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  • noun Plural form of gardener.

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Examples

  • A long list could easily be given of "sporting plants;" by this term gardeners mean a single bud or offset, which suddenly assumes a new and sometimes very different character from that of the rest of the plant.

    On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 01 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

  • A long list could easily be given of 'sporting plants;' by this term gardeners mean a single bud or offset, which suddenly assumes a new and sometimes very different character from that of the rest of the plant.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

  • A long list could easily be given of "sporting plants;" by this term gardeners mean a single bud or offset, which suddenly assumes a new and sometimes very different character from that of the rest of the plant.

    On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845

  • A long list could easily be given of "sporting plants;" by this term gardeners mean a single bud or offset, which suddenly assumes a new and sometimes very different character from that of the rest of the plant.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845

  • The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied.

    Spring has sprung gardeners, and 3 in 4 Americans can dig it 2010

  • Moving established gardeners from the communities and gardens they have used for years (and in many cases built with their own hands) would still be disruptive, whereas new gardeners wouldn't have a pre-existing connection to a specific garden.

    A Veto-Proof Majority « PubliCola 2010

  • The garden plots are rented by the gardeners from the city.

    Sound Politics: Ethics In Seattle? 2006

  • As for climatic disasters – frost, flood, drought, hail, and hurricane – to dismiss these with a shrug as Acts of God, in the manner of older gardeners, is beyond them: they have still got too much respect for God to believe that he would do anything so damnably unfair.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • They are, of course, very troublesome to gardeners from the first, but they do not then obtrude themselves upon general attention.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • "Ever-blooming" varieties are in the catalogues, but whether they will really give twelve months of sweetness – or six, for that matter – in return for anything less expensive than glass and gardeners, is something I have never yet proved to my own satisfaction.

    Gardening by Myself 1872

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