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Nurserymen understand this, and have long since calculated that the darker the day, the more riotous the color of their offerings, the bigger the sale.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nurserymen and others have emphasized that chestnuts, to be successful in the United States and hardy, should come from North China, at the Great Wall or beyond.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Nurserymen in the future will have to deal with this transplanting problem in a different way than the old time nurserymen who handles fruit trees.

From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Weschcke, Carl

It is more usual with Nurserymen to increase this plant by cuttings.

From The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by Curtis, William