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In Canada, apple and other fruit orchards are widespread on the Niagara Peninsula, south of Lake Ontario.


Advenella kashmirensis

Advenella kashmirensis is a chemolithotrophic mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, bacterium from the genus of Advenella which was isolated from the soil of a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

Andy Orchard

Andrew 'Andy' Orchard, FRSC is a British academic and a leading expert in Old English, Norse and Celtic literature.

Anlene Orchard Mile

The Anlene Orchard Mile is a sporting event exclusive to women held in Singapore where women either run or walk a mile (1.6 kilometres) on a straight course down Singapore’s most famous and popular shopping street, Orchard Road.

Ben Camara

He made a further substitute appearance on 3 May 2003, in a 1–1 away to Lincoln City and was awarded young player of the year and a professional contract that summer (along with fellow trainees Kain Bond, Lucas Burgess, Graham Killoughery and Steven Orchard).

Buck Brothers

We Are Merely Filters (USA/UK/Canada) - Back2Forward/The Orchard (digitally released April 5, 2010), Cargo (physically released June 28, 2010)

Bush's Pasture Park

Today the park contains trails, picnic areas, playgrounds, tennis courts, natural groves of old Oregon White Oak trees, cherry and apple orchards, and a rose garden with over 2,000 roses.

Christopher Palles

The family lived in Mountjoy Square in Dublin, then moved out to Mount Anville in Clonskeagh to a site subsequently named "Knockrabo", where they cultivated a peach orchard, and to Fitzwilliam Place where a town-brick neo-gothic oratory was added (and can still be seen from Leeson Street).

Chuck Billy 'n' Folks

Lau (Nhô Lau) - Mr. Lau owns an orchard filled with Apple Guavas, which are frequently "visited" by Chuck and his friends, who steal his fruits.

Cottage City, Maryland

American forces were repulsed in a bitter fight in Mr. Moyer's orchards, an event that resulted ultimately in the burning of the nation's capital.

Domaine Pinnacle

Domaine Pinnacle is a family-owned orchard, cidery, and maple-grove located near the village of Frelighsburg in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Dulwich College Preparatory School

In 1938 headmaster John Leakey established an evacuation camp in the orchard on his father-in-law's land at Coursehorn, near Cranbrook, Kent, where the affiliated Dulwich Preparatory School still is today.

Estrus Records

They have released such bands as Marble Orchard (second single released by Estrus) Soledad Brothers, The Drags, The Mummies, Impala, Man or Astro-man?, the Makers, Gas Huffer, The Mooney Suzuki, DMBQ, The Cherry Valence, Midnight Evils, Mono Men, Federation X, The Trashwomen, Satan's Pilgrims, Immortal Lee County Killers, The Dexateens, and Southern Culture on the Skids.

Frederick Augustus Hely

Hely established a farm, which he called Wyoming, after he was granted almost 550 hectares of land at Narara, Brisbane Water in 1824, and, in doing so, became the first man to settle there permanently and to grow a citrus fruit orchard garden.

Fruit tree forms

A study on orchard mango trees in Nelspruit, South Africa, compared open vase, closed vase, central leader, palmette and standard pruning systems and recommended a modified pyramid, somewhere between a central leader and a closed vase system, for high-density mango orchards.

Gravenstein

Charles Ramage Prescott, the father of the Nova Scotian apple industry, grew Nova Scotia's first Gravensteins in his orchard at Acacia Grove.

Harlington, Bedfordshire

1830: the first English National Steeplechase on record was run from Bury Orchard to Wrest Park Obelisk.

Heart Bristol

Some of the 1980s DJs included Dave Glass, Trevor Fry, Bryan Chalker, John Hayes, Dave Barrett, Dave Bowen, Mark Seaman, Andy Westgate, Alan Roberts, Gary Vincent, Steve Orchard, Sandy Martin, Keith Francis, David Hamilton, Andy Henly and a returning Johnnie Walker.

Howard Charles

Painting A Wall (Finborough Theatre), The hounding of David Olwale (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Three Sisters (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Local Stigmatic (Edinburgh Festival), Les Jeudis (Centre Pompidou,Paris), Twelfth Night, The Lunatic Queen, Taniko, Measure for measure, Le Cid, The Cherry Orchard and Winslow Boy.

Indian Orchard

The Indian Orchard Branch Library, a historic landmark in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts

Jacob Aldrich House

The Aldrich family were Quakers and their community included their homes, businesses including the Jacob Aldrich Farm (and Orchard) at 389 Aldrich Street which is a light colored brick home made in a kiln nearby on River Road.

Julian Orchard

The role of Mr Oliver Pettigrew in the TV series Whack-O! was played by Julian Orchard in 1971 (having been created by Arthur Howard in 1956-60).

Nat Emerson

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in October 1874 to Henry & Edith Emerson, he moved to Yakima, Washington by 1911, where he owned an apple orchard.

