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To account for this advanced position on the part of a simple market-gardener he added, "I've been a good deal of a reader."

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil

His boyhood and youth were spent at Wisbeach, where he worked as a market-gardener.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

I’m obliged to stop again over that way of speaking of the market-gardener, but whenever I write “Mr Brownsmith,” or “the old gentleman,” it does not seem natural.

From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by Fenn, George Manville

So you see, Mr. Cockayne," said his wife, "this Mr. Karr, whose book about the garden—twaddle, I call it—you used to think so very fine and poetic, is just a market-gardener and nothing more.

From The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' by Doré, Gustave

But once I paid the market-gardener a visit and there, with my own eyes, beheld them flourishing under conditions such that I do not expect a plain statement of the facts to be believed.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick