USES OF ESPALIER FRUIT TREES 
Espalier Fruit Trees trained in many different patterns 
adapt themselves to a variety of places. You may— 
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Plant Espaliers below windows — between win- 
ows. 
Set them against sides of buildings, walls, fences, 
trellises, etc. 
Train them on leaders at the corner of buildings. 
Use these trees in the open, edge paths, driveways. 
As a hedge or screen to set off parts of the garden, 
or as a border line between properties. 
To obtain a focal point of interest in a rock garden. 
Form an effective arbor over a walk. 
Make an Espalier Garden House on the lawn. 
For planting in Greenhouses—on the trellis— 
terrace—tub planting on penthouse roofs. 
Perk up dull corners—hide unsightly objects from 
view, etc. 
The Horizontal forms may be used along walks, drives, 
to cover low or medium height walls, below windows, as 
a hedge or border line, etc. 
The Upright forms are adaptable to high walls, fences, 
buildings, screening, for arbor planting, etc. 
The Fan Shaped is suggested for broad wall areas, 
hedge or screening planting. 
Espaliers—Make Ideal Holiday Gifts 
Plants are always appropriate and pleasing gifts, be- 
cause they reflect thought on the part of the Giver. 
“Neither Gift nor Giver Forgotten.” 
Henry Leuthardt tending an 8-Armed Palmette in nursery 
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