If I go down to the orchard and bring up from the apple tree another toad to dwell in the hole of the hickory, I shall fail.
I had just drawn her chain-pin when down the road through the orchard behind me came the fox, hopping high up and down, his neck stretched, his eye peeled for poultry.
Illustration: Orchard Nest of Mourning Dove] Frequently when the dogs are working a stubble field they put to flight small flocks of turtle doves (Zenaidura macroura).
Nothing but the garden and orchard left, of all their vast lands where they used to pasture thirty thousand sheep.
Flanders, and planted a Cherry orchard at Teynham.
Rennie says that Montbeillard seems inclined to derive the name of Pomona from its being the orchard of these goose-bearing trees.
The Black Walnut will not let anything grow under it, and if planted in an orchard will kill all the Apple-trees in its neighbourhood.
Solomon speaks of "an orchard of Pomegranates with pleasant fruits.
A loud shout completes the ceremony, which is repeated till all the trees in the orchard have been encircled; after which the men proceed to the homestead, and sing at the owner's door a song common for the occasion.
Over in the adjoining orchard I saw a kingbird light on her nest in the very top of an apple tree; and I have no doubt that, if I had climbed up to it, I would have seen three beautiful cream-white eggs blotched with chocolate-brown.
Illustration: THE JEWEL-BOX OF THE WOOD PEWEE] It was at twilight, and I stood on the edge of an old orchard where grew a white-oak tree.
So Oswald and Dicky braved the fury of the elements and went into the wood beyond the orchard to cut ash-sticks.
Oswald said-- 'The first thing is to get all the creatures together; the paddock at the side of the orchard is the very place, because the hedge is good all round.
So we went out to where the orchard is, at the other side of the moat.
The orchard slopes gently down to the dark waters of the moat.
The rays of the afternoon sun were beaming along the orchard grass when at last we launched the raft.
We had hop-poles from the hop-garden beyond the orchard to punt with.
I afterwards gave the rifle to Sergeant Coe, the bravest of many brave men, who carried it when he fell at the head of his platoon in the immortal charge on the orchard at Festubert.
In the corner of every farmyard and orchard you will find crosses marking graves, black for the Germans, and white for our soldiers.
The pleasant furniture of spring was set in all the fields, And sweet and wholesome all the herbs and flowers; Our simple cloth, my dear, was spread with all the orchard yields, And frugal only were the passing hours.
He was constantly on the wing through the wood in search of insects, and very often strayed to the orchard of Home Farm, where fat green caterpillars, most luscious morsels, were to be found among the currant bushes.
Little girls each Shall have a peach, Boys shall have grapes that hang just out of reach-- Nothing's to pay, whatever you eat Of the fruit that grows in my Orchard Street.
The fruit hangs ripe, the fruit hangs sweet, High and low in my Orchard Street, Apples and pears, cherries and plums, Something for everyone who comes.
Of course," I said, "I know that that infamous old man was taken prisoner with some of the French in the orchard of San Diego.
The batteries of the orchard were no longer serviceable, and it was necessary to take away the cannon, an operation performed by our valiant men, exposed without protection to the hostile fire.
Other attacks took place, with better results for them, at our right, toward the orchardof Camporeal and the batteries of Los Martires.
You know that when the enemy was repulsed in the orchard of San Diego some prisoners were taken.
Just back of us was the Casa los Duendes, close by the Convent of San Francisco, and opposite the college of San Diego, with its orchard surrounded by high mud walls which opened upon irregular and narrow alleys.
Well, in the orchard of the convent at the back is where the Lieutenant Don Miguel Gila died.
Numerous specimens of both sexes at night on roadside Hibiscus rosa-sinensis or low herbage in orchard (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
Male on low herbage in orchard at night; under sacking; on Hibiscus at night (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
Males in orchard on low herbage at night; females under refuse and in grass (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
Jim," said Mr. Richardson, "you will find plenty of those early apples down in the orchard if you care for them.
So Mr. Hall started through the orchard and came spat upon Winnie by the wild rose bush, on the orchard wall.
The country between the Forest and Torteval church is but thinly supplied with wood, and notwithstanding the orchard scenery is much less than elsewhere, the fruit is considered of a sharper and better flavour.
It is here the excellent seedling apple called "la Pomme Susanne," or Mollet Pippin was raised, named from a former proprietor, who left an orchard rich with a variety of sorts.
The district is nearly the same as we have just past, with the exception of the orchard scenery being much more florid, the fields sheltered with trees, and the ground much better dairy land.
The orchard scenery is florid, and the ground exceedingly good from being stimulated by the invigorating salts of the vraic, and the cyder has been considered the best in the island.
With the exception of the orange, lemon, and cherry, all the other orchard trees ripen their fruit too late for the winter resident.
Near to La Croisette is the entrance to the orange orchard “Des Hesperides,” occupying 4 acres.
Paillon there is a large gate which gives access to the orchard of the Villa Clery, containing some orange trees above 100 years old, yet in the whole plantation there is not one well-developed specimen.
The special detective of one of the railroads and a detective of the Mine Owners' Association were known to have employed Orchard and other criminals.
When Orchard first went to Denver to seek work from the officials of the Western Federation of Miners he was given a railroad pass by these detectives and the money to pay his expenses.
Portman, of Orchard Portman in Somerset, who bought the estate of the manor.
York Place, Baker Street, andOrchard Street form a long line cutting straight through from Marylebone Road to Oxford Street.
You are to know that in these days I lay out a patch of orchard near my house, very much to the improvement, as all the household affirm, of our homestead.
The nest of the orchard oriole is indeed mainly so, but this bird generally builds lower and shallower, more after the manner of the vireos.
Did you think that loud, sonorous hammering which proceeded from the orchard or from the near woods on that still March or April morning was only some bird getting its breakfast?
The Seddons had a big old farmhouse modified to modern ideas of comfort on the road out towards Misterton, with an orchard that had been rather pleasantly subdued from use to ornament.
I expect to get to the Shore again when the last of the builders leave the bluff, when the bit of anorchard can run itself, and the big and little trees are at home.
Tits will also sometimes have recourse to the orchard in times of drought, in order to quench their thirst by bites at the fruit.
It cannot be denied either that it pecks young fruit of all kinds, and later pulls it off the trees, and if not driven away, considerable damage is done, especially if the orchard lies within a district where Crows abound.
In the garden and orchard of the latter there is always a far greater allowance of fruit than in those of the former.
The hens must be kept from roving, and the orchard must be watched.
It is not at all shy, and one of the most beautiful things in bird-life I have ever seen was a number of Orioles flitting from tree to tree in an orchard situated amongst vineyards on the hilly banks of the Danube in Baranya.
It is man who makes the bird useful or hurtful to himself, when he tears up the turf, and sows such seed as brings rich crops which serve the bird for food; or when he plants an orchard or vineyard, where there was none before.
