gardener (gardner)

[Formerly also gard ner; The Syrians are great gardeners ; they take exceeding paines and bee most curious in gardening. Holland , tr. of Pliny, xx. 5. God plants us, and waters, and weeds us, and gives the increase; and so God is our gardener. Donne , Sermons, vii. From yon blue heavens above us bent, The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Market gardener, a gardener who raises vegetables, etc., for sale.- Nursery gardener, a nurseryman. gardener-bird (gär'dn-er-bėrd), n. A book name of Amblyornis in or nat a, a kind of bowerbird found in New Guinea, so called from the extensive runs or play-houses which it constructs. IMG:content-2106.jpg:[graphic][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] 2456 variety of canary-gra , Phalaris a rund in ace a, with variegated leaves. gardenesque (gär-dn-esk'), a. Like a garden; having the appearance or free symmetrical style of a garden, in which the form of the beds may be varied from formal geometrical outlines: applied to the laying out of grounds. garden-flea (gär'dn-flē), n. A flea-beetle; a saltatorial beetle, as of the family Halticide. See cut under flea - beetle . garden-gate (gär'dn-gat'), п. The pansy: an abbreviation of ki - behind - the - garden - gate, or some other of its similar names.