market gardening

noun

1. the business of growing fruit and vegetables on a commercial scale Also called (in the US and Canada)truck farmingtrucking

Example Sentences

Many of the landes were cleared and converted into excellent pasturage, and on the coast market-gardening made great progress.

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Market gardening forms the lucrative business of many thousands of people near our great cities.

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It is very probable that market gardening and fruit raising on these types would prove profitable.

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Market-gardening must be the immediate source of support; and therefore this experiment is exactly in point.

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His wife's health being very poor, he found it necessary to remain at home, and devoted himself to market gardening.

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