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Flowers, vegetables and fruit-trees may be bred by amateurs and commercial or non-commercial professionals: major crops are usually the provenance of the professionals.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Here and there were very tall myrtles, and the quince, and obsolete medlars, were discoverable among the other fruit-trees.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Finally she describes the wide gardens and woods of the convent, surrounded by a high wall and full of fruit-trees and birds and deer and coneys, with two fishponds, well-stocked with fish.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

Emerging at the other door, you find yourself in a great double garden with an archway between, and the whole is enclosed within high walls covered with fruit-trees.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.

There are also two very beautiful painted majolica panels of fruit-trees let into the lower part.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various