nurseryman
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The company used 3D metal printing to revive its 1960s "nurseryman scissors", and now uses it to create a new product each year, largely based on vintage designs.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
Yes, that Johnny Appleseed, the pioneer nurseryman and folk hero who planted orchards primarily in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania during the early decades of the 19th century.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2017
Age of Trees for Planting.—This depends so much upon the views of planters, that the nurseryman cannot always control the period at which he shall clear a block of trees.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
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
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
Academic research on plant-growth hormones, mainly done within the past decade, has plowed its ground so well that commercial hormone preparations are now available to nurserymen to stimulate root growth in cuttings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of our strongest nurserymen will likely be moving in the work, but that will not be enough.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
