单词 | market gardening |
释义 | market gardeningn. The business or occupation of keeping a market garden and selling the produce. Cf. truck-farming n. at truck n.1 Compounds 1b, now the usual term in the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening curtilagec1430 kitchen gardening?1700 landscape-gardeninga1763 picturesque gardeninga1763 window gardening1801 landscape architecture1840 rock gardening1840 market gardening1852 water gardening1870 wild gardening1870 olericulture1886 market work1887 trucking1897 tub-gardening1904 landscaping1930 greenswardsmanship1936 godwottery1937 sand gardening1960 xeriscaping1987 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance iii. 27 We shall never make any hand at market-gardening. 1860 C. Dall Woman's Right to Labor 10 Herb and fruit drying, distilling, preserving, pickling, market-gardening, may yet lay the foundations of ample fortune for many a woman. 1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago i. vii. 218 It is not for the sake of market gardening that we are going all this enormous distance. 1991 South Aug. 25/1 The rejection of the cotton monoculture is envisaged and the development of market gardening and viticulture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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