orchards.
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
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Or offering me a guided tour of your delightful damson orchard.
Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed
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Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.
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The people of Hampshire and Sussex call the missel-bird the storm-cock, because it sings early in the spring in blowing, showery weather; its song often commences with the year: with us it builds much in orchards.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
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The orchard is on the northward slope of the hill.
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I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew around the happy orchard.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
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The school also has a fruit orchard, herbaceous border, bird garden and butterfly garden.
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This unique cross is tolerant of major plum diseases - like bacterial spot, bacterial canker, and plum leaf scald - that limit an orchard's life-span in the Southeast.
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Immediately east of the orchard is a native woods, which drops down into the saddle of Saya, a grassy plains ideal for grazing.
PYA: GLOSSARY FROM SKENISH TO ENGLISH
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The Orchard County had bloomed in spectacular fashion and delivered the finest crop in its history.
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an orchard of considerable extent
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What I did not know was that the orchard had been sprayed with the insecticide Lindane the day before.
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The sights are breathtaking, ranging from lush apple and cherry orchards to barren mountain passes.
The Sun
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Chihuahua also contains fertile valleys -- orchards and cropfields that were coaxed from the desert by the persistence of hardworking, warm, and loyal people.
Chihuahua
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This day the wind came in gusts from the potato fields and orchards and the strongest gusts measured eighteen miles an hour.
Bomber
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Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.
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Beds that you find in alfalfa and clover fields, abandoned orchards, oak flats, and other prime open feeding areas were made after dark.
Gerald Almy's Guide to Scouting for Whitetail Deer
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With a nod to Demyst, Kharl turned his mount off the pike and onto the lane that led past the pearapple orchard.
Ordermaster
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After visiting Ceylon, Dorrington settled near London, and published a misleading account of allegedly exotic colonial hard-ships as an orchardist, which Stephens in Australia exposed and derided.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Instead of barbed wire and endless gray mud, it was surrounded by apple orchards, gardens, rivers and lakes.
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White and yellow daisies adorn fields, orchards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel the scything headlights sweep towards this orchard sanctuary.
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The little fig-bird of the Roman Campagna pays a yearly visit in September to the fig orchards on our Sussex coast.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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'reinette,' in the best corner of the orchard, and it shall be her tree.
Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls
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It has a sweeping driveway, terrace and a curved brick wall surrounding an orchard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides the trees in her orchard, poor widow Brown had in her small garden one apple-tree particularly fine; it was a redstreak, so tempting and so lovely that Giles 'family had watched it with longing eyes, till at last they resolved on a plan for carrying off all this fine fruit in their bags.
Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.
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Next to the goats' pasture was a large orchard containing all types of fruit trees.
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A short steep-up grass hill behind was crowned with a few Scotch firs, and in front, an old orchard of apple trees, just breaking into flower, stretched down to a stream and
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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Mr Kipling caught two young scamps scrumping in his orchard.
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Every morning we had our freshly pressed orange juice from the farm's orchard.
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The final curtain closed on the valedictory sound effect off-stage - the hollow thud of an axe chopping down the cherry trees in the lost orchard.
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Only Raymond Orchard was segregated, and taken to a curtained area.
THE SCAR
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We have to be selective about the markets we choose," said Kim Shukla, an agrologist and co-owner of Stoneland Orchard, a fruit and vegetable operation near Steinbach, Man.
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A stream ran through it, and around it were fields, orchards and small woods, or coppices.
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As we come up over a rise, endless cultivated orchards stretch for many kilometres against a backdrop of blue mountain ridges.
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Additionally, this is not a case where Borchard and the third party Part 20 defendants made common cause as to joinder.
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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is housed in one such building, at 97 Orchard Street.
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Fertile orchards of oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit abound throughout the island.
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After losing money in his orchard business for three years Chang became one of the spidermen mending slits at the top of the slope and building water channels.
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The slopes are covered with thick forests while the basins hold orchards, fields and picturesque hamlets.
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(This is why the petitioners won the argument against an Israeli army officer who bult a wall through peoples 'orchards).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It is the most spectacular tree in the orchard, perhaps the most beloved (though such favoritism seems unlikely), and yet it produces not a single sellable fruit.
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An orchard, small nuttery or shrub border would be perfect.
Times, Sunday Times
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And yet it is here, among the apple orchards and farms, that an Italian winemaker has set up shop and is making a name for himself.
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On Wassail night, evil spirits are banished from the orchards and offerings ensure next year's apple crop.
