wall fruit

British  

noun

1. fruit grown on trees trained against a wall for the shelter and warmth it provides

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Example Sentences

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

I have wall fruit on the south side and an orchard of plum, pear, and cherry trees on the north side.

From A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 by Aldrich, Mildred

These are a species of slugs covered with shell, and which are very destructive to wall fruit.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

"Oh, yes, I do, Monsieur du Plessy; and your wall fruit, too!"

From Lazarre by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell