noun
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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 orchards in a Sentence
The staple crop is rice, but orchards and gardens are also common.
The mistletoe so extensively used in England at Christmas is largely derived from the apple orchards of Normandy; a quantity is also sent from the apple orchards of Herefordshire.
Orchards and fruit gardens are well developed; the crown maintains two model gardens.
The orchards stretched from the palace to the city and had been open to the public for immortals all over to visit and enjoy.
Neighbouring to the town are the ruined castle of Orkil, the watering-place Christiansminde, and the extensive orchards of Gammel Hestehave, where wine is produced.
You can go apple picking in one of the many area apple orchards.
It is prettily situated amongst orchards and possesses a cathedral.
The environs are fertile, the orchards producing excellent fruit.
Trade is chiefly in agricultural produce, wool and cider, as the district is rich in orchards.
Orchards and gardens occupy about i% of the cultivated area.
The district is devoted to marketgardening and orchards, and the trade of the town is mainly agricultural.
Nearby there were also orchards on which lead arsenates were almost certainly in use.
The great conservation concern for the welfare of the noble chafer is the continuing loss of old orchards.
The area is renowned for its fruit growing, particularly citrus fruits and has many orchards, olive groves and vineyards.
Apple orchards are plentiful in favored situations, especially adjoining the Herefordshire border, and oak coppice abounds.
If time permits we'll explore some freshwater marshland and orchards before returning to our hotel in the late afternoon.
This means that it is certain that cultivated apple orchards existed at least 3000 years ago.
The village is a surprise, too, tucked under a lone hill, with an unusual church surrounded by orchards.
Narrow straights through cherry orchards are broken up by tight bends cut through rock.
Disease was observed in almost all plum orchards in the region on leaves but not on fruit or twigs.
However, some of the fields show past use as cider orchards by the presence of gnarled Somerset varieties of apple trees.
The use of these blocks in mango orchards was shown to reduce losses from 20% to zero.
There were a number of apple and pear orchards on the farm which were falling into decline.
Phenological and isozyme studies have been used to compare levels of genetic diversity and mating patterns within seed orchards and living fence lines.
Many were only forced into indentured servitude, laboring in apple orchards for large landowners.
The land is fertile, with the volcanic soil being used to cultivate vineyards and orchards and to raise cattle.
But the great stretch of highly irrigated and valuable fruit-growing land, which appears to spread from the walls of Herat east and west as far as the eye can reach, and to sweep to the foot of the hills north and south with an endless array of vineyards and melon-beds, orchards and villages, varied with a brilliant patchwork of poppy growth brightening the width of green wheat-fields with splashes of scarlet and purple - all this is really comprised within a narrow area which does not extend beyond a ten-miles' radius from the city.
With the exception of Prospect and Pennant Hills, where there is an outburst of trap rock, the surface soil is the disintegration of the Wainamatta shale, which is well suited for orangeries and orchards.
The vale of Peshawar is for the most part highly irrigated and well wooded, presenting in the spring and autumn a picture of waving cornfields and smiling orchards framed by rugged hills.
In short, this is a country of hop-gardens, cherry, apple, pear, and filbert orchards, and quickset hedges.
Waste is recycled where possible and garden waste is shredded and used as mulch for the orchards.
Today, with help from past government incentives, orchards consist of dwarf rootstock trees, rarely growing beyond head height.
This includes the production of shiitake mushroom logs, apple juice and cider from unsprayed orchards planted with traditional English varieties.
Nearly every state has orchards open to the public during the harvest season, so search online for an orchard near you to pick your own apples.
The guided river tours pass by magnificent waterfront mansions, landmark lighthouses, vineyards and orchards.
Orchards and vineyards are popular sights along this sailing.
In Dr Aitchisons Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission it is described as a shrub or tree occurring at an elevation of 3000 feet and upwards, near running streams, and cultivated largely in orchards for its fruit.
It is a good soil conditioner, especially for pastures, lawns and fields, but also for fruits, vegetables and orchards.
The Orchards at Southington is a full service retirement community with many options for both independent and assisted living.
Harry & David was founded when Samuel Rosenberg, a successful hotel owner in Seattle, Washington, traded his luxurious Hotel Sorrento for 240 acres of pear orchards in Southern Oregon's Rogue River Valley.
Bear Creek Orchards was eventually taken over in 1914 by his two sons, Harry and David, who had both studied agriculture at Cornell University.
Today Harry & David still grows and selects fruits from their own orchards in Medford, Oregon.
Around the villages are extensive cultivated fields and orchards, containing fig, pomegranate and orange trees.
The city lies in a fertile valley shut in by vine-clad hills, and the picturesque red sandstone buildings of the old town are interspersed with orchards and gardens.
There are excellent nurseries and orchards in the neighbourhood of Troyes, Bar-sur-Seine, Mery-sur-Seine and Brienne.
The peasants proper received their houses and orchards, and allotments of arable land.
The plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar, Herbst) in America causes endless harm in plum orchards; curculios in Australia ravage the vines and fruit trees (Orthorrhinus klugii, Schon, and Leptops hopei, Bohm, &c.).
There were vineyards and orchards (broli) on land reclaimed from the sea, and lying between the various clusters of houses, which had not yet been consolidated into one continuous city.
Water is plentiful in the Elburz, and situated in well-watered valleys and gorges are innumerable flourishing villages, embosomed in gardens and orchards, with extensive cultivated fields and meadows, and at higher altitudes small plateaus, under snow until March or April, afford cool camping grounds to the nomads of the plains, and luxuriant grazing to their sheep and cattle during the summer.
Though not uncommonly frequenting gardens and orchards, in which as well as in woods it builds its nest, it is exceedingly shy in its habits, so as seldom to afford opportunities for observation.