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On this island are palaces, palm trees, pomegranate orchards, and huge water buffalo.
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They were joined by a life-size chewing gum model made from 2,450 pieces of gum found in a small area of Orchard Street, Preston.
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Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming.
Anne of Green Gables
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It was sheer physical pleasure, freewheeling or skimming along with minimum effort through meadows, orchards, vineyards, woods and tiny towns with squares and window boxes.
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She hired out to the owner of an apple orchard.
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are attracted specially by mature oaks and elms scattered about country parks but also visit orchards and alder carrs.
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And at the death of his aforesaid louing wife it is his will that the said cowes and household goods be equally deuided betwene his two sons aforesaid, and the other part of the dwelling house, out housing, pasture and orchard togather with the term acres of house lott lying on Georges hill which was purchased of daniell gains to be equaly deuided betwene the said John and Jonathan and alsoe that part of the house and outhousing what is Convenient for the two
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
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You will own miles of good land -- meadows, pastures, wheatland, orchards, forests.
The Door
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In Pacific Northwest fruit growing regions, common mullein often is abundant on the perimeter of pome and stonefruit orchards.
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There is a large garden, barn, orchard and paddock.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Old) Boleslav, where Wenceslaus gained his degree of martyrdom, is a sedate little town near the banks of the Labe (known as Elbe in Germany) dozing among orchards and lush meadows and o'ershadowed by tall elm-trees.
From a Terrace in Prague
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More than 50 varieties of peaches, nectarines, apricots and low-chill plums grew in Sam's orchard, but many were recently lost to floods.
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You don't expect to hear Ranyevskaya dismiss Lopakhin's plan to build holiday homes on the old cherry orchard as "rank garbage", nor Gaev describe the estate's potential saviour as "you whiffy crap-artist".
The Cherry Orchard - review
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Clean cultivation, elimination of brushy areas and fence rows, high use of pesticides during most of the growing season (such as in orchards), all contribute to the reduction in numbers of native bees.
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I still remember the B&B and macadamia orchard confiscated by the Zapatistas in Ocosingo a few years ago where the Zapatistas waited until the macadamia trees were in full fruition commercially speaking, confiscated the orchard from the foreign owners and then laid waste to it.
Indian Land Grab on Michoacan Coast
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She went to all the child's odd little haunts -- the grapery, the orchard, the corn-house, even to her own beloved back yard, full of sweet-scented hiding-nooks dear to a child, but sacred ground to Aunt
Rebecca Mary
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All his prized orchard fruits - apples, pears, cherries and peaches - were introduced from abroad.
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Thousands of acres are painstakingly planted in tidy orchards, trellises and rows.
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Most horses today on pasture only have one or two varieties of grass usually timothy, orchard grass with some degree of clover and fescue.
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There are lots of factors causing infestation of phytophagous pests and changes of dominate species in the apple orchards.
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In 1978, the farm's hilly orchards increased by 300 mu.
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The cherry orchard is being chopped down by the end of the play, to make way for holiday homes and new money.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dominant forage is orchard grass, with some quack, brome, blue grass and assorted other species.
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There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
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Bloom lights the orchard-appleAnd thicket and thorp are merry
May is Mary's Month
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I ban't a dareful man," he replied, "that would run down the road in daylight for the whole nation to see, and I be terr'ble weak in the legs, so I just crept out in the night, so quiet as a star-beam, and sheltered in the orchard yonder, till I seed the rod fairly put in my hand by the
Explorers of the Dawn
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He and his son, James, mechanically sweep the ripe nuts that have fallen to the orchard floor into windrows.
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Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.
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SDE is headquartered in the West Valley, where Warner Bros. used to shoot its Westerns and cavalry pictures, back in those halcyon days when the San Fernando Valley was a collection of orchards and truck farms ... before the heavy asphalt-covered hand of urbanization reached out from Los Angeles.
Archive 2008-09-01
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At the time that the land was transferred in 1996, approximately 30ha were under citrus and deciduous fruit orchards.
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The threat to our orchards and honey caused a rash of speculation.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a while, I kept a list of apple facts as I learned them, because what I remembered about my father was that he at least had a passing interest in pomology, enough of one to take me out to an orchard for the day.
HOUSE RULES
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I practised throwing the shot in the orchard and I ran the 800m to national standard.
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Take a helicopter tour of volcanoes, horseback ride through wild tropical orchards, or view exotic fish through a snorkel mask.
