unhorticultural

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1. Not horticultural.

   How far more lovely to the unhorticultural eye are these wild kinds, with their graceful bending stalks, than those the Tulip's cultivation has so well succeeded in stiffening — with all their grand colour!

   1896, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Days and Hours in a Garden, page 116

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   "What a lovely old-English kind of garden you have," he dutifully remarked. "Flowers are a passion of mine, but of course in Harley Street—" a melancholy shake of the head dismissed that famous but unhorticultural thoroughfare from the landscape.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London