market gardenn.
/ˌmɑːkɪt ˈɡɑːdn/, U.S. /ˈmɑrkət ˌɡɑrdən/ A piece of land on which fruit and vegetables are grown to be sold commercially. See also market gardener n.Now more commonly known in the United States as a truck-farm (see truck n.1 Compounds 1b).
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market garden1727
mail garden1798
1727 B. Langley New Princ. Gardening 26 Fourthly, the Market Garden, which produces all Sorts of Pulse.
1793 Proc. Old Bailey 20 Feb. 427/1 Several of them exactly matched with the tops where they were cut, found in the prosecutor's gardens, and the other gardens, which had no Mazarions growing in it, it being a market garden.
1811 J. Mease Picture of Philadelphia 349 [There are] extensive market gardens, and several handsome summer retreats.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 164 Where the railways still bestride the market-gardens that will soon die under them.
1886 J. F. Conigrave S. Austral. 80 The market gardens range from three or four acres in the rich peaty bottoms of gullies up to thirty, and even fifty acres.
1923 R. Herrick Homely Lilla 197 I can get a job in a market garden.
1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xiv. 129 Many of them are still regarded as market-garden crops.
1987 Cornwall Rev. July 12/1 The surrounding countryside is renowned for the earliest market garden produce in mainland Britain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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