Researchers raised vedalia beetles to use in orchards that had outbreaks of cottony cushion scale. |
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On this island are palaces, palm trees, pomegranate orchards, and huge water buffalo. |
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Air-blast sprayers, which are commonly used to apply insecticides and fungicides in orchards, produce a relatively high number of small droplets. |
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You can never forget the beautiful landscapes of hills, vineyards, olive groves, almond orchards and endless wheat fields. |
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Everywhere there were date palm groves, olive, banana, orange, lemon and grapefruit orchards, as well as well kept and well irrigated fields. |
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Hens scurried in tiny apple orchards amid signs advertising Calvados and farm cider. |
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After a gorgeous drive, past dozens of fruit orchards, I reached the campground. |
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If you can't make it to the orchards this year but would like to re-create a little of that harvest fun at home, try making some candied apples. |
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In Pacific Northwest fruit growing regions, common mullein often is abundant on the perimeter of pome and stonefruit orchards. |
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Sullivan's group laid waste to innumerous acres of cornfields and fruit tree orchards, leaving a burnt-out scarred countryside. |
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They cause damage to orchards, vineyards, melon patches, cornfields, peanut fields, and chicken yards. |
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Australian growers remain concerned about the risk of the disease fireblight being introduced to their orchards. |
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In the Kearneysville orchards last summer, kaolin-coated trees photosynthesized up to 30 percent faster than uncoated trees, says Glenn. |
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To fight the codling moth, the pesticide is sprayed on some 73 percent of apple orchards in the country. |
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The following May, they observed parasitism of leaf rollers in the apple orchards near the three garden sites. |
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The 38-year-old rice-grower plans to convert his 2,000 square metres of rice paddy into fruit orchards. |
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The open landscape is harmoniously composed of grain fields, rice paddies, orchards, rape fields and vineyards. |
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Smart new roads are lined with fields of cabbages, radishes and ginseng, apple orchards and greenhouses filled with roses. |
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Apple orchards thrive in the mountains and are great fall fun for the whole family. |
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She could see apple orchards with ruby red fruit hanging from yellowed leaves. |
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The lower region with its more fertile land is home to many market gardens, orchards and vineyards. |
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Scores of houses were destroyed and much of the village's cultivated land and orchards were bulldozed. |
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Paddy fields and orchards have given way to shopping plazas and industrial buildings. |
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A stream ran through it, and around it were fields, orchards and small woods, or coppices. |
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Grass grows well enough there, but it's usually found in raggedly in orchards, or on fields for animals to eat. |
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The country is sufficiently fertile, covered with corn fields and orchards, and intersected by sudden acclivities with flat summits. |
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Fruits such as apples, apricots, quinces, figs, pears, cherries, berries, and grapes grew in orchards or the river valleys. |
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Its great stone ramparts had a probable total circuit of a third of a mile and were surrounded by a 14-acre estate which included six orchards. |
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The wilderness of saltbush and scrub has given way to orchards and vineyards, to wheats and rice. |
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The rain is expected to give some respite to the withering kharif crops and orchards in Himachal. |
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After graduating he cofounded a kibbutz, working with others to transform deserts into green pastures and orchards. |
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And yet it is here, among the apple orchards and farms, that an Italian winemaker has set up shop and is making a name for himself. |
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I was wonderstruck when I learnt that the place now known as Silicon Valley once had an opulence of orchards. |
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The foothills are wooded, except in the south, and shelter valleys with vineyards and orchards. |
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We took a long drive through blossoming orchards and fields strewn with tiny spring flowers. |
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Apple and pear orchards were planted, as were plum thickets between some holes. |
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In the valleys there are orchards, and up on the high pastures, where not even barley will grow, people husband yaks, cows or sheep. |
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Here, turn left on to SH 60, which passes through orchards of apples, hops and grapes. |
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Between the outer wall and the city are four leagues of land filled with farms, orchards and houses. |
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Thousands of acres are painstakingly planted in tidy orchards, trellises and rows. |
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Puerto Rican farmers have established about 2,000 acres of mango orchards in response to increased demand for these fruits. |
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After that wake-up call, we cruise alertly through a terraced landscape of peach and apple orchards. |
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All of Kinnaur is dotted with apple orchards and the region boasts the best cider in the land. |
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From his orchards comes a rich apple juice, now sold under his own name in Superquinn. |
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Fruit, nut and berry orchards will be expanded as will the vegetable, herb and flower gardens. |
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We have more than 100 Asian pear trees in one of our orchards, and it's well-known that Asian pears are a smorgasbord for the coddling moth. |
