Obs. [f. FLOWER sb. + -IST.] = FLORIST.
1694. Westmacott, Scripture Herbal, 181. Saffron … hath many kindred … which are propagated in the Gardens of curious Flowerists.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4479/8. Charles Blackwell, Seedsman and Flow’rist.
1713. J. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXVIII. 206. Renatus Morinus, a French Flowerist, first communicated this to Cornutus, who says it was brought from the Indies.
