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  • noun Plural form of nurseryman.

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Examples

  • Another variety now being propagated by the nurserymen is the Ohio, the parent tree of which is some 20 or 30 miles out of Toledo in the state after which it was named.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920

  • If the shrubs are purchased in spring, they are likely to have come from "cellared stock"; that is, the nurserymen dig much of their stock in fall and store it in cellars built for the purpose.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • Working with prominent nurserymen and garden designers over the years, Mrs. Bancroft spent decades planting and tending both gardens, working in them each day alongside the three gardeners she kept on staff.

    Growing a Piece of History Julia Flynn Siler 2011

  • I turn again and see two traumatized nurserymen pointing at Jack.

    Annie Spiegelman: Sunday Bloody Sunday (Happy Mother's Day!) 2010

  • I turn again and see two traumatized nurserymen pointing at Jack.

    Annie Spiegelman: Sunday Bloody Sunday (Happy Mother's Day!) 2010

  • ABOUT A MONTH LATER, I received a mass e-mail from Karp addressed to the many breeders, growers, marketers and nurserymen he consulted while researching his strawberry article.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • ABOUT A MONTH LATER, I received a mass e-mail from Karp addressed to the many breeders, growers, marketers and nurserymen he consulted while researching his strawberry article.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • ABOUT A MONTH LATER, I received a mass e-mail from Karp addressed to the many breeders, growers, marketers and nurserymen he consulted while researching his strawberry article.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • In the list of its vice-presidents there are the names of many noblemen and gentlemen of great influence and station, and I have been struck in glancing through the list of its supporters, with the sums written against the names of the numerous nurserymen and seedsmen therein comprised.

    Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

  • Farm workers and nurserymen who work for the federal government, for example, earn almost twice the average for the occupation.

    America's Best And Worst Paying Jobs 2006

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