While peach orchards blossom and bear fruit six months of the year in the south, most of this pretty pink-cheeked fruit grows in the great valleys, or along the Sacramento River.
She stands again by a garden wall, The peach tree is in bloom, pink blossoms fall, Water sings from an opened tap, the bees Glisten and murmur among the trees.
Gwyn did not need any further telling, and the peach disappeared, the stone being sent flying into the sea.
The next day we returned to our camp at Peach Tree Creek, having made a complete circuit of the two armies of Hood and Sherman.
Perversely blended with that vision of the blooming peach is a glimpse of a pet deer in the kitchen of the same little house, with its head up and its antlers erect, as if he meditated offence.
She had stewed chicken for dinner, with plenty of gravy, and hot biscuits to sop in, and peach preserves afterward; and she kept helping him to more, because she said boys that followed the circus around got dreadfully hungry.
The Government wanted folks to all start saving up peach seeds and nut hulls for the soldiers.
I climbed up into Clyde's lap so I could see the peachpickles and jelly Mama had put on the table.
What's Grandpa and peach seeds got to do with the Armistice?
One hot evening late in August, Toby was reading the newspaper on the stoop and Red Jacket was smoking under a peach tree and I was fiddling.
Shuffles led the way down the gravelled walk, till he came to a brook, on the bank of which stood the peach tree whose rich fruit had tempted the young gentlemen to invade the territory of Mr. Lowington with intent to plunder.
It was only a dagger of the mind, such as Baird talks about," answered Shuffles, as he crawled towards the peach tree.
That night thepeach thieves were arrested, and put in the lock-up.
This peach tree was a choice variety, in whose cultivation the owner had been making an elaborate experiment.
Apple and peach brandy was a most profitable investment; especially if apple brandy, with a few peaches in it, could be palmed off on the thirsty darkies as peach brandy.
And that night as his boat left the cove its freight was increased by many pounds of mutton and something less than two gallons of peach brandy.
Peach brandy was a luxury in the South and sold at a dollar a gallon.
Mike did not at once agree, but when a couple of gallons of peach brandy was named as a consideration, he consented.
Seating himself on a block of rock, that lay under the peach trees in that quarter, he opened the Hui Chen Chi and began to read it carefully from the beginning.
You will look lightly upon the three springs and regard the blush of the peach and the green of the willow as of no avail.
Piggott lingered a moment behind the rest, and looking back over his shoulder said, "That peach garden was what fetched us!
Richard gave a loud laugh, for the peach garden had been a horticultural invention of his own.
Gerard teaches "that a syrup or strong infusion of Peach flowers doth singularly well purge the belly, and yet without grief or trouble.
In Italy Peach leaves are applied to a wart, and then buried, so that they and the wart may perish simultaneously.
In Sicily there is a belief that anyone afflicted with goitre, who eats a Peach on the night of St. John, or the Ascension, will be cured, provided only that the Peach tree dies at the same time.
When freshly gathered, it has but little odour, but when dried it exhales a delightful and lasting aroma, like the scent of meadow grass, or of peach blossoms.
A syrup of Peach flowers was formerly a preparation recognised by apothecaries.
When bruised the plant, and especially its root, smells like peach kernels, or prussic acid.
The Peach (Amygdabus Persica), the apple of Persia, began to be cultivated in England about 1562, or perhaps before then.
Peach pie, owing to the abundance of the fruit, is as common fare in an American farm-house, as apple pie in an English homestead.
The Peach tree is so well known by its general characteristics as not to need any particular description.
I remember two dishes they had was peach family pie and honey.
We went right over the summit of Cemetery Ridge, by the Peach Orchard and High Water Mark.
We remained here several weeks and enjoyed the fruit of a 300 acre peach orchard.
I had talked to the old lady some during the day and found out that she was a sister of Peach Wolf, who had been on our circuit at my home and had preached a funeral in our family.
I am not aware that Mr. ---- ever knew that his excellent well water was provided for him by the magic power of a morsel of whalebone and a peach twig.
The Judge cut three forked branches from a peach tree, each took one and we marched over the spot indicated, holding our rods according to the approved style of the "dowser" proper.
Peach meats or almonds steeped in brandy are very good spice for custards.
Boil your melons in fresh water, with a handful of peach leaves, and the ginger, allowing half an ounce to each pound of fruit.
Boil a quart of milk with a few peach leaves, or lemon peel; strain it.
To these has now to be added the Momo-yama (Peach Hill), a term derived from the name of a palatial residence built by Hideyoshi in the Fushimi suburb of Kyoto.
They brought a small freshly baked peach pie, light and crisp and brown.
Juice of one lemon Add the lemon juice to the peach pulp, add the sugar, and stand aside, stirring every now and then until the sugar is dissolved.
A peach of a horse under you, the whole day before you, and nothing to do but enjoy yourself.
It is well known that what we have just advanced must be considered as applying also to peach and apricot trees, which it is customary to put in this exposition and in that of the east.
But the damage was not visible from a distance, and with the natural pride of a collector showing one of his most valued possessions, the railroad man said: "I have one or two Peach Blows that I think are rather good.
Replacing the ivory back in the cabinet where it belonged, Stafford turned to the mantel and pointed to the Peach Blow vase, which only a few moments before had met with disaster.
He turned the net upside down over the peach basket.
And, after about an hour of fishing, the peach basket was full of the big-clawed crabs.
They had managed to wiggle out of the peach basket in which they had been put as they were caught from the boat.
Cousin Ruth had some peach baskets, two long-handled nets and some strings to the ends of which were tied chunks of meat.
