Also called: Greenhouse Worker, Grower, Harvester, Nursery Worker. What they do: Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives.

nursery, place where plants are grown for transplanting, for use as stock for budding and grafting, or for sale. Commercial nurseries produce and distribute woody and herbaceous plants, including ornamental trees, shrubs, and bulb crops.

Plants are indeed the basis of the nursery industry. They are cultivated and grown to be sold as ornamental plants, landscaping plants, or for food production. The nursery industry relies heavily on the cultivation and propagation of plants.

1300, noricerie, "place or room for infants and young children and their nurse," from Old French norture, norreture "food, nourishment; education, training," from Late Latin nutritia "a nursing, suckling," from Latin nutrire "to nourish, suckle" (see nourish).