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Horticultural

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hor·ti·cul·ture  (hôrt-klchr)
n.
1. The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants.
2. The cultivation of a garden.

[Latin hortus, garden; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots + (agri)culture.]

horti·cultur·al adj.
horti·cultur·al·ly adv.
horti·cultur·ist n.
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Adj.1.horticultural - of or relating to the cultivation of plants

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He raised a certain building in his court-yard by a story, which shutting out the sun, took half a degree of warmth from Boxtel's garden, and, on the other hand, added half a degree of cold in winter; not to mention that it cut the wind, and disturbed all the horticultural calculations and arrangements of his neighbour.
The daguerreotypist had found these beans in a garret, over one of the seven gables, treasured up in an old chest of drawers by some horticultural Pyncheon of days gone by, who doubtless meant to sow them the next summer, but was himself first sown in Death's garden-ground.
I made a point of spending as much time as possible in the garden, to justify the picture I had originally given of my horticultural passion.
 
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