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  • The fact that one field, now given over to gooseberries, has long been known as the cherry orchard and that old villagers used to talk of the great cherry trees that once grew there tells of local fruit-growing in earlier times.

    Country diary: West Lambrook, Somerset 2011

  • Most of the wine production is concentrated around the fruit-growing areas of Kent, Sussex, Essex and Suffolk, as well as the western counties such as Berkshire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Cornwall.

    A Fine English Sparkle 2010

  • This represents but five per cent of the annual value to the fruit-growing industry of free pollination by cultivated honey bees, so it is not as if the apiculturists are asking for a handout.

    Ministerial Incompetence: Time For It To Be A Crime? 2008

  • This represents but five per cent of the annual value to the fruit-growing industry of free pollination by cultivated honey bees, so it is not as if the apiculturists are asking for a handout.

    Archive 2008-03-09 2008

  • Some of those columns will be filled with a series of fruit-growing plants, everything from mint to peas, while some will remain completely open, from top to bottom, to allow some light to shine through.

    Work Architecture Greenroof Wins PS1 Design Competition | Inhabitat 2008

  • A practical work, devoted to agriculture and mechanics, fruit-growing and gardening, live-stock, ... health and secure happiness on the farm by John E Read

    The 2009 Spring/Summer Garden is Done 2009

  • Farming for profit: A handbook for the American farmer, a practical work, devoted to agriculture and mechanics, fruit-growing and gardening, live-stock, ... health and secure happiness on the farm by John E Read

    The 2009 Spring/Summer Garden is Done 2009

  • Revenues from Izze's fresh and natural sparkling juices (pear, clementine, grapefruit) fund literacy projects in American fruit-growing communities.izze. com4.

    Our 15 Picks 2008

  • Wenatchee, Washington, was the seat of Chelan County, some 150 miles east of Seattle, a small city known for its apple blossom festival each May and the verdant fruit-growing orchards that spread out endlessly in the region.

    Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

  • In the 1100s, the Crusades exposed Europeans to thriving fruit-growing regions abroad.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

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