What is "orchard"

Orchard \Or"chard\, n. [AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure.]

1. A garden. [Obs.]

2. 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.

   Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass ( Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay.

   Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots.

   Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole ( Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.

late Old English orceard "fruit garden," earlier ortgeard, perhaps reduced from wortgeard, from wort (Old English wyrt "vegetable, plant root") + geard "garden, yard" (the word also meant "vegetable garden" until 15c.); see yard (n.1). First element influenced in Middle English by Latin hortus (in Late Latin ortus) "garden," which also is from the root of yard (n.1).

n. A garden or an area of land to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.

n. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth [syn: grove, woodlet, plantation]

Orchard is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The station is in San Jose, California in the center median of 1st Street near Orchard Parkway. The station's street address is 3060 N. First Street.

Orchard has a split platform. The northbound platform is just north of Orchard Parkway, the southbound platform is just south of Orchard Parkway. Orchard is served by both the Alum Rock–Santa Teresa and Mountain View–Winchester light rail lines.

An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production.

Orchard(s) may also refer to:

• Seed orchard, refers usually to a place where seeds for forest culture are produced
• Orchard (surname)
• Orchard FM, an independent radio station in England
• Orchard oriole (Icterus spurius), a small blackbird
• Orchard (RTD), a transit station in Greenwood Village, Colorado
• Orchard (VTA), a transit station in San Jose, California
• Operation Orchard, Israeli airstrike in Syria

An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees which are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. A fruit garden is generally synonymous with an orchard, although it is set on a smaller non-commercial scale and may emphasize berry shrubs in preference to fruit trees. Most temperate-zone orchards are laid out in a regular grid, with a grazed or mown grass or bare soil base that makes maintenance and fruit gathering easy.

Orchards are sometimes concentrated near bodies of water, where climatic extremes are moderated and blossom time is retarded until frost danger is past.

Orchard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Dave Orchard (born 1948), South African cricket umpire
• David Orchard (born 1950), Canadian politician
• Donald Orchard (born 1946), Canadian politician
• Henry John Orchard (died 2004), US scientist
• John Orchard (1928–1995), United States actor
• Julian Orchard (1930–1979), British comedy actor
• Len Orchard (born 1912), Welsh rugby league footballer of the 1930s
• Phil Orchard, New Zealand rugby league footballer
• Robert Orchard, British journalist
• Tony Orchard, British inorganic chemist
• William Edwin Orchard (1877–1955) British author, minister and Catholic convert

Orchard was an artist-run exhibition and event space in New York's Lower East Side from 2005-2008. The gallery was run as a for-profit limited liability corporation founded for the project. The partners included artists, filmmakers, critics, art historians, and curators. Orchard was among early contemporary art projects and galleries that moved onto Orchard and generally the Lower East Side below Delancey Street along with Miguel Abreu Gallery, Reena Saplings, and Scorched Earth. Brandon Joseph noted, "the Orchard 'project' treaded a fine—and perhaps ultimately impossible—line between self-reflexivity and (to use a barbaric neologism) self-complicity, which could veer at times into self-promotion."

Orchard's program focused on, "thematically, conceptually and politically driven group exhibitions and projects," according to the space's website.

Orchard restaged or produced unrealized projects by Michael Asher, Andrea Fraser with Allan McCollum, Dan Graham, and Lawrence Weiner. Orchard has also presented historical works by Daniel Buren, Luis Camnitzer, Juan Downey, Hans Haacke, Roberto Jacoby, Adrian Piper, Anthony McCall and Martha Rosler, as well as new works by Merlin Carpenter, Nicolás Guagnini, Jutta Noether, Josiah McElheny, Lucy McKenzie, Blake Rayne, Stephan Pascher, Jeff Preiss, R.H. Quaytman, Karin Schneider, and Jason Simon, among others.

Orchard Labs Inc. is an eCommerce company that buys and sells used iPhones across North America. The company develops and operates the Orchard mobile app, which allows consumers with iPhones to test, price, and register their iPhone for sale. Orchard then offers these iPhones for sale on its website. In 2015, Orchard launched a partnership with Public Mobile to supply the Canadian wireless carrier's customers with refurbished smartphones.