It is very necessary in the case of trees trained to a flat surface, as a wall or espalier rail, to prevent undue crowding.
Continue the pruning and training of wall and espalier trees, and the destruction of noxious insects.
Subsidiary to walls as a means of training fruit trees, espalier rails were formerly much employed, and are still used in many gardens.
The forms chiefly adopted for trees trained to walls and espalier rails are the fan-shaped, the half-fan and the horizontal, with their various modifications.
They had conceived the idea of making in the espalier wall an archway, through which the prospect could be seen.
The left arm being defended by the target has no espalier or pauldron, but only coude, vambraces, and gauntlets.
He went down stairs on tiptoe and swung himself out of the back window whence he could slide down by the espalierinto the rear garden.
After having scrutinized all the windows round, Nicole came out of doors and ran to the espalier on which some pieces of lace were drying.
No blind pursuance of the abstract rules of the art can enable the mere routine gardener to become a successful grower of espalier trees.
It is therefore advisable to graft it on the doucin stock, and train it either as a dwarf or as an espalier in a garden.
It succeeds well in almost every soil and situation, and when grown on the paradise stock, is well suited for espalier training.
Rogers says, he saw a tree of it growing as an espalier in the garden at Sheen, which was planted by Sir William Temple.
It is well adapted for dwarf or espalier training, and for these purposes succeeds well on the paradise stock.
It is well adapted for dwarf or espalier training when grown on the paradise stock, and ought to find a place in every collection however small.
It succeeds well, grafted on the paradise stock, and grown as an espalier or an open dwarf.
It is well adapted for dwarf and espalier training when grafted on the doucin or paradise stock, in which case it also bears better than on the crab stock.
It succeeds well on the paradise stock, on which it forms a good dwarf or espalier tree.
It succeeds well grafted on the paradise stock, and grown as an espalier or an open dwarf.
It forms a beautiful little tree when grafted on the paradise stock, and is well adapted for espalier training.
It succeeds best in a dry soil, and is well adapted for espalier training.
The espalierpauldrons have brassarts attached fitted with turners.
The espalier pauldrons and roundels, the peascod breastplate, and the lames of plate over the knee in the cuisses, are features of the suit.
The pauldrons are of the espalier pattern with brassarts, vambraces, coudières, and fingered gauntlets.
The armour thus designated embraced a back- and breast-plate with espalier pauldrons to the elbows; three taces with pendent tassets of eight plates to the knees, fastened to the thighs by straps.
Espalier pauldrons of very fine workmanship protect the shoulders and upper arms; the coudières are peculiar to the period, while mitten gauntlets with long cuffs and demi-vambraces are also used.
Defn: To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier.
To be consistent I should confine the growth of this rose to an espalier against the wall.
Mrs. Barfield had laid by a few pounds during the winter; and the day that Jim cleared out the first piece of espalier trees she spent entirely in the garden, hardly able to take her eyes off him.
Next year I am going to put in some gooseberries and currants in espalier form.
The Japanese varieties can also be grown on trellises or walls, but the freer forms, such as the fan espalier used for the peach, are better suited to their habits of growth.
Where it is desired to cover back fences or sides of buildings, however, plum trees in espalier form can be confidently recommended.
A black line has rushed up from the espalierapple yonder to the housetop thirty times at least.
I can see nothing between the top of the espalier screen and the horses under the elms on the hill.
The espalier apple, like a screen, hides the meadow from me, so that the descending starlings appear to dive into a space behind it.
This practice is also followed in winter cabbages, which are sown in this season along an espalier border.
I have an espalier of peach-trees in a western exposition, a little declining to the north, which scarcely ever produce any fruit, although the trees are handsomer than those to the southern and northern.
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