An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees
An orchard is an area of land on which fruit trees are grown. a place where fruit trees are grown
properly means a kitchen garden, a yard for herbs (Saxon, ortgeard- i e wort-yard ) Wort enters into the names of numerous herbs, as mug-wort, liver-wort, spleen-wort, etc The hortyard entering [he] admires the fair And pleasant fruits Sandys
Orchards are plots of land planted with fruit trees which are managed so as to produce an abundance of good quality fruit Specialist techniques of pruning and management have been passed down for many generations and the keeping of orchards is now undergoing a resurgence with the help of grants and advice available to community orchard projects