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A peach orchard in bloom [ca. 1950] The most extensive orchards in the United States are apple and orange orchards, although citrus orchards are more commonly called groves. The most extensive apple orchard area is in eastern Washington state, with a lesser but significant apple orchard area in most of Upstate New York.
Palm grove at Orihuela, Spain. The main meaning of grove is a group of trees that grow close together, generally without many bushes or other plants underneath. [1] It is an old word in the English language, with records of its use dating as far back as the late 9th century as Old English grāf, grāfa ('grove; copse') and subsequently Middle English grove, grave; these derive from Proto-West ...
Negative citrus greening tree vs positive citrus greening tree. Symptoms of citrus greening are numerous, and can be varied in citrus trees. A tree will develop yellow shoots instead of the expected deep green colors. The disease presents itself on the leaves by giving an asymmetrical blotchy-mottle appearance.
The fruit is a small drupe 1–2.5 cm (3 ⁄ 8 –1 in) long when ripe, thinner-fleshed and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars. Olives are harvested in the green to purple stage. [ 13 ] O. europaea contains a pyrena commonly referred to in American English as a "pit", and in British English as a "stone".
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The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's orchard in the west, where either a single apple tree or a grove grows, producing golden apples. According to the legend, when the marriage of Zeus and Hera took place, the different deities came with nuptial presents for the latter, and among them the goddess Gaia , with branches having golden apples ...
You can roast potatoes or you can bake them. Same with chicken. Vegetables too to some extent, although the jury seems in on the superiority of roasted root vegetables with their crispy ...
A chestnut orchard is an open stand of grafted chestnut (selva castanile) trees for fruit production. In this agroforestry system, trees are usually intercropped with cereals, hay or pasture. [ 1 ] These orchards are traditional systems in Canton of Ticino ( Switzerland ) and Northern Italy , where they are called “selva castanile”.