noun
definition
A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
definition
The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.
Examples of orchard in a Sentence
No one was in the orchard but her.
Apples, cherries and pears are the principal orchard fruits.
He trotted back towards the orchard, pensive.
Fire still raged at one end of the orchard, filling the air above the trees with black smoke.
The Other sailed across the orchard and slammed into the hillside and through it.
There are a farm, a large truck garden, an orchard, and a bakery and canning factory.
He recalled growing up and running around the apple orchard with his little brother and the children of the palace.
The orchard is right there on the edge of the city, Jenn answered.
About noon they stopped to allow Jim to rest in the shade of a pretty orchard.
They left the orchard for the quiet city, which had not yet begun to awaken.
Darian ran to the wall of the orchard and vaulted over.
The principal orchard districts are the valleys of the Darent and Medway, and the tertiary soils overlying the chalk, between Rochester and Canterbury.
Orchard fruits are fairly varied, but, compared with other states, unimportant; and the production of small fruits is comparatively small, the largest crop being strawberries.
She moved cautiously through the well-maintained orchard, back to the tree marked by the rocks.
He knew that orchard, and an ache grew at his core.
The garden has a large orchard and formal gardens and also garden dining furniture consisting of table and chairs.
Orchard fruits, especially apples, are of increasing importance.
If you live near an apple orchard or a pumpkin patch, take your kids out to pick your own fruit.
Biddeford is served by the Boston & Maine railway, and is connected by electric lines with Portland and with Old Orchard Beach, a popular summer resort north of the Saco river.
Red-headed and red-bellied woodpeckers, orchard orioles, yellowwinged sparrows, the cardinal, the blue grosbeak, the Carolina wren and the mocking-bird are characteristic of the lower elevations.
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It may also be grown as an orchard tree where the soil is favourable and there is plenty of room.
He trotted down the stairs from his palace to the apple orchard that stretched from his home to the imperial city beyond.
He loved his orchard.
His magic swept through the orchard.
Hers was the kind of beauty that made a man notice her in a crowd full of beauties, or a god spot her from others gathered in his orchard for a celebration of his twenty-seventh birthday.
Half the orchard was on fire while the other half rained delicate pink-white blooms from the apple trees.
She looked around, astounded by the beauty of the orchard, then realized she'd lose sight of Dustin once he crested the hill in the center of the orchard.
If he walked beneath the apple trees in the orchard, would she be waiting for him with her sweet smile, as she had the day they met?
Darian glimpsed an orchard with flowering trees and emerald grass as he ducked his head through the portal.
If all was as it used to be, at one end of the orchard was the White God's palace, a place a woman raised as a peasant had never seen.
The wall dividing the orchard from the city was the first thing she didn't remember.
What peace she'd found in the familiar orchard fled as she looked at the charred, crumbling ruins of the once great city that lay beyond the wall.
She retraced her steps until she reached the tall walls outside of the orchard.
Her gaze flickered towards the other end of the orchard, where the White God's palace had been.
He made his way through the orchard and over the wall at the other end, stunned by the mess that had been the immortals' imperial city.
The ocean was visible; she estimated they were about half a mile from the orchard.
Jenn gasped, dismayed, as the wall around the orchard came into view.
They Traveled, stopping at the base of the tree at the center of the orchard.
He sheathed his weapons and Traveled to where the beach met the apple orchard.
She trotted away from him up the beach towards the marble obelisk that rose out of the orchard.
It slammed into the orchard, shaking the earth.
They struggled through the remains of the orchard as the earth rumbled and bucked.
The last time she'd seen the orchard, it'd been on fire.
The number of orchard trees increased nearly 100% within the same decade.
Orchard trees and grape-vines are widely distributed throughout the state, but with the exception of peaches their yield is greater in the northern portion.
For the pear orchard a warm situation is very desirable, with a soil deep, substantial, and thoroughly drained.
The cultivation of strawberries and vegetables (cabbage, cauliflower, beets, beans, tomatoes, egg-plant, cucumbers, water-melons, celery, &c.) for northern markets, and of orchard fruits, especially plums, pears and prunes, has likewise proved successful.
Other important crops in the order of their value are oats, hay and forage, Indian corn, barley, flax-seed, potatoes, rye, grass seeds, wild grass, clover, beans, peas, and miscellaneous vegetables and orchard products.