Lexic.us

Definition of Orchard apple tree

1. Noun. Native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orchard Apple Tree

Literary usage of Orchard apple tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1905)
"... or the Apple Orchard. Apple-Tree Yard, St. James's Square, is not so named from a sign of the which St. James's Fields were famous so late apple-tree, ..."

2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"It is large leaved and stout of stature, with pink-flushed blossoms, like an orchard apple tree. But its woolly surfaces are often roughly rusty; ..."

3. Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests ... with Methods of by Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1891)
"Standard orchard Apple tree, 20 in. circumference, syringed with Paris-green after (but not" before) blooming. " Results.—Very little fruit. ..."

4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"... bearing" rose-tree measures sometimes a foot and a half in circumference, with a large umbrageous head like an orchard apple-tree of 20 years' growth. ..."

5. Physical Geography by Mary Somerville (1854)
"At Sierra Leone this tree does not grow larger than an orchard apple tree." London. A 'in r. Lat. adeo, I approach. A horizontal shaft or passage in a mine, ..."

6. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"At Sierra Leone, this tree does not grow larger than an orchard apple- tree. 1110. Of the bark of the infunda tree, and also of the ..."

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