1. Noun. The growing of vegetables or flowers for market.
3. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1902)“The advancement and development of market gardening in the past twenty-five ... Books on market gardening written and published at the beginning of the past ...”
6. Vocations for the Trained Woman: Opportunities Other Than Teaching by Perkins, Agnes Frances, 1875- (1910)“... Market-gardening is the business which has for its object the production of vegetables and small fruits for a near-by market. ...”