Even the great "ornamentalist" viceroy, Lord Curzon, declared that "efficiency" was "our gospel, the keynote of our administration.". From Wordnik.com. [A Bit of Bunting] Reference
As an ornamentalist, though, I, too, fervently wish for the sensibility that seems to dominate American gardening to change, and if that change would be kick-started with the displacement of at least part of the White House lawn, I'm all for it. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Rant] Reference
Our ability to give it to you so soon is attributable to the fact that the aforementioned Raggis have relatives who are artists and can undertake any kind of work and succeed with certainty: besides if such a set of work must be executed by a single ornamentalist he would put an infinity of time upon it, besides double the cost more. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1819 [a machine-readable transcription]] Reference
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