wall-fruit

The cherries are succeeded by the apricots and peaches, which are all standards, and of consequence better flavoured than what we call wall-fruit.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

That power was not, indeed, very extensive; however, in common with the rats, I sate rent free; and as Dr. Johnson has recorded that he never but once in his life had as much wall-fruit as he could eat, so let me be grateful that on that single occasion I had as large a choice of apartments in a London mansion as I could possibly desire.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

I should not forget to mention, that the gardens are large, sometimes two or three acres, encompassed with high walls, and well planted with fruit-trees, and particularly wall-fruit.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

When a child, I was once let loose, by favor of a nobleman's gardener, into his Lordship's magnificent fruit-garden, with full leave to pull the currants and the gooseberries; only I was interdicted from touching the wall-fruit.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

The season had been so unfavourable for wall-fruit, that (as the gardener told me) all these gardens had yielded less than a dozen peaches and nectarines.

A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss

She was handsome, too, when he came to look, very handsome when he came to look again, -- endowed with that city beauty which is like the beauty of wall-fruit, something finer in certain respects than can be reared off the pavement.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

A little sulphur sprinkled over a plant will keep them from it; while wall-fruit, etc., may be kept free from them by surrounding it with a broad band of chalk.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

Glegg, at the pleasant hour of four in the afternoon of a hot August day, was naturally counting his wall-fruit to assure himself that the sum total had not varied since yesterday.

II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917

He showed her his flowers and his wall-fruit, and asked her to eat his strawberries.

The Lost Girl 1907

Attached to the Grammar School there was “a great garden,” renowned for its wall-fruit and flowers; so by leaving Winestead behind, our

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905