nurseryman
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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
As the son of Luther Delaney, the first state nurseryman in the South, Delaney balked at his father’s suggestion to study forestry at LSU, believing that would lead to a job working for the state.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
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
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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
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Finally, this paragon of conifers surprises Eastern nurserymen by outstripping other seedlings in vigor and quickness of growth.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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