The cherries are succeeded by the apricots and peaches, which are all standards, and of consequence better flavoured than what we call wall-fruit. ❋ Unknown (2004)
That power was not, indeed, very extensive; however, in common with the rats, I sate rent free; and as Dr. Johnson has recorded that he never but once in his life had as much wall-fruit as he could eat, so let me be grateful that on that single occasion I had as large a choice of apartments in a London mansion as I could possibly desire. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I should not forget to mention, that the gardens are large, sometimes two or three acres, encompassed with high walls, and well planted with fruit-trees, and particularly wall-fruit. ❋ Lt-Col. Pinkney (N/A)
When a child, I was once let loose, by favor of a nobleman's gardener, into his Lordship's magnificent fruit-garden, with full leave to pull the currants and the gooseberries; only I was interdicted from touching the wall-fruit. ❋ Various (N/A)
The season had been so unfavourable for wall-fruit, that (as the gardener told me) all these gardens had yielded less than a dozen peaches and nectarines. ❋ Richard Twiss (N/A)
She was handsome, too, when he came to look, very handsome when he came to look again, -- endowed with that city beauty which is like the beauty of wall-fruit, something finer in certain respects than can be reared off the pavement. ❋ Various (N/A)
A little sulphur sprinkled over a plant will keep them from it; while wall-fruit, etc., may be kept free from them by surrounding it with a broad band of chalk. ❋ Alfred Pink (N/A)
Glegg, at the pleasant hour of four in the afternoon of a hot August day, was naturally counting his wall-fruit to assure himself that the sum total had not varied since yesterday. ❋ Unknown (1917)
He showed her his flowers and his wall-fruit, and asked her to eat his strawberries. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Attached to the Grammar School there was “a great garden,” renowned for its wall-fruit and flowers; so by leaving Winestead behind, our ❋ Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 (1905)
My father sent contributions from his celebrated gooseberry-bushes, and his wall-fruit, the pride of Norton Bury; Mrs. Jessop stocked the borders from her great parterres of sweet-scented common flowers; so that, walled in as it was, and in the midst of a town likewise, it was growing into a very tolerable garden. ❋ Unknown (1897)
I, to whom all wall-fruit is death, bit into the side that blushed. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
Like Johnson and his wall-fruit, I have never had as many asphodels to look at as I wanted. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
He remembered how often Diane had told him that Dorothea could be neither led nor driven; she could only be "managed"; but he would show Diane, he would show himself, that she could be both driven and led, and that "management" should go the way of the wall-fruit and the roses. ❋ Basil King (1893)
It seems unlikely that Johnson should not at Streatham have had all the wall-fruit that he wished. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
[1239] 'I have heard Dr. Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit except once in his life, and that was when we were all together at Ombersley.' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
[1095] I have heard Dr. Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit, except once in his life. ' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
I may here remark, that all those trees we are accustomed in Europe to designate wall-fruit, are in India pruned for standards. ❋ Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali (1885)
He would eat seven or eight peaches before breakfast, and declared that he had only once in his life had as much wall-fruit as he wished. ❋ Leslie, Stephen (1878)
