Or he may contract with a seedsman to grow seed of the new variety for sale to the trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference

‘I wonder whether I’m meant to be a footman, or a groom, or a gamekeeper, or a seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

In order to have just the colour one wishes, seed must be bought from the seedsman by the ounce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

N. SWIN.EN. "an ingenious gardener and seedsman at Brentford-End," wrote The Beauties of Flora Displayed; 8vo.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

On his return to England, he settled as a seedsman in Yorkshire: whence the name and celebrity of the variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The next year the seedsman was wise enough not to get caught with onion seed again, but the mission did not give away seed that year.    From Wordnik.com.  [12: Seeds and germplasm] Reference

Esq., nurseryman and seedsman, of Cambridge, Mass.; and to DANIEL T. CURT.S, Esq., seedsman and florist, and for many years Chairman of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Mr. Frotzer, a New Orleans seedsman, says of the cauliflower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cauliflower] Reference

I'm meant to be a footman, or a groom, or a gamekeeper, or a seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

It was the same with the artificial manure merchant and with the seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hodge and His Masters] Reference

As a third-generation seedsman, I can lend balance to this lopsided debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference

The seedsman picked him up, and he found himself tossed into a bag of peas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellanea] Reference

Any seedsman will furnish them, and they are usually on sale at country stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Acre] Reference

And wotsume'er the failings on his part, he were a corn and seedsman in his hart. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

He was a nurseryman and seedsman in private life, and he fairly hid the wicket-keep.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference

Cases of seeds were ordered, and the seedsman undertook to pack and send in the autumn.    From Wordnik.com.  [First in the Field A Story of New South Wales] Reference

The seedsman requires permission to somewhat shift his stall; wherever is the secretary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hodge and His Masters] Reference

Sutton, the English seedsman, describes it in his latest catalogue as an "excellent mid-season cauliflower.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cauliflower] Reference

There is no more reason why a grower should accept a worthless spawn from his seedsman than that he should accept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

First, of course, the modern farmer paid his landlord (1); next he paid the seedsman (2); then the manure manufacturer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hodge and His Masters] Reference

I have not the temerity to name any best varieties -- every seedsman has about half a dozen that are absolutely unequaled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use] Reference

It is not difficult to grow plants from seed, but is generally more satisfactory to get the roots from some reliable seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use] Reference

Retiring to a quiet street, Marcella examined her purchase, and came upon 'Peak, Oliver; seedsman' -- the sole entry of the name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

In contrast with these native berries of foreign parentage, we have the Herstine; Mr.B. K. B.iss, the well-known seedsman of New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Success with Small Fruits] Reference

The last train for Holt Stacey left Newbury at 9: 11, and at 9: 30 he had been seen by a seedsman who kept a shop in the town, and who knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Faces A Mystery] Reference

I thought I was a statesman; I find I am only a seedsman. '".    From Wordnik.com.  [My beloved South,] Reference

A hideous floral calendar, the advertisement of some seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty] Reference

A prominent Boston seedsman writes me: "We get our supply through the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

And wotsume’er the failings on his part, he were a corn and seedsman in his hart.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

‘Was that the same Andrey who went to the squire’s house as one of the Christmas fiddlers?’ asked the seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Few Crusted Characters] Reference

What a gifted seedsman and entrepreneur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prettiest Thing « Fairegarden] Reference

The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra] Reference

And wotsume'er the failings on his part, he were a corn and seedsman in his hart. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

"Monkbarns, your honour," said the nursery and seedsman, "I hope the plants gied satisfaction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference

Isaac Tillinghast, the seedsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cauliflower] Reference

Wi 'joy the tentie seedsman stalks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

Of scattering hands where the seedsman Mage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gloucester Moors and Other Poems] Reference

~ Several years ago a Boston seedsman imported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop] Reference

A seedsman may cheat you, but a seed never does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference