wall fruit

British  

noun

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

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wall fruit

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

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

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

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