nurserymann.
/ˈnəːs(ə)rɪmən/, U.S. /ˈnərs(ə)riˌmæn/, /ˈnərs(ə)rim(ə)n/ A person (originally spec. a man) who owns or works in a plant nursery.
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arborist1578
nursery gardener1629
nurseryman1629
raiser1707
kitchen gardener1709
market gardener1727
curator1761
landscape-gardenera1763
plannerc1770
mail-gardener1798
landscape architect1863
trucker1868
plantsman1881
weekend gardener1884
groundsman1886
rock gardener1886
tea-gardener1903
landscapist1936
wild gardener1966
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole III. Introd. iii. 539 The red Cherry stocke is in a manner the onely tree that most Nursery men doe take to graft May Cherries on in the stocke.
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5050 A peculiar way of grafting, much used by some of the best Nursery-men about London.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) p. v Gentlemen who send for the best Sorts of Fruit-Trees from a Nursery-man, or Gardener.
1747 R. Campbell London Tradesman lxviii. 275 The Seed-Shopkeeper sells all manner of Garden and Grass Seeds..and some of them are Nursery-Men, and furnish Gentlemen with young Trees, [etc.].
1793 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 5 163 Three modes of raising Mulberry-trees, to which we are directed by Nursery-men.
1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. ii. 890 Ample lists..may be had from all the principal nurserymen.
1894 J. L. Allen Kentucky Cardinal ii. 16 I ordered from a nursery-man more trees of holly, juniper, and fir.
1937 R. Lowry in New Statesman 28 Aug. 307/1 I observe that the Agricultural Workers' Union is fighting hard to get nurserymen of the market-garden variety..to pay a decent living wage.
1969 S. G. Harrison et al. Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 80/2 The so-called ‘Worcesterberry’..seems first to have been sold by a nurseryman in Worcester.
1988 Garden News 3 Sept. 2/5 Martin Stewart spoke to the assembled audience of nurserymen and growers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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