What is "horticulturist"

Usage examples of "horticulturist".

Horticulturists raise large beds of the same hybrids, and such alone are fairly treated, for by insect agency the several individuals of the same hybrid variety are allowed to freely cross with each other, and the injurious influence of close interbreeding is thus prevented.

The old roses are increasingly popular, but in fact few horticulturists know much about their care and propagation.

Acres vary in size, one of our eminent horticulturists has reminded us, measured in terms of productivity.

I don't know what the Department would make of my taking psychiatric advice from a vet, but since at the moment my competence in this case makes me feel I have less intelligence than a billberry bush, I might as well listen to a vet, since the Enterprise is lacking a horticulturist.

Qwilleran was no horticulturist, but he knew this was not Cannabis sativa.

Although our native species are not striking enough to be made use of by the horticulturist, there are many garden varieties of Geum which are easily grown in fairly rich, loamy soil and are mostly propagated by dividing the roots in early autumn or in spring as growth commences.

It began to die when she was in her late teens, and she consulted a number of greenhouses, horticulturists, the Department of Agriculture, and even a plant pathologist at Cornell, where she spent her undergraduate years.