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It is the usual "gros bourg" of Alsace, with comfortable old houses in espaliered gardens: dull, well-to-do, contented; not in the least the kind of setting demanded by the patriotism which has to be fed on pictures of little girls singing the Marseillaise in Alsatian head-dresses and old men with operatic waistcoats tottering forward to kiss the flag.

Fighting France 1915

It also holds an orchard with apple, peach and espaliered pear trees.

Converted Barns Make an Estate Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

The 0.08 acre contained a coop for two chickens, plus four beehives and about 20 fruit trees whose branches had been espaliered, or trained to grow in a flat plane to save space.

Cooped Up: Chickens Come Home to Roost for Urbanites With a Yen for Hen Kris Maher 2011

Planting trees, he said, created bio-diversity, micro-climates, sucked up excess water and gave play spaces to children, while ideas such as using espaliered apple trees as hedges gave fruit, and focus to neighbourly exchanges.

Guardian roundtable: ideas for urban development 2011

Among the low-slung Georgian-style buildings are a state-of-the-art geology lab, a modern child-care facility, four restaurants and a company garden complete with a beekeeper and espaliered pear trees.

Gas Titan's Blueprint Rests on More Deals Ryan Dezember 2012

Visitors can see everything from formal gardens think espaliered trees and clipped topiary to urban ones set among stone terraces.

The Gates Swing Open to Secret Gardens 2010

She looks at the paper again and turns off the highway up a muddy road to a few dozen acres of bare, espaliered apple trees.

Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

Now, my question still stands, does looking at a picture of an espaliered tree get us anywhere?

Bunny and a Book 2008

Visitors can see everything from formal gardens think espaliered trees and clipped topiary to urban ones set among stone terraces.

The Gates Swing Open to Secret Gardens 2010

My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener.

Hancox: All under one roof Charlotte Moore 2010