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They are common in forest clearings, wetlands, edges, residential areas, orchards, and stands of Russian olive. |
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The city was able to tap into water from the nearby man-made Big Bear Lake to create its orange orchards. |
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There were orchards along the terrace and we had a back garden with trees and a view of the River Dodder. |
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Companies will now begin to buy out farms, coffee plants and tea gardens and orchards. |
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As we come up over a rise, endless cultivated orchards stretch for many kilometres against a backdrop of blue mountain ridges. |
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The Forclaz snakes through fields of hay and orchards of burgeoning apples. |
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They are attracted specially by mature oaks and elms scattered about country parks but also visit orchards and alder carrs. |
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I've found that tent caterpillars and army webworms come into orchards in spotlike fashion. |
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Every year I visit apple orchards in one or the other region and taste as many heirloom varieties as I can. |
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When I approached the town I discovered that gardens and orchards hedged it in. |
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The slopes are covered with thick forests while the basins hold orchards, fields and picturesque hamlets. |
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Fertile orchards of oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit abound throughout the island. |
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It dramatically speeds up the planting of community gardens and orchards with higher-yielding trees bearing better-quality fruits. |
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The orchards are hosting farm tours that include educational opportunities with hayrides, pick your own apples, and other farm activities. |
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Cultivated varieties are propagated clonally and very often a single genotype is planted in orchards. |
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The reserve is a microcosm of the characteristic old Herefordshire landscape comprising hay meadows and orchards enclosed by thick hedgerows. |
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With the population surge, the springs were diverted to municipal uses and the streams dried up leaving once irrigated orchards as parched lands. |
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She smells of dogwood and the orchards where she spent her childhood reading in the summer shade of a fruit tree. |
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Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom. |
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Cherry blossoms were in full bloom while orchards started producing the fine small red fruits. |
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The island is beautiful, with vineyards covering the rolling hills and orchards of olives and fruit trees texturing the mountainsides. |
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Around the plant stretched miles of vineyards, farms, orchards, and unreclaimed desert. |
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The sprayed orchards showed a significantly lower insect infestation and fruit damage compared to unsprayed orchards. |
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Their action comes in the middle of the cherry picking season and has forced growers into the orchards to harvest their own crop. |
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The plan had been to drive south all morning, stopping off at various orchards and demonstration fields along the way. |
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Hoopoes breed across most of Europe, except Scandinavia, favouring open country and clumps of old trees including pollard willows, meadows orchards and olive plantations. |
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When Giuseppe arrived in the valley, apple orchards were the cash crop, not vines. |
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I was immediately teleported to Roma where I had several olive orchards. |
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The gardens, nurseries, orchards, walled garden, arboretum, ice house, oyster farm and barnacle goose sanctuary will all, in time, be revived thoroughly. |
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The European serin inhabits wooded and shrubby hillsides, and also utilizes well-vegetated agricultural areas, such as vineyards, orchards, and plantations. |
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Prime times to visit the county are without doubt during the Spring, when the blossoming apple orchards are a blaze of colour, or in the Autumn, during the harvest. |
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Set in acres of olive groves and fruit orchards and reached by an unsurfaced road, it was tucked away with only a handful of locals knowing where to find it. |
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The bucolic countryside along the Niagara River features a large number of wineries and orchards and the road is lined with fruit stands, featuring fresh Ontario produce. |
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Despite the significance of carabids in orchard habitats there have been few published studies of species diversity in the 27,000 ha of Canadian tree fruit orchards. |
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The castle stood on the point of a hill and sloping down on all sides were verdant hayfields, olive groves, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, and vineyards. |
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The Afghans have lost their pomegranate orchards to poppy fields. |
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A lush island, Tobago is awash with colour, from the orchids, heliconia and hibiscus tumbling over garden walls to the fruit orchards and cocoa plantations of the interior. |
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More than 90 percent of this 2,000-year-old oasis town, surrounded by date palms, orange orchards and henna in the desert separating Iran from Pakistan, has been destroyed. |
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We cycled through the pine forests and rolling hills of apple orchards of Himachal Pradesh to the holy city of Manikaran, a town built around hot sulphur springs. |
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A young local couple, after years of experimenting, is taking the produce from its orchards and opening a craft apple cidery, complete with tasting room. |
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Their function as polyphagous predators within orchards was recognized in the 1800's, and several species are known to prey on key tree fruit pests. |
