Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hortulanus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

HORTULA'NUS. A nurseryman, seedsman, or general gardener. (Macrob. Sat. vii. 3. Apul. Met. iv. p. 64. ix. p. 199.) It is also probable that the same name was used to designate a florist, or flower gardener, as contradistinguished from topiarius, who attended to the shrubs and evergreens, and from olitor, the kitchen gardener; for we do not meet with any other name to designate the person who pursues this branch of the gardener's art; though it is clear, from the annexed engraving (Hortulanus/1.1), which is copied from a fresco painting in the palace of Titus, that flower gardening was a favourite occupation in his day; and the original design shows many other gardening operations, besides the two of potting and planting out, exhibited in the above specimen.

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  Hortulanus/1.1