fruitage

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But if religion is to have its full value as a 'last resort' in times of peril or affliction, it must have deep rootage, broad leafage and ample fruitage in the normal circumstances of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is terribly discouraging, under such circumstances, to plant a tree knowing that ten years must pass before any considerable fruitage can be expected from it.

From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by Waugh, F. A.

The carved wreaths of flowers and leaves and fruitage which adorn these cases deserve careful notice.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

As in early Saxon times before the clergy had monopolised learning, the higher forms of cultured life saw their finest fruitage in the halls of kings and chiefs.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus

A figure of Pan under a fig-tree, with this inscription:— "O thou, to whom Broad-leaved fig-trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage."

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell