21.   Ms. Castillo-Rubio has a modest farm, with peach trees, ducks, chickens and dogs.

22.   Not the least bit daunted, we unloaded our gear while Uncle Jewel trimmed a forked peach tree limb and starting doing his thing.

23.   On a disused golf course outside Harare, Lina Smoke sits on the hard sandy earth in the shade of a peach tree.

24.   Q. Last year, my five-year-old peach tree produced scads of peaches only to lose them all.

25.   She stared at the few new branches that have sprouted from the peach tree, which this year is laden with memories, not fruit.

26.   The bloom of a peach tree is a wonder, he says, sounding wistful before he has even left.

27.   The peach trees continued to turn from muddy brown to lipstick red.

28.   The smallest issues, like where to locate a tool shed or whether someone can plant a peach tree, have turned into protracted arguments.

29.   They renovated it themselves, and now the backyard is stuffed with plants, from peach trees to cannas, which have a tropical look.

30.   We had our plum trees, apple trees, peach trees and pecans.