show fruit

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Another fortnight had gone by, and the long hours passed is the music-room, which had been temporarily converted into a studio, were beginning to show fruit in the shape of a nearly completed portrait.

From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret

I cultivate in corn until they begin to show fruit, then in millet twice; I have never cultivated the orchard without a crop.

From The Apple by Various

It may also be necessary to take off some of the shoots that show fruit where they are very thick.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by Keane, William

Four of the largest trees show fruit, and each of these has only about a half-dozen of the globular cones.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Thus, like garden-trees, they seldom show fruit, till time has robbed them of the more specious blossom.—Few, like Mrs. Malaprop and the orange-tree, are rich in both at once!

From The Rivals A Comedy by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley