wall fruit
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The garden was rich with orchard trees and wall fruit, and boasted in particular one golden plum that was the parson's boast and pride.
From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various
But Saxon used often to come with the Old Squire's Scotch Gardener to see our gardener, and when they were looking at the wall fruit, Saxon used to come snuffing after us.
From Last Words A Final Collection of Stories by Murphy, Hermann Dudley
Then the old servant gathered wall fruit for us, and she sent some in his hand to Paul.
From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
They had originally been set out as wall fruit, within a few feet of the front wall of the house, on its southern side.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
When lunch was over, she was wheeled into the library, and occupied herself making a cotton net to put over the wall fruit, to keep it from the birds.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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