Ngongotaha Chiefs

Over the years the club has seen many talented players but the most famous name associated with the club would be the Orchard brothers; Robert, Phillip, Eddie and John.

North Sheen Recreation Ground

Opened in June 1909 and extended in 1923, the recreation ground was originally part of an orchard belonging to the Popham Estate, owned by the Leyborne Pophams whose family seat was at Littlecote House, Wiltshire.

Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Old Orchard Beach is the twin city of the French seaside resort of Mimizan, as a reminder of Oiseau Canari, the pioneer aircraft crossing of the Atlantic by Assollant, Lefèvre and Lotti in 1929 to Oyambre (Cantabria, Spain).

Orchard City, Colorado

Orchard City is a Statutory Town in Delta County, Colorado, United States.

Orchard Court

Orchard Court is an apartment block situated on the eastern side of Portman Square in London.

Paradise, South Australia

The suburb, originally "Shepley", was named "Paradise" by Joseph Ind, who had an orange orchard on the banks of the nearby Torrens River, and was named for his "Paradise Bridge Hotel" after a property called Paradise near his native Tetbury.

Paula Red

Paula Red apples were discovered around 1960 by grower Lewis Arends near a McIntosh block in his orchard in Sparta Township, Kent County, Michigan.

Perry Township, Stark County, Ohio

Johnny Appleseed (Jonathan Chapman) planted the first orchard in Perry Township on the south side of the Canton–Massillon Road on the Daum Farm.

Piney Orchard, Maryland

Piney Orchard Ice Arena, located at the corner of Piney Orchard Boulevard and Riverscape Drive, had been the practice site for the Washington Capitals ice hockey team until 2006, when they moved to their newly built practice facility, Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Virginia.

Plum pox

In the fall of 1999, plum pox strain PPV-D was detected in an Adams County, Pennsylvania orchard.

RAF Northleach

Glider Training School left RAF Stoke Orchard and RAF Northleach for good relocating to RAF Exeter, Devon and its satellite of RAF Culmhead, Somerset.

Red-capped Parrot

Marri seeds are the preferred diet, but birds also extract seeds from Karri (Eucalyptus marginata), woody pear (Xylomelum), Grevillea, Hakea, and She-oak (Casuarina), as well as insects such as psyllids, and even orchard fruit such as apples and pears.

Saga 106.6 FM

These included John Peters, who launched Radio Trent (the East Midlands' first commercial radio station in 1975), Amanda Bowman, Tony Lyman, Tim Gough, Steve Merike, Paul Robey, Jeff Cooper, Andy Marriott, Ian Chilvers, Mark Burrows, Ron Coles, Steve Orchard, Tim Rogers, David Lloyd, Ashley Franklin, Peter Quinn, Sheila Tracy, 'Diddy' David Hamilton, Mike Wyer and Erica Hughes.

San Pietro, Perugia

Other works of art include works by Ventura Salimbeni, Eusebio da San Giorgio, Orazio Alfani, copies after Perugino, Girolamo Danti (sacristy, 1574), Giovanni Lanfranco, Mino da Fiesole (a marble with Young Jesus, St. John the Baptist and St. Hyeronimus, in the Vibi Chapel), a Jesus in the Orchard attributed to Guido Reni, two grand canvas by Giorgio Vasari, and a Pietà of Sebastiano dal Piombo's school.

Sarah Simblet

Her latest project, in collaboration with Gabriel Hemery, is to be called "The New Sylva - a discourse of forest and orchard trees in the 21st century" and is to be published in 2014 to mark the 350th anniversary of John Evelyn's work "Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber".

Sericomyrmex

zacapanus was first found on the clay banks of a small irrigating ditch in an orchard at Zacapa, Guatemala.

Stephen W. Wood

Acting/theater/performing experience includes an 'extra' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads (May 2007); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (September 2007); an 'extra' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising (November 2007); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, (August 2008);

Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery

Though tall hardwood trees of the Princeton Battlefield State Park and Institute Woods cover those fields today, the meeting house offered a clear line of sight to the opening skirmish at William Clarke’s orchard.

Warneford Meadow

Warneford Meadow also includes an orchard, on the northern border of the Meadow with the Warneford Hospital.

Whimple

The Whimple Wassail is an orchard-visiting wassail ceremony and was first mentioned by the Victorian author and folklorist; the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in his book Devon Characters and Strange Events (published 1908).

William Orchard

W. Arundel Orchard (William Arundel Orchard, 1867–1961), British-born Australian organist, composer and music educator

William Sandford

Exhausted by his repeated business failures, Sandford retired to Darling Point in 1908, later moving to an orchard in Castle Hill and then Eastwood.

William Wyndham

Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet (c. 1632–1683), of Orchard Wyndham, English politician, Member of Parliament for Somerset, 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679

Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (1687–1740), of Orchard Wyndham, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1713–1714, Member of Parliament for Somerset, 1710–1740


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