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nurseryman

[nur-suh-ree-muhn] / ˈnɜr sə ri mən /


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Jan. 28 Native Plant Maintenance Basics, a walk and talk with Theodore Payne Foundation nurseryman Erik Blank at 10459 Tuxford St. in Sun Valley, from 9 to 10 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2022

In that same year, Markus Kobelt — a nurseryman in Buchs, Switzerland — developed his acclaimed Redlove apples after cross-pollinating red-fleshed varieties with Royal Gala and Braeburn apples.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2021

Vancouver, B.C., nurseryman Thomas Hobbs is the anomaly: an obsessed gardener from a nongardening family.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2016

The Michigan-based nurseryman preaches the urgency of restoring the Earth’s decimated forests.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2016

I think in despite of the nurseryman, or cemetery-keeper, that with patience I could get a damask rose even now by inquiring about from farmhouse to farmhouse.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

The 20th century brought with it industrial production of poinsettias amid crafty horticulture and Hollywood marketing by father-son nurserymen at the Ecke Ranch in Southern California.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

But pioneering Florida nurserymen preferred his grapefruit to more convenient varieties, and understandably: Bracing and complex, simultaneously sweet and tart, they taste — at least to anyone with a memory — like grapefruit.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2017

Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Charles Poucher, director of the state's canker project: "It causes an extreme hardship on nurserymen, but it had to be done because we can't live with citrus canker."

From Time Magazine Archive

Every orchard planter who examines the extended variety of fruits presented to him in the books, and by the nurserymen, must feel greatly embarrassed when he comes to select the varieties for his own orchards.

From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder


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