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n. Plural form of orchardist.

"Winter and early spring are the seasons when many gardeners, orchardists and farmers -- fancying themselves surgeons -- approach their trees, shrubs and roses with knives, pruning shears and saws in hand, seemingly unaware that these plants are, as the Buddhists would say, sentient beings."

signior    prestidigitator    chancellour