The Sun
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Search in the garden, orchard, and forest for plants attacked by aphides.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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And there's always the smell of apples, just like in the country when I was little and used to think I was a choo-choo train, running through the fields of corn and chugging up the hill to the orchard.
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We were billeted in a farm - where there was an orchard but the fruit was not ripe which was lucky for the French.
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The technology was originally designed to transport apples and pears in orchards.
Times, Sunday Times
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To plant several varieties is absolutely necessary on account of pollenizing, as staminate and pistillate flowers, though on the same plant, do not always appear together in proper condition on all plants; in fact it has been proven in my orchard that sometimes plants bring forth a great many pistillate blossoms and not a single staminate one on them, and still a good crop of nuts were grown on them.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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The sprayed orchards showed a significantly lower insect infestation and fruit damage compared to unsprayed orchards.
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However, orchard grass (called coltsfoot in English farming books) will grow down 4 or more feet while leaving a massive amount of decaying organic matter in the subsoil after the sod is tilled in.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
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But even as we receive it, we think of the blood that has been spilt, and may yet be shed on that beautiful landscape, from the majestic Mourne Mountains to the Glens Of Antrim, from dear old suffering Belfast to the magnificent lakes of Co. Fermanagh, from lovely Derry on the banks of the Foyle to the orchards of Armagh.
Nobel Lecture
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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Across the river, on Henry Allen's foothill ranch there was little work to be done, for the hay was cut and stored and the orchards were plowed up to receive the rain deeply when it should come.
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New Zealand ' s bio-security agency warned it ' s unsure whether the suspected outbreak of pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae that could wipe out orchards of the hairy fruit has already spread across the country.
World Watch
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There were orchards along the terrace and we had a back garden with trees and a view of the River Dodder.
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're going to steal some apples from farmer Jones's orchard. Why won't you come with us? Lost your bottle?
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The rooftop panorama is breathtaking: the surrounding hills and valleys, with their terraced fields, orchards and tiny villages, look less like Africa than a central Asian Shangri-la.
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After a courteous parting from Lycidas, the poet and his two friends repair to the orchard, where Demeter is being gratified with the first-fruits of harvest and vintaging.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
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Out back there was a lovely big garden with an orchard and a greenhouse.
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They can see round corners into beautiful olive groves and fruit orchards.
Times, Sunday Times
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We thought pitch invasions were a thing of the past but this was a defining moment for the Orchard County and the long wait was over.
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Scores of houses were destroyed and much of the village's cultivated land and orchards were bulldozed.
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The expanse was all garden and orchard except for a building larger than any above, decked in flowerful vines.
Starfarers
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They cause damage to orchards, vineyards, melon patches, cornfields, peanut fields, and chicken yards.
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Third Corps was hard pressed and Meade sent V Corps and part of 11 Corps to reinforce Sickles in the Peach Orchard.
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As the world's vintners move away from natural cork -- which some claim is responsible for "corking" spoilage of up to four percent of all wine -- to synthetic stoppers, animal conservationists are sounding alarm bells about the future of the endangered species that thrive in cork orchards.
Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives
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In the Kearneysville orchards last summer, kaolin-coated trees photosynthesized up to 30 percent faster than uncoated trees, says Glenn.
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On that note, Organic Orchard Medley is surprisingly good.
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Ariel Zambelich for The Wall Street Journal Jon Quisenberry of Bradford Farms -- a genetic breeder -- picks samples of interspecific plums from the trees at Kingsburg Orchards in Kingsburg, Calif., to be tasted for specific qualities, such as flavor, size and production value.
Creating New Fruit
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The Forclaz snakes through fields of hay and orchards of burgeoning apples.
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Ideally seed orchards should contain only self-incompatible trees to eliminate production of selfed seed.
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Everywhere there were date palm groves, olive, banana, orange, lemon and grapefruit orchards, as well as well kept and well irrigated fields.
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Opposite the castle is a long, broad lawn, and at the end of it a cherry orchard, where I remember having frequently eaten excellent cherries.
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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A host of other insects visit backyard orchards - various caterpillars, pear slugs, and leafhoppers to name a few.
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He could see the walled orchard, the sun glinting on the topmost leaves of the apple trees.
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Look at her tearing through the orchard with her hair streaming.
Anne of Green Gables
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A few fruit grower associations and progressive orchardists have already started importing virus-free nursery rootstocks.
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The 38-year-old rice-grower plans to convert his 2,000 square metres of rice paddy into fruit orchards.
