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Apple Orchard Word Search

Apple trees do not come true from seed, so every Gala or McIntosh on a branch began as a cutting grafted onto rootstock. Growers keep beehives among the rows because blossom needs insects to carry pollen from tree to tree. A standard bushel weighs about forty two pounds, which works out near a hundred and twenty five medium apples.

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Find these 15 words

15 words, adds diagonals

  • apple
  • basket
  • blossom
  • branch
  • bushel
  • cider
  • core
  • harvest
  • honeybee
  • ladder
  • orchard
  • pollen
  • pruning
  • tree
  • windfall

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Words in the Apple Orchard word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

apple
Round orchard fruit, among the most widely grown in the world.
tree
Trained woody plant that carries the crop each season.
orchard
Field of fruit trees planted in regular rows.
branch
Limb bearing blossom in spring and fruit by autumn.
blossom
Pale pink and white flower that opens before leaves fill out.
basket
Container carried along the rows to hold picked fruit.
ladder
Three legged frame that stands steady on soft orchard ground.
cider
Juice pressed from apples, served sweet or fermented.
harvest
The weeks of picking when the crop comes off the trees.
bushel
Standard measure holding about forty two pounds of apples.
core
Central case holding the seeds, left after the fruit is eaten.
honeybee
Insect hived in orchards to pollinate the spring blossom.
pollen
Grains carried between trees so that fruit can form.
windfall
Apple blown down and found lying under the tree.
pruning
Winter cutting that opens the tree to light and air.
grafting
Joining a cutting to rootstock to copy a named variety.
rootstock
Root system chosen to control tree size and hardiness.
gala
Sweet striped variety bred in New Zealand for eating fresh.
fuji
Crisp, very sweet apple developed in Japan.
mcintosh
Tart Canadian variety found by John McIntosh in 1811.

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