Disembarking at Queenston landing, and climbing the steep hill, they marched through smiling orchards and green country roads to the bloody field of Lundy's Lane, where many of them ended life's march for ever.
The delicate-veined white triliums and May-apples took the place of the snowdrifts in the woods; and the air was fragrant and the orchards were abloom with the soft pink and white apple-blossoms.
That’s not as good a rate as some of theorchards offer.
That must be a fair price, even if some of the larger orchards pay two cents.
Several other orchards remain to be picked too,” Mr. McLean said to the Brownie leader.
He told them he very much needed pickers because some of the larger orchards had hired most of the Mexican pickers.
I am never much use in quarrying or building, but I come in strong in the hay-fields or the appleorchards or the orange groves.
At the mouths of the streams and on the frequent "benches" and islands, orchards and gardens attest the enterprise and patience of the settlers.
The view to the rear was less open; the town being partially hidden by the fruit-laden orchards that lined the intervening high road, and hung principally on its left.
Our wild fruit was forgot, when apple-boughs Bore grafts, and thirsty orchards (art divine!
A pleasant country-seat, whose orchards yield Sweet fruit to be my Delia's willing care, While our full corn-crop in the sultry field Stands ripe and dry!
My plenteousorchards fear no pelf or harm, By red Priapus sentinelled; By his huge sickle's formidable charm The bird thieves are dispelled.
Dick was for ever robbing orchards and being chased by irate farmers.
But the next morning was a glorious one, although the roads were full of puddles and strewn with plum-blossom ravaged from the orchards by those nocturnal blasts.
There are the loveliest gardens in the rear of this old manor-house, with orchards of apples and pears and wall-fruit beyond, and an older wing by a century or so.
Orchards were the one kind of plantation I had most carefully studied, and of all fruits pears were those upon which I had specialised most.
In the orchards our men were plying their axes or girdling the heavily-fruited trees; field after field of grain was fired, and the flames swept like tides across them.
I said there were orchards out here where they didn't know us," said Erebus, biting into a Ribston pippin.
There are orchardsover there where they don't know us," said Erebus wistfully.
Its endless orchards made a dim horizon-line, over which rose the solitary double-headed mountain of Felaniche, and the tops of some peaks near Arta.
When the woods opened we caught glimpses of the green grain-fields and orchards in blossom.
It may have been that these orchards were planted in grass while the trees were too young.
The cultivation of old orchards may vary somewhat from that given younger ones.
From whatever standpoint we may regard the gathering of the crops, in orchards of good varieties, the best plan for the removal of the nuts is to take them off, in so far as possible, by hand.
For setting orchards a number of different systems may be used, but the two best adapted to the pecan orchard, are the square or rectangular and the hexagonal or septuple.
Their tillage is clean and deep; and in their orchards one always finds the best varieties of fruits.
The farm has been put in excellent order: there are extensive orchardsof large and small fruits; and plantations of ornamental trees shelter the lawn about the dwelling.
Moreover, it contains a pleasant pleasure-garden, and is surrounded by fine, productive orchards and by well-tilled fields.
The orchards are in fine order, and were laden with fruit when I saw them in June, 1873.
A century ago Robert Kerr Porter, who visited the city, referred to the luxurious gardens and orchards that surrounded it, and to the villages of the vicinity in which were made "carpets of most beautiful colour and fabric.
Apes live up there, wild mischievous creatures, who descend to steal from the orchards below, but are so shy that they are hardly ever seen of men.
North of Paris we have seen orchards of apple and cherry trees, but farther south, as we rush along, we get into a land of vineyards, where rows of little vines are being cultivated on every foot of ground on the hillsides.
The land did not lie so far north but that it had bright springs and sunny summers, and all through the valleys lay pretty little villages surrounded with orchards and fields and meadows.
And although Poutrincourt was a loyal Frenchman, still he never looked back regretfully to France, for he found, amid the pleasant meadows and blossoming orchards of Acadia, a greater peace than he had ever known in his old home.
A generation later than this Marshall[436] noted that in Herefordshire the management of orchards and their produce was far from being well understood, though 'it has ever borne the name of the first cider county'.
Kent was then, as now, the great fruit county of England; 'above all others I think the Kentishmen be most apt and industrious in planting orchards with pippins and cherries, especially near the Thames about Feversham and Sittingbourne.
It is a great deficiency in England that we have not more orchards planted.
Herefordshire Orchards a Pattern for All England (ed.
The house was shaded from above by a grove of ilexes and oaks; lower down wereorchards of olives, wild plums, cornels, apples.
This neighbourhood is celebrated for its fruit; and certainly nothing could appear more flourishing than the vineyards and the orchards of figs, peaches, and olives.
The orchards produce an overflowing abundance of peaches figs, and grapes.
The orchards were beautiful, presenting one mass of peach-blossoms.
In Maryland and Virginia, peaches grow nearly wild inorchards resembling forests; but the fruit is of little value for the table, being employed only in fattening hogs and for the distillation of peach brandy.
In that part of Spain there are very extensive orchards of these oranges, which form the chief wealth of the monasteries.
Heathen nations invented protective divinities for their orchards (such as Pomona, Vertumnus, Priapus, &c.
Trees in orchards should be twenty-five feet apart.
Their long wigwams were beginning to give place to framed houses with chimneys; their extensive fields were planted with corn and beans; and their orchards yielded apples, pears, and peaches in immense profusion.
The city reached only from the Battery as far as Chatham Street, whence the Bowery Lane ran northwestwardly to Bloomingdale through a country smiling with orchards and gardens.
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