Word: nurserymen
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...perfume of fresh flowers drifted from the inner courtyard at the museum's heart, where nurserymen were installing fresh pots of flowers and flowering trees...
...time of the year when it feels as though spring is a snail, unhurried, tardy, five stops out of town and stalled on the track, a substantial number of the citizenry can be found impatiently poring over seed catalogs. Nurserymen understand this, and have long since calculated that the darker the day, the more riotous the color of their offerings, the bigger the sale. But it was not until some years ago that flower shows began to move out ahead of the gardening season, nosing their exhibition dates ever closer to the shank of winter. Improvements on the technique...
...earlier this year on the floor of the venerable Philadelphia Flower Show. In years gone by, Montgomery explained, Easter struck the public as the proper time to plant, or at least to start thinking about it, and the nurseries went along. Easter proved a vexing starting gun for the nurserymen though -- people like Montgomery -- and it is easy to see why: one year Easter appears in March; another, it slips across the border into April. How, then, do you kick off a seasonal trade when the calendar plays so freely with ribbon-cutting day? You coax the public perception...
Weyerhaeuser believes there is a huge market for its products, but owners of plant nurseries caution that sales of living trees and flowers are not about to die off. Says Steve McGonigal, executive director of the Washington State Nurserymen's Association: "There will never be a substitute for a real plant...
Last week Florida took a still more drastic step to halt the epidemic: it quarantined the state's 300 commercial citrus nurseries. Said Charles Poucher, director of the state's canker project: "It causes an extreme hardship on nurserymen, but it had to be done because we can't live with citrus canker...