Word: nurseryman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...willing to sell anything that is different in order to appeal to the instant gardener, others throw up their hands at the onslaught of impatient novices. "They use perennials like annual bedding plants, taking them up every year and cutting them in half and resetting them," recounts Connecticut Nurseryman Fred McGourty in horror. "That is the highest-maintenance form of gardening there can be, but they can't wait for the four years for the plants to grow together...
...husband in The Fig Tree knows the truth and exacts an ironic revenge. He is a businessman who spends much time away from home while his wife putters in the garden and eventually with the nurseryman. Instead of staging a showdown, the husband sends his daughter to boarding school and his wife to work for the nurseryman. The professional association is fatal to the affair. Laments the nurseryman: "The roles of Duggie and myself were reversed: when Duggie came home once a week now from Brussels it was he who seemed to be the lover and I the husband. Sally...
Suppliers cannot keep up with the demand. "I've been out of orange trees for two months, also lemons and kum-quats," says Miami Nurseryman Mark Ancet. "It's just gung-ho," notes Al Muller, at a Wilmette, Ill., nursery. "We're running out of Bibb lettuce, celery, carrots, and we can't get new supplies." In New England, the Finast supermarkets find 40-lb. bags of cow manure (at $1.99 a bag) selling at record rates...
Denny and Jeanne Grindall, Presbyterians from Seattle, where Denny is a florist and nurseryman, found their call in their 50s on a 1968 vacation in Africa. Visiting some Masai nomads in Kenya, they were appalled at the disease, drought and hunger. "We knew what we had to do," says Denny Grindall. "God led us to this place." He studied up on engineering and put his new learning to work (along with quiet infusions of the family savings) in a succession of six-month stays in Kenya. The Grindalls have won the respect and affection of the Masai and changed their...
...friend and then went away. His neighbor Sue Greenberg put her name to a notarized document assigning her two children to a friend's care, and then she went away too. In Eugene, Surveyor Gerald Anderson quit his job and disappeared, as did Dan Staggs, a nurseryman from nearby Springfield. In all, somewhere between 21 and 26 Oregonians simply up and left everything they had after attending a recruiting meeting of a baffling new sect called HIM-Human Individual Metamorphosis. The sect's sales pitch is simple: it promises to take its followers literally out of this world...