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He worked for a local market gardener before becoming an apprentice to local baker John Binnie by 1845, which was where he was working when he met John Hope.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2023

It isn’t the only subject on which Dowding, a longtime market gardener in Somerset, in South West England, and a no-dig practitioner for 40 years, departs from conventional wisdom.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2023

One example: There is an urban market gardener who lives on the other side of town, and anything he hasn’t been able to sell through his normal channels, he’s brought over on Saturday afternoon.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2020

The son of a hosier, he married the illiterate daughter of a Battersea market gardener.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010

"So-o-o-o!" commented big Otto Schmitt, the market gardener, as he pushed down the dollar key and then the forty-five-cent key with a huge, earth-brown finger that spread out on the end like a flat club.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph