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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

Of this species Mr Lee, a nurseryman at Hammersmith, soon afterwards obtained an example, and procured from it by means of cuttings several hundred plants, which he sold at a guinea each.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

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

Attuned to the delicate harmonies of whispering poplars, 200 Eastern nurserymen watched with surprise the robust entertainment devised by hospitable Denver.

From Time Magazine Archive

Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives.

From Time Magazine Archive

From this species a large number of ornamental varieties have been produced, many of them merely accidental variations of the wild forms of the forests, while others have originated in the seedbeds of nurserymen.

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Fuller, Andrew S.




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