Apple and plum espaliers "basked upon bricks of brown", and the sounds of playing children drift in from the street beyond the wall – prompting a gloomy fantasy about impending death. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Also for the summer chop are plums (vulnerable to infection if pruned in winter) and any trained trees – espaliers, fans and stopovers – which must be kept snipped back to the framework. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Gilles Guillot continues that tradition at Orsan with pleached hedges, topiary forms and espaliers in many shapes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
These earthworks, as it were, are crowned with trellises and espaliers, so that the steep path that lies at the foot of the upper wall is almost hidden by the trees that grow on the top of the lower, upon which it lies. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Stone walls or espaliers surround the property, and all sorts of fruit-trees are planted among the vines; in short, not an inch of this precious soil is wasted. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Both office windows gave upon the street, and were protected by heavy iron bars; but the private office looked into the garden at the back, wherein Doublon, an adorer of Pomona, grew espaliers with marked success. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The window-shutters were not yet closed, and the fire — and candle-light within radiated forth upon the thick bushes of box and laurestinus growing in clumps outside, and upon the bare boughs of several codlin-trees hanging about in various distorted shapes, the result of early training as espaliers combined with careless climbing into their boughs in later years. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Louis followed Baudelaire down a passageway containing espaliers of miniature fruit trees, and up ahead there came murmuring voices, lost and speculative in a meandering conversation. ❋ Dominic Smith (2006)
Those which had been formerly trained as espaliers had now resumed their natural mode of growing, and exhibited grotesque forms, partaking of the original training which they had received. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As soon as they were alone, Monsieur Lheureux in sufficiently clear terms began to congratulate Emma on the inheritance, then to talk of indifferent matters, of the espaliers, of the harvest, and of his own health, which was always so-so, always having ups and downs. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Our subjects may sustain some disappointment of fruit and espaliers, but strangers will enjoy a fair prospect. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The valley on the further side was all copper-green level and glazed pearly sky, a sky hatched across with screens of trimmed trees, which looked flat, like espaliers; and though the rest of the village straggled away in the near quarter the view had an emptiness that made one of the boats suggestive. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Wise, or of Parkinson, have their espaliers, -- their plums, their pears, [5] and their grapes. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yet, for all that, the book had a rare interest for me, detailing, as it did, the methods of fruit-culture in England a hundred and forty years ago, and showing with nice particularity how the espaliers could be best trained, and how a strong infusion of walnut-leaf tea will destroy all noxious worms. ❋ Various (N/A)
He has his promenades, his drives, his club visits, is seen everywhere -- a brilliant convolvulus now, twining the espaliers of that Saracenic fabric of society; to speak architecturally, its very summer-house. ❋ Various (N/A)
