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One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

s cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. -- Flower bed, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. -- Flower beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of the genus Meligethes, family Nitidulidæ, some of which are injurious to crops. -- Flower bird (Zoöl…

They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.

Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.

of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir M. Hale. I have a fine spread of improvable lands. Addison.

To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land. Donne. I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead. Denham.

Want or neglect of cultivation or culture. [Obs.] Feltham.

To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.

A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers.

Capable of cultivation. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Spenser.

Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.

The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.

The cultivation of orchards.

The artificial cultivation of oysters.

fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast, some ammonia compound, sugar, and water.