floricultural

Example Sentences

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There’s little floricultural about the Flower Shop, a 3,000-square-foot restaurant and bar that will sprout on a Lower East Side block populated by Chinese groceries and foot-massage parlors.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

Curiously, they became not a field crop but a floricultural pet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author believes it possible that the electric light may be used some day to pecuniary advantage in floricultural establishments.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

My young floricultural friend, JOE of Birmingham, who knows a bit about fruits as well as concerning orchids, let me tell you,—JOE, I say, laughs their preposterous pretensions to scorn.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 by Various

The people, especially the children, getting some information concerning the treatment of the crops from competent advisers in school and out in the arbor colonies, derive great good from their horticultural and floricultural work.

From Three Acres and Liberty by Hall, Bolton