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[ noun ]
a garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing
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Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin,
jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G.
garten; akin to AS. geard. See {Yard} an inclosure.]
1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of
herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.

I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy. --Shak.

Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden
walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.

{Garden balsam}, an ornamental plant ({Impatiens Balsamina}).


{Garden engine}, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering
gardens.

{Garden glass}.
(a) A bell glass for covering plants.
(b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal,
to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an
ornament in gardens in Germany.

{Garden house}
(a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl.
(b) A privy. [Southern U.S.]

{Garden husbandry}, the raising on a small scale of seeds,
fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.

{Garden mold} or {Garden mould}, rich, mellow earth which is
fit for a garden. --Mortimer.

{Garden nail}, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick
walls. --Knight.

{Garden net}, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc.,
to protect them from birds.

{Garden party}, a social party held out of doors, within the
grounds or garden attached to a private residence.

{Garden plot}, a plot appropriated to a garden.

{Garden pot}, a watering pot.

{Garden pump}, a garden engine; a barrow pump.

{Garden shears}, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges,
pruning, etc.

{Garden spider}, (Zo["o]l.), the diadem spider ({Epeira
diadema}), common in gardens, both in Europe and America.
It spins a geometrical web. See {Geometric spider}, and
{Spider web}.

{Garden stand}, a stand for flower pots.

{Garden stuff}, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]

{Garden syringe}, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling
them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.

{Garden truck}, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]


{Garden ware}, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

{Bear garden}, {Botanic garden}, etc. See under {Bear}, etc.


{Hanging garden}. See under {Hanging}.

{Kitchen garden}, a garden where vegetables are cultivated
for household use.

{Market garden}, a piece of ground where vegetable are
cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.


Market \Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t,
merk[=a]t, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place,
fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis,
ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain,
acquire: cf. F. march['e]. See {Merit}, and cf. {Merchant},
{Mart}.]
1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place,
for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle,
provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and
not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every
week; a farmers' market.

He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
--Shak.

Three women and a goose make a market. --Old Saying.

2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large
building, where a market is held; a market place or market
house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.

There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
--John v. 2.

3. An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as
shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market
for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in
that region; India is a market for English goods; there
are none for sale on the market; the best price on the
market.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

There is a third thing to be considered: how a
market can be created for produce, or how production
can be limited to the capacities of the market. --J.
S. Mill.

4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull
market; a slow market.

5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market
price. Hence: Value; worth.

What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? --Shak.

6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a
public market.

7. A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in
which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where
the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey
market.
[PJC]

Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming
compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market
day, market folk, market house, marketman, market
place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market
woman, and the like.

{Market beater}, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

{Market bell}, a bell rung to give notice that buying and
selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak.

{Market cross}, a cross set up where a market is held.
--Shak.

{Market garden}, a garden in which vegetables are raised for
market.

{Market gardening}, the raising of vegetables for market.

{Market place}, an open square or place in a town where
markets or public sales are held.

{Market town}, a town that has the privilege of a stated
public market.