old orchard

collocation in English

meaningsofoldandorchard

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old
adjective
uk
/əʊld/us
/oʊld/
having lived or existed for ...
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orchard
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.tʃəd/us
/ˈɔːr.tʃɚd/
an area of land where fruit trees (but not orange trees or other citrus trees) ...
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(Definition ofoldandorchardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Consulting fellow farmers, technicians, and textbooks along the way, he planted new mango and papaya varieties in theoldorchard, and installed canal irrigation for vegetable production.
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He sees her when he is walking through anoldorchardand hears her playing the violin.
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The flora of theoldorchardsward was dominated by primroses and violets.
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Members of the family gradually left the valley until only the mother and two youngest daughters remained raising barley and cultivating theiroldorchard.
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She and her husband rebuilt the old studio which is located in a secluded valley amongst theoldorchardtrees.
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Near the house was anoldorchard, large fields provided plenty of space for the children to play and for a garden, and the property stood beside a wooded area.
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First, wildlife conditions were improved through removal of several miles of wire fencing; water sources were improved and added;oldorchardtrees were pruned to restore their productivity.
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The whole mansion was composed of three parts, while a bigger area was occupied by anoldorchardwhich partially was left preserved to our days.
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The nature center includes wet and dry meadows, two ponds, wet and dry woodlands, dense thickets, anoldorchard, and a cattail marsh, as well as a 4000sqft m2 greenhouse.
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It is the dirty fruit which comes from many of these old orchards that provides the glut in a surplus year.
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Assistance under countryside stewardship currently supports over 700 old orchards.
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Apples were once grown extensively in my constituency, but there are now only a few vestiges left of the old orchards.
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If he would seriously consider a once-for-all-time elimination of these old orchards, rather than the rotational grubbing grants, that would be far more helpful.
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Another point on which we are not satisfied is this question of the one-third grant for grubbing-up old orchards on agricultural holdings.
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It would be to the benefit of the country if many of the old orchards were grubbed out and were replanted, not with trees but with other crops.
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It is not really good fruit, and if these old orchards could be got rid of, it would assist the industry substantially in moving towards a minimum grade.
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Waste ground, old orchards and old fields—all these can be ploughed up with this grant and, sown with a grass crop, can produce the acres of grazing we need.
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Old orchards in grassland are explored as well.
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Located on of former farmland, the flat bottoms and rolling hills provide open fields, old orchards and small forest lots.
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