orchardist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of orchardist
Example Sentences
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Euphorbia pulcherrima, adapted well to the southern states, and by the early 1900s, Albert Ecke, a German immigrant dairy farmer and orchardist in Eagle Rock, saw its potential as a cut flower for Christmas bouquets.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
Try to trace odd varieties back to their source, and you’ll eventually hear of Maine orchardist and apple researcher John Bunker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The story quoted the late Tom Burford, an apple historian and himself a Virginia orchardist.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022
Then he dropped a word I’d never heard before: orchardist.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2015
In 1907 an orchardist in what is known as Parker Bottom in the Yakima Valley raised on fifty-eight pear trees a crop of pears which was sold for over three thousand dollars.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison
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