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Noticing a man windlassing gravel in an apple orchard, on inquiry he learned that the man in digging a well had found pay gravel, and it had been his custom to drift from the bottom of his shaft, raise the pay dirt and wash it with a stream of water that he also used for irrigation on his farm and orchard.
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Kingsburg Orchards sells more than 210 varieties of fruit, about half of which are interspecific.
Creating New Fruit
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When infestations of scale insects in orchards are fought with DDT and dieldrin, chalcid and braconid wasps that parasitize scales are destroyed, and population outbreaks of scale result. 26 Another problem with synthetic chemical controls is that some can take a very long time to break down, remaining toxic for many years.
5. How plants live and grow
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Gardens and orchards produced vegetables and fruits that women canned or dried for use in the winter.
Christianity Today
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On Wassail night, evil spirits are banished from the orchards and offerings ensure next year's apple crop.
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A few fruit grower associations and progressive orchardists have already started importing virus-free nursery rootstocks.
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Yet it had large grounds and outbuildings, suitable for experimental work with plants and animals, a productive orchard and a fine croquet lawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fossils were uncovered when land was being cleared for an olive orchard.
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White and yellow daisies adorn fields, orchards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forests, fields, orchards, fencerows, hedgerows, islands, railroad tracks, floodplains and grown-over strip mines are just some of the places the white and giant morels can be found.
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Some of the new planted apple orchards have also begun to bear.
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The ladybug is a great help to men who own fruit orchards in the West.
Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
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Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between the outer wall and the city are four leagues of land filled with farms, orchards and houses.
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White and yellow daisies adorn fields, orchards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The oblique rays of the sun on the orchards create this typical landscape that traditional iconography would associate with an earthly paradise.
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I keep it staying at home with a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome.
A Flowering Tribute To Emily Dickinson
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A 'legless' hedgehog was found rolling around an orchard after getting drunk by gorging on fermented apples.
Clumsy Crooks - Blumbling Badies Caught In The Act
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Outside are three garages and an orchard garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some shoppers are now going one step further: visiting the field or orchard where their food is grown.
Times, Sunday Times
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They evoke romantic images of humming orchard hives and summer sweetness, presided over by veiled eccentrics steeped in arcane lore.
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By the light of the Queen Moon, now at her full in heaven, he saw that the orchard grass was clipped, and patterned with small clover, but against the hedges rose wild banks of meadowsweet and yarrow and the jolly ragwort, and briony with its heart-shaped leaf and berry as red as heart's-blood made a bower above them all.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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The top terrace consists of a lawn surrounded by borders, the bottom terrace is a small, mown orchard.
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Among the most destructive enemies of the apple orchard are the codling moth, various species of mites, the woolly aphid, the apple maggot, the red-banded leaf roller, and scale insects.
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We're going to steal some apples from farmer Jones's orchard. Why won't you come with us? Lost your bottle?
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In the orchard, remove mouse guards and check for damage.
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Much of the building is collapsing and the terraced orchard surrounding it is dry and brittle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Down the road around Orange, orchardists have seen their industry wilting before their eyes.
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A young local couple, after years of experimenting, is taking the produce from its orchards and opening a craft apple cidery, complete with tasting room.
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The introduction of espaliered trees, whose fruit ripened more evenly and was not so blown about as in open orchards, helped to promote the growing of fine pears in the Paris region.
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Huh? As I mention in my book, Organic Manifesto, lead arsenate was used as a pesticide in orchards for over 100 years.
Maria Rodale: Is There Lead in Your Juice?
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They twisted the arms of every rancher, orchardist, restaurant and hotel owner between here and the Canadian border—everybody who was making a profit on migrant labor—to put this clinic together.
Healer
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The best source of fiber is hay, such as timothy, alfalfa, oat, or orchard grass.
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The view of the chambers was a village house that stood nearby, surrounded by, in spring, trees and flowers blooming in the orchard, which must have had a calming effect on the prisoners.
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After graduating he cofounded a kibbutz, working with others to transform deserts into green pastures and orchards.
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In the valleys there are orchards, and up on the high pastures, where not even barley will grow, people husband yaks, cows or sheep.
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A serpent has stung me in my very orchard, an incestuous, adulterate beast born of witchery!
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For she gathered around her a flock of virgins, a fruit-bearing orchard, a garden in bloom.
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They have proposed that 90 endangered apple varieties are identified in each region to be promoted to orchards, cideries, restaurants and kitchens in order to increase their production.
