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There’s little floricultural about the Flower Shop, a 3,000-square-foot restaurant and bar that will sprout on a Lower East Side block populated by Chinese groceries and foot-massage parlors.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

Curiously, they became not a field crop but a floricultural pet.

From Time Magazine Archive

My young floricultural friend, JOE of Birmingham, who knows a bit about fruits as well as concerning orchids, let me tell you,—JOE, I say, laughs their preposterous pretensions to scorn.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 by Various

Thomas! whatever else the gardener does, he is not to make any floricultural noises under my window.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

The orchids and ferns upon this horse-shoe table made the finest floricultural show that had been seen for a long time.

From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)