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It was sheer physical pleasure, freewheeling or skimming along with minimum effort through meadows, orchards, vineyards, woods and tiny towns with squares and window boxes. |
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Witherslack's Windfall Co-Operative is adding value to the local damson crop by making handmade preserves with fruit from orchards within the parish. |
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These days pear orchards and wine grapevines dot some of the hillsides. |
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Vineyards and orchards flourish, and sheep and goats graze the hills. |
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Known for being one of the most beautiful areas in the Lone Star State, the region is filled with bluebonnets and peach orchards. |
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Spiders as potential predators of leafroller larvae and egg masses in Central Washington apple and pear orchards. |
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From Chinese apple orchards and lone trees, Pemberton gathered dry, mummified remains of ermine moth caterpillars. |
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By 1200 part of it had been walled off by Westminster Abbey for use as arable land and orchards. |
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As more local farm stands and orchards are gobbled up by condominiums and strip malls, connections with our food sources seem to go with them. |
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The 30 acre estate is home to magnificent gardens, vegetable patches and orchards, with splendid views across the Southern Alps. |
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Thistly Cross Cider have asked for donations from homes across Scotland, as well as from large apple orchards. |
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It also does not have a wind machine, and most orchards no longer use kerosene filled smudge pots to burn to warm the trees. |
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Far mers would find boxes of Granny Smiths left in their stables to replace those scrumped from orchards by school boys with dirty knees. |
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Parakeets literally raid soft fleshy fruit orchards such as Dates, Sidr, Mango, Guava, Sapota, Pomegranate etc. |
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Two orchards in California, one near Firebaugh and the other near Madera, were selected for replanting experiments. |
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The orchards of peaches with the lush fruit weighting down the dwarfed trees. |
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Chemical alternatives to malathion for controlling Ceratitis capitata, and their side effects on natural enemies in Spanish citrus orchards. |
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In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs. |
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The south shore of Lake Ontario provides the right mix of soils and microclimate for many apple, cherry, plum, pear and peach orchards. |
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The land is productive, especially for fruit orchards producing guavas, tejocote, apples, limes, quince and more. |
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The gardens date back to medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace. |
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They have contributed to the development of the county, for example through seasonal working in orchards. |
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There are many orchards around the county but not as many as there once were. |
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Apple orchards were once plentiful, and Somerset is still a major producer of cider. |
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Tulips are most commonly found in meadows, steppes and chaparral, but also introduced in fields, orchards, roadsides and abandoned gardens. |
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It is often found cultivated in coppices and orchards and more rarely found in forests stand. |
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Many commercial orchards pursue a program of chemical sprays to maintain high fruit quality, tree health, and high yields. |
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Bumblebee queens are sometimes present in orchards, but not usually in enough quantity to be significant pollinators. |
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Orchard mason bees are also used as supplemental pollinators in commercial orchards. |
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Used to be apple orchards, used to be the river and irrigation ditches that watered the apples, used to be mining towns. |
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Unlike Tulips, narcissi bulbs are not attractive to rodents and are sometimes planted near tree roots in orchards to protect them. |
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It is usually found in mature deciduous woodland is also found in scrubby areas, hedgerows, orchards and plantations. |
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A NETWORK of pruners has been set up to help regenerate long-lost orchards in Powys. |
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Parts of Normandy consist of rolling countryside typified by pasture for dairy cattle and apple orchards. |
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He added that methyl eugenol was applied for trapping male flies while protein hydrolysate for trapping female flies in the orchards. |
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La Residencia set in the hilltop village of Deia, the Mallorcan cradle of art, has gorgeous individual villas set amidst lush orange orchards and olive groves. |
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And he did it all on a meagre budget of seven francs a day, surviving mostly on milk, water and fruit either bought from roadside sellers or scrumped from roadside orchards. |
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Most nobles' wealth derived from one or more estates, large or small, that might include fields, pasture, orchards, timberland, hunting grounds, streams, etc. |
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As far as the eye can see, one observes nothing but loquat orchards growing luxuriantly on the low, rich land, where the roots never suffer from lack of water. |
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I wandered on until I came to a sumptuous palace with a garden adorned with fountains and fishponds, and groves and flowers, and orchards laden with delicious fruit. |
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The county is famous for its apple and pear orchards, and its cider. |
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Major commercial cherry orchards in Europe are in Turkey, Italy, Spain and other Mediterranean regions, and to a smaller extent in the Baltic States and southern Scandinavia. |
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Certain areas of the state have large orchards producing peaches, strawberries, cactus pear, avocado, grapes, apples, quince, walnuts, apricots and guava. |
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