They succeed better as bushes than as espaliers or trained to walls. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
Our subjects may sustain some disappointment of fruit and espaliers, but strangers will enjoy a fair prospect. From Wordnik.com. [Father Goriot] Reference
With long, swinging steps she passed out, to air her indignation, apparently, beneath the wall of the espaliers. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Gilles Guillot continues that tradition at Orsan with pleached hedges, topiary forms and espaliers in many shapes. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Regained] Reference
Small as was the enclosure, between the espaliers and the flower-beds serpentined minute paths of glistening pebbles. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Around Albenga are many deciduous trees, and here and there in the sheltered spots orange and lemon trees trained as espaliers. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
We are surrounded by coppices, groves, espaliers, and plantations. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
Often the trees are trained on cordons, espaliers, trellises or walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1] Reference
Good espaliers have been substituted for the doleful yews that covered the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Eve of the French Revolution] Reference
Between the espaliers one could see the little lake lying and twinkling in the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Invisible Links] Reference
Then there was a large kitchen-garden, with standards and espaliers, and box-edged beds. From Wordnik.com. [Father Payne]
There are espaliers of fruit-trees at each end of the garden and curious flowering shrubs. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Corn had been planted between the espaliers, and here and there a few dead stalks still stood. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Furs] Reference
If you grow espaliers or step-overs or other trained trees, this is the last month for downy mildew. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
There were grim black allees of clipped trees, a curiously wrought iron gate, and twisted iron espaliers. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Trail and Town] Reference
Besides, there were luscious pears and plums, and upon the espaliers, vines bearing bushels of sweet grapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
For the rest of the time the seven sisters ran about in the neglected gardens between the unpruned espaliers. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Soldier] Reference
The scene was not terminated by walls and espaliers, but by the entrance on either side of a wild, meandring wood. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
When training against a wall you can restrain them as severe espaliers or just loosely contain them to their space. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Were I in Europe I should be tired with perpetually seeing espaliers, plashed hedges, and trees dwarfed into pigmies. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from an American Farmer] Reference
Cultivation of Apple Trees, 'the fruit of his carefully tended standards and espaliers seldom arrived at his own table. From Wordnik.com. [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference
We had passed back through the kitchen garden with its gouty espaliers, and come into the pleasance before I forgave him. From Wordnik.com. [The Jervaise Comedy] Reference
The walks meandered around beds of flowers, and under the boughs of apple-trees, and by espaliers of ancient pears and plums. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
Your espaliers are laden with fruit, and you know that your friend is an honest man, and that, besides, he does not care for pears. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Brohl and Company] Reference
These espaliers made me think of rheumatic veterans, obstinately faithful to ancient duties -- veterans with knobbly arthritic joints. From Wordnik.com. [The Jervaise Comedy] Reference
Quinces may be profitably cultivated in this country as a variety with other fruit-trees, and may be planted in espaliers or as standards. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Then, suddenly, the supports and wooden bars of espaliers facing one another, together with the rail-work, toppled down into the garden beds. From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
Of course we can grow this fruit on espaliers, as they do abroad; but there are few localities where any advantage is to be derived from this course. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Acre] Reference
The grass was growing knee high in the paths; the espaliers were tangled with vines so thick that the grapes could not ripen in the shadow of the leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Companions of Jehu] Reference
The soldier seated himself on a worm-eaten bench, and saw neither the trellis-work nor the espaliers, nor the vegetables of which Jacquotte took such great care. From Wordnik.com. [The Country Doctor] Reference
Old-World cedar; no century-old espaliers divided flower and kitchen ground; no box-edging of the early Hanoverian era bordered the beds of roses and mignonette. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference
He had by this time reached the city limits, and the gardener's cottage, with its high enclosing palisades and espaliers hanging with tempting fruit, was visible. From Wordnik.com. [Watch—Work—Wait Or, The Orphan's Victory] Reference
Near the middle is an oval surrounded with espaliers of fruit-trees, in the centre of which is a pedestal, on which is an armillary sphere with an equatorial dial. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
The branches of the peach-trees were carefully tied to the espaliers with his own hands, in a fan-shape, in order to bring about a full and easy growth of the fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
It cannot stand upright like other fruit-trees, but requires a skillful hand to guide its pliant branches along the espaliers, or to entwine them in the trellis-work. From Wordnik.com. [Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.] Reference
A strange feeling of uneasiness began to come over me; my fear almost turned into certainty when I saw two young men from the village occupied in trimming the espaliers. From Wordnik.com. [Mauprat] Reference
There's a garden of the right sort, with espaliers, also rose trees, and a tea house; quite the right sort of thing altogether. ". From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
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