Then, suddenly, the supports and wooden bars of espaliers facing one another, together with the rail-work, toppled down into the garden beds.
The counter-espaliers were forbidden, and dead or fallen trees should not be replaced; but he was going to do a nasty job--nothing less than to destroy all the others which remained standing.
It is likewise to be observed that as the sun dries much earth along the espaliers which are to the south, the earth transpires there less than elsewhere.
The breastplate is moderately globose, the espaliers composed of narrow laminæ bolted on to the breast and backplates.
The espaliers are small and beautifully decorated with the device of the Golden Fleece in relief.
It is composed of breast and backplates, with taces; tassets; laminated gorget; espaliers reaching to elbows over sleeves of steel mail; and strong gauntlets with fingers united two and two.
The back of the espaliersis beautifully designed to resemble the wings of an eagle.
The arms are defended by espaliers reaching to the elbow, where they meet the cuffs of the gauntlets.
Espaliers protect the shoulders, rondels the armpits, and small coudes the elbows.
Repair espaliers by fastening the stakes and poles with nails and wire, and tying the shoots down with twigs of osier.
Inoculate peaches and nectarines, and take off all projecting shoots in espaliers and wall fruit-trees.
In the form of espaliers plums are often trained against walls.
All of the better types of espaliers are suited to pear trees.
They may sometimes be used along foundations of buildings, where it is not desired to grow upright cordons or espaliers against the walls.
The various forms of espaliersand fan-shaped trees have their special and legitimate uses.
Especially if some sort of formal gardening is attempted, the cordons, espaliers and pyramids exactly suit the demands.
Various forms of espaliersare handled in much the same way.
Cordons and espaliers require some sort of support, however, and where walls are not used trellises are necessary.
Probably the Palmette-Verrier is the best, although the old fashioned espaliers are often used.
In general, it is best in our latitude to run these espaliers north and south, because they receive too much sun when the trellis runs east and west.
These espaliers or lathes are cuttings of the walnut-trees around, and the tendrils of the vine are attached to the horizontally running stakes with withes, or thongs of bark.
Espaliers may be bought from the nurseries, saving several years.
None of these procedures shall apply to the Indians, who shall be left under the jurisdiction of the ordinary ecclesiastical courts; but cases involving Spaniards, mestizos, and mulattoes shall be tried by the Inquisition.
Doubtful cases are left to the commissary's discretion, since he is at so great a distance from Mexico.
It was lighter there, and I could see dimly that we were passing down an aisle of old espaliers that stretched sturdy, rigid arms, locked finger to finger with each other in their solemn grotesque guardianship of the enciente they enclosed.
These espaliersmade me think of rheumatic veterans, obstinately faithful to ancient duties--veterans with knobbly arthritic joints.
Near the middle is an oval surrounded with espaliers of fruit-trees, in the centre of which is a pedestal, on which is an armillary sphere with an equatorial dial.
There are espaliers of fruit-trees at each end of the garden and curious flowering shrubs.
On the left the massed espaliers ended abruptly in a large water-meadow reaching to the foot of the hill along which the high road climbed in a slow diagonal.
He examined with proprietary solicitude the espaliers of apple-trees and admired for the twentieth time the pledge they offered by their fantastic forms of his garden's antiquity.
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