Crossword-Solution: FRUITING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Shimmering up through them, and as though growing in some medium thicker than air, was mass upon mass of verdure--fruiting trees and trees laden with pale blossoms, arbours and bowers of pallid blooms, like that sea fruit of oblivion--grapes of Lethe--that cling to the tide-swept walls of the caverns of the Hebrides.

The wayside brambles were fruiting; I picked and ate, and ate on, until I had come within sight of an inn where I might have made a meal.

Here I am upon a spur of the Cotswolds, and before me spreads the wide vale of Evesham, with its ripening crops, its fruiting orchards, watered by sacred Avon.

They grew therefore under identical external conditions; it was thus possible to compare their peculiarities such as height, weight, fruiting capacity, etc.

And I says, “You ask in winter, if your love’s so hot, For it’s summer now, and sunny, and my hands is full,” says I, “With the fair by and by, And the village dance and all; And the turkey poults is small, And so’s the ducks and chicks, And the hay not yet in ricks, And the flower-show’ll be presently and hop-picking’s to come, And the fruiting and the harvest home, And my new white gown to make, and the jam all to be done.