Espalier Sentence Examples

It may be grown as an espalier, like a fruit tree, and this will protect it from winds, or it may be trained against a wall.

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.

Fig, i represents a garden of one acre and admits of nearly double the number of trees on the south aspect as compared with the east and west; it allows a greater number of espalier or pyramid trees to face the south; and it admits of being divided into equal principal compartments, each of which forms nearly a square.

It is very necessary in the case of trees trained to a flat surface, as a wall or espalier rail, to prevent undue crowding.