# peachtree
## English
### Noun

peachtree (plural peachtrees)
* Alternative form of peach tree
** 1937, The Owl of Sigma Nu Phi, volume XIX, Washington, D.C., page 75:Starting from the hotel we traveled north on West Peachtree street; entering Peachtree street immediately every one asked where the peachtrees were.
** 1957, Southern Florist and Nurseryman, pages 43 and 68:A peachtree in full bloom was planted in the urn that stands at the famed Five Points, where five streets merge at the ends of Marietta and Peachtree Streets. […] although the peachtrees are kept dwarfed […]
** 1958, Annals of the Agricultural College of Sweden, pages 468 and 470:Only this assumption explains the fact that Myzus persicae in these parts of our country, where peachtrees are absent, is found outdoors mainly in the vicinity of towns and thickly settled neighbourhoods. […] Thus, in the autumn of 1958, no sexual forms were observed in our cultures, of which e.g. strain No. 10 does descend from one fundatrigenia taken from a peachtree in Scania in May, 1954, No. 105 from one on a peachtree in Scania in May, 1956.
** 1972, Michigan Living - Motor News, page 6:He began with Peachtree Center, a 10-acre multi-building complex in Atlanta’s middle. When we asked to see a peachtree, Atlantans blushingly admitted there are no peachtrees, only dogwoods.
** 1974 May 25, “Atlanta’s Growth Outstrips Other Cities”, in Billboard, page G-16, column 2:Back in the Terminus days, there was an Indian village in the area called “Standing Peachtree.” From that village, the main street of Atlanta and 15 other Peachtrees (Avenue, Drive, Circle, Boulevard, etc.) take their names. It is rare to find a peachtree on any of the Peachtrees.
** 1982, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, pages 296 and 302:Lesser peachtree borer (Synanthedon pictipes) numbers cannot be compared with those of the previous year, when live females were used as pheromone sources. […] The test site was a portion of a commercial peach orchard near Patoka, IN, consisting of 10-12 yr. old Redskin peachtrees.
** 1985, First International Symposium on Water Relations in Fruit Crops, →ISBN, pages 517–518:The reimmigration gynoparae and male winged insects to the peachtree, the birth of wingless oviparae females and the laying down of the overwintering egg represent delicate moments of the biological cycle of the species. The early falling of the peachtree leaves conditions the development of the oviparous females and suggests efficient agronomical methods aimed at reducing the laying of eggs. […] In North Italy, the Eriophids are not particularly troublesome on the peachtrees, but their presence on nectarines may be a menace. […] In Europe, Synanthedon vespiformis (L.) has been mentioned for occasional actions against the peachtree;
** 1987, Diane J. Klein, Jamie Ralph Hamilton, editors, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to the USA, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 308:Getting around is confusing at first because everything seems to be named Peachtree; one has a feeling of not being able to see the sights for the peachtrees.
** 1992, Annual Report - Clemson University, page 75:A commercial planting was established as an advanced test prior to the release of a new rootstock variety that shows resistance to peachtree short-life, the most devastating disease in peachtree production. […] The ring nematode has been associated as a causal factor in death of peachtrees due to the short-life problem.

### Anagrams

* patcheree