'Orchardist' 1935

Mon Mar 7 06:29:51 UTC 2011

I just found 'orchardist' in a Lindsay Books reprint of Maurice G.
Kains' “Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm
Management” written in 1935.

Thanks for your help.

- GLL

On 03/06/2011 09:03 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:53 PM, William Palmer<palmerwil at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> >  Sender:       American Dialect Society<ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> >  Poster:       William Palmer<palmerwil at GMAIL.COM>
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>> >  This was the line of work of my mother's foster father.  He called himslef
>> >  an "orchardist".
>> >
>> >  Bill Palmer
>> >

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