VERY little is known about Thomas Fairchild, a London nurseryman who died in 1729.
As interest in gardening developed in Europe, the new trade of nurseryman was established, and the trade became highly important to the spread of knowledge and materials.
At least one gardener should be a skilled propagator or nurseryman.
As the wave of settlement moved across North America, it was accompanied by the distribution of seedling apple varieties, perhaps by Indians and trappers, certainly by itinerants who became local legendary figures, the most prominent being Johnny Appleseed John Chapmann), a professional nurseryman who planted apple trees extensively in Ohio and Indiana.
"I got to know a nurseryman living nearby and I told him that if ever he needed anyone to create a water feature then I would love to do it.
But the detail and breadth of the illustrations is breathtaking: the gorgeous trade card of a Turnham Green nurseryman, John Evelyn's sketch of the whale beached on the Strand below his house at Deptford.
Downing was born into horticulture, his father being a nurseryman.
My plant friends used to say, 'If John ever gets some land and some money, watch out.' Well, the Indians needed a nurseryman, and I needed some land and some money, and I researched the law and realized that it was really vague about the Indians' taking things out of state preserves.
On the one hand, Laroche had been hired by the tribe to set up a plant nursery on the reservation, but, on the other hand, Laroche was a nurseryman who had lost his own plants and needed new ones.
Jane Wyman stars as Carrie Scott, a still-young widow and mother of two college students in a cozy country-club town, who falls for Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), a nurseryman, scandalizing her family and friends.
