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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plants growing in a garden; vegetables for the table.

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Examples

  • She was free to go out of the fort, as I have said, and to the river and the fields whence the corn and garden-stuff of the little garrison were brought in.

    The Virginians 2006

  • This ploughman was in fact a farmer or husbandman, and the account of his dwelling and garden-stuff is very interesting.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • All the vineyards and garden-grounds, for a considerable extent, are vaulted underneath; and all the ground that produces their grapes, fruit, and garden-stuff, is no more than the crumpled lime and rubbish of old Roman buildings, mixed with manure brought from

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Crow from the one that sat in the midst of her poultry and garden-stuff in the Elgin market square; but it was even more the same Mrs Crow, the sum of a certain measure of opportunity and service, an imperial figure in her bead trimming, if the truth were known.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • The capacities of the market-basket, as then and there revealed, are prodigious, rivalling those of the trunk of travel; and yet out of the cover will still protrude the legs of unadjustable "broilers" and the green fringes of garden-stuff, and all this not counting in the oyster-pail, or the great watermelon which has to be carried separately by its wooden handle.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • The next day the former master of my slave came to ask me for some salad-plants; for I was the only one who had any garden-stuff, having taken care to preserve the seeds I had brought over with me.

    History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

  • But if he had really shown her any testamentary tenderness, it would be affecting to think of him, poor man, when he was gone; and even his foolish fuss about the flowers and garden-stuff, and his insistence on the subject of snails, would be touching when it was once fairly at an end.

    XII. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917

  • Several times the cortege slackened its speed, blocked by a row of heavy carts with mountains of garden-stuff.

    Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • On it was a little house and shed, and no better garden-stuff grew in the parish than on this same five acres.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • On it was a little house and shed, and no better garden-stuff grew in the parish than on this same five acres.

    The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897

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