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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nurseryman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Along with him I planted other wild trees, mostly native willows and the nurserymen came and added their more refined products.
▪ First came the farmers and then more specialist cultivators: market gardeners, nurserymen and florists.
▪ Good nurserymen watch the weather forecasts, and do not despatch when cold weather is imminent.
▪ Her daddy was a nurseryman and grew tomatoes and grapes and hothouse plants and flowers in his glasshouses.
▪ The result - a compost of which nurserymen can be proud.
▪ The show has gained a reputation as a regional Chelsea, attracting nurserymen and visitors from all over the country.
▪ Two nurserymen have begun farming Tiger Worms.
▪ Use a fungicide recommended by your nurseryman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nurseryman

Nurseryman \Nurs"er*y*man\, n.; pl. Nurserymen. One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.

Wiktionary
nurseryman

n. A person who rears and sells plants in a nursery.

WordNet
nurseryman

n. someone who takes care of a garden [syn: gardener]

Usage examples of "nurseryman".

In 1851, a nurseryman named Benjamin Williams began a series of articles advocating orchid ownership for everyone through the use of new cultivation techniques.

No nurseryman or plant hunter could remember where the flower had originally been found.

The Iowa nurseryman cleared his throat twice, then looked at his wife, who gave him an encouraging glance.

Kitchens is the nurseryman who festoons the Sleeping Dragon with all those baskets of geraniums.

In July of 1876 he had taken out summonses against John and William Habron, young fellows who had been several years in the employment of a nurseryman in Whalley Range, for being drunk and disorderly.

You recall your delight in conversing with the nurseryman, and looking at his illustrated catalogues, where all the pears are drawn perfect in form, and of extra size, and at that exact moment between ripeness and decay which it is so impossible to hit in practice.

I have an excellent head nurseryman in charge, and the conservatories are practically self-sufficient.

At first, I thought it was a nurseryman, but then as he drew closer, I recognized his face from newspapers and television.

Some initial outlay for the establishment of the nursery will be necessary and a practical nurseryman should be employed, but the saving in the cost of the trees will fully compensate for these.

The nurseryman as a manufacturer or as a merchant of course produces the things that people want to buy.

As editor of the American Nurseryman I am especially interested in this discussion.

John Dolittle, always a devoted gardener, had catalogues sent to him from nearly every seed merchant and nurseryman in England.

The nurseryman who had been a monk curled up next to and around Michael like a cat.

But the gardener, seed grower, and nurseryman, will find out how to use it with great profit.

With the market-gardener or nurseryman, who draws large quantities of horse-manure from the city, this need not be the case.